# Top 25 people of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282 "2011-11-17T22:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/1 "2011-11-17T22:41:00Z")
1. Adolf Hitler 2. Joseph Stalin 3. Otto Von Bismarck 4. Tom Brady 5. John F. Kennedy 6. Barack Obama 7. George Washington 8. Lebron James 9. William the Conqueror 10. Socrates 11. Nelson Mandela 12. Ronald Reagan 13. Albert Einstein 14. Barry Bonds 15. Warren Buffet 16. Erwin Rommel 17. George Patton 18. Marie Curie 19. Mahatma Gandhi 20. Michael Jordan 21. Bill Gates 22. Steve Jobs 23. Karl Marx 24. Wayne Gretzky 25. Issac Newton ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/2 "2011-11-17T22:42:12Z")
> [@GovernmentMan](#): > > 1. Adolf Hitler I like your list an imma let you finish but Kanye West was one of the best people of all time. OF ALL TIME! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/3 "2011-11-17T22:53:40Z")
> [@GovernmentMan](#): > > 1. Adolf Hitler > 2. Joseph Stalin > 3. Otto Von Bismarck > 4. Tom Brady You are hilarious. Between this and your last thread, you are slowly making your way toward my list of People I Can Tolerate. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/4 "2011-11-17T23:00:12Z")
[Already been done](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=559639). The final 25 as voted on by the SDMB… :drumroll: 1. Edward Jenner 2. Napoleon Bonaparte 3. William Shakespeare 4. Michael Faraday 5. St Paul 6. Julius Caesar 7. Karl Marx 8. Louis Pasteur 9. Ts’ai Lun 10. Lenin 11. Thomas Edison 12. Charles Darwin 13. Confucius 14. Sui Wen Ti 15. Plato 16. James Watt 17. Euclid 18. Genghis Khan 19. Albert Einstein 20. George Washington 21. Mohammed 22. Augustus Caesar 23. Aristotle 24. Johann Gutenberg 25. Isaac Newton Just FYI, I’m still confused as to how Karl Marx outranked Adam Smith, but them’s the breaks! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/5 "2011-11-17T23:08:11Z")
Those are definitely 25 people who have lived at some point in time. Congrats, OP! EDIT: And now I’m off to develop a comedy series based on my new character, Hipster Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/6 "2011-11-18T03:37:40Z")
[xkcd](http://xkcd.com/451/), third panel. We, the SDMB, are to two persons on the right. **Governmentman** is the person on the left. Surely there are no other possibilities. It’s happening for real! I’m so pleased someone actually tried it! ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/7 "2011-11-18T03:55:52Z")
George Washington Bobby Orr Wayne Gretzky Keith Moon JFK Joe Gibbs Elvis Marilyn Monroe Paul Simon Alvin Lee Bruce Springsteen Jesus Noah James Bond Indiana Jones Mr. Miyagi Rodney Dangerfield Muhammad Ali Princess Diana Jack Nicholson Confucius Leonardo da Vinci Tutankhamun Zeus Billy the Kid ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/8 "2011-11-18T04:17:53Z")
[ol] [li]Harry Truman[/li][li]Doris Day[/li][li]Johnnie Ray[/li][li]Walter Winchell[/li][li]Joe DiMaggio[/li][li]Joe McCarthy[/li][li]Richard Nixon[/li][li]Marilyn Monroe[/li][li]Rosenbergs[/li][li]Sugar Ray[/li][li]Brando[/li][li]Eisenhower[/li][li]Marciano[/li][li]Liberace[/li][li]Stalin[/li][li]Malenkov[/li][li]Nasser[/li][li]Prokofiev[/li][li]Rockefeller[/li][li]Campanella[/li][li]Roy cohn[/li][li]Juan Peron[/li][li]Toscanini[/li][li]Einstein[/li][li]James Dean[/li][li]Davy Crockett[/li][li]Elvis Presley[/li][li]Bardot[/li][li]Krushchev[/li][li]Princess Grace[/li][li]Pasternak[/li][li]Mickey Mantle[/li][li]Kerouac[/li][li]Chou En-Lai[/li][li]Charles de Gaulle[/li][li]Buddy Holly[/li][li]Castro[/li][li]Syngman Rhee[/li][li]Kennedy[/li][li]Chubby Checker[/li][li]Hemingway[/li][li]Eichmann[/li][li]Dylan[/li][li]John Glenn[/li][li]Pope Paul[/li][li]Malcolm X[/li][li]Ho Chi Minh[/li][li]Richard Nixon[/li][li]Begin[/li][li]Reagan[/li][li]Sally Ride[/li][li]Bernie Goetz[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/9 "2011-11-18T13:03:48Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > [ol] > [li]Harry Truman[/li][li]Doris Day[/li][li]Johnnie Ray[/li][li]Walter Winchell[/li][li]Joe DiMaggio[/li][li]Joe McCarthy[/li][li]Richard Nixon[/li][li]Marilyn Monroe[/li][li]Rosenbergs[/li][li]Sugar Ray[/li][li]Brando[/li][li]Eisenhower[/li][li]Marciano[/li][li]Liberace[/li][li]Stalin[/li][li]Malenkov[/li][li]Nasser[/li][li]Prokofiev[/li][li]Rockefeller[/li][li]Campanella[/li][li]Roy cohn[/li][li]Juan Peron[/li][li]Toscanini[/li][li]Einstein[/li][li]James Dean[/li][li]Davy Crockett[/li][li]Elvis Presley[/li][li]Bardot[/li][li]Krushchev[/li][li]Princess Grace[/li][li]Pasternak[/li][li]Mickey Mantle[/li][li]Kerouac[/li][li]Chou En-Lai[/li][li]Charles de Gaulle[/li][li]Buddy Holly[/li][li]Castro[/li][li]Syngman Rhee[/li][li]Kennedy[/li][li]Chubby Checker[/li][li]Hemingway[/li][li]Eichmann[/li][li]Dylan[/li][li]John Glenn[/li][li]Pope Paul[/li][li]Malcolm X[/li][li]Ho Chi Minh[/li][li]Richard Nixon[/li][li]Begin[/li][li]Reagan[/li][li]Sally Ride[/li][li]Bernie Goetz[/li][/ol] Somebody needs to put this one to music! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/10 "2011-11-18T14:21:42Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Somebody needs to put this one to music! Paging Billy Joel ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/11 "2011-11-18T23:43:16Z")
1. ``` Ludwig van Beethoven ``` 2. ``` William Shakespeare ``` 3. ``` George Washington ``` 4. ``` Albert Einstein ``` 5. ``` Michelangelo ``` 6. ``` Napoleon Bonaparte ``` 7. ``` Isaac Newton ``` 8. ``` Homer ``` 9. ``` Julius Caesar ``` 10. James Clerk Maxwell 11. Mahatma Gandhi 12. Leonardo da Vinci 13. Benjamin Franklin 14. Alexander Hamilton 15. Charlemagne 16. Charles Darwin 17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 18. Alexander the Great 19. Cài Lún 20. Johann Gutenberg 21. Johann Sebastian Bach 22. Franz Liszt 23. John Lennon 24. Henry Ford 25. Michael Jordan ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-people-of-all-time/603282/12 "2011-11-19T00:07:10Z")
What no Martin Luther King Jr on these lists? To re-education camp with the lot of you!