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Poll: A&E Most Influential People of the Millennium

From "A&E Biography of the Millennium", here is the top 35 of the 100 most influential people of the millenium, in order. Who would you have put at the top of the list, as the most influential person of the millennium?

Discuss here

(SCFP= Sorry, Couldn't Find a Picture)

Results of 689 votes:

1.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (physicist)
2.

The Machine That Made Us (2008)

Johannes Gutenberg (mass media--movable type for printing)
3.

Leonardo da Vinci (1952)

Leonardo da Vinci (for science)
4.

Roger Harding in Evolution (2016)

Charles Darwin (evolutionist writer)
5.

Newton: A Tale of Two Isaacs (1997)

Isaac Newton (gravity)
6.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (Renaissance playwright)
7.

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (Nazi leader during WWII)
8.

Martin Luther King

ML King Jr (US civil rights leader)
9.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

M. Gandhi (led peaceful revolution in modern India)
10.

Karl Marx was and still is the greatest communist theorist of all time. He proved that the nature of the wage in the capitalist economy is reproduction of the capitalist society itself.

Karl Marx (19th c. political writer)
11.

#23

Abraham Lincoln (16th US president)
12.

Tom Hulce in Amadeus (1984)

W A Mozart (great Classic composer)
13.

Spencer Tracy and Rita Johnson in Edison, the Man (1940)

Thomas Edison (inventor)
14.

Terry O'Quinn in Lost (2004)

John Locke (17th c. philosopher)
15.

Niall MacGinnis in Martin Luther (1953)

Martin Luther (Protestant Reformation)
16.

Christopher Columbus (1949)

Christopher Columbus (explorer)
17.

Henry Ford

H. Ford (mass production of automobile)
18.

Paul Muni and Donald Woods in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

Louis Pasteur (bacteria)
19.

George Washington (1984)

George Washington (1st US president, General of Revolutionary War)
20.

Viggo Mortensen in A Dangerous Method (2011)

Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis)
21.

Ed Harris and Diane Kruger in Copying Beethoven (2006)

Beethoven (great late Classic/early Romantic composer)
22.

Kopernik (1973)

Nicolaus Copernicus (astromony)
23.

Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants (1997)

Galileo Galilei (astromony)
24.

Omar Sharif in Genghis Khan (1965)

Ghengis Khan (12th c Mongul conqueror)
25.

Steamboat Willie (1928)

James Watt (Scottish inventor; steam engine) (SCFP)
26.

Napoleon (2000)

Napoleon (French general, president and self-proclaimed emperor)
27.

Johann Sebastian Bach

JS Bach (great Baroque composer)
28.

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Adam Smith (18th c. Scottish philosopher and economist) (SCFP)
29.

Tom Conti in DNA (2004)

Watson & Crick (DNA)
30.

Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Michaelangelo (Renaissance artist/sculptor)
31.

Stephen Dillane in John Adams (2008)

Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president, Declaration of Independence)
32.

A V.I. Lenin in this film which was dedicated to the October Revolution. V.I. Lenin(30 December 1922 21 January 1924) was the leader of the first Scientific Socialist States, Soviet Union.

N. Lenin (Russian political leader/writer)
33.

Olivier Rabourdin in Of Gods and Men (2010)

St. Thomas Acquinas (Catholic philosopher)
34.

Cogitat Ergo Sum (2011)

Descartes (philosopher) (SCFP)
35.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Nothing to Hide (2012)

Rousseau (great philosopher of French "Enlightenment") (SCFP)

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Results of 689 votes:

Roger Harding in Evolution (2016)

Martin Luther King

Karl Marx was and still is the greatest communist theorist of all time. He proved that the nature of the wage in the capitalist economy is reproduction of the capitalist society itself.

#23

Tom Hulce in Amadeus (1984)

Spencer Tracy and Rita Johnson in Edison, the Man (1940)

Terry O'Quinn in Lost (2004)

Niall MacGinnis in Martin Luther (1953)

Paul Muni and Donald Woods in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

Viggo Mortensen in A Dangerous Method (2011)

Ed Harris and Diane Kruger in Copying Beethoven (2006)

Omar Sharif in Genghis Khan (1965)

Tom Conti in DNA (2004)

Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Stephen Dillane in John Adams (2008)

A V.I. Lenin in this film which was dedicated to the October Revolution. V.I. Lenin(30 December 1922  21 January 1924) was the leader of the first Scientific Socialist States, Soviet Union.

Olivier Rabourdin in Of Gods and Men (2010)

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