The 100 - Most Influential Persons in History

A Muslim does not need anyone to prove that our beloved Prophet Muhammad  is the greatest human that ever lived or will ever live. But when a Muslim hears that a Christian has ranked the beloved Prophet as the most influential person in history, having compared what according to him are the 100 of the greatest religious personalities, statesmen, scientists, explorers, philosophers and artistic and literary figures, he is naturally interested, specially when  the second  Khalif  Umar ibn al-Khattab is ranked as the 51st Most Influential Persons in History.

 

Michael H. Hart, a Christian American says :

 "My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels. Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader"   Taken from the book

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The following is from Michael Hart's book and lists Prophet Muhammad as the most influential man in History.

A Citadel Ranking, list of 100 most influential persons in history:

1. Prophet Muhammad

2. Isaac Newton

3. Jesus Christ

4. Buddha

5. Confucius

6. St. Paul

7. Ts'ai Lun

8. Johann Gutenberg

9. Christopher Columbus

10. Albert Einstein

11. Karl Marx

12. Louis Pasteur

13. Galileo Galilei

14. Aristotle

15. Lenin

16. Moses

17. Charles Darwin

18. Shih Huang Ti

19. Augustus Caesar

20. Mao Tse-tung

21. Genghis Khan

22. Euclid

23. Martin Luther

24. Nicolaus Copernicus

25. James Watt

26. Constantine the Great

27. George Washington

28. Michael Faraday

29. James Clerk Maxwell

30. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright

31. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

32. Sigmund Freud

33. Alexander the Great

34. Napoleon Bonaparte

35. Adolf Hitler

36. William Shakespeare

37. Adam Smith

38. Thomas Edison

39. Anthony van Leeuwenhoek

40. Plato

41. Guglielmo Marconi

42. Ludwig van Beethoven

43. Werner Heisenberb

44. Alexander Graham Bell

45. Alexander Fleming

46. Simon Bolivar

47. Oliver Cromwell

48. John Locke

49. Michelangelo

50. Pope Urban II

51. Umar ibn al-Khattab

52. Asoka

53. St. Augustine

54. Max Planck

55. John Calvin

56. William T.G. Morton

57. William Harvey

58. Antoine Henri Becquerel

59. Gregor Mendel

60. Joseph Lister

61. Nikolaus August Otto

62. Louis Daguerre

63. Joseph Stalin

64. Rene Descartes

65. Julius Caesar

66. Francisco Pizarro

67. Hernando Cortes

68. Queen Isabella I

69. William the Conqueror

70. Thomas Jefferson

71. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

72. Edward Jenner

73. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

74. Hohann Sebastian Bach

75. Lao Tzu

76. Enrico Fermi

77. Thomas Malthus

78. Francis Bacon

79. Voltaire

80. John F. Kennedy

81. Gregory Pincus

82. Sui Wen Ti

83. Mani

84. Vasco da Gama

85. Charlemagne

86. Cyprus the Great

87. Leonhard Euler

88. Niccolo Machiavelli

89. Zoroaster

90. Menes

91. Peter the Great

92. Mencius

93. John Dalton

94. Homer

95. Queen Elizabeth

96. Justinian I

97. fJohannes Kepler

98. Pablo Picasso

99. Mahavira

100. Niels Bohr