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World Almanac's Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium
In 2000, the World Almanac published The Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium as listed by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and second-generation historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.:
| 1. | 1564-1616 | William Shakespeare | (#5 -- 100 Greatest Britons) | |
| 2. | 1642-1727 | Isaac Newton | (#6 -- 100 Greatest Britons) | |
| 3. | 1809-1882 | Charles Darwin | (#4 -- 100 Greatest Britons) | |
| 4. | 1473-1543 | Nicolaus Copernicus | ||
| 5. | 1564-1642 | Galileo Galilei | ||
| 6. | 1879-1955 | Albert Einstein | (#10 -- Unsere Besten) | (TIME's Person of the Century) |
| 7. | 1451-1506 | Christopher Columbus | ||
| 8. | 1809-1865 | Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 9. | 1397-1468 | Johann Gutenberg | (#8 -- Unsere Besten) | |
| 10. | 1578-1657 | William Harvey |
Other lists
- Person of the Year, Person of the Century , List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004
- 100 Greatest Britons, The Greatest Canadian, Unsere Besten, De Grootste Nederlander, List of South Africans, Great South Africans, Suuret Suomalaiset
See also
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