This is a list of 100 people who have changed the world. This list is not a judgement about who is ‘best’.

People who changed the world

christ1. Jesus Christ (circa 5 BCE – 30 CE) Spiritual Teacher, central figure of Christianity
2. Thomas JeffersonJefferson (1743 – 1826) American President 1801 – 1809, principle author of Declaration of Independence
3. Mikhail Gorbachev Gorbachev(1931 – ) Leader of Soviet Union 1985 – 1991, oversaw transition from Communism in Eastern Europe.
4. Lord Buddha buddha(circa 563 BCE – 483 BCE) Spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism
5. Winston Churchill Churchill(1874 – 1965) Prime Minister of Great Britain during Second World War
6. William Shakespeare Shakespeare(1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright
Muhammad_Salat7. Muhammad  (570 – 632) Founder of Islam
8. Martin Luther King christ(1929 – 1968) Civil Rights leader
9. Abraham Lincoln Lincoln(1809 – 1865) American President during civil war, helped end slavery
mandela10. Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) Anti-apartheid leader, first President of democratic South Africa in 1994
  1. Sun Myung Moon (Korean 문선명 Mun Seon-myeong; born Mun Yong-myeong; 25 February 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader
  2. St Paul (5 BCE – 67 CE) Christian missionary
  3. George Washington (1732 – 1799) First President of USA
  4. Sri Krishna (circa 2000 BCE) Spiritual teacher, prominent figure in Hinduism
  5. Emperor Constantine (272 – 337) First Roman Emperor to embrace Christianity
  6. Martin Luther (1483 – – 1546) Key figure in Protestant Reformation
  7. Socrates (469 BCE – 399 BCE) Greek philosopher
  8. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Indian nationalist and politician
  9. Simon Bolivar (1783 – 1830) Liberator of South American countries
  10. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) US President 1932-1945
  11. Charles Darwin (1809 –– 1882) Developed theory of evolution
  12. Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727) English mathematician and scientist
  13. Confucius (551 BCE– – 479 BCE) Chinese philosopher
  14. Akbar (1542 – 1605) Mughal Emperor
  15. Queen Victoria (1819 –– 1901) British monarch 1837 – 1901
  16. Konrad Adenauer (1876 – 1967) German Chancellor post WWII
  17. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 – 1964) First Prime Minister of India
  18. Ramses II (1279 BCE – 1213 BCE) Egyptian Pharoah
  19. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) American writer and polymath
  20. Alexander the Great (356 BCE –– 323 BCE) King of Macedonia
  21. Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924) American president during WWI
  22. Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) Italian explorer
  23. Marcus Aurelius (121 –– 180) Roman emperor and philosopher
  24. Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) Astronomer and physicist
  25. Plato (424 BCE –– 348 BCE) Philosopher
  26. Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431) French saint
  27. Charlemagne (742 – 814) King of Franks and Emperor of the Romans
  28. Aristotle (384BCE –– 322BCE) Greek philosopher
  29. Saladin (1138 –– 1193) Leader of Arabs during Crusades
  30. Babur (1483 – 1531) Founder of Mughal Empire
  31. Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 –– 1618) English explorer
  32. Voltaire (1694 – – 1778) French philosopher
  33. Catherine the Great (1729 –– 1796) Empress of all the Russias 1762 – 1796
  34. Mozart (1756 –– 1791) Austrian composer
  35. Guru Nanak (1469 – 1539) Spiritual teacher, founder of Sikhism
  36. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 –– 1519) Italian scientist, artist, polymath
  37. Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) French chemist and Biologist
  38. Leo Tolstoy (1828 –– 1910) Russian writer and philosopher
  39. Albert Einstein (1879 –– 1955) German physicist
  40. Ataturk (1881 – 1938) Founder of the Turkish Republic
  41. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) Spanish painter and sculptor
  42. Pope John Paul II (1920 – 2005) Polish Pope from 1978-2005
  43. Margaret Thatcher (1925 – 2013) British Prime Minister 1979 – 1990
  44. Mohammed Ali (1942 – 2016) American boxer and human rights activist
  45. John F. Kennedy (1917 –– 1963) American President 1961 – 1963
  46. Boris Yeltsin (1931 –– 2007) First President of Russia 1991 – 1999
  47. Indira Gandhi (1917 –– 1984) Prime Minister of India 1980 – 1984
  48. William Tyndale (1494 – 1536)  Translated Bible into English
  49. Tim Berners Lee (1955 – ) Inventor of World Wide Web
  50. Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) Civil Rights activist
  51. Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007) Prime Minister of Pakistan 1993 – 1996
  52. J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750) German composer
  53. 14th Dalai Lama (1938 – ) Spiritual and political leader of Tibetans
  54. Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) Black Civil Rights activist
  55. Lech Walesa (1943 – ) Leader of Polish solidarity movement
  56. Charles de Gaulle (1890 – 1970) French politician
  57. Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) Chemist and physicist
  58. Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 – 1882) Independence leader in Italy and South America
  59. Johann Gutenberg (1395 – 1468 Inventor of the printing press
  60. Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) British Parliamentarian
  61. Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) Austrian neurologist, psychoanalyst
  62. Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997) Macedonian Catholic nun and missionary
  63. Bill Gates (1955 – ) Founder of Microsoft
  64. Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961) American author
  65. John Lennon (1940 – 1980) British musician and member of the Beatles
  66. Genghis Kahn (1162 – 1227) Ruler of Mongol Empire
  67. Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975) Emperor of Ethiopia 1930 – 1974
  68. John M Keynes (1883 – 1946) Influential economist
  69. Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906) American political activist
  70. George Orwell (1903 – 1950) English author
  71. Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) Inventor and businessman
  72. Kofi Annan (1938 –  ) United Nations Secretary General 1997 – 2006
  73. Dwight Eisenhower (1890 – 1969) Supreme Allied Commander WWII
  74. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) helped to draft UN declaration of human rights
  75. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1891 – 1956) Indian political activist and social reformer who drafted Indian constitution
  76. Lyndon Johnson (1908 – 1973) US President 1963 – 1969
  77. William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833) Campaigner against slavery
  78. Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943) Scientist, inventor
  79. Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) Scottish biologist who discovered antibiotics
  80. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British author and creator of the English dictionary
  81. Eva Peron (1919 – 1952) First Lady of Argentina 1946 – 1952
  82. Henry Ford (1864 – 1947) American industrialist
  83. Princess Diana (1961 –– 1997) Humanitarian
  84. Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish author, playwright
  85. Beethoven (1770 – 1827) German composer
  86. Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 – ) Burmese opposition leader