THE 100 (World Famous)

 Michael H Hart is a well known history writer . He wrote the book THE100 in which he rank the hundred persons who had the greatest effect on history and on the course of the world. He rank these hundred persons in order of importance; that is , according to the total amount of influence that each of them had in human history and on every day lives of other human being.
His Ranking is given below

1 MUHAMMAD ( P.B.U.H )
570-632 He is the last prophet of the God born in Makkah and died in Madina . He preached Islam to the whole world . All Muslims follow his Sunnah. He removed the darkness of world with the Light of Qur'an.
2 ISAAC NEWTON
1642-1727 Isaac Newton the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived was born in Woolsthorpe England on Christmas day. Newton died in 1727 and was buried in Abbey. The first scientist to be accorded that honer.
3 JESUS CHRIST
c.6 B.C. - c.30A.D He is the prophet of the God . Christians follows him.
4 BUDDHA
563 B.C.- 483 B.C His original name was Prince SIDDHARTHA was the founder of Buddhism. One of the world religion.
5 CONFUCIUS
551 B.C - 479 B.C The great Chinese philosopher Confucius was the first man to develop a system of beliefs synthesizing the basic idea of the Chinese peoples.
6 ST.PAUL
C.4 A.D - C.64 A.D The apostle Paul, who was a younger contemporary of Jesus became the foremost proselytizer of the new religion of Christianity.
7 TS'AI LUN
FL.C. 105 A.D The inventor of paper, is man whose name is probably unfamiliar to most readers.
8 JOHANN GUTENBERG
1400-1468 He is often called the inventor of printing. He actually did was to develop the first method of utilizing moveable type.
9 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
1451-1506 Columbus by attempting to find a western route from Europe to the Orient, inadvertently discovered the America and there by a greater influence on World history the he could poddibly have anticipated.
10 ALBERT EINSTEIN
1879-1955 The greatest scientist of the 20th century and one of the supreme intellects of all time is best known for his theory of relativity
11 LOUIS PASTEUR
1822-1895 The French chemist and Biologist Louis Pasteur is generally acknowledged to be the most important single figure in the history of medicine.
12 GALILEO GALILEI
1564-1642 The great Italian scientist who was probably more responsible for the development of the scientific method than any other individual.
13 ARISTOTLE
384 B.C--322B.C He was the greatest philosopher and scientist of the ancient world.
14 EUCLID
fl.c 300 B.C Few person on this list have earned such enduring fame as the great Greek Geometer.
15 MOSES
fl.13th c. B.C Probably no person in history has been so widely admired as the great Hebrew prophet Moses.
16 CHARLES DARWIN
1809-1882 He is the originator of the theory of the organic evolution by means of natural selection, was born in Shrewsbury,England.
17 SHIH HUANG TI
259B.C--210B.C The great Chinese's emperor who ruled from 238-210B.C.
18 AUGUSTUS CASAR
63B.C--14A.D He is the founder of the Roman Empire , is one of the great pivotal figure in history.
19 NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
1473-1543 The great Polish astronomer born in the city of Tourn, on th4e Vistula River, in Poland.
20 ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISEIR
1743-1794 The great French scientist ,was the most important figure in the development of chemistry.
21 CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
c. 280-337 He was the Great first Christian Emperor of Rome.
22 JAMES WATT
1736--1819 The Scottish inventor James Watt, the man who is often described the inventor of the steam engine, was the key figure of the Industrial revolution.
23 MICHAEL FARADAY
1791--1867 This is the age of electricity . It is true that our era is sometimes called the space age and some time called atomic age.
24 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL
1831--1879 The great British physicist is best known for his formulation of the set of four equations that express the basic law of electricity.
25 MARTIN LUTHER
1483--1546 He was the man whose defiance of the Roman Catholic Church inaugurated the protestant Reformation, was born in the town of Eisleben, in Germany.
26 GEORGE WASHINGTON
1732--1799 He born in Wakefield, Virginia. He was the first President of U.S.A
27 KARL MARX
1818--1883 He was the principal originator of " scientific socialism" born in the town of Germany.
28 ORVILLE WRIGHT&WILBUR WRIGHT
1871-1948 1867-1912 The first flight was made on December 17,1903 at Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk , North Carolina.
29 GENGHIS KHAN
c1162--1227 He was the great Mongal Emporer.
30 ADMITH SMITH
1723--1790 He was the great Economist, born in the town of Kirkcaldy,Scotland.
31 EDWARD DE VERE
(William Shakespeare)
1550--1604 The Great British playwright and poet, William Shakespeare, is generally acknowledged to be the greatest writer who ever lived.
32 JHON DALTON
1766--1844 He was the England scientist who , in the early 19th century, introduced the atomic hypothesis into the main stream of science.
33 ALEXANDER THE GREAT
356 B.C--323 He was the most celebrated conqueror of the ancient world, born in the Pella, the capital of Macedonia.
34 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
1769--1821 The celebrated French General and emperor. born in Ajaccio,Corsica.
35 THOMAS EDISON
1847--1931 The versatile inventor born in the town of Milan Ohio.He created his first invention, an electric vote recorder.

 36 ANTONY VAN LEEUWENHOEK
1632--1723 He was the man who discovered microbes, He born in the town of Delft, in the Netherlands.
37 WILLIAM T. G. MORTON
1819--1868 He was born in Charlton, Massachusetts.
38 GUGLIELMO MARCONI
1874--1937 He was the inventor of the radio. was born in Bologna, Italy.
39 ADOLF HITLER
1889--1945 He was born in Braunau,Austria.He fought second world war. He was the General of German army.
40 PLATO
427 B.C --347B.C The Greek Philosopher Plato represent the starting point of Western political philosophy.
41 OLIVER CROMWELL
1599--1658 He was the brilliant and inspiring military leader who led the Parliamentary forces to victory in the England Civil War, is the most responsible for the eventual establishment of parliamentary democracy as the England form of government.
42 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
1847--1922 He was the inventor of the telephone. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
43 ALEXANDER FLEMING
1881--1955 He discover the penicillin , born in Loch field .Scotland.
44 JOHN LOCKE
1632--1704 He was the famous English philosopher, and first writer to put together in coherent form the basic ideas of constitutional democracy.
45 LUDWIG BEETHOVEN
1770--1827 The greatest of all musical composers, was born in the city Bonn, Germany.
46 WERNER HEISENBERG
1901--1976 In 1932, the noble prize in Physics, was awarded thWerner, a German physicist, for his role in the creation of quantum mechanics, one of the most important achievement in the entire history of science.
47 LOUIS DAGUERRE
1785--1851 He was the man who , in the late 1830s succeeded in the developing the first practical method of photography.
48 SIMSON BOLIVAR
1783--1830 He is often called "the George Washington of South America" because of his role in the liberation of five South American countries Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador,Peru,and Bolivia)
49 RENE DESCARTES
1596--1650 He was the famous French philosopher.scientest,and mathematician, born in the village of La Haye.
50 MICHELANGELO
1475--1564 The great Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarrorti is the outstanding figure in the history of the visual arts.
51 POPE URBAN II
1042--1099 He strong effective ,and politically astute pope.
52 HAZZRAT UAMAR IBN AL KHATTAB
586--644 He was the second Caliph , and probably the greatest, of the Muslims.
53 ASOKA
300 B.C--232 B.C Asoka, who was probably, the most important monarch in the history of India.
54 ST. AUGUSTINE
354--430 He was the man , who lived during the declining year of the Roman Empire, was the greatest theologian of his era.
55 WILLIAN HARVEY
1578--1657 He was the great English physician who discovered the circulation of the blood and the function of the heart ,born in the town of Folkestone.
56 ERNEST RUTHERFORD
1871--1937 He is generally considered to have been the greatest experimental physicist of the 20th century. He is the central figure in our knowledge if radioactivity, and also the man who originated the study of nuclear physics.
57 JOHN CALVIN
1509--1564 The famous Protestant theologian and moralist John Calvin is one of the major figures of the European history.
58 GREGOR MENDEL
1822--1884 He is famous today as the man who discovered the basic principle of the heredity.
59 MAX PLANCK
1858--1947 In December 1900, the German physicist Max Planck startled the scientific world with his bold hypothesis that radiate energy is not emitted in a continuous flow, but rather consist of small chunks, which he called quanta.
60 JOSEPH LISTER
1827--1912 He is the British surgeon who introduced the use of antiseptic measure in surgery, born in Upton England.
61 NIKOLAUS AUGUST OTTO
1832--1891 He was the German inventor who , in1876 built the first four stroke internal combustion engine.
62 FRANCISCO PIZARRO
1475--1541 He was the ,illiterate Spanish adventurer who conquered the Inca Empire in Peru.
63 HERNANDO CORTES
1485--1547 He was the conqueror of the Mexico, was born in Madeline, Spain.
64 THOMAS JEFFERSON
1743-1826 He was the third President of the U.S.A. and the author of the Declaration of independence, born in Shadwell, Virginia.
65 QUEEN ISABELLA 1
1451--1504 Today, most people only remember Isabella 1 as the queen, who financed Christopher Columbus voyage across the Atlantic. In reality she was an energetic and capable ruler, who made a whole series of crucial decisions.
66 JOSEPH STALIN
1879--1953 Stalin. whose original name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, was the for many years the dictator of the Soviet Union.
67 JULIUS CAESAR
100 B.C.--44 B.C He was the famous Roman military and political leader, was born in Rome .
68 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
1027--1087 In the year 1066,Duke William of Normandy, width only a few thousand troops behind him, crossed the English Channel in an attempt to become ruler of England.
69 SIGMUND FREUD
1856--1939 He was the originator of the psychoanalysis, was born in the town of Freiberg, which is now in Czechoslovakia but was then part of Austrian empire.
70 EDWARD JENNER
1749--1823 The English physician Edward Jenner was the man who developed and popularized the technique of vaccination as a preventive measure against the dreaded disease of smallpox.
71 WILHELM CONRAD RONTGEN
1845--1923 He discover X-rays , was born in the rown of Lennep, in Germany.
72 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
1685--1750 The great composer Johann Sebastion Bach was the first man to successfully combine the different national style of music which had existed in western Europe.
73 LAO TZU
4th B.C Of the many thousand of books which have been written in China the one which has perhaps been most frequently translated and read outside that country is a slender volume written over 2000 year ago and as the Lao Tzu.
74 VOTAIRE
1694--1778 He was the leading figure of the French Enlightenment .A poet , playwright, essayist, novelist. He was the apostle of freethinking.
75 JOHANNES KEPLER
1571--1630 He discover the law of planetary motion, was born in the town of Weil der Stadt, Germany.
76 ENRICO FERMI
1901--1954` He was the man who designed the first nuclear reactor, born in Rome, Italy.
77 LEONHARD EULE
1707--1783 He was the 18th century Swiss mathematician and physicist, who one of the most brilliant and prolific scientists of all time.
78 JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
1712--1778 The famous philospher,was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
79 NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
1469--1527 The Italian political philosopher, is notorious for his blunt advise that a ruler interested in the maintaining and increasing his power should make use of deceitfulness, cunning ,and lies, combined width a ruthless use of force.
80 THOMAS MALTHUS
1766--1834 In 1798, a previously obscure English parson, Thomas Robert Mathis, published a short but highly influential book entitled An Essay on the Principle of population as It effect the Future improvement of Society.
81 JOHN F KENNDY
1917--1963 Born i Brookfield. He was the president of U.S.A. from January 20,1961 to November 22,1963.
82 GREGORY PINCUS
1903--1967 He was the American Biologist who played the principal role in the development of the oral contraceptive pill.
83 MANI
216--276 He was the founder of the Manicheans, a religion which, thought extinct today, at its height had a very large number of followers.
84 LENIN
1870--1924 Best known today by his pseudonym, Lenin was the political leader principally responsible for the establishment of Communism if Russia.
85 SUI WEN TI
541--604 The Chinese's emperor succeeded in reunifying China after it had been badly divided for hundred of years.
86 VASCO DA GAMA
1460--1524 He was the Portuguese explorer who discovered the direct route from Europe to India by sailing around Africa.
87 CYRUS THE GREAT
590 B,C --529B.C He was the founder of the Persian Empire. Starting as a subordinate ruler in southwest Iran .
88 PETER THE GREAT
1672--1725 He is generally acknowledged to be the most outstanding of the Russian czars.
89 MAO ZEDONG
1893 --1976 Moa Zedong led the Communist party to power in China, under and the next twenty-seven years presided over a remarkable and far reaching transformation of that vast nation.
90 FRANCIS BACON
1561--1626 He was the leading English politician, and though he devoted the majority of his time and energy to furthering his political career.
91 HENRY FORD
1863--1947 This famous American industrialist was , more than any other single person , responsible for the introduction of mass production techniques into modern industry.
92 MENCIUS
371 B.C--289 B.C The Chinese philosopher Mencius was the most important successor to Confucius.
93 ZOROASTER
628 B.C --551 B.C He was the founder of the Zoroastrianism, a religion that has endured for over 2500 years and still has adherents today.
94 QUEEN ELIZABETH 1
1533--1603 She is widely considered to have considered monarch in English history.
95 MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
1931------- He was the president of USSR.
96 MENES
3100 B.C He was the original king of the first Egyptian dynasty, the ruler who first united Egypt and thereby established the kingdom that was to play such a long and glorious role in human civilization.
97 CHARLEMAGNE
742--814 He was king of the Franks , conqueror of Saxony, founded of the Rome Empire.
98 HOMER
8th c. B.C He was the Greek Poet.
99 JUSTINIAN 1
483--565 He is renewed for the great codification of the Roman law that was carried out during his reign.
100 MAHAVIRA
599 B.C--527 B.C He was born in northeast India, and leading figure in the development of their religion.