Soo Azeem Admi
The
100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978
book by Michael H. Hart, reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a
ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human
history.
The first person on Hart's list is the Prophet of Islam Muhammad.
Hart asserted that Muhammad was "supremely successful" in both the
religious and secular realms. He also believed that Muhammad's role in
the development of Islam was far more influential than Jesus'
collaboration in the development of Christianity. He attributes the
development of Christianity to St. Paul, who played a pivotal role in
its dissemination.
The 1992 revisions included the demotion of figures associated with
Communism, such as Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong, and the introduction
of Mikhail Gorbachev. Hart took sides in the Shakespearean authorship
issue and substituted Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford for William
Shakespeare. Hart also substituted Niels Bohr and Henri Becquerel with
Ernest Rutherford, thus correcting an error in the first edition. Henry
Ford was also promoted from the "Honorary Mentions" list, replacing
Pablo Picasso. Finally, some of the rankings were re-ordered, although
no one listed in the top ten changed position.
Hart wrote another book in 1999, entitled A View from the Year 3000,
voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking
the most influential people in history. Roughly half of those entries
are fictional people from 2000–3000, but the remainder are actual
people. These were taken mostly from the 1992 edition, with some
re-ranking of order.
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