Who is the most influential person of the last 100 years?

[sweggeh]

Who do you guys think it is? Here are some people I can think of:

Adolf Hitler
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King
Muhammad Ali
Michael Jackson
Marilyn Monroe
Bruce Lee
Barack Obama
Stephen Hawking
Bill Gates
Anne Frank
Albert Einstein

Anymore? And who would be in your Top 3?

[IamRAMBO24]

Benjamin Bloom
Edward Bernay
Karl Marx
Nietzche

[sweggeh]

Benjamin Bloom
Edward Bernay
Karl Marx
Nietzche

You cant be that influential if most people dont even know who you are. You have to touch the hearts and minds of billions of people to be the most influential.

[Cactus-Sack]

No particular order



Hitler
Mao
Stalin

[Random_Guy]

hitler because he influenced the world at the international level, and ww2 basically changed the destiny of china

[eliteballer]

Hitler, no question. Nothing has ever shaped the world as much and for how long World War 2 has....hell a lot of major world issues today are a result of it.

The entire international political order is fallout from it.

[Graviton]

Easily Einstein. He was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb, which changed the world forever. Among other things he inspired and indirectly influenced.

[IamRAMBO24]

You cant be that influential if most people dont even know who you are. You have to touch the hearts and minds of billions of people to be the most influential.

Influential:

Having great influence on someone or something

Bloom and Bernay have affected the thinking of literally everybody in America without them knowing it.

Karl Marx and Nietzche's ideas influence the thinking of the 20th century moreso than any other thinkers. Billions have been affected by them.

[IamRAMBO24]

Hitler, no question. Nothing has ever shaped the world as much and for how long World War 2 has....hell a lot of major world issues today are a result of it.

The entire international political order is fallout from it.

Nietzche's Superman influenced Hitler's Mein Kampf.

[IamRAMBO24]

No particular order



Hitler
Mao
Stalin

Mao and Stalin were influence by Karl Marx.

[ducktape]

charlie chaplin

[Theoo]

bustinbtyches ; https://www.youtube.com/user/bustinBytchesLEAKED

these band have do change to musics , none listen to musics the same after the have hear bustinbytches ; the band have DESTROY ole arnolds , eminem , xxx rottweiler hundar , and all them have be to scare to answer . bustinbytches are the biggest hip hop band in history of iceland , and probably biggest hip hop band to the world . millions of peoples say that bustinbtychese have save there lifes and yea that are just the biggest band in the world

[Sarcastic]

Meh, Hitler lost.
Churchill > Hitler.

If it wasn't for Churchill, we'd be speaking German.

[Random_Guy]

Meh, Hitler lost.
Churchill > Hitler.

If it wasn't for Churchill, we'd be speaking German.
if it wasnt for hitler there most likely would have been no war and churchill would have just been another good prime minister

[NZStreetBaller]

MICHAEL JACKSON!!! seriously how many people still do his moves

[masonanddixon]

Thomas Pynchon or William Faulkner

[masonanddixon]

You cant be that influential if most people dont even know who you are. You have to touch the hearts and minds of billions of people to be the most influential.

lol Marx essentially predicted everything that was to happen with capitalism and corporatism.

[StephHamann]

Spiderman

[Trollsmasher]

can't argue against Marx, that bastard is surely laughing in whatever hell he was sent to

[Budadiiii]

Justin Bieber

[Riley Martin]

Richard Feynman

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Thomas Jefferson

[Patrick Chewing]

I'll throw in Arnold Schwarzenegger. Think about his life and career.

[KingBeasley08]

Karl Marx didn't live in the past 100 years otherwise I'd say him


Past century, I'm going Hitler. His tenure as leader of Germany affected every single person on the planet and changed the world as we know it.

Ignoring the direct impact like WW2 and the Holocaust, just from a long-term situation if it weren't for Hitler:
-there probably wouldn't be Israel
-Europe would still be the power militarily
-many colonies might not have gotten independence for longer
-USA never would have become the world superpower
-European Union does not exist

[Le Shaqtus]

Bill Nye

[Gr]

if it wasnt for hitler there most likely would have been no war and churchill would have just been another good prime minister

You are naive if you believe there wouldn't have been a war without Hitler.

[sammichoffate]

John Maynard Keynes. Economic philosophy basically shaped the way the world works, which trickles down to government and the societies we live in.

[jstern]

Out of that list I have to say Albert Einstein.

On another note I can't stand Mac heads who would say Steve Jobs. For inventing things he never invented.

[MavsSuperFan]

Probably Teddy roosevelt or FDR

[MavsSuperFan]

Karl Marx didn't live in the past 100 years otherwise I'd say him


Past century, I'm going Hitler. His tenure as leader of Germany affected every single person on the planet and changed the world as we know it.

Ignoring the direct impact like WW2 and the Holocaust, just from a long-term situation if it weren't for Hitler:
-there probably wouldn't be Israel
-Europe would still be the power militarily
-many colonies might not have gotten independence for longer
-USA never would have become the world superpower
-European Union does not exist
Ridiculous assertion

America was already by far the largest economy before WW2.
We were the most industrial capacity, overall the most technologically advanced, large population (120+ million) and vast natural resources.

At the peak of the war American industry largely stopped producing consumer products and focused mainly on war manufacturing. One B29 bomber could be built every 63 minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run
Ford, GM, etc all turned their assembly lines into military assembly lines.


At the request of the government, Ford began to decentralize operations and many parts were assembled at other Ford plants as well as by the company's sub-contractors, with the Willow Run plant concentrating on final aircraft assembly. The bugs were eventually worked out of the manufacturing processes, and by 1944, Ford was rolling a Liberator off the Willow Run production line every 63 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

At its peak, Willow Run produced 650 B-24s per month. By 1945, Ford produced 70% of the B-24s in two 9-hour shifts. Ford produced half of the 18,000 total B-24s at Willow Run, and the B-24 holds the distinction of being the most produced heavy bomber in history.[1][16]

A total of 6,972 Liberators were built at Ford, and 1,893 knock-down parts were provided for other manufacturers.[

American shipyards built the largest navy in human history.

By 1943, the Navy's size was larger than the combined fleets of all the other combatant nations in World War II.[6] By war's end in 1945, the United States Navy had added nearly 1,200 major combatant ships, including 27 aircraft carriers and 8 battleships, and had over 70% of the world's total numbers and total tonnage of naval vessels of 1,000 tons or greater.[7][8] At its peak, the U.S. Navy was operating 6,768 ships on V-J Day in August 1945, including 28 aircraft carriers, 23 battleships, 71 escort carriers, 72 cruisers, over 232 submarines, 377 destroyers, and thousands of amphibious, supply and auxiliary ships.[9]

American industry produced so many weapons we gave them to every single allied power in ww2


A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $656 billion today) worth of supplies were shipped, or 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S.[3] In all, $31.4 billion went to Britain, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to the other Allies. Reverse Lend-Lease policies comprised services such as rent on air bases that went to the U.S., and totaled $7.8 billion; of this, $6.8 billion came from the British and the Commonwealth.

[MavsSuperFan]

John Maynard Keynes. Economic philosophy basically shaped the way the world works, which trickles down to government and the societies we live in.
Actually this is probably the correct answer

[ace23]

Who tf is Anne Frank?

Answer is either Einstein or Hitler from that list. Lol @ listing athletes and entertainers.

[MavsSuperFan]

IMO people who deserve consideration:

Teddy Roosevelt
FDR
Robert Oppenheimer
John Maynard Keynes
Ronald Reagan
Adolf Hitler
Joesph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Deng Xiaoping
Nikita Khrushchev
JFK
Kaiser Wilhelm
Hirohito
Gorbachev
Vladimir Putin
Lenin

[SunsN07BookIt]

Actually this is probably the correct answer

Yeah I was thinking the same thing.

[Brizzly]

IMO people who deserve consideration:

Teddy Roosevelt
FDR
Robert Oppenheimer
John Maynard Keynes
Ronald Reagan
Adolf Hitler
Joesph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Deng Xiaoping
Nikita Khrushchev
JFK
Kaiser Wilhelm
Hirohito
Gorbachev
Vladimir Putin
Lenin

Good list but I would also include, Freud and Churchill. Probably a handful of people I have forgotten.

[MavsSuperFan]

Good list but I would also include, Freud and Churchill. Probably a handful of people I have forgotten.
how was a psychiatrist that influential?
IMO only politicians and inventors have a significant affect on the world to the extent they deserve the title most influential of any time period .
Keynes' economic theories became so accepted that he is also in that class.

I am of the opinion that British contribution to WW2 is slightly overrated. Churchill was essential in preventing a british defeat, which was greatly helpful (britain was the platform to campaigns in north africa, italy and normandy.), But i feel US and USSR were all that was need to beat Nazi Germany. Honestly USSR with american weapons and food given to them could have been sufficient

Outside of being a war prime minister churchill was not very influential even in his own government. People followed him during times of war but were against him else wise.
Also churchill was forced to watch the collapse of his beloved empire. At his Birth britain controlled 25% of humanity. At his death, britain had their islands, hong kong, and the Falklands. (probably a few more i cant think of off the top of my head)

Churchill tried really hard to keep india, kenya and other parts of africa. He failed, the british people had changed/were too war wearily to fight for the empire as he wanted to.

[Brizzly]

how was a psychiatrist that influential?
IMO only politicians and inventors have a significant affect on the world to the extent they deserve the title most influential of any time period .
Keynes' economic theories became so accepted that he is also in that class.

I am of the opinion that British contribution to WW2 is slightly overrated. Churchill was essential in preventing a british defeat, which was greatly helpful (britain was the platform to campaigns in north africa, italy and normandy.), But i feel US and USSR were all that was need to beat Nazi Germany. Honestly USSR with american weapons and food given to them could have been sufficient

Outside of being a war prime minister churchill was not very influential even in his own government. People followed him during times of war but were against him else wise.
Also churchill was forced to watch the collapse of his beloved empire. At his Birth britain controlled 25% of humanity. At his death, britain had their islands, hong kong, and the Falklands. (probably a few more i cant think of off the top of my head)

Churchill tried really hard to keep india, kenya and other parts of africa. He failed, the british people had changed/were too war wearily to fight for the empire as he wanted to.

I think you are underestimating the indirect influence the psychologists of the 20th century had , not only for understanding how we humans work on a subconscious level but also commercially. Every marketing team from big companies like Apple, to the somewhat smaller companies have taken advantage of it.

Another field where psychology has made wonders is in democratic elections where I think it had a lot more effect in the times before there was a tv and computer in every home. Hitler is an example.

[MavsSuperFan]

I think you are underestimating the indirect influence the psychologists of the 20th century had , not only for understanding how we humans work on a subconscious level but also commercially. Every marketing team from big companies like Apple, to the somewhat smaller companies have taken advantage of it.

Another field where psychology has made wonders is in democratic elections where I think it had a lot more effect in the times before there was a tv and computer in every home. Hitler is an example.
Good point, though if you have to argue indirect influence, I cant call them the most influential person in the last 100 years
There have been so many men who have made a direct influence on the course of human history in the last 100 years, both for good and for evil

[ThePhantomCreep]

It's Hitler, hands down.

[KingBeasley08]

Ridiculous assertion

America was already by far the largest economy before WW2.
We were the most industrial capacity, overall the most technologically advanced, large population (120+ million) and vast natural resources.

At the peak of the war American industry largely stopped producing consumer products and focused mainly on war manufacturing. One B29 bomber could be built every 63 minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run
Ford, GM, etc all turned their assembly lines into military assembly lines.



American shipyards built the largest navy in human history.


American industry produced so many weapons we gave them to every single allied power in ww2
Not saying that the USA wouldn't be a world power but that it wouldn't be the world superpower. Today, the USA can enforce its will and no one can do anything about it. My point was that there would be a much more multipolar world

[Mamba]

its one of these two:

Hitler - for reasons already stated

Mark Zuckerburg -
I can't type an essay on why he's the reason why right now. But facebook rules the world at the moment. A billion followers i think?

[masonanddixon]

how was a psychiatrist that influential?
IMO only politicians and inventors have a significant affect on the world to the extent they deserve the title most influential of any time period .
Keynes' economic theories became so accepted that he is also in that class.

I am of the opinion that British contribution to WW2 is slightly overrated. Churchill was essential in preventing a british defeat, which was greatly helpful (britain was the platform to campaigns in north africa, italy and normandy.), But i feel US and USSR were all that was need to beat Nazi Germany. Honestly USSR with american weapons and food given to them could have been sufficient

Outside of being a war prime minister churchill was not very influential even in his own government. People followed him during times of war but were against him else wise.
Also churchill was forced to watch the collapse of his beloved empire. At his Birth britain controlled 25% of humanity. At his death, britain had their islands, hong kong, and the Falklands. (probably a few more i cant think of off the top of my head)

Churchill tried really hard to keep india, kenya and other parts of africa. He failed, the british people had changed/were too war wearily to fight for the empire as he wanted to.

Depends on one's definition of 'influential.' Politicians have little to no intellectual influence on anyone but their policies profoundly affect our lives.

A great writer and/or thinker is far more influential intellectually than all the world's politicians combined

[Milbuck]

Can't come up with an argument for anyone over Hitler.

[TonyMontana]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S33882%2C_Adolf_Hitler_retouched.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S33882%2C_Adolf_Hitler_retouched.jpg

Other than religious figures there are few in ALL of history that hold the recognition of Adolf Hitler worldwide. Only the past few 100 years? It is absolutely no contest.

Going to give my boy Putin a shoutout as the most influential person of the last 30-40 years. What Putin is doing to challenge the global elite who seek to have control over the entire worlds population is something that will go down in all of history.

[yungtyrekeevans]

tesla, marx, hitler.

[Sarcastic]

EDIT : You mean Stalin. England taking credit for winning the war :oldlol:


Stalin taking credit for what Russia's winter actually did? :roll:

[ThePhantomCreep]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S33882%2C_Adolf_Hitler_retouched.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S33882%2C_Adolf_Hitler_retouched.jpg

Other than religious figures there are few in ALL of history that hold the recognition of Adolf Hitler worldwide. Only the past few 100 years? It is absolutely no contest.

Going to give my boy Putin a shoutout as the most influential person of the last 30-40 years. What Putin is doing to challenge the global elite who seek to have control over the entire worlds population is something that will go down in all of history.

Whenever Mikhail Gorbachev needs a good laugh, he takes a look at the power Putin currently wields.