<br>1. [[Jesus]]. “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” (John 1: 3) That influence is hard to beat.<br>2. Adam [[John the Apostle]], the author of the most influential work in history, the [[Gospel of John]].<br>3. [[Eve]]. All humans have inherited their sinful nature from AdamEve.<br>34. [[Noah]]. “So the lord said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth… for I am sorry that I have made them.’ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6: 7-8) God preserved his creation for the sake of Noah.<br>45. [[Abraham]]. Abraham was the father of the Jews and the Moslems through Isaac and Ishmael respectively. He sacrificed [[Isaac ]] on mount Moriah and is and remains a great example of faith.<br>56. [[Moses]]. Leader of the Israelites through whom God gave the Ten Commandments.<br>67. [[David]]. Second king of Israel whose psalms have great influence to this day.<br>78. [[Paul]]. Evangelist and author of many new-testament books.<br>89. [[Alexander the Great]]. Conqueror of , and spreader of Greek culture to, most of the known world.<br>910. Constantine. Roman emperor who spread Christianity.<br>1011. Julius Caesar. Great Roman dictator whose murder set the stage for the Roman Empire.<br>12. [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Third President of the United States, author of the [[Declaration of Independance]], and mover/shaker in the [[Bill of Rights]].<br>13. Simon [[Peter]], [[Saint Peter]], first among the Apostles. <font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</font></sup><br>(above list modified from a version submitted by Benjamin S.)
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<br>Jesus
<br>[[Julius Caesar]]<br>[[George Washington]]<br>[[Isaac Newton]]
<br>Alexander the Great
<br>Adam
<br>10. Winston Churchill (Inspired the British and their allies to resist the Nazis)
<br>(Billy M.)
Billy M.'s list seems like a good one. Let me add in:
# St. Paul--without him, the Christian religion would probably still be a splinter sect of Judaism.
# Charles Darwin
# Adolf Hitler (You didn't say GOOD, just influential.)
# Karl Marx
# Abraham Lincoln, whose election catalyzed the Civil War, and finally abolished slavery in the United States.
# Rupert Murdoch, without whom Bush would never be president.
# George W. Bush
# Osama Bin Laden: did more damage to the USA with boxcutters than the Soviet Union could ever have done with nukes.
# Bill Gates: For bringing computing to the masses. Buggy, inferior computing, but computing nonetheless.
# Tim Berners-Lee: for thinking up the World-Wide Web, the biggest advance in communication since the telephone.
# Gutenberg, for the other biggest advance.
# Tom Paine, for writing Common Sense.
# Adam Smith, who, much like Jesus, is invoked the loudest by those who haven't really read him.
--[[User:Gulik5|Gulik5]] 14:26, 12 April 2008 (EDT)
<br> I've tried not to mention people that have already been said:
<br>1. Kenneth Knee
<br>2. Virgil Ovid Hawkens
<br>3. Cornelius Couterier
<br>4. George Handwell (I need say no more)
<br>5. Ollie Ottinger
<br>6. Rodrigo Roscoe
<br>7. Jonathon Craymes
<br>8. Niel Niemic
<br>9. Scott Schwan
<br>10. Alfred Agin
<br>(Nicolas Q.)
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