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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.
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<br>2.  [[John the Apostle]], the author of the most influential work in history, the [[Gospel of John]].
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<br>3. [[Eve]]. All humans have inherited their sinful nature from Eve.
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<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.
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<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.
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<br>6. [[Moses]].  Leader of the Israelites through whom God gave the Ten Commandments.
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<br>7. [[David]]. Second king of Israel whose psalms have great influence to this day.
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<br>8. [[Paul]]. Evangelist and author of many new-testament books.
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<br>9. [[Alexander the Great]]. Conqueror of, and spreader of Greek culture to, most of the known world.
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<br>10. Constantine.  Roman emperor who spread Christianity.
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<br>11. Julius Caesar.  Great Roman dictator whose murder set the stage for the Roman Empire.
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<br>12. [[Thomas Jefferson]].  Third President of the United States, author of the [[Declaration of Independance]], and mover/shaker in the [[Bill of Rights]].
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<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>
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<br>(above list modified from a version submitted by Benjamin S.)
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<br>Jesus
 
<br>Jesus
<br>Julius Caesar
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<br>[[Julius Caesar]]
<br>George Washington
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<br>[[George Washington]]
<br>Isaac Newton
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<br>Alexander the Great
 
<br>Alexander the Great
 
<br>Adam
 
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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:
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# St. Paul--without him, the Christian religion would probably still be a splinter sect of Judaism.
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# Charles Darwin
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# Adolf Hitler (You didn't say GOOD, just influential.)
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# Karl Marx
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# Abraham Lincoln, whose election catalyzed the Civil War, and finally abolished slavery in the United States.
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# Rupert Murdoch, without whom Bush would never be president.
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# George W. Bush
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# Osama Bin Laden: did more damage to the USA with boxcutters than the Soviet Union could ever have done with nukes.
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# Bill Gates:  For bringing computing to the masses.  Buggy, inferior computing, but computing nonetheless.
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# Tim Berners-Lee: for thinking up the World-Wide Web, the biggest advance in communication since the telephone.
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# Gutenberg, for the other biggest advance.
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# Tom Paine, for writing Common Sense.
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# Adam Smith, who, much like Jesus, is invoked the loudest by those who haven't really read him.
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--[[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:
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<br>1. Kenneth Knee
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<br>2. Virgil Ovid Hawkens
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<br>3. Cornelius Couterier
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<br>4. George Handwell (I need say no more)
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<br>5. Ollie Ottinger
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<br>6. Rodrigo Roscoe
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<br>7. Jonathon Craymes
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<br>8. Niel Niemic
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<br>9. Scott Schwan
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<br>10. Alfred Agin
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<br>(Nicolas Q.)
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