100 greatest men

Humanitarians
Albert Schweitzer	1875-1965	Lutheran
Chiune Sugihara	1900-1986
Raoul Wallenberg	1912-c.1947
Martin Luther King, Jr.	1929-1968	Baptist
Desmond Tutu	1931-	Anglican
The Dalai Lama	1935-	Tibetan Buddhism
Han Dongfang	1963-
Thinkers and Philosophers
Lao Zi [Lao Tzu]	c. 600 B.C.	Taoism
Confucius	551-479 B.C.	Confucianism
Socrates	469-399 B.C.	Greek philosophy
Plato	c. 427-347 B.C.	Platonism / Greek philosophy
Aristotle	384-322 B.C.	Platonism / Greek philosophy
Niccolo Machiavelli	1469-1527	Catholic
John Locke	1632-1704	raised Puritan (Anglican); Liberal Christian
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1712-1778	born Protestant; converted as a teen to Catholic; later Deist
Karl Marx	1818-1883	Jewish; Lutheran; Atheist; Marxism/Communism
Kings, Emperors and Politicians
Hammurabi	c. 1792-1750 B.C.
Alexander the Great	356-323	Greek state paganism
Asoka	c. 300-232 B.C.	Buddhism
Shi Huangdi	259-210 B.C.
Julius Caesar	c. 100-44 B.C.	Roman state paganism
Charlemagne	742-814 A.D.	Catholic
Kublai Khan	1214-1294
Peter the Great	1672-1725	Russian Orthodox
George Washington	1732-1799	Episcopalian
Napoleon Bonaparte	1769-1821	Catholic (nominal)
Simon Bolivar	1783-1830	Catholic (nominal); Atheist
Abraham Lincoln	1809-1865	Regular Baptist (childhood); later ambiguous - Deist, general theist or a very personalized Christianity
Mahatma Gandhi	1869-1948	Hindu (mother was a Jain)
Kemal Ataturk	1881-1938
Franklin D. Roosevelt	1882-1945	Episcopalian
Nelson Mandela	1918-
Mikhail Gorbachev	1931-	Russian Orthodox
Religious Leaders
Zoroaster	c. 628-c. 551 B.C.	Zoroastrianism
Muhammad	c. 570-632 A.D.	Islam
Buddha	c. 563-c. 483 B.C.	Hinduism; Buddhism
Moses	c. 13th century B.C.	Judaism
Jesus Christ	c. 6 B.C.-c. 30 A.D.	Judaism; Christianity
Martin Luther	1483-1546	Catholic; Lutheran
Musicians and Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach	1685-1750	Lutheran
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	1756-1791	Catholic
Ludwig van Beethoven	17770-1827	Catholic
Richard Wagner	1813-1883
Arturo Toscanini	1867-1957	Catholic
George Gershwin	1898-1937	Jewish
Louis Armstrong	1898-1971	Baptist
The Beatles	formed 1960
Writers
Homer	c. 700-c. 800 B.C.	Greek paganism
Virgil	70-19 B.C.
Dante Alighieri	1265-1321	Catholic
William Shakespeare	1564-1616	Catholic; Anglican
Moliere	1622-1673	Catholic
Charles Dickens	1812-1870	Anglican
Mark Twain	1835-1910	Presbyterian
Bertolt Brecht	1898-1956
Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Michelangelo	1475-1564	Catholic
Rembrandt	1606-1669	Dutch Reformed
Christopher Wren	1632-1723	Anglican
Katsushika Hokusai	1760-1849
Joseph Mallord William Turner	1775-1851
Vincent van Gogh	1853-1890	Dutch Reformed
Frank Lloyd Wright	1869-1959	Unitarian
Pablo Picasso	1881-1973	Catholic
Le Corbusier	1887-1965
Stage, Screen and Photography
Charlie Chaplin	1889-1977	Anglican; agnostic
Jean Renoir	1894-1979	Catholic
Sergei Eisenstein	1898-1948	Russian Orthodox; Marxist; Freudian
Henri Cartier-Bresson	1908-
Orson Welles	1915-1985	Protestant Christian
Steven Spielberg	1947-	Judaism
Scientists
Euclid	c. 330-c. 260 B.C.	Platonism / Greek philosophy
Archimedes	c. 287-212 B.C.	Greek philosophy
Leonardo da Vinci	1452-1519	Catholic
Galileo Galilei	1564-1642	Catholic
Isaac Newton	1642-1727	Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church)
James Watt	1736-1819	Presbyterian (lapsed)
Michael Faraday	1791-1867	Sandemanian
Charles Darwin	1809-1882	Anglican (nominal); Unitarian
Louis Pasteur	1822-1895	Catholic
Joseph Lister	1827-1912	Quaker
Sigmund Freud	1856-1939	Jewish; atheist; Freudian psychology/psychoanalysis
Albert Einstein	1879-1955	Jewish
Alexander Fleming	1881-1955	Catholic
Linus Pauling	1901-1994	Lutheran
James Watson and Francis Crick	1928-; 1916-
Inventors
Zai Lun	c. 50-118 A.D.
Johannes Gutenberg	1400-1468	Catholic
Samuel Morse	1791-1872	Christianity
Nikolaus Otto	1832-1891
Alfred Nobel	1833-1896
Alexander Graham Bell	1847-1922	Unitarian
Thomas Alva Edison	1847-1931	Congregationalist; agnostic
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright	1871-1948; 1867-1912	United Brethren
Guglielmo Marconi	1847-1937	Catholic and Anglican
Explorers and Pioneers
Marco Polo	c. 1254-1324	Catholic
Christopher Columbus	1451-1506	Catholic
Ferdinand Magellan	1480-1521	Catholic
Roald Amundsen	1872-1928
Yuri Gagarin	1934-1968
Neil Armstrong	1930-

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