Life Magazine's Top 100 People of the Millennium [2000]

Historical Accolades

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48

1

Thomas Alva Edison

Inventor

20.0% (2 of 10 votes)

22

2

Christopher Columbus

Explorer

52.34% (56 of 107 votes)

18

3

Martin Luther

Religious Figure

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

61

4

Galileo Galilei

Scientist

0% (0 of 2 votes)

62

5

Leonardo Da Vinci

Artist

0% (0 of 3 votes)

52

6

Isaac Newton

Scientist

0% (0 of 6 votes)

24

7

Ferdinand Magellan

Explorer

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

56

8

Louis Pasteur

Scientist

0% (0 of 3 votes)

53

9

Charles Darwin

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

28

10

Thomas Jefferson

U.S. President

42.25% (60 of 142 votes)

34

11

William Shakespeare

Playwright

36.00% (18 of 50 votes)

21

12

Napoleon Bonaparte

Monarch

58.52% (79 of 135 votes)

17

13

Adolf Hitler

World Leader

69.55% (1124 of 1616 votes)

84

14

Zheng He

Military Personnel

0% (0 of 0 votes)

59

15

Henry Ford

Automaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

26

16

Sigmund Freud

Doctor

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

99

17

Richard Arkwright

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

27

18

Karl Marx

Philosopher

47.39% (145 of 306 votes)

63

19

Nicolaus Copernicus

Astronomer

0% (0 of 0 votes)

81

20

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Inventor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

35

21

Albert Einstein

Scientist

35.63% (31 of 87 votes)

23

22

Mahatma Gandhi

Diplomat

51.43% (18 of 35 votes)

19

23

Kublai Khan

Monarch

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

33

24

James Madison

U.S. President

38.46% (5 of 13 votes)

29

25

Simon Bolivar

Military Personnel

42.01% (71 of 169 votes)

89

26

Mary Wollstonecraft

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

83

27

Guglielmo Marconi

Inventor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

47

28

Mao ZeDong

World Leader

28.57% (4 of 14 votes)

38

29

Vladimir Illyich Lenin

World Leader

32.00% (112 of 350 votes)

46

30

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Advocate

29.61% (106 of 358 votes)

40

31

Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor

31.68% (32 of 101 votes)

51

32

Rene Descartes

Philosopher

0% (0 of 2 votes)

32

33

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Composer

38.60% (22 of 57 votes)

10

34

St. Thomas Aquinas

Philosopher

100% (1 of 1 votes)

31

35

Abraham Lincoln

U.S. President

40.57% (71 of 175 votes)

75

36

Michelangelo

Artist

0% (0 of 4 votes)

80

37

Vasco Da Gama

Explorer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

6

38

Suleyman the Magnificent

World Leader

100% (2 of 2 votes)

3

39

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Inventor

100% (1 of 1 votes)

20

40

John Calvin

Philosopher

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

42

41

Florence Nightingale

Nurse

31.51% (23 of 73 votes)

7

42

Hernando Cortes

Military Personnel

100% (3 of 3 votes)

65

43

Joseph Lister

Doctor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

13

44

Ibn Battuta

Explorer

100% (2 of 2 votes)

93

45

Zhu Xi

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

77

46

Gregor Mendel

Religious Figure

0% (0 of 2 votes)

2

47

John Locke

Philosopher

100% (3 of 3 votes)

100

48

Akbar the Great

Monarch

0% (0 of 0 votes)

74

49

Marco Polo

Explorer

0% (0 of 0 votes)

88

50

Dante Alighieri

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

85

51

John D. Rockefeller

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

54

52

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

4

53

Niels Bohr

Scientist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

45

54

Joan of Arc

Religious Figure

30.59% (26 of 85 votes)

49

55

Frederick Douglass

Advocate

12.66% (207 of 1635 votes)

87

56

King Louis XIV

Monarch

0% (0 of 0 votes)

92

57

Nikola Tesla

Inventor

0% (0 of 22 votes)

11

58

Immanuel Kant

Philosopher

100% (1 of 1 votes)

95

59

Fan Kuan

Artist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

91

60

Otto Von Bismarck

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

97

61

King William I the Conqueror

Monarch

0% (0 of 0 votes)

96

62

Guido of Arrezzo

Religious Figure

0% (0 of 0 votes)

5

63

John Harrison

Craftsman

100% (1 of 1 votes)

98

64

Pope Innocent III

Religious Figure

0% (0 of 0 votes)

72

65

Hiram S. Maxim

Inventor

0% (0 of 2 votes)

41

66

Jane Addams

Advocate

31.65% (25 of 79 votes)

94

67

Cao Xueqin

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

69

68

Matteo Ricci

Religious Figure

0% (0 of 1 votes)

43

69

Louis Armstrong

Vocalist

31.43% (11 of 35 votes)

86

70

Michael Faraday

Scientist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

9

71

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

Philosopher

100% (2 of 2 votes)

90

72

Simone De Beauvoir

Philosopher

0% (0 of 2 votes)

25

73

Rumi

Poet

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

55

74

Adam Smith

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

37

75

Madame Marie Curie

Scientist

32.63% (31 of 95 votes)

66

76

Andrea Palladio

Architect

0% (0 of 0 votes)

30

77

Tzar Peter I

Monarch

42.00% (63 of 150 votes)

58

78

Pablo Picasso

Artist

0% (0 of 2 votes)

73

79

Louis Daguerre

Inventor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

67

80

Antoine Lavoisier

Scientist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

79

81

P.T. Barnum

Circus Performer

0% (0 of 0 votes)

60

82

Edwin Hubble

Astronomer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

44

83

Susan B. Anthony

Advocate

30.77% (28 of 91 votes)

82

84

Raphael

Artist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

39

85

Helen Keller

Advocate

31.71% (26 of 82 votes)

64

86

Hokusai

Artist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

1

87

Theodore Herzl

Advocate

100% (2 of 2 votes)

16

88

Queen Elizabeth I Tudor

Monarch

77.78% (7 of 9 votes)

76

89

Claudio Monteverdi

Composer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

50

90

Walt Disney

Animator

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

36

91

Nelson Mandela

World Leader

34.50% (59 of 171 votes)

68

92

Roger Bannister

Athlete

0% (0 of 1 votes)

57

93

Leo Tolstoy

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

70

94

John Von Neumann

Mathematician

0% (0 of 1 votes)

12

95

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Scientist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

8

96

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Explorer

100% (1 of 1 votes)

15

97

Catherine de' Medici

Monarch

81.82% (18 of 22 votes)

14

98

Ibn Khaldun

Philosopher

100% (1 of 1 votes)

78

99

Kwame Nkrumah

Diplomat

0% (0 of 0 votes)

71

100

Carl Linnaeus

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)