Sunday 1 April 2012

Identify these peoples







Michael H. Hart's Top Personalities  (from the "The 100")

RankNameTime FrameImageOccupationInfluence
1Muhammadc. 570–632Mohammad SAV.svgSecular and religious leaderThe central human figure of Islam, regarded by Muslims as a prophet of God and thelast messenger. Active as a social reformerdiplomatmerchantphilosopherorator,legislatormilitary leader, humanitarian, philanthropist.
2Isaac Newton1643–1727GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpgScientistEnglish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion laid the groundwork for classical mechanics.
3Jesus Christ7–2 BC – 26–36 ADStJohnsAshfield StainedGlass GoodShepherd Face.jpgSpiritual leaderThe central figure of Christianity, revered by Christians as the Son of God and theincarnation of God. Also regarded as a major prophet in Islam.
4Buddha563–483 BCBuddha in Sarnath Museum (Dhammajak Mutra).jpgSpiritual leaderSpiritual teacher and philosopher from ancient India. Founder of Buddhism and is also considered an Gautama Buddha in Hinduism.
5Confucius551–479 BCConfucius Tang Dynasty.jpgPhilosopherChinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced ChineseKoreanJapanese, Vietnamese and Indonesian thought and life. Founded Confucianism, and influenced Neo-Confucianism and New Confucianism.
6St. Paul5–67 ADEl Greco - Saint Paul head.jpgChristian apostleOne of the most notable of early Christian missionariescredited with proselytizingand spreading Christianity outside of Palestine (mainly to the Romans) and author ofnumerous letters of the New Testament of the Bible.
7Cài Lún50–121 ADCai-lun.jpgPolitical official in imperial ChinaWidely regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process.
8Johannes Gutenberg1398–1468Gutenberg.jpgInventorGerman printer who invented the mechanical printing press.
9Christopher Columbus1451–1506Christopher Columbus.PNGExplorerItalian navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages led to general European awareness of the American continents.
10Albert Einstein1879–1955Einstein 1921 portrait2.jpgScientistGerman theoretical physicist, best known for his theory of relativity and specificallymass–energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2.

and rest Louis Pasteur •Galileo Galilei • Aristotle • Euclid • Moses • Charles Darwin • Shih Huang Ti •Augustus Caesar • Nicolaus Copernicus • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier • Constantine the Great • James Watt • Michael Faraday • James Clerk Maxwell • Martin Luther •George Washington • Karl Marx • Orville and Wilbur Wright • Genghis Kahn • Adam Smith • Edward de Vere • John Dalton • Alexander the Great • Napoleon Bonaparte• Thomas Edison • Antony van Leeuwenhoek • William T.G. Morton • Guglielmo Marconi • Adolf Hitler • Plato • Oliver Cromwell • Alexander Graham Bell •Alexander Fleming • John Locke • Ludwig van Beethoven • Werner Heisenberg •Louis Daguerre • Simon Bolivar • Rene Descartes • Michelangelo • Pope Urban II •'Umar ibn al-Khattab • Asoka • St. Augustine • William Harvey • Ernest Rutherford• John Calvin • Gregor Mendel • Max Planck • Joseph Lister • Nikolaus August Otto• Francisco Pizarro • Hernando Cortes • Thomas Jefferson • Queen Isabella I •Joseph Stalin • Julius Caesar • William the Conqueror • Sigmund Freud • Edward Jenner • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen • Johann Sebastian Bach • Lao Tzu • Voltaire •Johannes Kepler • Enrico Fermi • Leonhard Euler • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Nicoli Machiavelli • Thomas Malthus • John F. Kennedy • Gregory Pincus • Mani • Lenin •Sui Wen Ti • Vasco da Gama • Cyrus the Great • Peter the Great • Mao Zedong •Francis Bacon • Henry Ford • Mencius • Zoroaster • Queen Elizabeth I • Mikhail Gorbachev • Menes • Charlemagne • Homer • Justinian I • Mahavira •

Thanking you Wikipedia.

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