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The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture by Numerical Order

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.



#1: Aristotle
#2: Homer
#3: Thales
#4: Galileo Galilei
#5: John Locke
#6: Isaac Newton
#7: Thomas Aquinas
#8: Nicolaus Copernicus
#9: Thomas Jefferson
#10: Hippocrates
#11: Averroes
#12: Louis Pasteur
#13: George Washington
#14: Roger Bacon
#15: Adam Smith
#16: Benjamin Franklin
#17: Johannes Kepler
#18: Edward Coke
#19: Charlemagne
#20: Euclid
#21: Herodotus
#22: Petrarch
#23: Albertus Magnus
#24: Galen
#25: James Madison
#26: Francis Bacon
#27: Thucydides
#28: Montesquieu
#29: William of Occam
#30: Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek
#31: Alhazen
#32: Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius
#33: Avicenna
#34: Robert Grosseteste
#35: Thomas Paine
#36: Robert Boyle
#37: Leonardo Da Vinci
#38: Norman Borloug
#39: Edward Jenner
#40: Polyclitus, Myron and Praxiteles
#41: Vittorino da Feltre
#42: James Clerk Maxwell
#43: Michael Faraday
#44: William Gilbert
#45: Archimedes
#46: Antoine Lavoisier
#47: Alexander Fleming
#48: Nikola Tesla
#49: Paracelsus
#50: Henry Ford
#51: Thomas Newcomen
#52: Fred Soper
#53: Cyrus McCormick
#54: James Watt
#55: Thomas Edison
#56: Christopher Columbus
#57:
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
#58: Michelangelo
#59: Denis Diderot
#60: Plato
#61: Ptolemy
#62: David Ricardo
#63: William Harvey
#64: J.P. Morgan
#65: George Stephenson
#66: Long and Morton
#67: John Rockefeller
#68: Andreas Vesalius
#69: Voltaire
#70: Mary Wollstonecraft
#71: Phillipe Pinel

#72: Willis Haviland Carrier
#73: Johannes Gutenberg
#74: Andrew Carnegie
#75: Gregor Mendel
#76: Demitri Mendeleyev
#77: Charles Darwin
#78: Nikolaus Otto

#79: Wright Brothers
#80: Hipparchus
#81: Ludwig van Beethoven
#82: Karl Benz
#83: Jack Kilby
#84: Frank Whittle
#85: Alexander Graham Bell
#86: Albert Einstein
#87: Martin Luther King
#88: Guillaume Dufay

#89: Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

#90: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#91: Rafael
#92: Ray Kroc
#93: Deng Xiaoping
#94: Alfred Lothar Wegener

#95: William Shakespeare

#96: Akio Morita
#97: Manmohan Singh
#98: Sam Walton
#99: Ronald Reagan
#100: William Le Baron Jenney




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