For those of you who enjoy history?

Question

In your opinion, what are the top 10 most influential people from the 15th to 20th centuries?

Answer 1

1. King Henry the 8th (divorce, separation from the Catholic church)

2. Queen Elizabeth the 1st (Powerful, lone female monarch)

3. Marie Antoinette (fashion, last official true Queen of the Ancien Regime of France)

4. Antonin Careme (Father of Haute Cuisine;Chef to the Kings, King of Chefs)

5. Auguste Escoffier (Updated traditional French Classical cooking methods and modernized haute cuisine)

6. Albert Einstein (Obvious for theory of relativity)

7. Marquis de Sade (Brought sexuality out of every dark corner)

8. Thomas Jefferson (principal author of the declaration of independence, one of the founding fathers)

9. Asa Griggs Candler (Inventor of Coca-Cola, the worlds top selling carbonated beverage)

10. Oprah Winfrey (Unfortunate but true---alot of influence on tv, anchored down the Dr Phil & Rachel Ray shows, whipped the public into a frenzy over barack obama, and her recommended reads boost sales for those books)

Answer 2

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Henry IIIV

Montezuma

Napoleon

Lenin

JFK

Mao tse-tung

Franklin Roosevelt

Charles XII

Answer 3

John Locke

Napoleon Bonaparte

Adolf Hitler

Abraham Lincoln

Voltaire

George Washington

Leonardo da Vinci

Gandhi

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Winston Churchill