Sorry for the dry spell. I’ve been up to my eyeballs in C programming language.
John Hawkins invited me and many other bloggers to submit our choices for “world impact players,” that is those who have had the greatest effect on the world we find ourselves living in today. Be advised that he did *not* ask who was the most admired, but who had contributed ideas, actions and inventions that played the greatest part in changing the world around them and the world that came after (will come after) their departure.
I submitted these twenty in alphabetical order (communication is the top factor):
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Winston Churchill
• Albert Einstein
• Henry Ford
• William Gates
• Adolph Hitler
• Johannes Gutenberg
• Jesus the Christ
• Martin Luther King
• Osama bin Laden
• Abraham Lincoln
• Martin Luther
• Karl Marx
• Muhammad
• St. Paul
• Ronald W. Reagan
• Margaret Sanger
• William Shakespeare
• Josef Stalin
• Orville and Wilbur Wright
Here are some of my others that didn’t make the cut:
• Abraham
• Yasser Arafat
• Neil Armstrong
• Tony Blair
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• George W. Bush
• George Washington Carver
• Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
• Marie Curie
• Yuri Gagarin
• Mahatma Ghandi
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Grace Hopper
• Andrew Jackson
• King James I of England (VI of Scotland)
• C.S. Lewis
• John Locke
• Mao Tse-Tung
• Thurgood Marshall
• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Rosa Parks
• Ayn Rand
• Jackie Robinson
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Mother Teresa
And here are a few of those whom I predict will have a large impact on the future:
• Iyad Allawi
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Harold Ford, Jr.
