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Most influential people of the 20th century

Who was the most influential person in the 20th century?

  • Henry Ford

    Votes: 5 21.7%

  • Albert Einstein

    Votes: 10 43.5%

  • Norman Borlaug

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • The Wright Brothers

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Deng Xiaoping

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Joseph Stalin

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Franklin Roosevelt

    Votes: 1 4.3%

  • Jonas Salk

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Vint Cerf

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other (please name below)

    Votes: 4 17.4%
  • Total voters
    23
Francis Crick and James Watson--discoverers of DNA.
 
Barack Hussein Obama. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and health care revisionist.
 
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John Browning was the single most influential man in the 20th century. In 1911, while working for the Springfield Armory, he developed the first fully functional semi-automatic handgun, which we still refer to as a 1911. He went on to develop many other firearms including the Browning Authomatic Rifle (BAR). His inventions have been expanded on and incorporated into other firearms for decades and have been some of the most utilized tools in the last century.
 
lunchbox said:
Barack Obama. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and health care revisionist.
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This poll is about the 20th century. And in any case, Obama's accomplishments are mostly limited to the US. I tend to automatically disqualify people for that reason, unless they accomplished an insane amount of things. And although it's still too early to render a verdict on Obama's influence on history, I doubt he rises to that standard.
 
lunchbox said:
Barack Hussein Obama. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and health care revisionist.
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Another nut job obsessed with the President's middle name. And, btw, you need to learn what century he's president in. He really didn't have much impact on the 20th century, now did he?
 
Lunatic said:
Another nut job obsessed with the President's middle name. And, btw, you need to learn what century he's president in. He really didn't have much impact on the 20th century, now did he?
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Oops, I overlooked the 20th Century part. Sorry, Angry.
 
Gipper said:
A list of the 10 most influential people of the 20th century...without Hitler? That has to be intentional.

I doubt anyone could make a rational argument as to how this guy is not in the top 3, if not THE most influential individual of the past 100 years.
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I tend to agree. Similar to Time's "Man of the Year" award (of which, AH was a recipient), I don't necessarily equate "influential" with having to mean positive.
 
Kandahar said:
4. Henry Ford (for popularizing the automobile)
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Re: Ford: I would say Ford's streamlining of the assembly line (he didn't invent it, but he mastered it), and how that revolutionized mass manufacturing in general. Scores of products quickly became newly accessible to average consumers as a result, and standards of living jumped nicely.

This could be what you meant, though, and I just misread it.
 
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