100 People Who Changed the World

This is a list of 100 people who have made a big difference to the world we live in. I have tried to choose people who have made a postive change, inspiring others to do something good. There may be some other people who have been more powerful but I didn't want to include them.

If you would like to nominate anyone leave a comment on this blog post. - People who changed the World

1. Jesus Christ
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Mikhail Gorbachev
4. Martin Luther King
5. Nelson Mandela
6. Lord Buddha
7. Winston Churchill
8. William Shakespeare
9. Woodrow Wilson
10. Abraham Lincoln

Other People Who Changed the World (in no particular order)

  1. Sri Krishna
  2. Joan of Arc
  3. Mother Teresa
  4. Muhammed
  5. William Wilberforce
  6. George Washington
  7. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  8. Bill Gates
  9. Martin Luther
  10. Rosa Parks
  11. Lord Nelson
  12. Princess Diana
  13. Oscar Wilde
  14. William Blake
  15. Boris Yeltsin
  16. Margaret Thatcher
  17. Charles de Gaulle
  18. George Orwell
  19. J.R.R.Tolkien
  20. Charles Darwin
  21. Sir Isaac Newton
  22. Boudica
  23. King Arthur
  24. Queen Elizabeth II
  25. Queen Victoria
  26. John M Keynes
  27. Swami Vivekananda
  28. Raisa Gorbachev
  29. Sri Aurobindo
  30. Jawaharlal Nehru
  31. Ramses The Great
  32. Benjamin Franklin
  33. Confucius
  34. Aristotle
  35. Socrates
  36. Alexander the Great
  37. Marcus Aurelius
  38. Charlemagne
  39. Saladin
  40. Babur
  41. Akbar
  42. Sir Walter Raleigh
  43. Galileo Galilei
  44. Voltaire
  45. Samuel Johnson
  46. Catherine the Great
  47. Mozart
  48. Schubert
  49. Napoleon Bonaparte
  50. Beethoven
  51. Benjamin Disraeli
  52. Florence Nightingale
  53. Leonardo da Vinci
  54. Louis Pasteur
  55. Leo Tolstoy
  56. Mahatama Gandhi
  57. Albert Einstein
  58. Ataturk
  59. Pablo Picasso
  60. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  61. Pope John Paul II
  62. Mohammed Ali
  63. King Alfred
  64. Aung San Suu Kyi
  65. John F. Kennedy
  66. Lyndon Johnson
  67. Indira Gandhi
  68. Eva Peron
  69. William Tyndale
  70. Tim Berners Lee
  71. Benazir Bhutto
  72. Desmond Tutu
  73. Kofi Annan
  74. Dalai Lama
  75. Barack Obama
  76. Albert Schweitzer
  77. Malcolm X
  78. Lech Walesa
  79. J.K.Rowling
  80. Richard Branson
  81. Marie Curie
  82. Elvis Presley
  83. Oliver Cromwell
  84. Emile Zatopek
  85. Pele
  86. Jesse Owens
  87. Ernest Hemingway
  88. John Lennon
  89. Henry Ford
  90. Jimmy Carter

 

Books about People who changed the World

Book Cover 101 World Heroes by Simon Montefiore

Related Pages on Events That Changed the World

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