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| | + | <br>1. [[Jesus]]. “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” (John 1: 3) That influence is hard to beat. |
| | + | <br>2. [[John the Apostle]], the author of the most influential work in history, the [[Gospel of John]]. |
| | + | <br>3. [[Eve]]. All humans have inherited their sinful nature from Eve. |
| | + | <br>4. [[Noah]]. “So the lord said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth… for I am sorry that I have made them.’ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6: 7-8) God preserved his creation for the sake of Noah. |
| | + | <br>5. [[Abraham]]. Abraham was the father of the Jews and the Moslems through Isaac and Ishmael respectively. He sacrificed [[Isaac]] on mount Moriah and is and remains a great example of faith. |
| | + | <br>6. [[Moses]]. Leader of the Israelites through whom God gave the Ten Commandments. |
| | + | <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>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>11. Julius Caesar. Great Roman dictator whose murder set the stage for the Roman Empire. |
| | + | <br>12. [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Third President of the United States, author of the [[Declaration of Independance]], and mover/shaker in the [[Bill of Rights]]. |
| | + | <br>13. Simon [[Peter]], [[Saint Peter]], first among the Apostles. <font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</font></sup> |
| | + | <br>(above list modified from a version submitted by Benjamin S.) |
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| | + | <br>Jesus |
| | + | <br>[[Julius Caesar]] |
| | + | <br>[[George Washington]] |
| | + | <br>[[Isaac Newton]] |
| | + | <br>Alexander the Great |
| | + | <br>Adam |
| | + | <br>Thomas Edison |
| | + | <br>Napoleon |
| | + | <br>Martin Luther |
| | + | <br>Nicolaus Copernicus. |
| | + | <br>(submitted by Nathanael H.) |
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| | <br>1. Jesus | | <br>1. Jesus |
| | <br>2. Adam ( and Eve) | | <br>2. Adam ( and Eve) |
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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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