Famous Influential People
Famous people taken from a list of the top 100 most influential people ever.
Descriptions - Famous People
- Scientist discovered Theory of Relativity.
- Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
- Born in Nepal, philosopher and spiritual teacher from ancient India.
- Sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church and started the Protestant Reformation.
- German inventor of the European mechanical printing press.
- Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Chinese thinker and social philosopher.
- Founding-father of modern genetics.
- French philosopher who coined 'I think therefore I am'.
- Christian missionary and one of the main writers of the New Testament.
- Italian engineer who developed radio transmission.
- Spanish Conquistador who claimed Inca lands for Spain.
- Renaissance astronomer and mathematician who believed Sun was the centre of the Universe not the Earth.
- National icon in much of modern South America and liberator of Latin American countries.
- English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism.
- Scottish economist and philosopher who was also known as "The Father of Economics".
- Third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.
- Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis.
- Played a major role in introducing the European state system into the Russian Empire.
- Italian diplomat who lived during the Renaissance, often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.
- German astronomer and mathematician who created laws of planetary motion.
- Called the father of empiricism, Elizabeth I of England reserved him as her legal advisor.
- Leader of Soviet Communist Party who pursued reform – glasnost and perestroika.
- Greek poet who wrote Odyssey and Iliad.
- Painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512.
Answers - Infuential People
- Albert Einstein
- Vasco da Gama
- Buddha (Siddartha Gautama)
- Martin Luther
- Johann Gutenberg
- Christopher Columbus
- Confucius
- Gregor Mendel
- Rene Descartes
- St. Paul, or Paul of Tarsus
- Marconi (Guglielmo Marconi)
- Francisco Pizarro
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Simon Bolivar
- Michael Faraday
- Adam Smith
- Thomas Jefferson
- Sigmund Freud
- Peter the Great
- Nicoli Machiavelli
- Johannes Kepler
- Francis Bacon
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Homer
- Michelangelo