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| | <br>7. [[David]]. Second king of Israel whose psalms have great influence to this day. | | <br>7. [[David]]. Second king of Israel whose psalms have great influence to this day. |
| | <br>8. [[Paul]]. Evangelist and author of many new-testament books. | | <br>8. [[Paul]]. Evangelist and author of many new-testament books. |
| − | <br>9. [[Alexander the Great]]. Conqueror of most of the known world. | + | <br>9. [[Alexander the Great]]. Conqueror of, and spreader of Greek culture to, most of the known world. |
| | <br>10. Constantine. Roman emperor who spread Christianity. | | <br>10. Constantine. Roman emperor who spread Christianity. |
| | <br>11. Julius Caesar. Great Roman dictator whose murder set the stage for the Roman Empire. | | <br>11. Julius Caesar. Great Roman dictator whose murder set the stage for the Roman Empire. |
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| | <br>10. Winston Churchill (Inspired the British and their allies to resist the Nazis) | | <br>10. Winston Churchill (Inspired the British and their allies to resist the Nazis) |
| | <br>(Billy M.) | | <br>(Billy M.) |
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| | + | Billy M.'s list seems like a good one. Let me add in: |
| | + | # St. Paul--without him, the Christian religion would probably still be a splinter sect of Judaism. |
| | + | # Charles Darwin |
| | + | # Adolf Hitler (You didn't say GOOD, just influential.) |
| | + | # Karl Marx |
| | + | # Abraham Lincoln, whose election catalyzed the Civil War, and finally abolished slavery in the United States. |
| | + | # Rupert Murdoch, without whom Bush would never be president. |
| | + | # George W. Bush |
| | + | # Osama Bin Laden: did more damage to the USA with boxcutters than the Soviet Union could ever have done with nukes. |
| | + | # Bill Gates: For bringing computing to the masses. Buggy, inferior computing, but computing nonetheless. |
| | + | # Tim Berners-Lee: for thinking up the World-Wide Web, the biggest advance in communication since the telephone. |
| | + | # Gutenberg, for the other biggest advance. |
| | + | # Tom Paine, for writing Common Sense. |
| | + | # Adam Smith, who, much like Jesus, is invoked the loudest by those who haven't really read him. |
| | + | --[[User:Gulik5|Gulik5]] 14:26, 12 April 2008 (EDT) |
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| | + | <br> I've tried not to mention people that have already been said: |
| | + | <br>1. Kenneth Knee |
| | + | <br>2. Virgil Ovid Hawkens |
| | + | <br>3. Cornelius Couterier |
| | + | <br>4. George Handwell (I need say no more) |
| | + | <br>5. Ollie Ottinger |
| | + | <br>6. Rodrigo Roscoe |
| | + | <br>7. Jonathon Craymes |
| | + | <br>8. Niel Niemic |
| | + | <br>9. Scott Schwan |
| | + | <br>10. Alfred Agin |
| | + | <br>(Nicolas Q.) |
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