Ideas of history are
always derived from the ideas of particular protagonist thoughts and actions to
establish the egalitarian society with progressive behaviours by few
intellectuals who changed the scenario of human society. Ideas of history would
not grow in rigid societies like Asian mode of society where uncivilized
religious theories and practices are ruining the thought process. Therefore,
there is NO single Most Influential People of All Time from this Asia or Africa.
Knowledge would flourish where there is a room for reading, writing, debate,
discussion, analysis without any hypocrisy. Few are dedicating their life time
for the sake of billions of lazy people who are unproductive in achieving
modern goals. I started thinking why this Asian mode of society is like this
with full of hypocrisy, lies, corrupt, manipulations, violence without room for
knowledge. I started observing my own Pooja Yadav-Madiga community people in
regard to creating modern ideas but futile. They are like every Indian Hindu in
terms of manipulations. I did not understand why particular society like white
western Christian society is producing enormous knowledge whereas Hindu or
Islamic or Buddhist society has failed to create any knowledge except
self-glorification of their uncivilized theories and practices which are
contrary with global standards of human development. One cannot expect human
development without achieving knowledge society. Where there is a progressive
knowledge there is a peace of mind without struggling for one time food like
Christian societies. Where there is a lies, corruption and violence there is
always struggling for not only one time food but also for the self-respect,
dignity and identity. There is NO meaning of self-respect or dignity in the context
of Indian society. Indians are new to this kind of modern identities of
self-respect and dignity. They are living without self-respect and dignity but
they can’t live without lies or uncivilized religious practices. Hindu women
are habituated to live without any self-respect or dignity from the beginning
of their origin of Hinduism. Hindu women love slavery and she wanted to be
slave forever. She likes most violent methods at their life partners. She loves
gender, caste and religious hierarchies. She supports uncivilized theories and
practices of Hindu religion. Manu is her God. Hindu women are agents of age old
uncivilized ideas and practices in India. Therefore, I have taken few greatest
personalities who sacrificed or dedicated their life time for establishing a
just society without corruption, lies, unethical life but with love, care,
affection, truth, fraternity, rights and duties. Unfortunately there is NO
single Hindu in this list of progressive personalities who changed the scenario
of the human society with their powerful ideas and actions. They are powerful
intellectuals who questioned the existing inegalitarian thoughts and actions to
re-establish the society with progressive ideas to achieve
social-economic-cultural-political equality with human rights philosophy.
Scientists have rejected religious sponsored myths to forward the human society
with scientific temper. Sociologists have guided the human behaviors from
un-civilization to civilized manner. They have questioned and changed their Christian
societies but failed to change Hindu based society from its un-civilization to
civilization. Many Britishers or British Christian missionaries have tried and
brought out changes by their modern English education but Hindu society in
India with its honor killings, infant killings, caste hierarchies, uncivilized
religious theories and practices are remained as they are even in this modern
day. Mahatma Jothibha Phule or Dr B R Ambedkar or Periyar Ramasamy
or Gurram Jashuva or Manda Krishna Madiga are the greatest products
of white western Christian education in India who tried to change the mind set
of Hindus in order to change the un-civilized theories and practices. I have
given few personalities that influenced the human society from their powerful thoughts
and actions. It’s not a chronological order but I have written from reading the
societies upon whom these below icons are influenced. I have deliberately
avoided kings or queens names from the white western Christian societies even
though they have reformed their kingdoms by their modern principles of
equality, liberty, freedom and fraternity. I might have forgotten great
personalities in this list of influential people but I will add later.
Most Influential
Personalities in the Human History
 Jesus Christ
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
 Karl Marx
Stephen Hawkins
Plato
William Shakespeare
Aristotle
Abraham Lincoln
George
Washington
Thomas Jafferson
Martin Luther
 Christopher
Columbus 
Charlemagne
Theodore Roosevelt
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
 Ludwig van
Beethoven
Ulysses S. Grant
 Leonardo da
Vinci
Augustus
Carl Linnaeus
Ronald Reagan
Charles Dickens
Paul the Apostle
Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill
 Thomas Edison
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sigmund Freud
Alexander Hamilton
Woodrow Wilson
George W. Bush
 Johann Sebastian
Bach
Galileo Galilei
Oliver Cromwell
James Madison
Mark Twain
Edgar Allan Poe
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Adam Smith
Immanuel Kant
James Cook
John Adams
Richard Wagner
Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky
Voltaire
Saint Peter
Andrew Jackson
 Socrates
Elvis Presley
John F. Kennedy
Augustine of Hippo
Vincent van Gogh
Nicolaus Copernicus
Vladimir Lenin
Robert E. Lee
Oscar Wilde
Cicero
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Francis Bacon
Richard Nixon
Michelangelo
Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
Thomas Aquinas
Pope John Paul II
 RenĂ© Descartes
Nikola Tesla
Harry S. Truman
Joan of Arc
Dante Alighieri
Grover Cleveland
John Calvin
John Locke
Noam Chomsky
10 Influential Sociologists of the
20th Century:
#1: Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
#2: Max Weber (1862-1920)
#3: Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962)
#4: Daniel Bell (1919-2011)
#5: Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
#6: Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
#7: Jurgen Habermas (b. 1929)
#8: Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
#9: Anthony Giddens (b. 1938)
#10: Gary Alan Fine (b. 1950)
(Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1567544/Top-100-living-geniuses.html)
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Albert
    Hoffman     | 
(Swiss)
   | 
Chemist
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Tim
  Berners-Lee  | 
(British)
   | 
Computer
  Scientist  | ||
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George
  Soros  | 
(American)
   | 
Investor
    Philanthropist  | ||
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Matt
  Groening  | 
(American)
   | 
Satirist
    Animator  | ||
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Frederick
  Sanger  | 
(British)
   | 
Chemist
   | ||
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Dario
  Fo  | 
(Italian)
   | 
Writer
    Dramatist  | ||
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Steven
  Hawking  | 
(British)
   | 
Physicist
   | ||
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Oscar
  Niemeyer  | 
(Brazilian)
   | 
Architect
   | ||
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Philip
  Glass  | 
(American)
   | 
Composer
   | ||
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Grigory
  Perelman  | 
(Russian)
   | 
Mathematician
   | ||
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Andrew
  Wiles  | 
(British)
   | 
Mathematician
   | ||
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Li
  Hongzhi  | 
(Chinese)
   | 
Spiritual
  Leader  | ||
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Ali
  Javan  | 
(Iranian)
   | 
Engineer
   | ||
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Brian
  Eno  | 
(British)
   | 
Composer
   | ||
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Damian
  Hirst  | 
(British)
   | 
Artist
   | ||
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Daniel
  Tammet  | 
(British)
   | 
Savant
    Linguist  | ||
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Nicholson
  Baker  | 
(American
   | 
Writer
   | ||
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Daniel
  Barenboim  | 
(N/A)
   | 
Musician
   | ||
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Robert
  Crumb  | 
(American)
   | 
Artist
   | ||
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Richard
  Dawkins  | 
(British)
   | 
Biologist
  and philosopher  | ||
| 
Larry
  Page & Sergey Brin  | 
(American)
   | 
Publishers
   | ||
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Rupert
  Murdoch  | 
(American)
   | 
Publisher
   | ||
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Geoffrey
  Hill  | 
(British)
   | 
Poet
   | ||
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Garry
  Kasparov  | 
(Russian)
   | 
Chess
  Player  | ||
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The
  Dalai Lama  | 
(Tibetan)
   | 
Spiritual
  Leader  | ||
| 
Steven
  Spielberg  | 
(American)
   | 
Film
  maker  | ||
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Hiroshi
  Ishiguro  | 
(Japanese)
   | 
Roboticist
   | ||
| 
Robert
  Edwards  | 
(British)
   | 
Pioneer
  of IVF treatment  | ||
| 
Seamus
  Heaney  | 
(Irish)
   | 
Poet
   | ||
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Harold
  Pinter  | 
(British)
   | 
Writer
    Dramatist  | ||
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Flossie
  Wong-Staal  | 
(Chinese)
   | 
Bio-technologist
   | ||
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Bobby
  Fischer  | 
(American)
   | 
Chess
  Player  | ||
| 
Prince
   | 
(American)
   | 
Musician
   | ||
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Henrik
  Gorecki  | 
(Polish)
   | 
Composer
   | ||
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Avram
  Noam Chomski  | 
(American)
   | 
Philosopher
    linguist  | ||
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Sebastian
  Thrun  | 
(German)
   | 
Probabilistic
  roboticist  | ||
| 
Nima
  Arkani Hamed  | 
(Canadian)
   | 
Physicist
   | ||
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Margaret
  Turnbull  | 
(American)
   | 
Astrobiologist
   | ||
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Elaine
  Pagels  | 
(American)
   | 
Historian
   | ||
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Enrique
  Ostrea  | 
(Philippino)
   | 
Pediatrics
     neonatology  | ||
| 
Gary
  Becker  | 
(American)
   | 
Economist
   | ||
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Mohammed
  Ali  | 
(American)
   | 
Boxer
   | ||
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Osama
  Bin Laden  | 
(Saudi)
   | 
Islamicist
   | ||
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Bill
  Gates  | 
(American)
   | 
Businessman
   | ||
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Philip
  Roth  | 
(American)
   | 
Writer
   | ||
| 
James
  West  | 
(American)
   | 
Invented
  the foil electrical microphone  | ||
| 
Tuan
  Vo-Dinh  | 
(Vietnamese)
   | 
Bio-Medical
  Scientist  | ||
| 
Brian
  Wilson  | 
(American)
   | 
Musician
   | ||
| 
Stevie
  Wonder  | 
(American)
   | 
Singer
  songwriter  | ||
| 
Vint
  Cerf  | 
(American)
   | 
Computer
  scientist  | ||
| 
Henry
  Kissinger  | 
(American)
   | 
Diplomat
  and politician  | ||
| 
Richard
  Branson  | 
(British)
   | 
Publicist
   | ||
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Pardis
  Sabeti  | 
(Iranian)
   | 
Biological
  anthropologist  | ||
| 
Jon
  de Mol  | 
(Dutch)
   | 
Television
  producer  | ||
| 
Meryl
  Streep  | 
(American)
   | 
Actress
   | ||
| 
Margaret
  Attwood  | 
(Canadian)
   | 
Writer
   | ||
| 
Placido
  Domingo  | 
(Spanish)
   | 
Singer
   | ||
| 
John
  Lasseter  | 
(American)
   | 
Digital
  Animator  | ||
| 
Shunpei
  Yamazaki  | 
(Japanese)
   | 
Computer
  scientist  physicist  | ||
| 
Jane
  Goodall  | 
(British)
   | 
Ethologist
     Anthropologist  | ||
| 
Romila
  Thapar   | 
(Indian)
   | 
Historian
   | ||
| 
John
  Goto  | 
(British)
   | 
Photographer
   | ||
| 
Paul
  McCartney  | 
(British)
   | 
Musician
   | ||
| 
Stephen
  King  | 
(American)
   | 
Writer
   | ||
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Leonard
  Cohen  | 
(Canadian)
   | 
Poet
  & musician  | 
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Aretha
  Franklin  | 
(American)
   | 
Musician
   | ||
| 
David
  Bowie  | 
(British)
   | 
Musician
   | ||
| 
Emily
  Oster  | 
(American)
   | 
Economist
   | ||
| 
Steve
  Wozniak  | 
(American)
   | 
Engineer
  and co-founder of Apple Computers  | ||
| 
Martin
  Cooper  | 
(American)
   | 
Inventor
  of the cell phone  | ||
| 
George
  Lucas  | 
(American)
   | 
Film
  maker  | ||
| 
Niles
  Rogers  | 
(American)
   | 
Musician
   | ||
| 
Hans
  Zimmer  | 
(German)
   | 
Composer
   | ||
| 
John
  Williams  | 
(American)
   | 
Composer
   | ||
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Annette
  Baier  | 
(New
  Zealander)  | 
Philosopher
   | ||
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Dorothy
  Rowe  | 
(British)
   | 
Psychologist
   | ||
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Ivan
  Marchuk  | 
(Ukrainian)
   | 
Artist
     sculptor  | ||
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Robin
  Escovado  | 
(American)
   | 
Composer
   | ||
| 
Mark
  Dean  | 
(American)
   | 
Inventor
     computer scientist  | ||
| 
Rick
  Rubin  | 
(American)
   | 
Musician
     producer  | ||
| 
Stan
  Lee  | 
(American)
   | 
Publisher
   | ||
| 
David
  Warren  | 
(Australian)
   | 
Engineer
   | ||
| 
Jon
  Fosse  | 
(Norwegian)
   | 
Writer
     dramatist  | ||
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Gjertrud
  Schnackenberg  | 
(American)
   | 
Poet
   | ||
| 
Graham
  Linehan  | 
(Irish)
   | 
Writer
     dramatist  | ||
| 
JK
  Rowling  | 
(British)
   | 
Writer
   | ||
| 
Ken
  Russell  | 
(British)
   | 
Film
  maker  | ||
| 
Mikhail
  Timofeyevich Kalashnikov  | 
(Russian)
   | 
Small
  arms designer  | ||
| 
Erich
  Jarvis  | 
(American)
   | 
Neurobiologist
   | ||
| 
Chad
  Varah  | 
(British)
   | 
Founder
  of Samaritans  | ||
| 
Nicolas
  Hayek  | 
(Swiss)
   | 
Businessman
  and founder of Swatch  | ||
| 
Alastair
  Hannay  | 
(British)
   | 
Philosopher
   | ||
| 
Patricia
  Bath  | 
(American)
   | 
Ophthalmologist
   | ||
| 
Thomas
  A. Jackson  | 
(American)
   | 
Aerospace
  engineer  | ||
| 
Dolly
  Parton  | 
(American)
   | 
Singer
   | ||
| 
Morissey
   | 
(British)
   | 
Singer
   | ||
| 
Michael
  Eavis  | 
(British)
   | 
Organiser
  of Glastonbury  | ||
| 
Ranulph
  Fiennes  | 
(British)
   | 
Adventurer
   | ||
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Quentin 
  Tarantino  | 
(American)
   | 
Filmmaker
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