* 2. Isaac Newton - Isaac Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. He laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus. His work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has known.
3. Ts'ai Lun - He is traditionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper (as opposed to Egyptian papyrus). Although paper existed in China before Cai Lun (since the 2nd century BC), he was responsible for the first significant improvement and standardization of paper-making by adding essential new materials into its composition.
4. Johann Gutenberg - invented the printing press in the 1450's, and the first book to ever be printed was a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany
7. Louis Pasteur - He solved the mysteries of rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases, and contributed to the development of the first vaccines. He debunked the widely accepted myth of spontaneous generation, thereby setting the stage for modern biology and biochemistry. He described the scientific basis for fermentation, wine-making, and the brewing of beer. Pasteur's work gave birth to many branches of science, and he was singlehandedly responsible for some of the most important theoretical concepts and practical applications of modern science.
9. Aristotle
10. Euclid
11. Shih Huang Ti - He became the first emperor of a unified China in 221 BC. He undertook gigantic projects, including the first version of the Great Wall of China, the now famous city-sized mausoleum guarded by a life-sized Terracotta Army, and a massive national road system
12. Augustus Caesar - the first emperor of the Roman Empire
14. Constantine the Great - Well known for being the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity
15. James Watt
16. Michael Faraday
18. Martin Luther
* 19. George Washington
20. Karl Marx
22. Genghis Kahn
23. Adam Smith
24. Edward de Vere
25. John Dalton
* 27. Napoleon Bonaparte
28. Thomas Edison
32. Adolf Hitler
33. Plato
34. Oliver Cromwell
37. John Locke
40. Louis Daguerre
41. Simon Bolivar
42. Rene Descartes
43. Michelangelo
44. Pope Urban II
46. Asoka
47. St. Augustine
48. William Harvey
50. John Calvin
51. Gregor Mendel
52. Max Planck
53. Joseph Lister
56. Hernando Cortes
57. Thomas Jefferson
58. Queen Isabella I
* 59. Joseph Stalin
60. Julius Caesar
62. Sigmund Freud
63. Edward Jenner
66 Lao Tzu
67 Voltaire
69 Enrico Fermi
76 Mani
77 Lenin
78 Sui Wen Ti
82 Mao Zedong
84 Henry Ford
85 Mencius
86 Zoroaster
89 Menes
90 Charlemagne
91 Homer
92 Justinian I
93 Mahavira
97 Cheops
98 Marie Curie
* 100 Mohandas Gandhi
101 Abraham Lincoln
* 104 Sun Tzu- was an ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher who is traditionally believed, and who is most likely, to have authored The Art of War, an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy
*105 Abraham Lincoln - was the 16th President of the United States. He led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis — the American Civil War — preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization
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