1 Jesus
 6 BC – 30 AD
 Hebrew Leader
 Established the
religion of
Christianity
 Gospels tell his
life story
2 Muhammad
 570-632
 Arab Leader
 Established the
religion of Islam
 Wrote the Koran
3 Newton
 1642-1727
 English Scientist
 Most influential
scientist of all
time
 4 Laws of Motion,
Gravity
4 Buddha
 563-483 BC
 Indian Leader
 Established the
religion of
Buddhism
 Summarized
Teachings in 4
Noble Truths
5 Confucius
 551-479 BC
 Chinese
Philosopher
 Established the
philosophy of
Confucianism
 Wrote Analects
6 Saint Paul




4 – 64 AD
Hebrew leader
Spread Christianity
Wrote much of the
New Testament
 Greatest Christian
Writer
7 Tsai Lun
 105 AD
 Chinese
inventor of
paper
8 Gutenberg
 1400 - 1468
 German
Inventor of
the printing
press
9 Columbus
 1451-1506
 Italian explorer (for
Spain)
 Discovered the
Americas
 Began the Age of
Exploration.
10 Einstein
 1879-1955
 German
Scientists
established the
Theory of
Relativity
 E=MC2
11 - Pasteur
 1822-1895
 French Scientist
 Germ theory of
disease
 Preventative
inoculation
 Pasteurization
12 - Galileo
•
 1564-1642
 Italian Scientist
 Key figure in the
development of the
Scientific Method
 Improved Telescope
13 - Aristotle
 384-322 BC
 Greek philosopher
 Developed the
study of Formal
Logic
 Greatest Ancient
Scientist/Philosoph
er
14 -Euclid
•
 300 BC
 Greek
philosopher /
mathematician
 Developed the
fundamentals of
geometry
 Wrote the
“Elements”
15 - Moses
 1250 BC
 Hebrew leader
 Led the exodus
from Egypt
 Wrote the 10
Commandment
and the Torah
16 - Darwin
•
 1809-1882
 English scientist
 Theory of
Evolution
 Wrote “Origin of
Species”
17 - Huang
Ti

257-210 BC
 Chinese
Emperor
 Unified China
 Built Great Wall
18 - Augustus
 63BC -14 AD
 Roman
Emperor
 Founded
Roman Empire
 Began era
known as Pax
Romana
•
19 Copernicus
 1473-1543
 Polish
astronomer
 Heliocentric
theory
•
20 - Lavoisier

1743-1794
 French scientist
 Father of Modern
Chemistry
 Wrote “Elements
of Chemistry”
21 Constantine
 280-337 AD
 Roman emperor
 Helped to make
Christianity the
dominate religion of
the West
 Edict of Milan
22 - Watt

1736-1819
 English inventor
 Invented the 1st
practical steam
engine
 Started Industrial
Revolution
23 - Faraday
 1791-1867
 English scientist
 Invented the
electric motor
 Invented the
electric generator
(dynamo)
24 - Maxwell
 1831-1879
 English
scientist
 Established 4
laws of electromagnetism
•
25 - Luther
 1483-1546
 Started the
Protestant
Reformation
•
26 Washington
 1732-1799
 1st President of
the United States
 President of the
Constitutional
Convention
 Led America
through
Revolutionary
27 - Marx
 1818-1883
 German political
philosopher
 Founded
Communism
(scientific
Socialism)
28 - Wright
Brothers
 American inventors
 Invented the
airplane
29 - Genghis
Khan
 1162-1227
 Mongol emperor
 Established the
Mongol Empire
 Had many
influential
descendants
30 - Smith
•
 1723-1790
 English economist
 Economic
philosophy of
capitalism
 Study of
economics
31 Shakespeare

English poet /
playwright
 Most influential
author/poet/
playwright of all time
 Influenced English
Language
•
32 - Dalton
 English
scientist
 Developed
the modern
atomic theory
33 
Alexander
Greek emperor
 Conquered
Persia
 Spread
Hellenistic
culture
•
34 Napoleon
 French Emperor
 Conquered most of
Europe
 Spread ideals of
French Revolution
 Napoleonic Code
 Sold Louisiana to the
United States
35 - Edison

American
inventor
 Developed First
Modern
Research
Laboratory
 Invented Light
Bulb
•
36 
Dutch
scientist
Leuwenhoek
 Improved the
microscope
 Discovered
microscopic
organisms
37 - Morton
 American
physician
 Developed the
first practical
anesthesia
38 - Marconi
 Italian
inventor
 Invented the
radio
39 - Hitler
 German leader
 Key instigator
of World War II
 Most evil man
in history
40 – Plato
428 BC
 Founder of
Western political
thought
41 - Cromwell
 English
leader
 Preserved
parliamentary
democracy
42 - Bell
American
inventor
 Invented the
telephone
43 - Fleming
 British
scientist
 Developed
world’s first
anti-biotic
(penicillin)
44 - Locke

English political
philosopher
 Key figure in the
development
Constitutional
Democracy
45 - Beethoven
 Austrian
composer
 Most
influential
composer
46 
German
Heisenberg
scientist
 Quantum
mechanics
47 Daguerre
 French
inventor
 Invented
modern
photography
48 - Bolivar

Venezuelan
leader
 Main leader of
the liberation
movements in
South America
49 Descartes
 French
mathematician
 Contributed
DEDUCTIVE
reasoning to the
Scientific Method
 Furthered the role of
MATHEMATICS in the
Scientific Method
50  Italian artist
Michaelangelo
 Greatest/
most
influential
artist of all
time
51 - Urban
II
 Roman
Catholic Pope
 Called for the
Crusades
52 - Umar

Arab religious &
political leader
 Expanded the
religion of Islam
 Expanded the
Islamic Empire
53 - Asoka
 Indian ruler
 Helped to
make
Buddhism a
major religion
54 - St.

Augustine
Roman Catholic
Bishop
 Most important
theologian of the
early Roman
Catholic Church
55 - Harvey
 English
physician
 Discovered /
proved blood
circulation and
the role of the
heart
56 
New
Zealand
Rutherford
scientist
 Founder of the
study of
nuclear physics
57 - Calvin

Swiss religious
leader
 2nd most
important figure
in the Protestant
Reformation
58 - Mendel
 Austrian monk
/ scientist
 Founded the
study of
heredity /
genetics
59 - Planck
 German
scientist
 Quantum
theory
60 - Lister
 English
physician
 Introduced
anti-septic
measures into
surgery
61 - Otto
 German
inventor
 First practical
internal
combustion
engine
62 - Pizarro
 Conquered
Inca/Peru
 Spread Spanish/
European culture
to South America
63 - Cortes
 Conquered the
Aztec/Mexico
 Spread Spanish/
European culture
to Mexico
64 - Jefferson
 American
president
 Put into cogent
form the ideas
on which the
United States
was founded
65 - Isabella I
 Spanish queen
 Sponsored
Columbus
 Helped spread
Spanish /
European culture
 Established the
Spanish Inquisition
66 - Stalin
 Soviet (Russian)
leader
 Spread
communism
 Made Soviet Union
a superpower
 Instigated the Cold
War
67 - Julius
Caesar

100 – 44 BC
 Roman leader
 Conquered Gaul
 First Dictator of
Rome
68 - William
 1027-1087
 King of England
/ Duke of
Normandy
 Conquered
England at
Battle of
Hastings
69 - Freud
 Austrian
physician
 Founder of
modern
psychiatry/
psychology
70 - Jenner
 English
scientist
 Developed
the vaccine
for smallpox
71 - Rontgen
 German
scientist
 Discovered X
rays
72 - Bach
 German
composer
nd
 2 most
influential
composer
73 - Lao
Tzu
 Chinese
religious leader
 Founded the
philosophy /
religion of
Daoism
74 - Voltaire
 French
philosopher
 Key figure of
the French
Enlightenment
75 - Kepler
 German
astronomer
 Laws of
Planetary
Motion
76 - Fermi
 Italian /
American
scientist
 Developed the
world’s first
nuclear reactor
77 – Leonardo Da Vinci
 2nd Greatest Artist
 Universal Genius
 Made major advances
in technology,
anatomy, physiology
 The Last Supper,
Mona Lisa
 Greatest Painter
78 - Rousseau
 French philosopher
 2nd most influential
figure of French
Enlightenment
 Responsible for
romanticism,
socialism, and the
concept of popular
sovereignty
79 
Italian
political
Machiavelli
philosopher
 Influenced
many leaders
with his book
“The Prince”
80 - Malthus

English
economist
 Writings on
population
growth and its
affect on society
81 - Kennedy
 American
president
 Key supporter
of the Apollo
space
program
82 - Pincus
 American
scientist
 Developed the
world’s first
practical and
effective oral
contraceptive
83 Benjamin Franklin
 Key Diplomat during US
Revolution
 Wrote Poor Richards
Almanac
 Invented lightening rod,
bi-focals and experiments
with electricity
 Universal Genius
(business, science,
literature, politics)
84 - Lenin
 Russian
leader
 Established
Communism
in Russia
85 - Sui Wen

Chinese
Ti emperor
 Re-unified
China in the 6th
century
86 - Da
Gama
 Portuguese
explorer
 Discovered all
water route to India
 Began the
European efforts
into Indian Ocean
basin
87 - Cyrus
 Persian
Emperor
 Founded the
Persian
Empire
88 - Peter the
Great
Russian
czar
Westernize
d Russia
89 - Mao

Chinese
Zedong
leader
 Made China
communist
 Made China a
world power
90 - Bacon
 English
philosopher
 Introduced the
concepts of
Inductive
Reasoning and
Empiricism to the
Scientific Method
91 - Ford
 American
industrialist
 Developed
the
assembly
line
92 – Abraham Lincoln
 President during
American Civil War
 Freed Slaved with
Emancipation
Proclamation
93 
Zoroaster
Persian religious
leader
 Established the
religion of
Zoroasterianism
94 - Elizabeth
I English
queen
 Greatest
monarch in
English
history
95 Gorbachev
 Soviet (Russian)
President
 Key figure in the
ending of the Cold
War
 Allowed the Soviet
Union to break up
peacefully
96 - Menes
 Egyptian
pharaoh
 Unified Upper
and Lower
Egypt
97 Charlemagne
 Frankish
emperor
 Temporarily
reunited
Western
Europe
 Founded Holy
98 - Homer
 Greek poet
 Most influential
writer/poet of
ancient history
99 - Justinian

Byzantine
emperor
 Wrote the
influential law
code
“Corpus Juris
Civilus”
100 Mahavira
 Indian
religious
leader
 Established
the religion of
Jainism