Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, Henry Gottlieb, Barbar Bowers, Brent Bowers, 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium (1998), Kodansha International, ISBN: 1568362536 Avg. Review (23): Click the cover or title to read my book review and other reviews at Amazon.com Click on names below for links to purchase biographies & books by these people.

Rank #	Name	Lifespan	Accomplishment
1	Johannes Gutenberg	1394-1468	developed the printing press
2	Christopher Columbus	1451-1506	discovered the New World
3	Martin Luther	1483-1546	reformed Christendom
4	Galileo Galilei	1564-1642	father of modern science
5	William Shakespeare	1564-1616	greatest literary genius
6	Isaac Newton	1642-1727	discovered the laws of motion & gravity
7	Charles Darwin	1809-1882	theory of evolution
8	Thomas Aquinas	1225-1274	Summa Theologica
9	Leonardo da Vinci	1452-1519	Renaissance man in art & science
10	Ludwig van Beethoven	1770-1827	unfolded the spiritual realm of music
11	John Locke	1632-1704	philosopher of democracy
12	Mohandas Gandhi	1869-1948	apostle of non-violence
13	Michelangelo Buonarroti	1475-1564	the artist of God
14	Karl Marx	1818-1883	founder of communism
15	Sigmund Freud	1856-1939	founder of psychoanalysis
16	Napoleon Bonaparte	1769-1821	master in the art of war
17	Albert Einstein	1879-1955	E=mc2 and general theory of relativity
18	Nicholas Copernicus	1473-1543	discovered the heliocentric system
19	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1712-1778	spiritual father of romanticism & revolution
20	Adolf Hitler	1889-1945	millennium's most evil man
21	Adam Smith	1723-1790	father of capitalism
22	George Washington	1732-1799	father of America
23	Wilbur Wright	1867-1912	first man-powered flight
24	Orville Wright	1871-1948	first man-powered flight
25	René Descartes	1596-1650	father of modern philosophy
26	Louis Pasteur	1822-1895	developed vaccines against germs
27	Peter the Great	1672-1725	Westernized Russian into a great power
28	Thomas Alva Edison	1847-1931	invented light bulb, movie projector, phonograph
29	William the Conqueror	1028-1087	conqueror of England in 1066
30	Dante Alighieri	1265-1321	poet who brought the divine to earth
31	Queen Elizabeth I	1533-1603	molded England into the British Empire
32	Abraham Lincoln	1809-1865	freed the slaves & preserved the Union
33	Johannes Kepler	1571-1630	discovered the path of the planets
34	Leo Tolstoy	1828-1910	the giant of Russian literature
35	Johann Sebastian Bach	1685-1750	composed an ocean of music to inspire us
36	Voltaire	1694-1778	apostle of enlightenment
37	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	1882-1945	protector of the American way of life
38	Winston Churchill	1874-1965	hero of England's finest hour
39	Francis of Assisi	1181-1226	peacemaker with the human & animal kingdom
40	Niccolo Machiavelli	1469-1527	first modern political scientist
41	Vladimir Ilyich Lenin	1870-1924	revolutionary who founded Russian Communist Party
42	Ferdinand Magellan	1480-1521	navigator of the first ship around the world
43	Genghis Khan	1167-1227	Mongolian conqueror of Asia
44	Miguel de Cervantes	1547-1616	author of the quest— Don Quixote
45	Mary Wollstonecraft	1759-1797	championed women's rights
46	Rembrandt van Rijn	1606-1669	master painter of chiaroscuro
47	William Harvey	1578-1657	discovered circulation of blood
48	Simon Bolivar	1783-1830	liberator of South America
49	Immanuel Kant	1724-1804	metaphysician of the modern world
50	Mao Ze-Dong	1893-1976	father of Communist China
51	Henry Ford	1863-1947	produced the automobile for the common man
52	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	1756-1791	prolific composer of joyous music
53	John Milton	1608-1674	poet of Paradise
54	Benjamin Franklin	1706-1790	America's Renaissance man
55	Alexander Fleming	1881-1955	discoverer of penicillin
56	Martin Luther King, Jr.	1929-1968	champion of civil rights
57	Toyotomi Hideyoshi	1537-1598	ruler & unifier of Japan
58	Frederick the Great	1712-1786	the sword of German militarism
59	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	1770-1831	philospher of history
60	Chu Yüan-chang	1328-1398	first Ming Emperor
61	Charles V	1500-1558	Holy Roman Emperor
62	Geoffrey Chaucer	1342-1400	humanity's poet laureate
63	Louis XIV	1638-1715	the “Sun King” who empowered himself
64	Thomas Jefferson	1743-1826	author of the Declaration of Independence
65	Pope Urban II	1042-1099	preacher of the Crusades
66	Marco Polo	1254-1324	world's most influential traveler
67	Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier	1743-1794	father of modern chemistry
68	Maximilien Robespierre	1758-1794	started the Reign of Terror
69	John Calvin	1509-1564	Protestant Reformation leader
70	Charles Dickens	1812-1870	novelist of the industrial age
71	Suleiman the Magnificent	1494-1566	Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
72	Paul Cezanne	1839-1906	founder of modern art
73	Murasaki Shikibu	978-1031	creator of the novel
74	Alexander Graham Bell	1847-1922	invented the telephone
75	Marie Curie	1867-1934	pioneer of nuclear physics
76	John Eckert	1919-1995	invented the first modern computer ENIAC
77	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	1821-1881	maker of modern literature's antihero
78	Pope Innocent III	1160-1216	champion of papal power
79	Frederick Douglass	1817-1895	abolitionist leader
80	J. Robert Oppenheimer	1904-1967	director of the first atomic bomb project
81	John Stuart Mill	1806-1873	promoter of individual rights
82	Joseph Stalin	1879-1953	millennium's monster
83	Joan of Arc	1411-1431	heroic patron saint of France
84	Francis Bacon	1561-1626	formulator of the scientific method
85	Filippo Brunelleschi	1377-1446	inventor of linear perspective
86	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	1815-1902	founder of women's rights movement
87	Vladimir K. Zworykin	1889-1982	television pioneer
88	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	1646-1716	inventor of calculus & symbolic logic
89	William Le Baron Jenney	1832-1907	architect of the skyscraper
90	Edward Jenner	1749-1823	inoculator with vaccination for smallpox
91	Queen Victoria	1819-1901	the mother of all monarchs
92	Babur	1483-1530	Muslim conqueror of India
93	Chu Hsi	1130-1200	Chinese philosopher of the millennium
94	Phineas T. Barnum	1810-1891	master showman of sales & advertising
95	Guglielmo Marconi	1874-1937	invented the radio
96	Marsilius of Padua	1270-1342	sower of the seeds of modern politics
97	Desiderius Erasmus	1466-1536	literary light of the Renaissance
98	Alexander von Humboldt	1769-1859	universal scientist
99	Margaret Sanger	1879-1966	birth control's evangelist
100	Henry VIII	1491-1547	England's first Protestant King

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