World Changers In History
This is a list of 100 people who have changed the world (for better or worse). Also see: People who made a difference and changed the world for the better.
People who changed the world
2. Thomas Jefferson
(1743 – 1826) American President 1801 – 1809. Author of Declaration of Independence
3. Mikhail Gorbachev 
(1931 – ) Leader of Soviet Union 1985 – 1991, oversaw the transition from Communism to democracy in Eastern Europe.
- St Paul (5 BCE – 67 CE) Christian missionary
- Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) Dictator of Nazi Germany
- Augustus Caesar (63 BCE – AD 14) First Roman Emperor.
- George Washington (1732 – 1799) First President of USA
- Sri Krishna (circa 2-3000 BCE) Spiritual teacher, prominent figure in Hinduism
- Emperor Constantine (272 – 337) First Roman Emperor to embrace Christianity
- Martin Luther (1483 – – 1546) Key figure in Protestant Reformation
- Socrates (469 BCE – 399 BCE) Greek philosopher
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Indian nationalist and politician
- Karl Marx (1818 –– 1883) German philosopher, founder of Marxism
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 –– 1821) French military and political leader
- Simon Bolivar (1783 – 1830) Liberator of South American countries
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) US President 1932-1945
- Charles Darwin (1809 –– 1882) Developed theory of evolution
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727) English mathematician and scientist
- Confucius (551 BCE– – 479 BCE) Chinese philosopher
- Akbar (1542 – 1605) Mughal Emperor
- Queen Victoria (1819 –– 1901) British monarch 1837 – 1901
- Konrad Adenauer (1876 – 1967) German Chancellor post WWII
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 – 1964) First Prime Minister of India
- Ramses II (1279 BCE – 1213 BCE) Egyptian Pharoah
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE –– 323 BCE) King of Macedonia
- Moses (1391 – 1271 BC) Jewish prophet of Old Testament.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924) American president during WWI
- Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) Italian explorer
- Marcus Aurelius (121 –– 180) Roman emperor and philosopher
- Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) Astronomer and physicist
- Plato (424 BCE –– 348 BCE) Philosopher
- Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431) French saint
- Charlemagne (742 – 814) King of Franks and Emperor of the Romans
- Aristotle (384BCE –– 322BCE) Greek philosopher
- Saladin (1138 –– 1193) Leader of Arabs during Crusades
- Babur (1483 – 1531) Founder of Mughal Empire
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 –– 1618) English explorer
- Voltaire (1694 – – 1778) French philosopher
- Catherine the Great (1729 –– 1796) Empress of all the Russias 1762 – 1796
- Mozart (1756 –– 1791) Austrian composer
- Guru Nanak (1469 – 1539) Spiritual teacher, founder of Sikhism
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 –– 1519) Italian scientist, artist, polymath
- Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) French chemist and Biologist
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 –– 1910) Russian writer and philosopher
- Albert Einstein (1879 –– 1955) German physicist
- Ataturk (1881 – 1938) Founder of the Turkish Republic
- Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) Spanish painter and sculptor
- Pope John Paul II (1920 – 2005) Polish Pope from 1978-2005
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 – 2013) British Prime Minister 1979 – 1990
- Mohammed Ali (1942 – 2016) American boxer and human rights activist
- John F. Kennedy (1917 –– 1963) American President 1961 – 1963
- Boris Yeltsin (1931 –– 2007) First President of Russia 1991 – 1999
- Indira Gandhi (1917 –– 1984) Prime Minister of India 1980 – 1984
- William Tyndale (1494 – 1536) Translated Bible into English
- Tim Berners Lee (1955 – ) Inventor of World Wide Web
- Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) Civil Rights activist
- Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007) Prime Minister of Pakistan 1993 – 1996
- J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750) German composer
- 14th Dalai Lama (1938 – ) Spiritual and political leader of Tibetans
- Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) Black Civil Rights activist
- Lech Walesa (1943 – ) Leader of Polish solidarity movement
- Charles de Gaulle (1890 – 1970) French politician
- Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953) Leader of the Soviet Union 1922 – 1952
- Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) Chemist and physicist
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 – 1882) Independence leader in Italy and South America
- Johann Gutenberg (1395 – 1468 Inventor of the printing press
- Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) British Parliamentarian
- Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924) Leader of Russian Revolution in 1917
- Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) Austrian neurologist, psychoanalyst
- Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997) Macedonian Catholic nun and missionary
- Bill Gates (1955 – ) Founder of Microsoft
- Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961) American author
- John Lennon (1940 – 1980) British musician and member of the Beatles
- Genghis Kahn (1162 – 1227) Ruler of Mongol Empire
- Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975) Emperor of Ethiopia 1930 – 1974
- John M Keynes (1883 – 1946) Influential economist
- Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867) English scientist who enabled electricity to become a viable source of power.
- George Orwell (1903 – 1950) English author of ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’
- Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) Inventor and businessman
- Dwight Eisenhower (1890 – 1969) Supreme Allied Commander WWII
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) helped to draft UN declaration of human rights
- Dr B.R. Ambedkar (1891 – 1956) Indian political activist and social reformer who drafted Indian constitution
- Lyndon Johnson (1908 – 1973) US President 1963 – 1969
- William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833) Campaigner against slavery
- Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943) Scientist, inventor
- Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) Scottish biologist who discovered antibiotics
- Lao Tzu (6th Century BC – ) Author of Tao Te Ching and founder of Taoism
- Eva Peron (1919 – 1952) First Lady of Argentina 1946 – 1952
- Henry Ford (1864 – 1947) American industrialist
- Princess Diana (1961 –– 1997) Humanitarian
- Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) Entrepreneur who led digital revolution
- Beethoven (1770 – 1827) German composer
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) American writer and polymath
(1743 – 1826) American President 1801 – 1809. Author of Declaration of Independence(1931 – ) Leader of Soviet Union 1985 – 1991, oversaw the transition from Communism to democracy in Eastern Europe.
