ADEREMI'S NOTEBOOK

My top 100
# Mohammed
# Aristotle
# Tsai Lun (credited with the invention of paper)
# Johann Gutenberg
# Jesus of Nazareth
# Paul of Tarsus
# Shih Huang Ti
# Louis Pasteur
# Plato
# Siddhartha Guatama
# Confucius
# Abraham (reportedly the founder of Judaism)
# Isaac Newton
# Sri Krishna (since I included Abraham, I’m going to include him too, his historiocity wasn’t challenged until Christian missionaries did so)
# Euclid
# Tim Berners Lee (invented the world wide web (with help))
# Adolf Hitler
# James Watt / Matthew Boulton (Watt invented it, but Boulton manufactured it and made it into big business)
# Constantine I (the Great)
# Genghis Kahn
# Thomas Edison
# Karl Marx
# Alexander the Great
# Albert Einstein
# Nikolai Tesla (invented the radio as found by the Supreme Court & pioneered AC polyphase power distribution system)
# Christopher Columbus
# Hernan Cortes
# Nicolas Copernicus
# Socrates (just because of his reputation)
# Philo T. Farnsworth (invented electronic television that most closely resembles contemporary ones)
# Asoka (for turning Buddhism from a tiny sect into a world religion, brought Mauryan empire to largest land extent)
# Moses
# Augustus Caesar
# Gavrilo Princip (unwittingly, triggered the two World Wars and Cold War)
# Henry Bessemer
# Sui Wen Ti (reunified China)
# Martin Luther
# Umar (greatly expanded the Islamic empire outside of Saudi Arabia and most responsible for establishing the Islamic government of today, and most of his conquests have stayed Muslim)
# Pope Urban II (his speech ignited the Crusades)
# Galileo Galilei
# Sigmund Freud
# St. Thomas Aquinas
# Charles Darwin
# Alexander Graham Bell (telephone would have been invented anyways without him, but still beat Root to it)
# Charlemagne
# Nicolas von Otto (developed a car engine that most closely resembles contemporary ones)
# William the Conqueror
# Francisco Pizarro
# Saint Augustine of Hippo
# James Clerk Maxwell
# Saint Cyrill and Methodius (invented the Cyrillic alphabet which is still in use in the Russian language and some other eastern Slavic languages, not higher because its just a similar derivative of the Greek alphabet)
# Napoleon
# Lao Tse
# Zoroaster
# Galen (his emphasis on investigation and observation influenced Arabic science and he was the leading medical authority in the west for around 1400 years)
# Ibn Al-Haytham (Alhacen, “first modern scientist”)
# Adam Smith
# Wilbur & Orville Wright (Wright brothers)
# Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley (invented the transistor)
# Queen Isabella & Ferdinand
# Julius Caesar
# Cyrus II (the Great)
# Menes (started the dynastic tradition of Egypt)
# George Washington
# William Shakespeare
# Steve Jobs / Steve Wozniak (invented the personal computer)
# Jack Kilby / Robert Noyce (for inventing the silicon chip)
# William T. G. Morton
# John Locke
# Sir Alexander Fleming
# Muawiya I (of the Umayyad dynasty)
# Michael Faraday
# Adi Sankara (revived Hinduism after Buddhism and Jainism were starting to take over Southeast Asia)
# Vladimir Lenin
# Antoine Lavoisier (downgraded because I don’t know how much of the credit goes to al-Biruni, etc.)
# Simon Bolivar
# Maharshi Veda Vyasa (I’m going to credit him with the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita or just only the BG)
# Mencius
# Al-Khwarizmi / Leonardo Fibonacci (for their parts in getting the West to adopt the Hindu-Arabic numeral system that is used by most countries in the world today (along with their other influences on math))
# Richard Arkwright
# Mao Zedong
# Werner Heisenberg
# Madhavira
# Nagarjuna
# Alan Turing
# John Calvin
# Han Wu Ti (”martial emperor” not the other one)
# Leo Baekeland (invented the first “real” plastic)
# Mani
# Edward Jenner / Lady Montagu
# Joseph Lister
# Louis Daguerre (would have happened anyways, but still beat Fox Talbot to it)
# Du Fu (poet influential in China and Japan)
# Alessandro Volta
# Enrico Fermi
# Johann Karl Frederich Gauss
# Homer (wrote Greece’s national epic poems)
# Ferdowsi (wrote Persia’s national epic poem)
# Zhu Xi
# Ibn Firnas / Salvino D’Armati (supposed inventors of reading stones and eyeglasses, respectively)