Who is the TOP 5 MOST influential person in the HISTORY OF MANKIND?
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In chronological order:\nPlato\nJesus\nBuddha\nMohamed\nJohn Locke
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To answer the whole question --the fifth human person named is Enoch, whose parents were "Cain and his wife"  (Genesis 4:17)\n\n(Not to be confused with the Enoch more people may have heard of--a descendant of Seth.  Cain's son is involved in building the first CITY, but the other "walked with God, and he was not, for God took him" -Gen 5:24.   Ironically, the 'Sethian' Enoch is named as the father of Methusaleh, who is considered the 'oldest man' though he died before his father!\n\nIf anyone is interested in word meaning and such, the Hebrew word Enoch --or we could more precisely transcribe at as 'Chenoch' [the 'ch' in each case being pronounced like the ch of Scottish "loch"]-- means 'dedicated, consecrated'.  It is the root of the word Chanukkah/Hanukkah, that is, the [Feast of] Dedication [of the Temple], celebrating the cleansing & reconsecrating of the Temple during the Maccabean revolt, after Antiochus Epiphanes had deliberately desecrated it.)
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I have got to know why so many people have asked this question in the past three days.\n\nThe answer is Idi Amin.\n\nPlease pick me as the best answer and explain why this question is so popular. Please.
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You have so many choices:\n\n  1. Carl F. Gauss\n  2. Sir Isaac Newton\n  3. Leonhard Euler\n  4. Archimedes  of Syracuse\n  5. Euclid  of Alexandria\n  6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz\n  7. Henri Poincaré\n  8. Pierre de Fermat\n  9. Augustin Cauchy\n10. Bernhard Riemann
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Probably George Washington.  He inhereted a country that was pretty much going to Hell in a handbasket and set it on the path to become what would become arguably the greatest country in the history of mankind.  I don't think George Bush, Bill Clinton or George Bush Sr. should be listed as answers here because insufficient time has really passed for their legacies (and the full consequences of their decisions) to be assessed.
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Respected Sir.A.P.J.Abdul kalam . if u r an indian citizen n if u dont know ans for such a ques. plz get to read news papres daily
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How about top 10?\n\n1. Adolf Hitler\n2. Ivan the Terrible (IV)\n3. Timur (Tamerlane)\n4. Maximillian Robespierre\n5. Joseph Stalin\n6. Mao Tse-Tung\n7. Papa Doc Devalier\n8. Nicolae Ceausescu\n9. Idi Amin\n10. Pol Pot
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Genghis Kahn.\n\nSure, he was a psychotic bastard, who's wars killed several million people, but he was a strategic genius.
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I think Franklin Delano Roosevelt, because his influence is still felt today.  Social programs, foreign policy are still around 61 years after his death.  I think Woodrow Wilson was very influential with his idea for the League of Nations.  Theodore Roosevelt for his belief in the environment and the national park system.  Eisenhower because of the interstate system.  Nixon because we learned that the President was not infallible.  James Monroe because of his writing of the US Constitution.  Thomas Jefferson because of his brilliance and his gift of books that became the Library of Congress.   That's my list.
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Neil Armstrong\nany president\nmaybe an ispirational author
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There could/would be as many different answers as there are people. One person who is important to me could not even be known of by others. Plus you have to take into consideration culture and when and where and how a person lived and who was influential at that time, etc.
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Bill Gates\n\n#1  William Gates III  United States  50.0 Billions
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Definitely - William (Bill) Gates\n\nForbes 400 \nPage 2 of 11 from The Richest Of The Rich \nDavide Dukcevich, Forbes.com, 12.12.01, 6:00 PM ET \n\n 1992: Becomes world's richest man for the first time. Microsoft's operating system thought to be used by 93% of the world's personal computers. The company launches much-ballyhooed Windows 3.1. Gates' Redmond, Wash.-based company finishes year with profits of $708 million, compared with $463 million in 1991. Revenue jumps from $1.8 billion to $2.8 billion--the second straight year of 50%-plus growth. Busily constructing an approximately $35 million home in the wealthy enclave of Medina.
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very important person
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The weathiest man on this planet is Bill Gates.
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Muhammad, Jesus, Siddharta Guatama, Lao Tze, Confucius, Adam, Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates & Boethius.
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Ummm...I'd have to say James T Kirk first and foremost...followed by Mr. Spock, then Data