Most Influential Person of the 20th Century....

[Ryan]

Yeah, I know. The 20th century was eight years ago, but I want to know what you people think.

Who do you people think was the most influential person of the 20th century.

Don't try to pull anything from a magazine, or stuff like that. I want your honest opinion.

[Helel]

Einshtein, obviously! He led to the rise of the Allies supremacy!

Wait, wrong reality. Right.

Personally, I'd look at FDR as being among the most influential people of the 20th century. The things he 'did' were so numerous and important to how the U.S. and world itself would develop for many years to come.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Me. You just don't know it, yet. *_*

[Haylie]

Being a 20th-Centurian myself, I'd have to say...

Not Bill Gates. 'Nuff said.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Okay, I'll be serious this time, now that I've considered it a bit further.

I'd say that Nicola Tesla is a good candidate.

[Lucky]

I personally think some of the most influenced people, were ones who had negative effects. But it was there negative effects, that leads to positive results.

The armenian genocide happened only but at the Dawn of the 20th centurty. But not many took notice. It was Hitler who committed the Holocaust that then forced people to open there eyes at the horror and darkness of man. Hitler is a name that conjures fear, darkness, and thoughts of the real life evil in our world. Of all the names of the 20th century, his is scared deepest into our minds.

The other very influential person I feel was Stalin. For he was the one who took communism and steered it away from Lenin's ideal, and layed the ground work for all corrupt communist states after. More or less, he showed us that we are far from such a ideal, as long as there is Greed for more wealth.


I do feel if there was any one "good" who was influential it would probably be Einshtein, Steven Hawkins, The Current Da'La'Lama(SP?), and Gandhi.

[Selena Aninikkou]

Actually, I'd say Karl Marx was way more influential than Stalin was, simply because it was his concepts that nuts like Stalin and Mao were abusing. The sheer number of people Marxist ideals touched is still unreal.

And Bill Gates is the most overrated human of the last century, considering he didn't do anything of note, except pay a huge amount of money to companies to build up an image which is hilariously false.

[Flannery]

Chuck Norris. (just kidding)

When I think influential, I think of President Roosevelt.

[Xia]

The armenian genocide happened only but at the Dawn of the 20th centurty. But not many took notice. It was Hitler who committed the Holocaust that then forced people to open there eyes at the horror and darkness of man. Hitler is a name that conjures fear, darkness, and thoughts of the real life evil in our world. Of all the names of the 20th century, his is scared deepest into our minds.

Not really. We still have people deny the Holocaust happened, we still routinely do little to stop other acts of genocide we know of. I'd say, instead of opening our eyes, he really closed them some.

[Rebel Rebel]

Hitler. Without a doubt. The way he's gone so far beyond being a human being in everyone's mind, everything he symbolizes, everything his actions led to...I don't see how you could choose everyone else.

John Bardeen's up there, too. Tesla and Edison did too much of their work too early to really qualify.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Tesla's Alternating Current has a more far-reaching affect than Hitler, especial since some of his contributions affected countries at many basic levels, and thus had an indirect impact on Hitler himself. And alternating current is still very relevant today.

[Funny Hat + Funny Accent]

My gut says FDR, but I think of Truman. Without him and Stalin, no Cold War. Without him, the atomic bombs probably would not have been used. Without him, integration would not have been started (one of his executive order forced the integration of the armed forces). He's a lot more influential than people may think.