Top 100 People (of the millenium)

Life On Line ^ | 2-20-03 | Unlisted

[Aeronaut]

Here's the LIFE magazine list of the 100 people who made the Millennium, ranked in order of importance. Let the debates begin!

[Aeronaut]

Plenty to disagree with on this list. Example: No Ronaldus Magnus in the entire 100.

[BibChr]

No Ronaldus Magnus in the entire 100

Yeah, but at least they got IBN-KHALDUN and KWAME NKRUMAH! Whew!

Dan

[TRY ONE]

"No Ronaldus Magnus in the entire 100."

But there is one Nelson Mandella....
Gota be PC you know....

[Campion]

St. Thomas Aquinas is not on the list, but Walt Disney is.

These people are, well, idiots.

[RabidBartender]

Yeah, Louis Armstrong's and Phineas Barnum's contributions to society were waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more important than ending that silly old Cold War.

[HairOfTheDog]

Thought would just post the list so we can see them all...

The page layout is a bit cumbersome on the Life site.

#1
THOMAS EDISON

#2
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

#3
MARTIN LUTHER

#4
GALILEO GALILEI

#5
LEONARDO DA VINCI

#6
ISAAC NEWTON

#7
FERDINAND MAGELLAN

#8
LOUIS PASTEUR

#9
CHARLES DARWIN

#10
THOMAS JEFFERSON

#11
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

#12
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

#13
ADOLF HITLER

#14
ZHENG HE

#15
HENRY FORD

#16
SIGMUND FREUD

#17
RICHARD ARKWRIGHT

#18
KARL MARX

#19
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

#20
ORVILLE & WILBUR WRIGHT

#21
ALBERT EINSTEIN

#22
MOHANDAS GANDHI

#23
KUBLAI KHAN

#24
JAMES MADISON

#25
SIMON BOLIVAR

#26
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

#27
GUGLIELMO MARCONI

#28
MAO ZEDONG

#29
VLADIMIR LENIN

#30
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

#31
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

#32
RENE DESCARTES

#33
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

#34
THOMAS AQUINAS

#35
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

#36
MICHELANGELO

#37
VASCO DA GAMA

#38
SULEYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT

#39
SAMUEL F.B. MORSE

#40
JOHN CALVIN

#41
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

#42
HERNAN CORTES

#43
JOSEPH LISTER

#44
IBN BATTUTA

#45
ZHU XI

#46
GREGOR MENDEL

#47
JOHN LOCKE

#48
AKBAR

#49
MARCO POLO

#50
DANTE ALIGHIERI

#51
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

#52
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

#53
NIELS BOHR

#54
JOAN OF ARC

#55
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

#56
LOUIS XIV

#57
NIKOLA TESLA

#58
IMMANUEL KANT

#59
FAN KUAN

#60
OTTO VON BISMARCK

#61
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

#62
GUIDO OF AREZZ

#63
JOHN HARRISON

#64
POPE INNOCENT III

#65
HIRAM MAXIM

#66
JANE ADDAMS

#67
CAO XUEQIN

#68
MATTEO RICCI

#69
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

#70
MICHAEL FARADAY

#71
IBN-SINA

#72
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

#73
JALAL AD-DIN AR-RUMI

#74
ADAM SMITH

#75
MARIE CURIE

#76
ANDREA PALLADIO

#77
PETER THE GREAT

#78
PABLO PICASSO

#79
LOUIS JACQUES MANDE DAGUERRE

#80
ANTOINE-LAURENT LAVOISIER

#81
PHINEAS T. BARNUM

#82
EDWIN HUBBLE

#83
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

#84
RAPHAEL

#85
HELEN KELLER

#86
HOKUSAI

#87
THEODOR HERZL

#88
ELIZABETH I

#89
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI

#90
WALT DISNEY

#91
NELSON MANDELA

#92
ROGER BANNISTER

#93
LEO TOLSTOY

#94
JOHN VON NEUMANN

#95
SANTIAGO RAMON Y CAJAL

#96
JACQUES COUSTEAU

#97
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS

#98
IBN-KHALDUN

#99
KWAME NKRUMAH

#100
CAROLUS LINNAEUS

[avg_freeper]

St. Thomas Aquinas is not on the list

Actually he is:
34 THOMAS AQUINAS c.1225-1274

Scholars at Europe's universities in the 13th century were arguing about the Greek texts being translated back into Latin from Arabic. Was Christian dogma correct or was the world explainable by the rationalism of Aristotelian science? Both were right, said Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican priest from Italy. Synthesizing the two traditions, he asserted that faith and reason did not conflict, that man is rational but that his highest happiness can be found in the contemplation of God. Aquinas taught in Naples and Paris, advised popes and wrote the unfinished Summa theologiae, a dominant influence on Roman Catholic theology.

Disney is #90 BTW

[NEWwoman]

JOHN HARRISON

One of the Beetles? And no mention of Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Handel, or Mozart, etc.? Not to mention Paul McCartny, John Lenin, or Ringo?

[Campion]

Thanks, missed him. Okay, maybe they aren't complete idiots. ;-)

[Desdemona]

The Beetle was George Harrison, not John.

But I do agree - Mozart should have been there, as Michelangelo should have been.

[kabar]

More like the politically correct list. No George Washington but MLK, Nelson Mandela, and Frederick Douglass. Laughable.

[SoDak]

You mean at like number 36?

[Desdemona]

Why Catherine de Medici and not Lorenzo or Cosimo?

[FreeTally]

Anyone else have a problem identifying about 20-30 of those names?

[Desdemona]

Okay I missed him. You can't put Picasso on a great list and not Michelangelo.

[SoDak]

That's the one that kills me. I think of Washington as perhaps the most important person in US history, if for no other reason than for teaching us about the nobility in voluntarily turning down power freely offered, and teaching Presidents how to act (not that all that many learned).

[NEWwoman]

The Beetle was George Harrison, not John

Doh!! My mistake!

I recall the Beetles saying once that they were more popular than Jesus.

[SoDak]

BTW, I agree about Mozart.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yeah.... as a test where I had to name a fact about each of them, I may be lucky to get a B.

They have links and decriptions at the site... I was to lazy to copy them that way.

[Desdemona]

I see Beethoven, but not Bach.

There's so many people I'd put ahead of some of these choices.