Influential People Through History
Test your knowledge about some of the most impactful individuals who shaped our world through leadership, innovation, and social change.
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Test your knowledge about some of the most impactful individuals who shaped our world through leadership, innovation, and social change.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Subhas Chandra Bose
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sardar Patel
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi's philosophy of non-violent resistance influenced other civil rights movements worldwide, including Martin Luther King Jr.'s approach in the United States.
Nikola Tesla
George Westinghouse
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
Edison tested over 6,000 different materials before finding the right filament for his light bulb, demonstrating the importance of persistence in innovation.
Pearl Buck
Marie Curie
Mother Teresa
Jane Addams
Marie Curie
Marie Curie remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences (Physics and Chemistry), and was the first person to win multiple Nobel Prizes.
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
John Lewis
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
King improvised much of the most memorable parts of his 'I Have a Dream' speech, including the dream sequence itself, after gospel singer Mahalia Jackson shouted 'Tell them about the dream, Martin!'
Max Planck
Isaac Newton
Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Einstein's theory of relativity fundamentally changed our understanding of space, time, gravity, and the universe itself, leading to numerous practical applications including GPS technology.
Gottlieb Daimler
Walter Chrysler
Henry Ford
Karl Benz
Henry Ford
Ford's assembly line reduced the time to build a car from 12 hours to 2.5 hours, making automobiles affordable for the average American and revolutionizing manufacturing worldwide.
Botticelli
Michelangelo
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Da Vinci used a technique called sfumato, which creates a soft, hazy effect, and the Mona Lisa has no visible eyebrows or eyelashes, possibly due to restoration work or fading over time.
Indira Gandhi
Margaret Thatcher
Golda Meir
Angela Merkel
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher was Britain's longest-serving prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position, serving from 1979 to 1990.
Clara Barton
Mary Seacole
Florence Nightingale
Dorothea Dix
Florence Nightingale
Nightingale was also a pioneering statistician, using data visualization to demonstrate how sanitation reduced mortality - her polar area diagram was revolutionary for medical statistics.
Aristotle
Plato
Pythagoras
Socrates
Aristotle
Aristotle tutored Alexander from age 13 to 16, influencing his worldview and approach to leadership. His teachings helped shape Alexander's vision of a unified empire combining Greek and Persian cultures.
Gregor Mendel
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Charles Darwin
Alfred Wallace
Charles Darwin
Darwin waited 20 years to publish 'On the Origin of Species' due to concerns about public reaction. He was prompted to publish when Alfred Wallace developed similar theories.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franz Schubert
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven was completely deaf when he composed his Ninth Symphony, and couldn't hear the audience's standing ovation at its premiere in 1824.
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Alan Turing
Turing's work helped break the Nazi Enigma code during WWII, potentially shortening the war by several years and saving millions of lives.
John Adams
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin founded the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731, which became the first subscription library in America and served as the model for future public libraries.
Robert Peary
Ernest Shackleton
Roald Amundsen
Robert Scott
Roald Amundsen
Amundsen used dogs and skis effectively, learning from Inuit peoples' techniques, which gave him advantages over other explorers who relied on more traditional European methods.
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