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Western Culture
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The Top
100 Heroes of Western Culture By
Century
These individuals have most contributed to replacing
ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization,
disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty
with abundance, and despair with happiness.
800s BC
Homer
500s BC
Thales
400s BC
Hippocrates
Herodotus
Thucydides
Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius
Polyclitus, Myron and Praxiteles
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
300s BC
Aristotle
Plato
200s BC
Euclid
Archimedes
100s BC
Hipparchus
100s
Galen
Ptolemy
700s
Charlemagne
900s
Alhazen
Avicenna
1100s
Averroes
1200s
Thomas Aquinas
Roger Bacon
Albertus Magnus
Robert Grosseteste
1300s
Petrarch
William of Occam
1400s
Leonardo Da Vinci
Vittorino da Feltre
Christopher Columbus
Guillaume Dufay
Johannes Gutenberg
1500s
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Edward Coke
Francis Bacon
William Gilbert
Paracelsus
Michelangelo
Andreas Vesalius
Rafael
William Shakespeare
1600s
John Locke
Isaac Newton
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Boyle
Thomas Newcomen
William Harvey
1700s
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Adam Smith
Benjamin Franklin
James Madison
Montesquieu
Edward Jenner
Antoine Lavoisier
James Watt
Denis Diderot
Thomas Paine
Voltaire
Mary Wollstonecraft
Phillipe Pinel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1800s
Louis Pasteur
James Clerk Maxwell
Michael Faraday
Nikola Tesla
Cyrus McCormick
Thomas Edison
David Ricardo
J.P. Morgan
George Stephenson
Long and Morton
John Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Gregor Mendel
Demitri Mendeleyev
Charles Darwin
Nikolaus Otto
Ludwig van Beethoven
Karl Benz
Alexander Graham Bell
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
William Le Baron Jenney
1900s
Norman Borloug
Fred Soper
Alexander Fleming
Henry Ford
Willis Haviland Carrier
Wright Brothers
Jack Kilby
Frank Whittle
Albert Einstein
Martin Luther King
Ray Kroc
Deng Xiaoping
Alfred Lothar Wegener
Akio Morita
Ronald Reagan
Manmohan Singh
Sam Walton
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