Name | 1000 Years | The 100 | Bio Channel | Britannica | Life | Time | ** |
Gutenberg, Johannes (1394?-1468) | 1 | 2-8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) | 2 | 3-9 | 6 | x | 2 | ||
Luther, Martin (1483-1546) | 3 | 11-25 | 3 | x | 3 | ||
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) | 4 | 6-12 | 10 | x | 4 | ||
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | 5 | 12-31 (as Edward de Vere) | 5 | x | 11 | ||
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) | 6 | 1-2 | 2 | x | 6 | ||
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) | 7 | 7-16 | 4 | x | 9 | ||
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) | 8 | hm | 24 | x | 34 | ||
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) | 9 | hm | 11 | x | 5 | ||
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) | 10 | 23-45 | 30 | x | 33 | ||
Locke, John (1632-1704 ) | 11 | 22-44 | 18 | x | 47 | ||
Gandhi, Mohandas K. (1869-1948) | 12 | hm | 17 | 22 | 2 | ||
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) | 13 | 28-50 | 19 | x | 36 | ||
Marx, Karl (1818-1883) | 14 | 27 | 7 | x | 18 | ||
Cheng Ho (1371-c.1435) [Zheng He] | 14 | ||||||
Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) | 15 | 42-69 | 12 | x | 16 | ||
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) | 16 | 13-34 | 27 | x | 12 | ||
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) | 17 | 4-10 | 8 | x | 21 | 1 | |
Arkright, Richard (1732-1792) | 17 | ||||||
Copernicus, Nicolas (1473-1543) | 18 | 8-19 | 9 | x | 19 | ||
Augustus Caesar (63 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) | 18 | x | |||||
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) | 19 | 49-78 | 34 | x | 52 | ||
Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) | 20 | 18-39 | 16 | x | 13 | x | |
Smith, Adam (1723-1790) | 21 | 11-30 | 20 | x | 74 | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799) | 22 | 26 | 21 | x | |||
Watt, James (1736-1819) | 9-22 | ||||||
Faraday, Michael (1791-1867) | 10-23 | ||||||
Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) | 23 | 28 | 40 | 20 | |||
Orville Wright (1871-1948) | 24 | 28 | 40 | x | 20 | ||
Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879) | 24 | ||||||
Descartes, René (1596-1650) | 25 | 27-49 | 32 | 32 | |||
Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895) | 26 | 5-11 | 13 | 8 | |||
Peter I, the Great (1672-1725) | 27 | 56-88 | 83 | 77 | |||
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) | 28 | 14-35 | 14 | x | 1 | ||
William I, the Conqueror (c. 1027-1087) | 29 | 41-68 | 45 | 61 | |||
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | 30 | 39 | x | 50 | |||
Elizabeth I (1533-1603) | 31 | 60-94 | 80 | x | 88 | ||
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) | 32 | hm | 23 | x | 35 | ||
Dalton, John (1766-1844) | 32 | ||||||
Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) | 33 | 46-75 | x | ||||
Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) | 34 | x | 93 | ||||
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) | 35 | 44-72 | 28 | x | |||
Voltaire (1694-1778) | 36 | 4574 | 37 | x | |||
Leeuwenhoek, Antony von (1632-1723) | 36 | ||||||
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) | 37 | 60 | x | 2 | |||
Morton, William T. G. (1819-1868) | 37 | ||||||
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) | 38 | 52 | x | x | |||
Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226) | 39 | ||||||
Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527) | 40 | 50-79 | 46 | ||||
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924) | 41 | 54-84 | 35 | x | 29 | x | |
Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) | 41 | ||||||
Bill Gates (1955-) | 41 | ||||||
Magellan, Ferdinand (c.1480-1521) | 42 | hm | 55 | 7 | |||
Genghis Khan (1167?-1227) | 43 | 10-29 | 22 | x | |||
Cervantes, Miguel Saavedra de (1547-1616) | 44 | x | |||||
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-11797) | 45 | 48 | 26 | ||||
Chu Hsi (1130-1200)[Zhou Xi] | 45 | ||||||
Rembrandt (1606-1666) | 46 | x | |||||
Heisenberg, Werner (1901-1976) | 46 | 65 | |||||
Harvey, William (1578-1657) | 47 | 29-55 | 69 | x | |||
Daguerre, Louis (1787-1851) | 156 | 25-47 | |||||
Bolívar, Simón (1783-1830) | 48 | 26-48 | 72 | 25 | |||
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) | 49 | hm | 59 | x | 58 | ||
Mao, Zedong (1893-1976) | 50 | 57-89 | 43 | x | 28 | x | |
Ford, Henry (1863-1947) | 51 | 59-91 | 29 | x | 15 | ||
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) | 52 | 100+ | 26 | x | |||
Milton, John (1608-1674) | 53 | x | x | ||||
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) | 54 | hm | 68 | x | |||
Fleming, Alexander, Sir (1881-1955) | 55 | 21-43 | 36 | ||||
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968) | 56 | hm | 33 | 30 | |||
Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937) | 56 | ||||||
Toyotomi, Hideyoshi (1536?-1598) | 57 | ||||||
Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943) | 57 | ||||||
Frederick II, King of Prussia, (1712-1786) [Frederick the Great] | 58 | hm | x | ||||
Mendel, Gregor (1822-1884) | 58 | ||||||
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831) | 59 | hm | x | ||||
Planck, Max (1858-1947) | 59 | ||||||
Fan K'uan (ca. 960-ca. 1030) | 59 | ||||||
Chu Yüan-chang, Emperor of China (1328-1398) [Hung-wu] | 60 | ||||||
Lister, Joseph, Baron (1827-1912) | 60 | ||||||
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500-1558) | 61 | ||||||
Otto, Nikolaus August (1832-1891) | 61 | ||||||
Chaucer, Geoffrey (d. 1400) | 62 | x | x | ||||
Pizarro, Francisco (ca. 1475-1541) | 62 | ||||||
Louis XIV, King of France (1643-1715) | 63 | hm | x | 56 | |||
Cortés, Herná n (1485-1547) | 63 | ||||||
Harrison, John (1693-1776) | 63 | ||||||
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) | 64 | 38-64 | 15 | x | 10 | ||
Urban II, Pope (1035-1099) | 65 | 28-51 | x | ||||
Isabella I, Queen of Spain (1451-1504) | 65 | ||||||
Maxim, Hiram Percy (1869-1936) | 65 | ||||||
Polo, Marco (1254-1323) | 66 | hm | 54 | 49 | |||
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794) | 67 | 9-20 | x | 80 | |||
Caesar, Julius | 67 | x | |||||
Robespierre, Maximilien (1758-1794) | 68 | ||||||
Calvin, Jean (1509-1564) [John Calvin] | 69 | 31-57 | x | 40 | |||
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) | 70 | x | x | ||||
S ü leyman I, Sultan of the Turks (1491 or 5-1566) | 71 | 100 | 38 | ||||
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923) | 71 | ||||||
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) | 72 | ||||||
Murasaki, Shikibu (b. 978) | 73 | ||||||
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997) | 73 | ||||||
Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922) | 74 | 20-42 | 44 | 31 | |||
Curie, Marie (1867-1934) | 75 | hm | 53 | 75 | |||
Eckert, John () | 76 | ||||||
Beatles, The | 76 | ||||||
Fermi, Enrico () | 76 | ||||||
Dostoevsky, Fyodor () | 77 | x | |||||
Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783) | 77 | ||||||
Innocent III, Pope () | 78 | 64 | |||||
Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) | 79 | x | 55 | ||||
Oppenheimer, J. Robert () | 80 | 88 | |||||
Malthus, Thomas () | 80 | ||||||
Mill, John Stuart () | 81 | x | |||||
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) | 52-81 | ||||||
Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) | 82 | 40-66 | 79 | x | |||
Pincus, Gregory (1903-1967) | 53-82 | 75 | |||||
Joan of Arc, Saint () | 83 | 58 | x | 54 | |||
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) | 84 | 58-90 | 38 | x | |||
Brunelleschi, Filippo () | 85 | ||||||
Gama, Vasco da () | 86 | ||||||
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady () | 86 | 56 | |||||
Zworykin, Vladimir K. () | 87 | hm | 67 | ||||
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm () | 88 | hm | |||||
Jenney, William Le Baron () | 89 | ||||||
Jenner, Edward (1749-1823) | 90 | 42-70 | 51 | ||||
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain () | 91 | x | |||||
Spielberg, Steven () | 91 | ||||||
Babur () | 92 | ||||||
Chi Hsi () | 93 | ||||||
Barnum, Phineas T. () | 94 | x | 81 | ||||
Patient Zero | 94 | ||||||
Marconi, Gugliermo () | 95 | 17-38 | 84 | 27 | |||
Gorbechev, Mikhail () | 95 | ||||||
Ramon y Cajal, Santiago () | 95 | ||||||
Marsilius of Padua () | 96 | ||||||
Erasmus, Desiderius () | 97 | x | |||||
Humboldt, Alexander von () | 98 | ||||||
Sanger, Margaret () | 99 | 50 | x | ||||
Henry VIII () | 100 |
The first column indicates those chosen by Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, Henry Gottlieb, Barbara Bowers, and Brent Bowers for their book 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium. New York: Kodansha International, ©1998.The second column shows rankings by Michael H. Hart in The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History. Rev. ed. New York: Carol Publishing, ©1992. The first number indicates the ranking of the persons in the last millennium, the second number refers to the overall ranking in the list of 100 throughout history. (The note "hm" is for those with an honorable mention from this title)The third column indicates ranking on the Biography Channel's " Millennium List ." http://www.biography.com/features/millennium/ (Click on "Biography Names the Top 100.) If there is merely an "x" in the box then the person named is one of the further 150 people nominated to the list. (Click on "The Millennium List.")The "x" in the Britannica column indicates people who have articles in the Britannica Macropaedia, 1998 ed.The "Life" column refers to people who were chosen for the magazine's " Top 100 People ." http://www.life.com/Life/millennium/people/01.html.The "Time" column indicates those people chosen for the magazine's " People of the Century " (1900-2000) http://www.time.com/time/reports/millennium/index.html.