1999-2000 Rossville Jr. High 8th Grade
Most Influential People of the Millennium
Rank
Votes
Name
1
687
Sir Isaac Newton
2
640
Thomas Edison
3
544
Albert Einstein
4
492
Abraham Lincoln
5
443
Johann Gutenburg
6
413
Charles Darwin
7
405
Christopher Columbus
8
403
Thomas Jefferson
9
391
Adolf Hitler
10
391
Leonardo Da Vinci
11
377
George Washington
12
355
Louis Pasteur
13
339
Galileo Galilie
14
328
Martin Luther King Jr.
15
302
William Shakespeare
16
299
James Watt
17
279
Nicolaus Copernicus
18
258
Sigmund Freud
19
255
Karl Marx
20
241
Mahatma Ghandi
21
238
Martin Luther
22
229
Michaelangelo
23
222
John Locke
24
175
Mother Teresa
25
157
Ghengis Khan
26
153
Adam Smith
27
113
Henry Ford
28
100
The Wright Brothers
29
78
Saint Thomas Aquinas
30
72
Princess Diana
31
71
Philo Farnsworth
32
65
Joan of Arc
33
62
Ben Franklin
34
55
Eleanor Roosevelt
35
52
Harriett Tubman
36
49
Franklin D. Roosevelt
37
44
Ulysses S. Grant
38
42
John Paul ll
39
41
John F. Kennedy
40
40
Saddam Hussein
41
37
Theodore Roosevelt
42
33
Ferdinand Magellan
43
29
Ludwig Von Beethoven
44
28
Neil Armstrong
45
24
Jackie Robinson
46
23
John Hancock
47
21
Elvis Presley
48
20
Bill Gates
49
20
Jack the Ripper
50
19
Robert E. Lee
51
19
Clara Barton
52
19
Thomas Crapper
53
18
John Glenn
54
18
Jesse James
55
17
Arnold Palmer
56
13
Jim Thorpe
57
13
Marilyn Monroe
58
13
Michael Jordan
59
12
Theodore Geisel
60
10
George Custer
61
9
Rosa Parks
62
9
Napoleon Bonaparte
63
8
Nelson Mandela
64
8
John Wilkes Booth
65
7
Simon Bolivar
66
6
George W. Bush
67
6
William Allen White
68
5
Ben Hogan
69
3
Babe Zaharias
70
3
Winston Churchill
71
3
Wilt Chamberlain
72
2
Anne Frank
73
1
Pele
74
1
Babe Ruth
75
1
Stephen Spielberg