100 People Who Changed The World

Here is a list of 100 people who changed the world and have had a profound impact on humanity.

1. Albert Einstein – theoretical physicist
2. Mahatma Gandhi – a political and spiritual leader
3. William Shakespeare – playwright and poet
4. Mother Teresa – Roman Catholic nun and missionary
5. Martin Luther King Jr. – civil rights activist
6. Leonardo da Vinci – a polymath
7. Charles Darwin – naturalist and biologist
8. Nelson Mandela – anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician
9. Marie Curie – physicist and chemist
10. Isaac Newton – mathematician and physicist
11. Winston Churchill – politician and writer
12. Alexander Graham Bell – inventor
13. Thomas Edison – inventor
14. Galileo Galilei – astronomer and physicist
15. Steve Jobs – entrepreneur and inventor
16. Stephen Hawking – physicist and cosmologist
17. Pablo Picasso – artist
18. Johannes Gutenberg – inventor of the printing press
19. Elvis Presley – musician and cultural icon
20. Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the United States
21. Henry Ford – industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company
22. John F. Kennedy – 35th President of the United States
23. Muhammad Ali – boxer and civil rights activist
24. Coco Chanel – fashion designer
25. Dalai Lama – the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism
26. Anne Frank – writer and Holocaust victim
27. Neil Armstrong – astronaut and the first person to walk on the moon
28. Mahatma Gandhi – a political and spiritual leader
29. Oprah Winfrey – media executive, actress, and philanthropist
30. Harriet Tubman – abolitionist and political activist
31. Albert Schweitzer – theologian and humanitarian
32. Rosa Parks – civil rights activist
33. Christopher Columbus – explorer and navigator
34. Amelia Earhart – aviator and author
35. Walt Disney – animator and film producer
36. Louis Pasteur – microbiologist and chemist
37. Henry David Thoreau – writer and philosopher
38. Susan B. Anthony – women’s rights activist
39. William Faulkner – writer
40. Ludwig van Beethoven – composer
41. Benjamin Franklin – statesman, inventor, and author
42. Jane Goodall – primatologist and anthropologist
43. Martin Luther – Protestant reformer
44. Friedrich Nietzsche – philosopher
45. Elvis Presley – musician and cultural icon
46. Christopher Hitchens – journalist and author
47. Vincent van Gogh – an artist
48. Neil deGrasse Tyson – astrophysicist and science communicator
49. J.K. Rowling – author of the Harry Potter series
50. Barack Obama – 44th President of the United States
51. William Shakespeare – playwright and poet
52. Michael Jordan – basketball player
53. Nikola Tesla – inventor and electrical engineer
54. Albert Camus – philosopher and writer
55. Simone de Beauvoir – philosopher and writer
56. Thomas Jefferson – 3rd President of the United States
57. Ernest Hemingway – writer and journalist
58. Sigmund Freud – neurologist and psychoanalyst
59. Pope Francis – current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
60. Joan of Arc – the national heroine of France
61. Ludwig Wittgenstein – philosopher
62. Stephen King – author
63. David Bowie – musician and cultural icon
64. Ernest Shackleton – explorer
65. Bill Gates – entrepreneur and philanthropist
66. Frank Lloyd Wright – architect
67. Ada Lovelace – mathematician and computer programmer
68. Rosa Luxemburg – Marxist theorist and political activist
69. Frida Kahlo – artist
70. Che Guevara – revolutionary and political activist
71. Malala Yousafzai – education activist and Nobel Prize laureate
72. Greta Thunberg – environmental activist
73. Desmond Tutu – Anglican Archbishop and human rights activist
74. Anne Sullivan – educator and mentor to Helen Keller
75. Helen Keller – author and disability rights activist
76. Nelson Rockefeller – politician and philanthropist
77. Karl Marx – philosopher and economist
78. Friedrich Engels – philosopher and political theorist
79. Martin Luther King Sr. – Baptist pastor and civil rights activist
80. Gloria Steinem – feminist, journalist, and social-political activist
81. Angela Davis – political activist and scholar
82. Ruth Bader Ginsburg – jurist and Supreme Court Justice
83. Emma Watson – actress and women’s rights activist
84. Ruth Handler – inventor of Barbie dolls
85. Serena Williams – tennis player and advocate for gender and racial equality in sports
86. Jeff Bezos – entrepreneur and founder of Amazon
87. Mark Zuckerberg – entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook
88. Tim Berners-Lee – inventor of the World Wide Web
89. Edward Snowden – computer professional and whistleblower
90. Julian Assange – a computer programmer and founder of WikiLeaks
91. Alan Turing – mathematician and computer scientist
92. John Rawls – philosopher and political theorist
93. Friedrich Hayek – economist and political philosopher
94. John Maynard Keynes – economist and philosopher
95. Margaret Thatcher – British Prime Minister
96. Ronald Reagan – 40th President of the United States
97. Mikhail Gorbachev – Soviet statesman and politician
98. Deng Xiaoping – Chinese revolutionary and politician
99. Ada Yonath – crystallographer and Nobel Prize laureate for Chemistry
100. Elon Musk – entrepreneur and innovator in space technology, electric vehicles, and sustainable energy