100 Most Influential People of All Times (Palm OS)
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100 Most Influential People of All Times (Palm OS) - Learn more about 100 Most Influential People of all times - from Buddha and Hammurabi to Thomas Edison and Brothers Wright. Their lifes, views, and careers illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps.
Table of Contents
Kings, Emperors and Politicians
Religious Leaders
Humanitarians
Thinkers and Philosophers
Scientists
Inventors
Explorers and Pioneers
Musicians and Composers
Writers
Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Stage, Screen and Photography
Kings, Emperors and Politicians
Menes (ca. 3100-3000 BC) - united Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom.
Hammurabi (c.1792-1750 BC) - first king of the Babylonian Empire.
Cyrus the Great (ca.576-530 BC) - founder of the Persian Empire.
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) - king of Macedon; he conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks, never losing a battle.
Asoka (304-232 BC) - emperor of India who converted to and spread Buddhism.
Qin Shi Huang (260-210 BC) - Chinese Emperor; unified China, initiated construction of the Great Wall of China.
Hannibal (247-183 BC) Carthaginian military commander and politician.
Julius Caesar (c.100-44 BC) - Roman military and political leader; key role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
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Religious Leaders
Zoroaster (c.1200 BC) - ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism.
Buddha (c.563-c.483 BC) - founder of Buddhism.
Jesus Christ (c.6 BC-c.30 AD) - founder of Christianity.
St. Paul (b. c. 10-d. c. 67 AD) - proselytizer of Christianity.
Muhammad (c.570-632 AD) - Prophet of Islam; conqueror of Arabia.
Martin Luther (1483-1546) - a church reformer, founder of Protestantism and Lutheranism.
John Calvin (1509-1564) - Protestant theologian, a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism or Reformed theology.
Humanitarians
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) - political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. In India, he is recognized as the Father of the Nation.
Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986) - a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews leave the Soviet Union while serving as the consul of the Empire of Japan to Lithuania.
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-c.1947) - worked at great personal risk to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them protective passports from the Swedish embassy.
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Thinkers and Philosophers
Lao Zi [Lao Tzu] (c.600 BC) - founder of Taoism.
Confucius (551-479 BC) - founder of Confucianism.
Socrates (469-399 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher who is credited for laying the foundation for Western philosophy.
Plato (c.427-347 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician; together with Socrates and Aristotle laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture.
Aristotle (384-322 BC) - philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) - philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright; widely known for his treatises on realist political theory (The Prince).
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Scientists
Euclid (c.325-c.265 BC) - mathematician; Euclidian geometry.
Archimedes (c.287-212 BC) - ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher who made fundamental discoveries in the fields of physics and engineering.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) - astronomer who formulated the first modern heliocentric theory of the solar system.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) - physicist, astronomer, astrologer, and philosopher; improvements to the telescope, astronomical observations, and effective support for heliocentric theory of the solar system.
Rene Descartes [Renatus Cartesius] (1596-1650) - "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and "Father of Modern Mathematics"; the Cartesian coordinate system is named after him; described dualism of machine-like body and a nonmaterial mind; argued that only humans have minds.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) - mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, best known for his laws of planetary motion.
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) - physicist; theory of universal gravitation; laws of motion.
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Inventors
Archimedes (c.287-212 BC) - ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher who made fundamental discoveries in the fields of physics and engineering.
Cai Lun (c.50-121 AD) - inventor of paper.
Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468) - inventor movable type printing in Europe; His major work is the Gutenberg Bible.
James Watt (1736-1819) - inventor of the steam engine.
Samuel Morse (1791-1872) - co-inventor (with Alfred Vail) of the Morse Code.
Nikolaus Otto (1832-1891) - inventor of the internal-combustion engine.
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) - inventor of dynamite.
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) - inventor of the telephone.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) - inventor and businessman; phonograph, electric railway, iron ore separator, electric lighting, and other inventions.
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Explorers and Pioneers
Marco Polo (c.1254-1324) - one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China.
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) - discoverer of the Americas.
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) - Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer. Vespucci's voyages became widely known in Europe. In 1507, a world map was produced which named the new continent "America" after Vespucci's first name, Amerigo.
Vasco da Gama (c.1469-1524) Portuguese explorer, the first person to sail directly from Europe to India.
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