Statistics for Most Important People in History

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#	Who They Are / What They Did	Person	% Correct
1	Messiah of Christianity	Jesus Christ	99%
6	Started WWII	Adolf Hitler	97%
5	Rediscovered the New World	Christopher Columbus	93%
2	Founded Islam	Muhammad	93%
13	Won WWII, modernized the USSR, killed millions	Joseph Stalin	91%
17	Led India to independence from the UK	Mohandas Gandhi	86%
26	Led the Communist revolution in Russia	V. I. Lenin	85%
10	Father of Communism	Karl Marx	84%
14	Led the Communist revolution in China	Mao Zedong	84%
37	Discovered relativity	Albert Einstein	83%
9	Sparked the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	82%
16	Conquered the Persian Empire and spread Greek culture	Alexander the Great	81%
44	Led the U.K. through WWII	Winston Churchill	81%
4	Founded Buddhism	Buddha	80%
34	Discovered evolution	Charles Darwin	80%
22	Discovered calculus and the theory of gravitation	Isaac Newton	80%
31	Conquered Gaul. Became dictator of Rome	Julius Caesar	80%
7	Conquered most of Asia	Genghis Khan	78%
46	Led the U.S. through the Civil War	Abraham Lincoln	75%
24	Leader of the American revolution	George Washington	75%
40	Helped invent the lightbulb and much more	Thomas Edison	74%
48	Invented the airplane (two people)	Wright Brothers	70%
3	Deeply influenced Chinese thought	Confucius	68%
12	Conquered most of Europe	Napoleon Bonaparte	68%
60	Led the U.S. through the Great Depression and WWII	Franklin Roosevelt	67%
52	Made discoveries about radiation	Marie Curie	66%
93	Important artist and "Renaissance" man	Leonardo da Vinci	64%
53	Broke England away from the Catholic church	Henry VIII	63%
8	Invented the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	63%
59	Assembly line and automobile pioneer	Henry Ford	62%
71	First post-apartheid President of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	62%
20	First Roman emperor	Augustus	61%
88	Most prominent figure in the American Civil Rights movement	Martin Luther King, Jr.	61%
94	Musical composer	Ludwig van Beethoven	59%
92	Playwright	William Shakespeare	59%
21	Conquered England	William the Conqueror	55%
91	Founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	53%
27	Helped Latin America achieve independence	Simón Bolívar	52%
25	Expanded the Frankish empire	Charlemagne	50%
96	Probably the most influential painter of the 20th century	Pablo Picasso	49%
95	Renaissance artist	Michelangelo	48%
23	Father of Western Philosophy	Plato	48%
77	Sometimes called the Father of Modern Science	Galileo Galilei	46%
35	Allowed Rome to become a Christian empire	Constantine	42%
45	Led England to a period of great discovery and prosperity	Queen Elizabeth I	41%
43	Unified Spain (two people)	Ferdinand & Isabella	40%
42	Greatly expanded the Russian empire	Peter the Great	40%
73	Conquered the Aztecs	Hernán Cortés	39%
78	Discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun	Nicolaus Copernicus	39%
69	Led Russia to become a great power	Catherine the Great	37%
36	Greatest pharaoh of the New Kingdom	Ramesses II	37%
39	Father of Economics	Adam Smith	36%
47	First to sail from Europe to India	Vasco da Gama	36%
70	Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	35%
38	Attempted a first comprehensive system of Western thought	Aristotle	34%
76	Unified Germany under Prussian leadership	Otto von Bismarck	34%
28	Converted the Gentiles to Christianity	St. Paul	31%
19	Started Taoism	Laozi	30%
57	Father of Geometry	Euclid	29%
72	Conquered the Incas	Francisco Pizarro	28%
62	Discovered genetics	Gregor Mendel	26%
32	Improved the steam engine	James Watt	26%
33	Made huge breakthroughs in disease prevention	Louis Pasteur	26%
49	To Sunnis, the fourth caliph; to Shiites, the first imam	Ali	25%
84	Invented the radio	Guglielmo Marconi	25%
29	Started a once-popular religion called Zoroastrianism	Zoroaster	23%
99	19th century novelist	Charles Dickens	22%
11	Founded the Persian empire	Cyrus the Great	21%
87	Father of computer science	Alan Turing	20%
86	Emperor of Ethiopia, messiah of a minor religion	Haile Selassie	19%
15	Unified China	Qin Shi Huang	19%
30	Started the Crusades	Pope Urban II	18%
61	Made huge contributions to mathematics and philosophy in the 17th century	René Descartes	18%
50	Invented the smallpox vaccine	Edward Jenner	17%
98	Pop musician	John Lennon	16%
67	Made important discoveries about electromagnetism	Michael Faraday	12%
51	Preeminent mathematician of the 18th century	Leonhard Euler	11%
66	First President of Indonesia	Sukarno	11%
41	Conquered Central Asia in the late 1300s	Timur	11%
100	20th century athlete	Pelé	10%
18	Expanded the Maurya Empire to most of the Indian subcontinent	Ashoka	8%
82	Father of nuclear physics	Ernest Rutherford	8%
75	Helped develop the Scientific Method	Francis Bacon	8%
81	Promoted sterile surgery	Joseph Lister	8%
65	Conquered Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire	Mehmed the Conqueror	8%
80	Improved the microscope. Observed single-celled organisms	Antony van Leeuwenhoek	7%
68	Made important discoveries about electromagnetism	James Maxwell	7%
85	Founder of Pakistan	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	7%
79	Father of Modern Chemistry	Antoine Lavoisier	6%
83	Prophet who founded Manichaeism, a now extinct religion	Mani	5%
55	Figured out how to make artificial fertilizer	Fritz Haber	4%
90	Hero of Mexican independence	Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla	3%
56	Potentially saved hundreds of millions by improving crop yields	Norman Borlaug	3%
64	Conquered Persia and much of the Byzantine Empire	Umar	3%
97	Arguably influenced pop culture more than anyone else	Walt Disney	3%
54	Invented birth control	Gregory Pincus	2%
74	Founder of Jainism	Mahavira	2%
63	Founded the Umayyad caliphate	Muawiyah I	2%
89	Helped overthrow the Shogunate in Japan	Sakamoto Ryōma	2%
58	Emperor who led China to a golden age during the Tang dynasty	Taizong of Tang	2%