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Rank, and change from others' ranks
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Hint
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Answer
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#1 (0 | +2)
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Messiah of Christianity
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Jesus Christ
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#2 (0 | -1)
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Founder of Islam, Seal of the Prophets
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Muhammad
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#3 (0 | -1)
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Deeply influenced Chinese thought
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Confucius
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#4 (0 | 0)
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Founder of Buddhism
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Buddha
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#5 (0 | +25)
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Connected the Old and New Worlds
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Christopher Columbus
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#6 ( - | 0)
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Significantly improved papermaking
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Cai Lun
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#7 (0 | -2)
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Created the largest contiguous land empire; murdered millions and promoted trade
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Genghis Khan
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#8 (0 | -2)
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Western inventor of the printing press
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Johannes Gutenberg
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#9 (-3 | -1)
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Instigated World War II in Europe and inspired mass decolonization efforts
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Adolf Hitler
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#10 (+5 | -1)
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First unifier of China
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Qin Shi Huang
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#11 (+66 | +2)
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Astronomer, furthered the Scientific Revolution against major hostilities
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Galileo Galilei
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#12 (+16 | +13)
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Wrote more of the New Testament than any other person, converted the Gentiles
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Saint Paul
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#13 (-1 | -6)
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Conquered and modernized most of Europe
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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#14 (-3 | +21)
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Founded the Achaemenid Empire in Persia
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Cyrus the Great
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#15 (-5 | +12)
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Co-authors of The Communist Manifesto, authored and published Das Kapital (duo)
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Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
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#16 (+3 | -1)
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Founder of Taoism
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Laozi
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#17 (-1 | +67)
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Ancient Macedonian conqueror, key figure of Hellenization
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Alexander the Great
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#18 (-9 | +55)
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Started the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther
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#19 (+1 | -7)
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First Roman Emperor
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Augustus
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#20 (+55 | 0)
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Elizabethan Era philosopher who championed empiricism and the scientific method
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Francis Bacon
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#21 (+2 | +3)
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Athenian philosopher, founded the Academy
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Plato
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#22 (-4 | - )
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Spread Buddhism and united much of India under the Mauryan Empire
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Ashoka
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#23 (-)
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Father of the plastics industry
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Leo Baekeland
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#24 (+9 | -8)
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Early contributor to germ theory, disproved spontaneous generation
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Louis Pasteur
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#25 (+1 | -8)
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Bolshevik revolutionary, first Soviet leader
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Vladimir Lenin
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#26 (-4 | -8)
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Described gravity, established classical mechanics, and developed calculus
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Isaac Newton
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#27 (+7 | +5)
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Described evolution
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Charles Darwin
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#28 (-1, - )
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Persian prophet, founded a religion that paved the way for the rise of monotheism
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Zoroaster
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#29 (+9 | -18)
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Athenian philosopher, attempted a first comprehensive system of Western thought
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Aristotle
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#30 (+13 | - )
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Catholic monarchs who united Spain and sponsored #5 (duo)
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Ferdinand II & Isabella
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#31 (-7 | -3)
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American revolutionary, first U.S. president, and president of the Constitutional Convention
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George Washington
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#32 (-18 | -11)
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Initiated the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution in China
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Mao Zedong
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#33 (+2 | +3)
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Instrumental in the Christianization of the Roman Empire
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Constantine
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#34 (-2 | - )
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Significantly improved the steam engine, kicking off the Industrial Revolution
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James Watt
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#35 (+22, +47)
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Greek father of geometry
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Euclid
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#36 (+32 | +54)
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Described electromagnetism, realized the second "great unification" of physics
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James Clerk Maxwell
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#37 (-20 | -8)
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Champion of nonviolence, highly important to India's independence
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Mahatma Gandhi
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#38 (-25 | -16)
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Led the USSR through World War II and the beginning of the Cold War
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Joseph Stalin
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#39 (-14 | +2)
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Expanded the Frankish Empire
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Charlemagne
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#40 (-27 | - )
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Made key discoveries about electricity
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Michael Faraday
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#41 (-14 | -10)
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Fought for South American independence
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Simón Bolívar
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#42 (-5 | -23)
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Described relativity
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Albert Einstein
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#43 (-36 | +8)
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Established the modern study of chemistry, rejected phlogiston theory (duo)
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Antoine & Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
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#44 (-)
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Father of algebra, helped popularize Arabic numerals
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al-Khwarizmi
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#45 (+16 | -3)
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17th century philosopher and mathematician; wrote Meditations and created the Cartesian coordinate system
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René Descartes
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#46 (-)
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Sentenced #1 to death by crucifixion
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Pontius Pilate
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#47 (-7 | - )
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Invented the practical lightbulb, popularized electricity as a utility
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Thomas Edison
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#48 (-)
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Ended over 2000 years of monarchical rule in China
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Sun Yat-sen
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#49 (+27 | - )
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Prussian unifier of Germany who led the Berlin Conference
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Otto von Bismarck
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#50 (-)
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Assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, eventually leading to World War I
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Gavrilo Princip
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#51 (-)
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Early pioneer of photography
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Louis Daguerre
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#52 (+26 | -14)
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Renaissance era advocate for heliocentrism
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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#53 (+19 | -8)
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Conquered the Inca Empire
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Francisco Pizarro
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#54 (+19 | -8)
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Conquered the Aztec Empire
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Hernán Cortés
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#55 (-6 | +26)
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Focal point of the Shia-Sunni split
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Ali
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#56 (-35 | +1)
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Conquered England for the Normans
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William the Conqueror
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#57 (-11 | +7)
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Led the U.S. through the Civil War, freed American slaves
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Abraham Lincoln
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#58 (-27 | +4)
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Captured Gaul, prepared the end of the Roman Republic
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Julius Caesar
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#59 (+5 | - )
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Second Rashidun Caliph; expanded the caliphate and influenced the events of the Safiqa
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Umar
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#60 (+20 | -27)
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Revolutionized microscpoing
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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#61 (-11 | - )
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Father of immunology, pioneered innoculation
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Edward Jenner
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#62 (+20 | - )
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Father of nuclear physics
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Ernest Rutherford
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#63 (-11 | -23)
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Described radioactivity
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Marie Curie
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#64 (-16 | - )
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Invented, built, and flew the world's first successful motor-operated airplane (duo)
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Wilbur & Orville Wright
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#65 (-9 | -18)
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Potentially saved billions of lives by improving crop yields in the 20th century
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Norman Borlaug
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#66 (-11 | -16)
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Figured out how to make artificial fertilizer
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Fritz Haber
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#67 (-5 | -41)
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Described the rules of genetic inheritance
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Gregor Mendel
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#68 (-)
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Pioneered information theory, implemented Boolean logic in computer operations
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Claude Shannon
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#69 (-1 | - )
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Discovered penicilin
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Alexander Fleming
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#70 ( - | -56)
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Germanic philosopher who influenced Marxism, authoritarianism, and the totality of modern Western philosophy
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G. W. F. Hegel
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#71 (-24 | - )
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Discovered a sea route to India
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Vasco da Gama
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#72 (-13 | - )
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Popularized the car, assembly line production, and the standardization of parts
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Henry Ford
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#73 (-31 | +22)
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Transformed Russia into a great European power
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Peter the Great
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#74 (-35 | -21)
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Father of economics
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Adam Smith
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#75 (+16 | - )
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Founded psychoanalysis and helped popularize psychology
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Sigmund Freud
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#76 ( - | -2)
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Ended the Tokugawa shogunate, transformed Japan into an industrialized world power
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Meiji
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#77 (-12 | -19)
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Ended the Byzantine Empire and claimed Constantinople for the Ottomans
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Mehmed the Conqueror
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#78 (+9 | -26)
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Influential computer scientist and wartime codebreaker
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Alan Turing
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#79 ( - | -13)
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Leading Enlightenment philosopher known for The Social Contract and Discourse on Inequality
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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#80 (-)
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Designed the first practical automobile
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Carl Benz
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#81 (-)
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Created the World Wide Web
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Tim Berners-Lee
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#82 (-)
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Expanded Ancient Egypt into Syria and Upper Nubia
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Thutmose III
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#83 ( - | -44)
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Established psychology as a discipline separate from philosophy and biology
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Wilhelm Wundt
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#84 (-)
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Drafted the Declaration of Independence, made the Louisiana Purchase
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Thomas Jefferson
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#85 ( - | -37)
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Forerunner of epidemiology, identified cholera-contaminated water in Soho
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John Snow
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#86 (-5 | - )
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Promoted sterile surgery
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Joseph Lister
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#87 (-)
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Popularized the use of anesthesia
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William T. G. Morton
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#88 (-)
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Pioneered rail transport
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George Stephenson
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#89 (-48 | - )
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Central Asian conqueror whose rule began a self-named Renaissance during the 14th to 16th centuries
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Timur
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#90 (-)
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European who devised equal temperament tuning
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Simon Stevins
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#91 (-)
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Sui Dynasty emperor who reunified China, promoted Buddhism, and ordered the construction of the Grand Canal
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Wen of Sui
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#92 (-)
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Neo-Babylonian builder king who subjected Jews to the Babylonian Captivity
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Nebuchadnezzar II
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#93 (-)
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Abbasid caliph who championed learning, opened the Baghdad House of Wisdom to the public
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al-Ma'mun
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#94 ( - | -57)
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Theoretical physicist who discovered quantum mechanics
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Max Planck
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#95 ( - | -32)
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Major figure of the revival of Hinduism and Indian nationalism
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Swami Vivekananda
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#96 (-4 | -24)
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Likely the largest contributor to Western literary tradition
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William Shakespeare
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#97 (-)
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Described the structure of DNA (duo)
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Francis Crick & James Watson
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#98 (-)
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Initially uncredited contributor to the above event
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Rosalind Franklin
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#99 (-)
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Founded the Dutch East India Company
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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
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#100 (-)
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Key figure in the Schism of 1054
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Michael I Cerularius
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