Who are the most significant people EVER? Research based primarily on Wikipedia?!?

[Louis Cypher]

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Who are the most significant people EVER?
Leaders of men, great thinkers, tyrants - these are the figures who have shaped our world. But whose contribution is the most significant? In the book 'Who’s Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank', authors Steven Skiena and Charles War have ordered the most influential based primarily on Wikipedia pages - looking at the length of individual entries, how many times an entry has been viewed, how many sites link to an entry and how rich an entry's references section is. Other data sources were used, such as how often the person appears in books published each year. Women are noticeably absent from this list. Find out who the most significant person in the world is (in descending order) ...

For the lazy:
10: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
9: Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC)
8: Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
7: Adolf Hitler
6: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
5: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
4: The Prophet Mohammed (c. 570-632)
3: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
2: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
1: Jesus

Being based primarily on Wikipedia page views it must be true!

Seriously I think personally the inclusion of 3 US Statesmen & the only entrant in the top ten who isn't a "Western" icon is Mohammed, shows that the way the information was gathered and researched skews the results so badly and makes this a bit of a farce of a list, I am in no way belittling the achievements of Washington or Jefferson (or anyone on the list) but, is Washington really more significant historically than Alexander the Great because more people have looked him up on Wikipedia? And no Issac Newton in the top ten? No Einstein? No Constantine the Great - without who Jesus would not be number 1!!

 

[Muzakman]

I think it's really hard to boil down 10 of the most important people in the world. What about:
Edison
Martin Luther King
Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Colonel Sanders!

Either way I don't know if I completely agree with that list. Not that mine is any better haha but it's arguable for sure!

 

[Louis Cypher]

I think it's really hard to boil down 10 of the most important people in the world. What about:
Edison
Martin Luther King
Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Colonel Sanders!

Either way I don't know if I completely agree with that list. Not that mine is any better haha but it's arguable for sure!

Haha! Can't beat the Colonels secret reciept! LOL!

Its totally subjective of course who would be in the top ten because its such an undefinable definition, significance.... Cool to see who people think shodul be on there but also mean the thread to point out that correlating resources for research from Wikipedia is pretty stupid! LOL!

 

[skeels]

Can I get some love for Genghis Khan?

 

[Winspear]

Bulb?

 

[ddtonfire]

Three presidents, three conquerors, two religious figures, a philosopher, and a writer. I see no scientists. Where are Newton, Da Vinci, Galilei, Turing, Einstein, and their peers?

It appears their metric shows how flawed our education system is, because that undoubtedly skews the results to US Presidents, Hitler, and Shakespeare.

 

[the fuhrer]

I think it's really hard to boil down 10 of the most important people in the world. What about:
Tesla
Martin Luther King
Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Colonel Sanders!

Either way I don't know if I completely agree with that list. Not that mine is any better haha but it's arguable for sure!

Fixed that for you

 

[Yo_Wattup]

Jesus, Newton... maybe Hitler would be my 3

 

[Daf57]

Yeah - screw the wiki, I'm waiting on the Ultimate Guitar list of the most significant people EVER? Then we'll know!!

 

[Mike]

Ray Kroc

 

[Preacher]

No Petrucci, Abasi, or Pastorius. List is about as invalid as it gets...

 

[JoshuaVonFlash]

Where's Augustus Caeser, they put two other Civ leaders in there and forgot Caeser and Ganghis Khan wtf.

 

[leftyguitarjoe]

Tesla.

This needs no explaining.

 

[will_shred]

No love for Issac Newton? You know... The guy who invented calculus? And... you know did some other stuff to.

 

[Basti]

I am in no way belittling the achievements of Washington or Jefferson (or anyone on the list)

(or anyone on the list)

We certainly wouldn't want to disrespect Adolf Hitler now, would we?

 

[FireInside]

Better than I expected. Figured it would be a bunch of pop culture icons.

 

[Hallic]

Im not on the list?

 

[PAZ]

Nikola Tesla should be replacing Edison. That dude was a wizard!

 

[Tones]

Seriously? Where's Nikola Tesla.
He lapped circles around Edison. Pure genius


ninja'd

 

[Basti]

Im not on the list?

You can be on my list