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
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