most influential people of the 20th Century.
 

Looking at some of the list it seemsed to me celebrity had more effect on their lists than anything else. some listed Oprah Winfrey. :upsidedow

So who do you think has had the biggest effect on life in the 20th Century?

Tim Berners-Lee

Bill Gates.

Steve Jobs.

Adolf Hitler, think about it first.

Albert Einstein

Nelson Mandela

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Emmeline Pankhurst

J. Robert Oppenheimer

for me it's Tim Berners Lee. He created something most people on the Earth use all the time without thinking ad sometimes without knowing. and he gave it to the world for free. Gates and Jobs, charged us. :)

Followed by Hitler, he shaped the most of the 20th Century and still has effect today. Russia might still be communist and just a struggling State without Hitler and WW2.

Karl Marx would probably have to make the list even though he was already dead.

My thinking is without WW2, there would of been no Eastern Block as Stalin couldn't of armed up and taken over the countries he did with Hitler as the enemy. Would any of the Eastern Block of gone Communist and stayed Communist without the war?

Questionable if the War in the Pacific would of happened or been as drawn out without the war in Europe. The war in the Pacific destabilised China and allowed Japan to invade and stay. Afterwards Mao took over. Could he of done that with a stable china?

WW2 has done more to shape the world today than most things.

Alexander Fleming

Adolf Hitler for sure. Without WW II the world today would be TOTALLY different.
For example, without V1/V2 rockets, maybe 2012 would be a year in which human feet stand on Moon.
Politics, technology, lot of things which we have today is a result of WW II.

che guevara revolutionary or terrorist depends what time you are on

What a fucking stupid list...
Where is John Lennon?
Where is Bob Marley?
Where is Albert Hoffman?
At least a dozen more names should be in that list

adolf hitler ... without that lunatic maniac europe might still wage wars ... but, europe learned its lesson and had no war ever since (err, on own soil i mean) ...

Exactly this

Thomas Alva Edison. He invented hundreds of things including the light bulb and motion pictures.

And Hitler would most likely never have been able to rise to power if it hadn't been for the Treaty of Versailles.

invented?

LOL

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

Tesla
Turing

:thumbsup

My vote for adding Tesla.

Tesla need to be on list...

Paul is too modest

Most historians consider WW2 a continuation of WW1.

Without WW I there would be no WW II. What caused Second World War and allowed Hitler to realize his plans? Ruined Germany after WW I and angry people. If situation in Germany would be normal, nobody would allow to begin a war. But these times, a war could give Germany it's power back, multiplied many times.

Hitler plotted to conquer the world, i'm sure he was jew.

:1orglaugh

Naah. He was just angry that Jews didn't take him to the art academy.

http://i.qkme.me/gph.jpg

Where is Paul Markham?

This is too obvious, he doesn't have to be on list. Everybody knows his influence.

The recession had more to do with it. Which is something people should think about today. Far Left or Right rise to power in hard times. Look at history for the proof.

Paul Markham ...

Norman Borlaug

Thanks steve jobs for making computer less open
One of the bigger fails in the world is steve jobs!

The dalai lama as A LOT of influence on people. Hell he's got his own facebook page :upsidedow

Ok... Albert Einstein then :)

wtf steve jobs is on your list :1orglaugh

No, no, no! HERE is the real reason....

Has his discoveries effected your life that much?

Are you using GPS?

For those who said Hitler, what did he influence?

Nothing. Nobody listened to him, nobody was caring about him.

Where is Paul Markham?

WTF is Steve Jobs doing in that list?

I voted for Einstein.

Alexander Fleming. He discovered penicillin. Many of you would be dead without that invention.

He's not on your list, but my choice is Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of the heir to the Austrian throne.

Get rid of him and WWI (probably) never happens.

No WWI and both Vladimir Lenin and Adolf Hitler are remembered, if at all, as nothing more than loud mouthed rabble rousers.

No Communism, no Nazism, no holocaust and probably no "American Century".

The world today would be unrecognizable.

fritz haber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber

:winkwink::winkwink::winkwink:

seriously ????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltpolitik

haha not sure i agree but funny all the same.

Paul Markham of course.

Fatfoo... :2 cents:

The Kaiser was a SOB.. but he didn't want a world war.

In 1914 Germany had the second largest economy in the world.

The Kaiser would have had to be even stupider than he really was (no small accomplishment) to risk all that in a major war.

He was sucked into it just like everybody else.

From those Adolf Hitler of course. But actually his name is Joseph Stalin.

Vote Paul 2012

I'm sad to say it but It's probably that POS John Maynard Keynes.

Thank you for your vote.