<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. [[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 Eve.
<br>4. [[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>5. [[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>6. [[Moses]]. Leader of the Israelites through whom God gave the Ten Commandments.
<br>7. [[David]]. Second king of Israel whose psalms have great influence to this day.
<br>8. [[Paul]]. Evangelist and author of many new-testament books.
<br>9. [[Alexander the Great]]. Conqueror of, and spreader of Greek culture to, most of the known world.
<br>10. Constantine. Roman emperor who spread Christianity.
<br>11. 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>Thomas Edison
<br>Napoleon
<br>Martin Luther
<br>Nicolaus Copernicus.
<br>(submitted by Nathanael H.)
<br>1. Jesus
<br>2. Adam ( and Eve)
<br>10. Charles Martel
<br>(submitted by Daniel M.)
<br>1. Jesus
<br>2. Moses
<br>3. Mohammed
<br>4. Buddha
<br>5. Confucius
<br>6. Alexander the Great
<br>7. Napoleon
<br>8. Paul (the Apostle)
<br>9. Sir Isaac Newton
<br>10. Louis Pasteur
<br>(submitted by Duncan B.)
<br>1. Jesus Christ
<br>And of course, Jesus.
<br>(submitted by Scott J.)
<br>1. Jesus (His death opened the gateways of heaven for all mankind.)
<br>2. Confucius (His system of thought laid the foundation of society in China, Korea, and Japan.)
<br>3. Muhammad (Founded Islam which for good or ill has been one of the most influential religions both politically and culturally)
<br>4. Socrates
<br>5. Henry Ford (built the first popular automobile and started mass production)
<br>6. Archimedes (laid the foundation for mathematics)
<br>7. Alexander the Great (spread the Greek language and conquered the world)
<br>8. Ronald Reagan (parted the Iron Curtain)
<br>9. Shakespeare (his writings shaped English culture and therefore the World)
<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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