Who do you consider the most worthy example and inspiration for yourself personally? Martin Luther King Jr., Yuri Gagarin, or maybe your grandfather? Our world has been forming for several millennia, and a lot of historical figures took part in this difficult process, who made their invaluable contribution to science, culture and many other spheres of life, both in their countries and all of humanity. It is very difficult and almost impossible to choose those whose influence was the most significant. However, the authors of this list still decided to try and collect in one publication the most inspiring personalities in the history of world civilizations. Some of them are known to everyone, others are not known to everyone, but they all have one thing in common - these people have changed our world for the better. From the Dalai Lama to Charles Darwin, here are 25 of the most outstanding personalities in history!
25. Charles Darwin
The famous British traveler, naturalist, geologist and biologist, Charles Darwin is best known for his theory, which changed the idea of human nature and the development of the world in all its diversity. Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection suggests that all kinds of living organisms, including humans, descended from common ancestors, and this concept shocked the entire scientific community at one time. Darwin published The Theory of Evolution, with some examples and evidence, in his revolutionary On the Origin of Species in 1859, and our world and the way we know it has changed a lot since then.
24. Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee is a British engineer, inventor and computer scientist, best known as the creator of the World Wide Web. He is sometimes called the "Father of the Internet" and it was Berners-Lee who developed the first hypertext web browser, web server, and web editor. The technologies of this outstanding scientist have spread worldwide and have forever changed the way information is generated and processed.
23. Nicholas Winton
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Nicholas Winton was a British philanthropist, and since the late 80s, he became known primarily for taking 669 Jewish children from the territory of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia right on the eve of World War II. Winton moved all these children to British orphanages, and some of them even managed to be placed in families, which definitely saved them all from certain death in concentration camps or during the bombing. The philanthropist organized as many as 8 trains from Prague and also took the children out of Vienna, but with the help of other modes of transport. The Englishman never sought fame, and for 49 years he kept his heroic deed a secret. In 1988, Winton's wife found a notebook with records from 1939 and the addresses of the families who received the young rescuers. Since then, recognition, orders and awards have fallen upon him. Nicholas Winton died at the age of 106 in 2015.
22. Buddha Shakyamuni (Gautama Buddha)
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Also known as Siddhartha Gautama (from birth), Tathagata (who has come), or Bhagavan (blessed), Shakyamuni Buddha (the awakened sage of the Shakya family) was the spiritual leader and founder of Buddhism, one of the world's three leading religions. The Buddha was born in the 6th century BC into a royal family and lived in absolute isolation and luxury. When the prince matured, he left his family and all his possessions to plunge into self-discovery and seek to save humanity from suffering. After several years of meditation and contemplation, Gautama attained enlightenment and became a Buddha. Through his teachings, Shakyamuni Buddha influenced the lives of millions of people around the world.
21. Rosa Parks
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Also known as the “First Lady of Civil Rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement,” Rosa Parks was a true pioneer and founder of the black rights movement in Alabama in the 1950s, where there was still a strong racial segregation of citizens in those days. In 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a courageous African-American woman and passionate civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, disobeying the driver's orders. Her rebellious act provoked other blacks into what was later nicknamed the legendary "Montgomery Bus Boycott." This boycott lasted 381 days and became one of the key events in the history of the black civil rights movement in the United States.
20. Henry Dunant
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A successful Swiss businessman and active public figure, Henri Dunant became the first person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. During a business trip in 1859, Dunant faced the terrible aftermath of the Battle of Solferino (Solferino, Italy), where the troops of Napoleon, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Austrian Empire clashed under the leadership of Franz Joseph I, and the battlefield was left to die almost 9 thousand wounded. In 1863, in response to the horrors of war and the brutality of the fight, the entrepreneur founded the well-known International Committee of the Red Cross. Adopted in 1864, the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded was also based on the ideas expressed by Henri Dunant.
19. Simon Bolivar
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Also known as the Liberator (El Libertador), Simón Bolivar was an outstanding Venezuelan military and political leader who played a key role in the liberation from Spanish domination of as many as 6 countries of South and Central America - Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Panama. Bolivar was born into a wealthy aristocratic family, but he devoted most of his life to military campaigns and the struggle for the independence of the Spanish colonies in America. The country of Bolivia, by the way, was named after this hero and liberator.
18. Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein is one of the most respected and influential scientists of all time. This outstanding theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate and humanist public figure gave the world over 300 scientific papers on physics and about 150 books and articles on history, philosophy and other humanitarian areas. His whole life was full of interesting research, revolutionary ideas and theories, which later became fundamental for modern science. Einstein was best known for his theory of relativity, and thanks to this work he became one of the greatest personalities in the history of mankind. Even after almost a century, this Theory continues to influence the thinking of the modern scientific community, working on the creation of the Theory of Everything (or the Unified Field Theory).
17. Leonardo da Vinci
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It is difficult to describe and list all the directions in which Leonardo da Vinci succeeded, a man who changed the whole world with his mere existence. Throughout his life, this Italian Renaissance genius managed to achieve unprecedented heights in painting, and in architecture, and in music, and in mathematics, and in anatomy, and in engineering, and in many other areas. Da Vinci is recognized as one of the most versatile and talented people who ever lived on our planet, and he is the author of such revolutionary inventions as the parachute, helicopter, tank and scissors.
16. Christopher Columbus
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The famous Italian explorer, traveler and colonizer, Christopher Columbus was not the first European to sail to America (after all, the Vikings had been here before him). However, his voyages launched a whole era of the most outstanding discoveries, conquests and colonizations, which lasted for several more centuries after his death. Columbus' travels to the New World greatly influenced the development of the geography of those times, because at the beginning of the 15th century people still believed that the Earth was flat, and that there were no more lands beyond the Atlantic.
15 Martin Luther King Jr.
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This is one of the most influential personalities of the 20th century. Martin Luther King Jr. is best known for his peaceful movement against discrimination, racial segregation and for the civil rights of black Americans, for which he even received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist preacher and vibrant speaker who inspired millions around the world to fight for democratic freedoms and their rights. He played a key role in promoting civil rights through peaceful protests based on the Christian faith and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.
14. Bill Gates
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The founder of the legendary multinational company Microsoft, Bill Gates was considered the richest man in the world for almost 20 years. More recently, however, Gates has become known primarily as a generous philanthropist, rather than for his success in business and the information technology market. At one time, Bill Gates stimulated the development of the personal computer market, making computers accessible to the most ordinary users, which is exactly what he was trying to achieve. Now he is passionate about the idea of providing Internet access to the whole world. Gates also works on projects dedicated to combating global warming and combating gender discrimination.
William Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest writers and playwrights in the English language, and he has had a profound influence on a whole galaxy of writers, as well as on millions of readers around the world. In addition, Shakespeare introduced about 2,000 new words, most of which are still in use in modern English. With his work, the national poet of England has inspired a great many composers, artists and filmmakers from around the world.
12. Sigmund Freud
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The Austrian neurologist and founder of the science of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud is famous precisely for his unique studies of the mysterious world of the human subconscious. With them, he forever changed the way we evaluate ourselves and the people around us. Freud's work influenced the psychology, sociology, medicine, art, and anthropology of the 20th century, and his therapeutic methods and theories in the field of psychoanalysis are still being studied and applied in practice.
11. Oskar Schindler
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Oskar Schindler was a German entrepreneur, Nazi Party member, spy, womanizer and drinker. All this does not sound very attractive and certainly does not sound like a characterization of a real hero. However, contrary to all of the above, Schindler was on this list absolutely deservedly, because during the Holocaust and World War II, this man saved about 1,200 Jews, rescuing them from death camps to work in his plants and factories. The heroic story of Oskar Schindler has been described in many books and films, but the most famous adaptation was Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List).
10. Mother Teresa
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A Catholic nun and missionary, Mother Teresa devoted almost her entire life to serving the poor, the sick, the disabled, and orphans. She founded the charitable movement and the women's monastic congregation "Sisters of the Missionaries of Love" (Congregatio Sororum Missionarium Caritatis), which exists in almost all countries of the world (in 133 countries as of 2012). In 1979, Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize, and 19 years after her death (in 2016), she was canonized by Pope Francis himself.
9 Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and one of the most influential personalities in American history. Coming from a poor farming family, Lincoln fought for the reunification of the country during the Civil War between North and South, strengthened the federal government, modernized the American economy, but he earned a reputation as an outstanding historical figure primarily for his contribution to the development of a democratic society and the fight against slavery and oppression. the black population of the USA. The legacy of Abraham Lincoln still has a defining influence on the American people.
8 Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and respected scientists in the world, and he has made an invaluable contribution to the development of science (especially cosmology and theoretical physics). The work of this British researcher and ardent popularizer of science is also impressive because Hawking made almost all of his discoveries despite a rare and slowly progressing degenerative disease. The first signs of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis appeared in his student years, and now the great scientist is completely paralyzed. However, a severe illness and paralysis did not prevent Hawking from marrying twice, becoming the father of two sons, flying in zero gravity, writing many books, becoming one of the founders of quantum cosmology and the winner of a whole collection of prestigious awards, medals and orders.
7. Unknown rebel
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This conditional name refers to an unknown man who independently held back a column of tanks for half an hour during the protests on Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen, China) in 1989. In those days, hundreds of protesters, most of whom were ordinary students, were killed in clashes with the military. The identity and fate of the unknown rebel remain unknown, but this photograph has become an international symbol of courage and peaceful resistance.
6. Muhammad
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Muhammad was born in 570 AD in the city of Mecca (Mecca, modern Saudi Arabia). He is considered a Muslim prophet and the founder of the Islamic religion. Being not only a preacher, but also a politician, Muhammad united all the Arab peoples of those times into a single Muslim empire that conquered most of the Arabian Peninsula. The author of the Qur'an began with a few followers, but eventually his teachings and practices formed the basis of the Islamic religion, which has become the second most popular religion in the world today, with about 1.8 billion believers.
5. Dalai Lama XIV (The 14th Dalai Lama)
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Dalai Lama XIV or at birth Lhamo Dhondup (Lhamo Thondup) is a 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner and a well-known preacher of the Buddhist philosophy of peace, professing respect for all life on Earth, and calling for the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. The former spiritual and political leader of Tibet in exile, the 14th Dalai Lama always tried to find a compromise and sought reconciliation with the Chinese authorities who invaded Tibet with territorial claims. In addition, Lhamo Dhondrub is a zealous supporter of the women's rights movement, interfaith dialogues and advocates for solving global environmental problems.
4. Princess Diana (Princess Diana)
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Also known as "Lady Di" and "The People's Princess," Princess Diana has won millions of hearts around the world with her philanthropic work, hard work, and sincerity. She devoted most of her short life to helping those in need from third world countries. The Queen of Human Hearts, as she was also called, founded the movement to stop the production and use of anti-personnel mines, and was actively involved in the activities of several dozen humanitarian campaigns and non-profit organizations, including the Red Cross, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital (London's Great Ormond Street Hospital) and AIDS research. Lady Dee died at the age of 36 from injuries sustained in a car accident.
3. Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela was a South African politician, philanthropist, revolutionary, reformer, passionate human rights activist during apartheid (racial segregation policy) and President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He had a profound influence on the history of South Africa and the world. For his beliefs, Mandela spent almost 27 years in prison, but he did not lose faith in the liberation of his people from the oppression of the authorities, and after leaving prison he achieved democratic elections, as a result of which he became the first black president of South Africa. His tireless work for the peaceful overthrow of the apartheid regime and for the establishment of democracy has inspired millions of people around the world. In 1993, Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize.
2. Jeanne d'Arc (Jeanne d "Arc)
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Also known as the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc is the greatest heroine in French history and one of the most famous women in world history. Born into a poor farming family in 1412, she believed she had been chosen by God to lead France to victory in the Hundred Years' War with England. The girl died before the end of the war, but her courage, passion and devotion to her goal (especially during the siege of Orleans) caused a long-awaited moral upsurge and inspired the entire French army for the final victory in the protracted and seemingly hopeless confrontation with the British. Unfortunately, in the battle, the Maid of Orleans was captured by the enemies, was condemned by the Inquisition and burned at the stake at the age of 19.
1. Jesus Christ
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Jesus Christ is the central figure of the Christian religion, and He has had such a strong influence on our world that He is often called the most influential and inspiring person in the history of mankind. Compassion, love for neighbors, sacrifice, humility, repentance and forgiveness, to which Jesus called in his sermons and personal example, were concepts that were absolutely opposite to the values of ancient civilizations during His life on Earth. Nevertheless, today there are about 2.4 billion followers of His teachings and Christian faith in the world.
The American magazine Forbes published the ranking of the most influential people in the world in 2018. TOP-3 were the leaders of the largest countries - China, Russia and the United States.
Of the 7.5 billion inhabitants of our planet, Forbes magazine named only one in every 100 million whose activities are most influential. The list includes the names of 74 people who determine the course of the economy and politics of the world. Vladimir Putin did not become the first in the rating.
The most influential people in the world in 2018 according to Forbes
1. Xi Jinping:
- President of the People's Republic of China, who by his own efforts changed the Constitution, expanded his own influence. He regained the most important post, acted as the author of reforms, and implemented the Chinese Dream program, which is valid until the end of 2049.
2. Vladimir Putin:
- the leader of Russia, who was the leader of the rating from 2013 to 2016 inclusive. He has been in the presidency for eighteen years. This year, Vladimir Putin was ranked second due to a scandalous incident - Russian interference in the US presidential election.
3. Donald Trump:
- American President. Although he owns a powerful army, and America's economy is powerful, the leader of the country still did not rise above the third position in the ranking. He also found himself at the center of a scandal involving hackers from Russia.
4. Angela Merkel:
- German chancellor, the only woman chancellor in her native country. She has been in her current position for thirteen years. At the same time, in the elections of the past year, her victory became as ambiguous as that of Donald Trump: 364 deputies out of 688 voted for Angela Merkel.
5. Jeff Bezos:
- Founded Amazon. This year, his fortune is more than $100 billion. Amazon is valued at $768 billion.
6. Pope Francis:
- a reformer who launched the process of changing the conservative foundations of the Catholic Church. In parallel with the presidents of other countries, he is trying to improve the living conditions of refugees, opposes climate change and the persecution of religious minorities.
7. Bill Gates:
- founded Microsoft, but today his share in it is no more than 1% of the shares. Now he is involved in charity work, and even created his own charitable foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his wife.
8. Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud:
- is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, led the anti-corruption campaign, thanks to which many rich people were arrested, and underpaid funds were returned to the treasury.
9. Narendra Modi:
- holds the post of prime minister in India, also intends to do everything to keep the climate the same.
10. Larry Page:
- founded the Google search engine exactly twenty years ago.
French leader Emmanuel Macron was in 12th place, Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook - in 13th place. Elon Musk was ranked 25th, Kim Jong-un - 36th, and Bashar Al Assad - 62nd.
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Top 10 most influential people in the world 2015 - Forbes ranking
Want to know who are the most influential people in the world in 2015? The rating of Forbes, a well-known financial and analytical magazine, will help you find the answer.
These people have a huge impact on world politics, economics and public life. Our well-being and security depend on the decisions they make. Let's talk today about the most influential people of 2015.
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In tenth place in the list of the most authoritative people on the planet according to Forbes - one of the founders of Google, who is responsible for major transactions in it. While studying at the university, he met Sergey Brin. In 1998 they launched the world famous Google search engine. Page is only 42 years old, and he is already one of the wealthiest and most influential people on the planet.
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9th place is occupied by the owner of the cosmetic company Loreal. Her advanced age did not prevent her from becoming an influential woman in the world. Her fortune is estimated at 45 billion dollars. At the age of five, Liliana was left without a mother and became very close to her father. As a teenager, she began working for the company as an apprentice. After the death of her father, Bettencourt became the sole owner of the L'Oreal cosmetics empire. Lilian is involved in charity work and supports various cultural and medical projects. Several major scandals are associated with her name. She was suspected of tax evasion and bribes to major political figures in France. In addition, Bettencourt is known for litigation with heirs.
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The 8th line in the list of the most influential people is occupied by Christine Lagarde. She has been Managing Director of the IMF since 2011. This amazing woman has made a brilliant career in the world of men. In her youth, she was seriously involved in sports and entered the national team in synchronized swimming. She graduated from two universities and worked as a lawyer for the largest law firm in the world, Baker and McKenzie, for more than 25 years, and then became the first woman to head it. Under her leadership, the company doubled its profits in a year, and Lagarde became one of the most prominent business women in Europe. In 2011, she became the French Minister of Economy and the first woman to hold this position. Christine Lagarde, according to Forbes magazine, is one of the most influential politicians in the world.
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- without it, perhaps, not a single rating on a financial topic can do. One of the richest people on the planet cannot help but have enormous influence. 81 billion dollars - the fortune of one of the founders of Microsoft Corporation is estimated at such an astronomical amount. In 2013, Forbes magazine compiled a list of the people in the world who have spent the most on charity. The first place in it was taken by Bill Gates and his wife. 25 billion dollars - so much they spent on charity and patronage. Gates is one of the founders of the Giving Pledge campaign, which encourages the world's richest people to give half of their wealth to charity. He himself intends to give at least $ 100 billion for good purposes until the end of his life. Bill Gates, the richest and most influential person on the planet, is in 7th place in the ranking.
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He is the chairman of the European Central Bank and he has to operate in very difficult conditions. He relentlessly calls for unpopular but vital reforms in the eurozone.
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At 5 positions -. She has been among the most authoritative politicians more than once. In 2005, she made history by becoming the first woman to serve as German Federal Chancellor. Merkel is a physicist by training. In the late 1980s, she decided to actively engage in politics. By joining the Christian Democratic Union, Merkel became one of the deputies of the Bundestag. Since the early 1990s, she served as Minister of Women's Affairs, then became Minister of the Environment. In 2000, she was elected chairman of the Christian Democratic Union party and was repeatedly re-elected to this position. Becoming Federal Chancellor, within a year she achieved immense popularity - more than 80% of Germans supported Merkel's policy. Her rise to power marked a rapprochement with Washington. At the same time, the German government continued to maintain a partnership with until the crisis in relations in 2014. Despite the difficult situation of the European economy, in 2013 Angela Merkel was re-elected to the post of German Chancellor for the third time.
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He turned out to be the fourth in the list of the most authoritative people in the world. While still a cardinal, he showed his modesty and unpretentiousness. He abandoned his personal car and the archbishop's luxurious apartments, preferring to live in a small apartment and travel by public transport. In 2013 he was elected the next pope. Actively engaged in the modernization of the Roman Catholic Church. Initially, the flock was shocked by his statement that God is not a magician. The pontiff went down in history as the Pope, who officially recognized the Big Bang theory and agreed with Darwin on evolutionary issues. For this and close attention to such pressing issues as gender inequality and poverty, Pope Francis is loved, respected and considered one of the most authoritative people on the planet.
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The third place in the list of the most authoritative people on Earth belongs to the leader. His popularity in the country is incredibly high. He continues the policy of turning the PRC into a superpower and maintains partnerships with both Western and Asian countries, as well as with Russia.
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On the second line of the Forbes rating is. The American leader has repeatedly topped the list of the most authoritative politicians, but has recently lost his positions. He is accused of having all the levers of influence in his hands, but not using them.
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In 1st place is the most authoritative and influential people in the world. Last year, Forbes also recognized the Russian leader as the most powerful politician on the planet. Time magazine in April of this year summed up the results of the reader's vote. It was necessary to choose the most influential people who changed the world for better or worse during the year. And in this rating, the president of Russia was confidently in the lead. This result is the result of his work. Despite the difficult situation in which the country found itself, sanctions and partial political isolation, people's trust in the president is higher than ever. Plays a role and the fact that Putin can afford to pursue a policy without looking back at the opinions of other countries.
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Jeff Bezos
Topping the list is the only entrepreneur whose personal fortune Forbes estimates at 12 figures. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of e-commerce giant Amazon. His fortune today is $132.6 billion, most of which is backed by a 16% stake in Amazon, one of the most valuable companies in the world. Its market capitalization as of May 11 is $779.2 billion.
At the same time, over the past year, the company's shares have skyrocketed in price by 70%, making its founder the richest person on Earth, so he was able to press Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. In August, the entrepreneur began to actively go offline, buying the Whole Foods supermarket chain for $13.7 billion and opening classic bookstores. After that, the shares of the largest US retail chains - Walmart, Kroger and Target - lost up to 20% in a few days.
Investors feared that retail chains would repeat the fate of Amazon's former competitors. Interestingly, the main source of Bezos's profitability is not Internet commerce, but Amazon Web Services, a cloud-based service that brings in $1 billion a year, launched in 2004.
Larry Page
The head of the parent company of the world's largest search engine Google, Alphabet, Larry Page (a fortune of $ 51 billion, the 12th richest person according to Forbes) ranked second in the ranking of the most influential directors in the world. Together with his Stanford pal Sergey Brin, he founded Google in 1998.
They later co-invented PageRank, Google's most famous link ranking algorithm. The 45-year-old entrepreneur is also an investor in a project of self-piloted flying taxis called Kitty Hawk. It was recently tested in New Zealand. Today, in terms of its market capitalization, Alphabet is second only to Amazon and Apple - its price on the NASDAQ exchange as of May 11 is $ 753.9 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg has ceased to be the most influential entrepreneur, primarily because of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In March, it was revealed that Facebook had shared data from several million users with the political consulting firm. Because of this, the capitalization of Facebook shares on the stock exchange fell by $134 billion. But Zuckerberg's widely publicized testimony in the US Congress reassured shareholders.
On Thursday, May 10, the price of the company's shares exceeded $185 per share. This is more than on Friday, March 16 - the last day preceding the disclosure of information about the leakage of user data. However, less than two months later, the shares bounced back and, following the results of trading on May 10, Facebook's capitalization again reached the pre-crisis $537 billion. The fortune of the Facebook founder himself, who controls about 12% of the company, rose to $73.3 billion.
Warren Buffett
Not so long ago, Warren Buffett stepped down from the board of directors of Kraft Heinz, one of the world's largest food makers. However, the 87-year-old billionaire (whose fortune is $86.1 billion is the third in the world) does not intend to give up the reins of power in his investment company Berkshire Hathaway. In May, The Oracle of Omaha announced that Berkshire had bought 75 million shares of Apple, raising its stake in the tech giant to almost 5%.
The son of a four-time Nebraska congressional stockbroker, Warren Buffett bought his first stock at 11 and filed his first tax return at 13. With his supposedly perfect investment sense, Buffett has become a cult figure for those who want to learn. invest wisely.
Every year, the Glide Foundation organizes an auction for the right to dine with a billionaire. In 2016, an anonymous "billionaire investor fan" paid $3.4 million, setting a record.
Jamie Dimon
The most powerful person on Wall Street, Jamie Dimon, is ranked 19th on the overall list of the most powerful people in the world, rounding out the top five in business. The CEO of JP Morgan, the largest bank in the US with more than $2 trillion in assets, recently announced that he would remain at the helm "for about another five years." He has a personal net worth of just over $1.3 billion. He began his financial career at age 26 with American Express and later helped transform Citigroup.
Dimon joined JP Morgan in 2004, soon leading the bank. His decision to rid the bank of $12 billion in subprime mortgages in 2006 prevented a crash in 2008. Dimon was one of the likely candidates for the post of Secretary of the Treasury in the Donald Trump cabinet, but the appointment never materialized.
The most powerful head of a non-US-based company is Jack Ma, CEO and founder of Alibaba, one of the world's largest online retailers. With a fortune of $41.6 billion, he is ranked 18th richest person on the planet according to Forbes. Similar to Amazon, Alibaba has achieved great success in the use of cloud technologies with the creation of Alibaba Cloud. The service allowed the company to earn extra money on top of its core business ventures. Investment in Singapore-based online retailer Lazada has become one of Alibaba's largest investments.
Since 2016, they have amounted to $4 billion, of which the company invested $2 billion at the beginning of 2018. Also in February 2018, it became known that Alibaba, together with state-owned CIH, would buy a 13% stake in Wanda Film, a motion picture production division, from Dalian Wanda Group. The deal is valued at $1.2 billion. Prior to that, in February 2015, Alibaba invested $590 million in smartphone maker Meizu, and in March 2015, $200 million in Snapchat.
Douglas McMillon
As president and CEO of WalMart, the world's largest private employer, Doug McMillon manages 2.3 million people. This number roughly corresponds to the number of soldiers in the Chinese army. The top manager is at the helm of the retail giant, whose owners, the children of the founder of the network, Sam Walton, are members of the richest clan in the United States. Their total fortune by mid-May reached about $119.3 billion.
After buying online retailer Jet.com in 2016, Wal-Mart announced its intention to compete with online giant Amazon. Under McMillon's leadership, WalMart launched Mobile Express Returns last year, increased the number of online pickup locations, and is on track to automate a number of standard features in its stores, which have crossed 5,000.
Under the leadership of Tim Cook, who succeeded Apple founder Steve Jobs, the most valuable company in the world is purposefully moving towards a landmark trillion-dollar valuation. For this, the company has only about $55 billion left. At the end of 2017, the company also continues to be the most profitable in the United States, its net profit is about $48 billion. However, the head of Apple himself is not included in the list of the richest people in the world.
According to the company's report for 2017, Tim Cook's remuneration was $102 million. The salaries and bonuses of the other five top managers of the company were $24.5 million each. Despite the not-too-successful sales of the latest iPhone X model, which began in November 2017 and costs $999 in the US (from 64,000 rubles in Yandex.Market), Cook claims that this is “the most innovative product on the market.” In April 2018, the Apple music app reached 40 million users.
Elon Musk
South African native Elon Musk is the most celebrated technological revolutionary of our time. The fortune of the owner of Tesla Motors and SpaceX is about $19.9 billion. The past year has traditionally been eventful for him. In February, SpaceX successfully launched the world's most powerful rocket, the Falcon Heavy.
As a marketing step, it was decided to use it to launch Musk's personal car, a red Tesla Roadster, into Earth's orbit. In 2017, commercial deliveries of the new Tesla Model 3 began at a starting price of $35,000. However, this did not help the company stop being unprofitable for the fifth quarter in a row. According to the results of January-March 2018, they reached a record $710 million. After the conference on Tesla's financial results, the company's shares fell by 4.5%. Probably trying to fight against the negative market background, Elon Musk promised to open a candy factory designed to compete with Warren Buffett's See's Candies.
Ma Huateng
Closes the list of the richest man in Asia, Ma Huaten ($45.3 billion according to Forbes). The 46-year-old founder and CEO of Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings is popularly known as Pony Ma. Over the past year, his company's shares have risen by almost 60%. This happened primarily due to online games and an increase in the income of the WeChat application, whose audience approached 1 billion people.
In November 2017, it became known that Tencent bought a 12% stake in Snap, the developer of the popular Snapchat app.
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Who is the most powerful and most significant person in history?
The researchers created algorithm, which sorts historical figures by importance on Wikipedia, article length, readability, achievement, and notoriety.
The program was developed by a professor of computer science Steven Skiena(Steven Skiena) and Google Software Engineer Charles B. Ward(Charles B. Ward), who wrote the book "Who matters more?" (Who's Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank).
Of course they conclusions are not without controversy.. The authors were based on the results of the English version of Wikipedia, so the list rather highlights the most important historical figures in Western history.
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It is noteworthy that the hundred most significant personalities included only Three women: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria and Joan of Arc. Also unexpected was the 7th place of Adolf Hitler, who was much higher in the ranking of Joseph Stalin, who was in 18th place.
The most historically significant musician was Mozart (24th), followed by Beethoven (27th) and Bach (48th). The most famous modern pop musician was Elvis Presley (69th).
Most Significant People
1. - the central person in Christianity (7 BC - 30 AD)
2. Napoleon- Emperor of France (1769 - 1821)
3. Muhammad- prophet and founder of Islam (570-632)
4. William Shakespeare- English playwright (1564 -1616)
5. Abraham Lincoln- 16th President of the United States (1809-1865)
6. George Washington- 1st President of the United States (1732 -1799)
7. Adolf Gitler- Fuhrer of Nazi Germany, who participated in the Second World War (1889 - 1945)
8. Aristotle- Greek philosopher and polymath (384 -322 BC)
9. Alexander the Great(Alexander the Great) - Greek king and conqueror of world power (356 - 323 BC)
10. Thomas Jefferson- 3rd President of the United States, who wrote the Declaration of Independence (1743-1826)
11. Henry VIII- King of England (1491-1547)
12. Charles Darwin- scientist, creator of the theory of evolution (1809-1882)
13. Elizabeth I- Queen of England, known as the "Maiden Queen" (1533-1603)
14. Karl Marx- German philosopher, founder of Marxism (1818 -1883)
15. Julius Caesar- Roman commander and statesman (100 -44 BC)
16. Queen Victoria- Queen of Great Britain of the Victorian era (1819 -1901)
18. Joseph Stalin- Soviet leader (1878 -1953)
19. Albert Einstein- theoretical physicist, creator of the Theory of Relativity (1878 -1953)
20. Christopher Columbus- explorer who discovered America for Europeans (1451-1506)
21. Isaac Newton- scientist, creator of the theory of gravity (1643 -1727)
22. Charlemagne- the first Roman emperor, considered the "father of Europe" (742 -814)
23. Theodore Roosevelt- 26th President of the United States (1858 -1919)
24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- Austrian composer (1756 - 1791)
25. Plato- Greek philosopher, wrote the work "Republic" (427 -347 BC)
26. Louis XIV- King of France, known as the "Sun King" (1638 -1715)
27. Ludwig van Beethoven- German composer (1770 -1827)
28. Ulysses S. Grant- 18th President of the United States (1822-1885)
29. Leonardo da Vinci- Italian artist and inventor (1452 - 1519)
31. Carl Linnaeus- Swedish biologist, father of taxonomy - the classification of flora and fauna
32. Ronald Reagan- 40th President of the United States (1911-2004)
33. Charles Dickens- English novelist (1812 -1870)
34. Apostle Paul- Christian apostle (5 AD - 67 AD)
35. Benjamin Franklin- Founding Father of the United States, scientist (1706 - 1790)
36. George W. Bush- 43rd President of the United States (1946 -)
37. Winston Churchill- Prime Minister of Great Britain (1874 -1965)
38. Genghis Khan- Founder of the Mongol Empire (1162 - 1227)
39. Charles I- King of England (1600-1649)
40. Thomas Edison- Inventor of the light bulb and phonograph (1847 -1931)
41. Jacob I- King of England (1566-1625)
42. Friedrich Nietzsche- German philosopher (1844-1900)
43. Franklin D. Roosevelt- 32nd President of the United States (1882-1945)
44. Sigmund Freud- Austrian neurologist, creator of psychoanalysis (1856 -1939)
45. Alexander Hamilton- Founding Father of the United States (1755 -1804)
46. Mahatma Gandhi- Indian national leader (1869-1948)
47. Woodrow Wilson- 28th President of the United States (1856 - 1924)
48. Johann Sebastian Bach- German composer (1685 -1750)
49. Galileo Galilei- Italian physicist and astronomer (1564 -1642)
50. Oliver Cromwell- Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
51. James Madison- 4th President of the United States (1751 -1836)
52. Guatama Buddha- the central figure in Buddhism (563 -483 BC)
53. Mark Twain- American writer (1835 -1910)
54. Edgar Alan Poe- American writer (1809 -1849)
55. Joseph Smith- American religious leader, founder of Mormonism (1805 -1844)
56. Adam Smith- economist (1723 -1790)
57. David- the biblical king of Israel, the founder of Jerusalem (1040 -970 BC)
58. George III- King of Great Britain (1738 - 1820)
59. Immanuel Kant- German philosopher, author of the "Critique of Pure Reason" (1724 -1804)
60. James Cook- explorer and discoverer of Hawaii and Australia (1728 -1779)
61. John Adams- Founding father and 2nd President of the United States (1735 -1826)
62. Richard Wagner- German composer (1813 -1883)
63. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky- Russian composer (1840 -1893)
64. Voltaire- French philosopher of the Enlightenment (1694 -1778)
65. Apostle Peter- Christian apostle (? - 67 AD)
66. Andrew Jackson- 7th President of the United States (1767 -1845)
67. Constantine the Great- Roman emperor, the first Christian emperor (272 -337)
68. Socrates- Greek philosopher (469 -399)
69. Elvis Presley- "King of rock and roll" (1935 -1977)
70. Wilgelm the conqueror- King of England, Norman conqueror (1027 -1087)
71. John F. Kennedy- 35th President of the United States (1917 -1963)
72. Aurelius Augustine- Christian theologian (354 -430)
73. Vincent Van Gogh- post-impressionist painter (1853 -1890)
74. Nikolay Compernik- astronomer, author of heliocentric cosmology (1473 -1543)
75. Vladimir Lenin- Soviet revolutionary, founder of the USSR (1870 -1924)
76. Robert Edward Lee- American military leader (1807 -1870)
77. Oscar Wilde- English writer and poet (1854 -1900)
78. Charles II- King of England (1630-1685)
79. Cicero- Roman politician and orator, author of "On the State" (106 -43 BC)
80. Jean Jacques Rousseau- philosopher (1712 -1778)
81. Francis Bacon- English scientist, founder of empiricism (1561 -1626)
82. Richard Nixon- 37th President of the United States (1913 -1994)
83. Louis XVI- King of France, executed during the French Revolution (1754 -1793)
84. Charles V- Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1500 -1558)
85. King Arthur- the mythical king of Great Britain of the 6th century
86. Michelangelo- Italian Renaissance sculptor (1475 -1564)
87. Philip II- King of Spain (1527 -1598)
88.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- German writer and thinker (1749 -1832)
89. Ali ibn Abu Talib- caliph and central figure in Sufism (598-661)
90. Thomas Aquinas- Italian theologian (1225 -1274)
91. John Paul II- Pope of Rome of the 20th century (1920 - 2005)
92. Rene Descartes- French philosopher (1596 -1650)
93. Nikola Tesla- inventor (1856 -1943)
94. Harry S. Truman- 33rd President of the United States (1884 -1972)
95. Joan of Arc- French heroine, canonized saints (1412 -1431)
96. Dante Alighieri- Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy (1265 -1321)
97. Otto von Bismarck- the first chancellor and unifier of modern Germany (1815 -1898)
98. Grover Cleveland- 22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837 -1908)
99. Jean Calvin- French Protestant theologian (1509 - 1564)
100. John Locke- English philosopher of the Enlightenment (1632-1704)
