Jesus is the most important person in history, according to a new Internet search programme that ranks Napoleon Bonaparte, a French military and political leader, the first Emperor of France, second, and Mohammed, a religious, political, and military leader from Mecca who unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam, third.
The software, developed in the United States of America, scours the Internet for opinions expressed about famous people and uses a special algorithm to predict how important they will remain 200 years after their death.
English poet and playwright William Shakespeare is in fourth place, who comes above U.S. presidents Abraham Lincoln (fifth) and George Washington (sixth). Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945, is ranked at number seven. Aristotle at eight, while Alexander the Great at nine and another US president Thomas Jefferson help make up the top 10.
Surprisingly, the late Nelson Mandela ranks only 356th - well below President Barack Obama at 111th place.
Steven Skiena, professor of computer science at Stony Brook University, in New York, and his colleague Charles Walker, a Google engineer, said the algorithm can also be used to measure social changes, notably the importance of women in society.
They say, "We can prove that women have required substantially greater achievement levels than men - equivalent to around four IQ points - to get noticed for posterity."
Singer and actress Madonna, at 121st, trumps legendary musician John Lennon (162nd); however, Elvis Presley reigns as the most famous pop musician in 69th. Winston Churchill, a British politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in 37th place is well beaten by Theodore Roosevelt in 23rd place and even by George W Bush who is one place ahead in 36th.
THE TOP 100
- Jesus
- Napoleon
- Muhammad
- William Shakespeare
- Abraham Lincoln
- George Washington
- Adolf Hitler
- Aristotle
- Alexander the Great
- Thomas Jefferson
- Henry VIII of England
- Charles Darwin
- Elizabeth I of England
- Karl Marx
- Julius Caesar
- Queen Victoria
- Martin Luther
- Joseph Stalin
- Albert Einstein
- Christopher Columbus
- Isaac Newton
- Charlemagne
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Plato
- Louis XIV of France
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Augustus
- Carl Linnaeus
- Ronald Reagan
- Charles Dickens
- Paul the Apostle
- Benjamin Franklin
- George W. Bush
- Winston Churchill
- Genghis Khan
- Charles I of England
- Thomas Edison
- James I of England
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Sigmund Freud
- Alexander Hamilton
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Woodrow Wilson
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Galileo Galilei
- Oliver Cromwell
- James Madison
- Gautama Buddha
- Mark Twain
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
- Adam Smith
- David, King of Israel
- George III of the United Kingdom
- Immanuel Kant
- James Cook
- John Adams
- Richard Wagner
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Voltaire
- Saint Peter
- Andrew Jackson
- Constantine the Great
- Socrates
- Elvis Presley
- William the Conqueror
- John F. Kennedy
- Augustine of Hippo
- Vincent van Gogh
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Vladimir Lenin
- Robert E. Lee
- Oscar Wilde
- Charles II of England
- Cicero
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Francis Bacon
- Richard Nixon
- Louis XVI of France
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- King Arthur
- Michelangelo
- Philip II of Spain
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Ali, founder of Sufism
- Thomas Aquinas
- Pope John Paul II
- René Descartes
- Nikola Tesla
- Harry S. Truman
- Joan of Arc
- Dante Alighieri
- Otto von Bismarck
- Grover Cleveland
- John Calvin
- John Locke
Y swit jesus
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