The Most Influential People in History

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0:00 – Buddha
1:25 – Confucius
2:48 – Plato
4:12 – Aristotle
5:33 – Morgan & Morgan
7:06 – Alexander the Great
8:53 – Julius Caesar
10:50 – Jesus Christ
12:25 – Muhammad
14:13 – Genghis Khan
15:38 – Gutenberg
17:00 – Isaac Newton
18:05 – Charles Darwin
19:29 – Karl Marx
21:17 – Albert Einstein
22:55 – Gandhi

Date: October 25, 2025
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  6. Albert Einstein is very likable, but cumulatively what he has done really have not changed the world profoundly. Ernest Rutherford, in 1904, wrote: "If it were ever possible to control at will the rate of disintegration of the radio elements, an enormous amount of energy could be obtained from a small amount of matter". That was a year before Einstein's E = mC^2. So we may easily have had nuclear weapons and nuclear power anyway. And he only explained the photoelectric effect, it was already known. The timing of things may have been different, but outcomes would be similar. Relativity? No, we probably would not have that, but it really has not done much. I can think of dozens of things that have been more impactful.
    Similarly, Gandi is blown out of all proportions. He may be someone to admire, but that is insufficient to elevate him to the top 15. Newton like Einstein did big stuff. But the question is: "Would these things have been done by others in a reasonable time frame?". Calculous was developed at the same time by Leibnitz. And Leibnitz' method is the one used today. The idea was clearly ready, and even if not these two, someone else at a similar time. Law of universal gravitation? I think we would have this too. Perhaps it would have taken another 50 years. But we really did not make use of it until ICBMs and satellites…so there was plenty of time. Optics/light stuff? These were imminent. Darwin? Again, the time was right. And it was independently discovered. Completely erasable. And if Muhamad had not come along, someone else would have filled his shoes. Totally erasable. The rest are legit. Delete any one of them and the future from that point would be utterly altered. It is a shame to put people in who had a destructive influence, but being beneficial was not part of the criteria, so Khan must stay.
    So, who do we replace these 5 with? Thales (before this, people did not think in terms of mechanisms, they saw everything as controlled by the gods. It is so odd of a mindset before this, it is difficult for modern people to even believe people thought that way. His particular explanation is not relevant. It is the idea that it is possible to comprehend nature and its forces without invoking arbitrary gods pulling all the levers, that was new), Archimedes (density, center of mass, the screw, buoyancy, measurement of volume by displacement allowing counterfeit coins to be discovered, increasing the utility of coins, and actually doing things with calculous thousands of years before, and likely his work gave them the ideas to build on), Joseph Jackson Lister radically improved the microscope allowing an explosion in scientific achievements by others. Would this have been done by others in a similar timeframe? Unclear. Christopher Columbus. Yes, the New World would have been discovered by others, but it likely would have taken another 50+ years, and by then the way the New World was exploited may not have been as easily achievable. All the real scientists knew the world was smaller than Columbus was trying to say. And trying to go the real distance from Europe to East Asia would have killed everyone of scurvy if there were no unknown continents to run into. So they would not try. It probably would have been discovered by going north to Greenland and then down. Yes, this already happened once, but they did not realize how much more there was, eventually they would. Maybe in 1550 or 1600, not 1492. And it probably would have been the Dutch, English, or French. Next: Henry Ford. You might think I am just talking about the assembly line and cars, but at least as influential was his inspiration of Hitler. Ford published a hate magazine against Jews that directly inspired Hitler, and all that entails. Not entirely responsible for Hitler, but powerfully influential. Many of Hitler's speeches were directly out of Ford's magazine. So, with both these things combined, he is one of the 15 most influential.

    2 others are probably equal to those I have already listed: Fritz Haber discovered a process to make nitrogen fertilizer that made it possible to grow enough food for everyone. He also invented poison gas as a military weapon, which was used in WWI. And the poison gas used to exterminate people in WW2 is also traceable to him. The second, also a chemist, was the horribly corrupt and greedy Thomas Midgley Jr. who robed the planet of literally billions of IQ points, and damaging impulse control even more severely damaging lives and society in incalculable ways by developing and promoting TEL the lead additive for gasoline. And if that was not enough, he also made the CFCs that greatly damaged the ozone layer, and could have led to a mass extinction if it was not for the entire world coming together and banning the stuff.

    I have 3 more candidates, but we probably have to judge from the vantage point of 200 years in the future to see where they fit: Tim Berners-Lee for opening up the Internet. And Geoffrey Hinton for AI. Emmanuelle Charpentier+Jennifer Doudna for CRISPR. The last one is really hard to peg, because techniques have moved on, and gotten far better. There were also techniques before CRISPR. Still, it was the first to be able to make a change right where you want it rather than at random, even if there is a lot of off target stuff. Autos did not run great when they were invented, so maybe we should keep them on the list. Recent developments show that gene editing is now low error and ready to be used widely.

    And I am tempted to put Edison, Westinghouse, Tesla, Edward Jenner, Robert Goddard, and James Watt in the list too, but it is just too short.

    Oh I have one very speculative, but could be huge. Shinya Yamanaka. He discovered the Yamanaka Factors: genes Myc, Oct3/4, Sox2 and Klf4 that allow us to reverse the age of a cell all the way back, creating Induced pluripotent stem cells, and depending on how things go could be instrumental in extending human life radically and healing nerve tissue and other tissues we have had difficulty repairing.

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