Christians in the top 100 most influential people

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Rank: #3
Name: Jesus Christ
Religious Affiliations: Judaism; Christianity
Influence: founder of Christianity

Rank: 6
Name: St. Paul
Religious Affiliations: Judaism; Christianity
Influence: proselytizer of Christianity

Rank: 8
Name: Johann Gutenberg
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: developed movable type; printed bibles

Rank: 9
Name: Christopher Columbus
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: explorer; led Europe to Americas

Rank: 11
Name: Louis Pasteur
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: scientist; pasteurization

Rank: 12
Name: Galileo Galilei
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: astronomer; accurately described heliocentric solar system

Rank: 19
Name: Nicolaus Copernicus
Religious Affiliations: Catholic (priest)
Influence: astronomer; taught heliocentricity

Rank: 20
Name: Antonie Laurent Lavoisier
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: father of modern chemistry; philosopher; economist

Rank: 21
Name: Constantine the Great
Religious Affiliations: Roman state paganism; Christianity
Influence: Roman emperor who completely legalized Christianity, leading to its status as state religion. Convened the First Council of Nicaea that produced the Nicene Creed, which rejected Arianism (one of two major strains of Christian thought) and established Athanasianism (Trinitarianism, the other strain) as “official doctrine.”

Rank: 22
Name: James Watt
Religious Affiliations: Presbyterian (lapsed)
Influence: developed steam engine

Rank: 24
Name: James Clerk Maxwell
Religious Affiliations: Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist
Influence: Physicist; electromagnetic spectrum

Rank: 25
Name: Martin Luther
Religious Affiliations: Catholic; Lutheran
Influence: founder of Protestantism and Lutheranism

Rank: 30
Name: Adam Smith
Religious Affiliations: Liberal Protestant
Influence: economist; philosopher; expositor of capitalism; author: The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Rank: 31
Name: Edward de Vere a.k.a. William Shakespeare
Religious Affiliations: Catholic; Anglican
Influence: literature; also wrote 6 volumes about philosophy and religion

Rank: 34
Name: Napoleon Bonaparte
Religious Affiliations: Catholic (nominal)
Influence: French conqueror

Rank: 38
Name: Guglielmo Marconi
Religious Affiliations: Catholic and Anglican
Influence: inventor of radio

Rank: 41
Name: Oliver Cromwell
Religious Affiliations: Puritan (Protestant)
Influence: British political and military leader

Rank: 43
Name: Alexander Fleming
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: penicillin, advances in bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy

Rank: 44
Name: John Locke
Religious Affiliations: raised Puritan (Anglican); Liberal Christian
Influence: philosopher and liberal theologian

Rank: 44
Name: Ludwig van Beethoven
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: composer

Rank: 46
Name: Werner Heisenberg
Religious Affiliations: Lutheran
Influence: a founder of quantum mechanics; discovered principle of uncertainty; head of Nazi Germany’s nuclear program

Rank: 49
Name: Rene Descartes
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: Rationalist philosopher and mathematician

Rank: 50
Name: Michelangelo
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: painter; sculptor; architect

Rank: 51
Name: Pope Urban II
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: called for First Crusade

Rank: 54
Name: St. Agustine
Religious Affiliations: Greek state paganism; Manicheanism; Catholic
Influence: Early Christian theologian

Rank: 57
Name: John Calvin
Religious Affiliations: Protestant; Calvinism
Influence: Protestant reformer; founder of Calvinism

Rank: 58
Name: Gregor Mendel
Religious Affiliations: Catholic (Augustinian monk)
Influence: Mendelian genetics

Rank: 59
Name: Max Planck
Religious Affiliations: Protestant
Influence: physicist; thermodynamics

Rank: 62
Name: Framcisco Pizarro
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: Spanish conqueror in South America; defeated Incas

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Rank: 63
Name: Hernando Cortes
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: conquered Mexico for Spain; through war and introduction of new diseases he largely destroyed Aztec civilization

Rank: 65
Name: Queen Isabella I
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: Spanish Ruler

Rank: 68
Name: William the Conqueror
Religious Affiliations: Cathoic
Influence: laid foundation of modern England

Rank: 72
Name: Johann Sebastian Bach
Religious Affiliations: Lutheran; Catholic
Influence: composer

Rank: 75
Name: Johannes Kepler
Religious Affiliations: Lutheran
Influence: astronomer; planetary motions

Rank: 76
Name: Enrico Fermi
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: initiated the atomic age; father of atom bomb

Rank: 86
Name: Vasco da Gama
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: navigator; discovered route from Europe to India around Cape Hood

Rank: 91
Name: Henry Ford
Religious Affiliations: Protestant
Influence: developed automobile; achievement in manufacturing and assembly

Rank: 95
Name: Mikhail Gorbachev
Religious Affiliations: Russian Orthodox
Influence: Russian premier who helped end Communism in USSR

Rank: 97
Name: Charlemagne
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: Holy Roman Empire created with his baptism in 800 AD

Rank: 99
Name: Justinian I
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: Roman emperor; reconquered Mediterranean empire; accelerated Catholic-Monophysite schism

This list came from Hart, Michael H. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Revised and Updated for the Nineties. New York: Carol Publishing Group/Citadel Press; first published in 1978, reprinted with minor revisions (reflected above) in 1992.

I found it on this page adherents.com/adh_influ.html

Thought it was kind of interesting not sure if I listed all christians here or if all that I did list are actually christians.
 
TDiGaetano said:
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Rank: 63
Name: Hernando Cortes
Religious Affiliations: Catholic
Influence: conquered Mexico for Spain; through war and introduction of new diseases he largely destroyed Aztec civilization
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I think it is rather unfair to blame Cortes for the actions of bacteria and viruses of which no one in the world knew about. To attribute the military conquest to him is fair. He and his men fought to avoid being sacrificed on heathen altars. In doing so they managed to bring down a bloodthirsty pagan empire. I think we owe him a tremendous debt of gratitude
 
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I think it is rather unfair to blame Cortes for the actions of bacteria and viruses of which no one in the world knew about. To attribute the military conquest to him is fair. He and his men fought to avoid being sacrificed on heathen altars. In doing so they managed to bring down a bloodthirsty pagan empire. I think we owe him a tremendous debt of gratitude
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I agree was just quoting from the website 🙂
 
Interesting that none of the Latin American revolutionaries made the list, particularly many modern individuals like Hugo Chavez.
 
Jesus was #3? Who was 1 and 2? John Bobbit and Emeril Lagassi?
 
Rank: 1
Name: Muhammad
Religious Affiliations: Islam
Influence: Prophet of Islam; conqueror of Arabia; Hart recognized that ranking Muhammad first might be controversial, but felt that, from a secular historian’s perspective, this was the correct choice because Muhammad is the only man to have been both a founder of a major world religion and a major military/political leader

Rank: 2
Name: Isaac Newton
Religious Affiliations: Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e.,
Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism
of the Primitive Church)
Influence: physicist; theory of universal gravitation; laws of motion

If you click on the link above and scroll down the page you can see the entire list I was just pulling out the Christians that made that list. 31% of this list were Christians.

This list has Muhammad as #1 and the person that made the list gave this explination why Jesus wasn’t #1.
Jesus Christ
It is not uncommon for people to wonder why Jesus is not ranked first on this list. As far as the way the list appears on this web page, the answer is simple: We have reproduced Hart’s list in exactly the order he wrote it. But it is true that many people, both Christians and secular historians, would have ranked Jesus first on a list of the world’s most influential people. Hart said that he himself would have ranked Jesus first, if all the people who today identify themselves as Christians actually followed Jesus’s teachings more substantially. He considers contemporary Muslims more influenced by Muhammad than contemporary Christians are by Jesus.
Also, Hart’s outlook was essentially secular in outlook. He did consider the doctrinal role of Jesus in human salvation as taught by Christianity. Muhammad, on the other hand, carved out an actual, geographic empire during his lifetime. Christians as well as historians agree that Jesus himself conquered no lands and led no armies during his lifetime.
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TDiGaetano said:
Rank: 1
Name: Muhammad
Religious Affiliations: Islam
Influence: Prophet of Islam; conqueror of Arabia; Hart recognized that ranking Muhammad first might be controversial, but felt that, from a secular historian’s perspective, this was the correct choice because Muhammad is the only man to have been both a founder of a major world religion and a major military/political leader

Rank: 2
Name: Isaac Newton
Religious Affiliations: Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e.,
Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism
of the Primitive Church)
Influence: physicist; theory of universal gravitation; laws of motion

If you click on the link above and scroll down the page you can see the entire list I was just pulling out the Christians that made that list. 31% of this list were Christians.

This list has Muhammad as #1 and the person that made the list gave this explination why Jesus wasn’t #1.
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Neither should be in the rank they are…😦 Seems like a very biased list, IMHO. How does Newton place ahead of Christ? How does Muhammad place above Christ or even the Buddha?? Is not peace greater than war???

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius:cool:
 
Alexius said:
Neither should be in the rank they are…😦 Seems like a very biased list, IMHO. How does Newton place ahead of Christ? How does Muhammad place above Christ or even the Buddha?? Is not peace greater than war???

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius:cool:
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It’s a List of the most influential people not neccarily the nicest person.
 
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