100 Most Influential People of All Times for Smartphones and Mobile Devices 12.1
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Summary: 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.
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- Fully illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps
- Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases
- Written in clear and concise language,
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.
René 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.
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) - first person to lead an expedition sailing
westward from Europe to Asia and to cross the Pacific Ocean.
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) - led the first successful Antarctic expedition to
the South Pole.
Neil Armstrong (1930-) - the first human to set foot on the Moon.
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) - the first man in space and the first man to orbit
the Earth.
Musicians and Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - composer and organist.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - a prolific and influential composer of
the Classical era.
Ludwig van Beethoven (17770-1827) - composer, pianist conductor, and violinist.
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) - German composer, conductor, music theorist, and
essayist, primarily known for his operas.
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) - the greatest conductor of his era.
George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin (1898-1937; 1896-1983) - composed both for
Broadway and for the classical concert hall.
Louis Armstrong (1900-1971) - an American jazz musician.
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) - one of the most influential jazz vocalists of
the 20th Century.
The Beatles (formed 1960) - the most commercially successful and critically
acclaimed popular music bands in history.
Writers
Homer (c.700-c.800 BC) - a legendary early Greek poet credited with the composition
of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 BC) - an ancient Roman poet, the author
of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - an Italian Florentine poet. His greatest work,
la Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered one of the greatest masterpieces
of world literature.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) - an English poet and playwright widely regarded
as the greatest writer of the English language.
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Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician,
engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer.
Michelangelo (1475-1564) - painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer.
Rembrandt (1606-1669) - one of the greatest painters in European art history.
Christopher Wren (1632-1723) - English designer, astronomer, geometer, and the
greatest English architect of his time. Wren designed 53 London churches, including
St Paul's Cathedral.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) - a Dutch draughtsman and painter.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) - one of the most prominent and influential architects
during the first half of the 20th century.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - One of the most recognized figures in 20th century
art.
Stage, Screen and Photography
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) - one of the most famous performers in the early
to mid Hollywood cinema era, and also a notable director.
Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) - a revolutionary Soviet film director and film
theorist noted in particular for his silent films Strike, Battleship Potemkin
and Oktober.
Steven Spielberg (1946-) - three-time Academy Award-winning American film director
and producer.
Oprah Winfrey (1954-) - American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah
Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history.
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