Favorite People in History.

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<p>Who are your favorite or who do you feel are the most influential people in history.
My List:
-Muhammad/Jesus/Abraham - The names speak for themselves, some of the most influential people in history and their teachings/revelations are still followed by billions today.
-Carl Friedrich Gauss - Quite possibly the greatest mathematician and physicist of all time.
-Leonhard Euler - Also quite possiblt the greatest mathematician of all time.
-J.P. Morgan - One of the greatest financiers ever and a total badass.
-Napoleon - Brilliant general. Also didnt attack Gottingen because "the greatest mathematician of all time lives there", (referring to Gauss).
-Adam Smith- The father of modern economics.
-Isaac Newton - Calculus and Classical Mechanics...awesome.
-George Soros - Genius :)</p>

<p>How about for you?</p>

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<p>The only one that immediately comes to mind is Thomas Jefferson. I'll come up with more.</p>

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<p>Gandhi.................</p>

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<p>Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan....the epitome of the American dream. These men practically split half the country between themselves lol.</p>

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<p>George Soros-macroeconomic demi god
Peter Lynch-super streetsmart investing style
Muhammad/Jesus/Abraham/Moses-the God crew</p>

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<p>Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston are my personal favorites.</p>

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<p>Roosevelt, Julia Butterfly Hill, King Christian X of Denmark... I have more, but I can't think of the rest offhand. :D</p>

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<p>JFK, Rockefeller, LBJ, MLK, Andrew Carnegie, and Hannibal of Carthage</p>

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<p>David Henry Thoreau
Ayn Rand
Hector from the Illiad (does that count as historical??)
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Confucious
Aristotle
Phillip of Macedonia
Octavius I</p>

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<p>Alexander the Great, Napoleon</p>

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<p>Vercingetorix
Genghis Khan
Suleyman the Magnificent
Deep Throat (I just hope s/he dies soon so we know who it is!)</p>

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<p>Sun Tzu (whether or not he was a real person)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Archimedes... he was simply awesome</p>

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<p>Rabo- how will we know who it is when he/she dies?</p>

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<p>Elizabeth Blackwell
John Adams
Charlotte Corday
King Christian X (calidan, can we share him?)
Asoka Maurya
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Albert Einstein
Marcus Tullius Cicero</p>

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<p>Uhh... NO we can't share him! Just kidding, of course we can share! :) He has enough coolness to go around.</p>

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<p>Calidan: the editors of the Washington Post will reveal Deep Throat's identity after s/he is dead. My gov't teacher is convinced it's Diane Sawyer.</p>

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<p>Alright, I did not know too much about Deep Throat (hehe, I just laughed when I saw the name really), but while reading a Wikipedia article, I came across this:</p>

<p>"Woodward has confirmed that Deep Throat was male."
From: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_%28Watergate%29%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_%28Watergate%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>So your government teacher is wrong, Rabo.</p>

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<p>Eh, he wasn't good for much anyway...</p>

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<p>Robespierre
Metternich
Jane Austen</p>

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<p>Metternich? Are you kidding me?
And how can you have Metternich and Robespierre both on your lists? I'll admit I don't know that much about Robespierre, but he's pretty freaking nasty from what I do know.</p>

<p>I'll add to mine:</p>

<p>Ram Dass
John Locke
Vlad the Impaler, just for being such a badass</p>