Not surprisingly, Greeks have topped the prestigious list of the 100 most influential people in history.
Ancient Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato topped the list of the 100 most famous people on the planet at number 1 and 2 respectively, followed by Jesus Christ, Socrates, and Alexander the Great, according to the CEOWORLD magazine. It has collected and analysed data on cultural production from 4,000 B.C. to 2017.
I must stress that in this context “influential” doesn’t necessary mean bad or good, rather those who have had the greatest impact on our life and history? Karl Marx? Jesus Christ? Einstein? Moses? Shakespeare?
Magazine named Leonardo da Vinci as number six on the list, followed by Confucius, and Julius Caesar. Homer (Turkey) and Pythagoras (Greece) round out the list at nine and ten, respectively.
Archimedes (Italy) took the No. 11 spot in 2017, followed by the Moses (No.12) and Muhammad (No.13).
Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler ranked No. 14 in the CEOWORLD magazine’s ranking of the most influential people in history.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of Austria came in 15th place, followed by Shakespeare (16th), Michelangelo (17th), Augustus (18th), and Napoleon Bonaparte, ranked 19th.
Out of 100 most influential people in history, Isaac Newton ranked No. 20th.
The 100 Most Influential People In History
| Rank | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aristotle | Greece |
| 2 | Plato | Greece |
| 3 | Jesus Christ | Israel |
| 4 | Socrates | Greece |
| 5 | Alexander the Great | Greece |
| 6 | Leonardo da Vinci | Italy |
| 7 | Confucius | China |
| 8 | Julius Caesar | Italy |
| 9 | Homer | Greece |
| 10 | Pythagoras | Greece |
| 11 | Archimedes | Greece |
| 12 | Moses | Egypt |
| 13 | Muhammad | Saudi Arabia |
| 14 | Adolf Hitler | Austria |
| 15 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Austria |
| 16 | William Shakespeare | UK |
| 17 | Michelangelo | Italy |
| 18 | Augustus | Italy |
| 19 | Napoleon Bonaparte | France |
| 20 | Isaac Newton | UK |
| 21 | Albert Einstein | Germany |
| 22 | Christopher Columbus | Italy |
| 23 | Dante Alighieri | Italy |
| 24 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Germany |
| 25 | Gautama Buddha | Nepal |
| 26 | Cleopatra VII of Egypt | Egypt |
| 27 | Martin Luther | Germany |
| 28 | Galileo Galilei | Italy |
| 29 | Herodotus | Greece |
| 30 | Paul of Tarsus | Turkey |
| 31 | Augustine of Hippo | Algeria |
| 32 | Nero | Italy |
| 33 | Thales | Greece |
| 34 | Karl Marx | Germany |
| 35 | Marco Polo | Italy |
| 36 | Cicero | Italy |
| 37 | Mahatma Gandhi | India |
| 38 | Sophocles | Greece |
| 39 | Vincent van Gogh | Netherlands |
| 40 | Genghis Khan | Mongolia |
| 41 | Zoroaster | Afghanistan |
| 42 | Immanuel Kant | Russia |
| 43 | Hippocrates | Greece |
| 44 | Sigmund Freud | Czech Republic |
| 45 | Pablo Picasso | Spain |
| 46 | Nefertiti | Egypt |
| 47 | Swami Vivekananda | India |
| 48 | Solomon | Israel |
| 49 | Jeanne d'Arc | France |
| 50 | George Orwell | India |
| 51 | Qin Shi Huang | China |
| 52 | Epicurus | Greece |
| 53 | René Descartes | France |
| 54 | Ashoka | India |
| 55 | Tutankhamun | Egypt |
| 56 | Nagarjuna | India |
| 57 | Mary | Israel |
| 58 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Germany |
| 59 | Marcus Aurelius | Italy |
| 60 | Voltaire | France |
| 61 | Chandragupta Maurya | India |
| 62 | Ovid | Italy |
| 63 | Niccolò Machiavelli | Italy |
| 64 | Blaise Pascal | France |
| 65 | Aryabhata | India |
| 66 | David | Palestine |
| 67 | Charles Darwin | UK |
| 68 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Switzerland |
| 69 | Laozi | China |
| 70 | Saladin | Iraq |
| 71 | Saint Peter | Syria |
| 72 | Chanakya | India |
| 73 | John the Baptist | Israel |
| 74 | Mary Magdalene | Israel |
| 75 | Heraclitus | Greece |
| 76 | Mahavira | India |
| 77 | Vasco da Gama | Portugal |
| 78 | Elizabeth of England | UK |
| 79 | Jawaharlal Nehru | India |
| 80 | Horace | Italy |
| 81 | Louis XIV of France | France |
| 82 | Joseph Stalin | Georgia |
| 83 | Kalidasa | India |
| 84 | Vladimir Lenin | Russia |
| 85 | Euripides | Greece |
| 86 | Sun Tzu | China |
| 87 | Rabindranath Tagore | India |
| 88 | Democritus | Greece |
| 89 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | US |
| 90 | Friedrich Nietzsche | Germany |
| 91 | Benito Mussolini | Italy |
| 92 | Xerxes of Persia | Iran |
| 93 | Oscar Wilde | Ireland |
| 94 | Frédéric Chopin | Poland |
| 95 | Mao Zedong | China |
| 96 | George Washington | US |
| 97 | Indira Gandhi | India |
| 98 | Benjamin Franklin | US |
| 99 | Leo Tolstoy | Russia |
| 100 | Nostradamus | France |
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