The Greatest Human Ever

[Amb]

Hes is my great great great (a few more hundred/thousand * great) great great GrandFather. How can I disagree.

Yup, he answered the question "If the whole world was doomed and you and yours were going to be the only survivors, what memento would you take with you" with "Alcohol".

[MTGAP]

I am defining great as influential. Greater things affect what's around them more than little things.

(After 13 of them, I ran out of good ones and started using less good ones, so some of these are not as influential as I would like.)

Adolf Hitler
Albert Einstein
Alexander the Great
Buddha
Carl Frederick Gauss
Copernicus
Euclid
Galileo
Gandhi
Genghis Khan
Isaac Newton
Jesus
Josef Stalin
Julius Caesar
Leonardo Da Vinci
Mao Sedung
Martin Luther King Jr.
Plato
Richard Feynman (thrown in there because I think he is cool)
Thomas Edison
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[MTGAP]

[Scurra]

Defending your omissions is unnecessary. If you didn't think they deserve to be there, then you don't include them, and, should they make it through to the actual contest, then you can make your argument there.
Personally, I find it interesting how many scientists made the various lists, when I think that for the most part their contributions come under the same sort of heading as Columbus (i.e. many people had the same general idea; they happened to be the one who is remembered.) Even though I included several in my own list, which makes me a hypocrite. But there you go.
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New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon}

[The Great Crep'er]

Sorry, it may not be alphabetical order.

Bold text means an emphasis.

William Shakespeare
Socrates
Oscar Wilde
Neil Simon
George Lucas
William Golding
Matt Groening
Martin Luther King Jr.
Billy West
Vincent Van Gogh
Bob Marley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Confucius
Anthony Bourdain
Pocahontas
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Austen
Eleanor Roosevelt
Charles Schulz
Rosa Parks
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[Silverfire]

Jesus
Mary
Simon Peter
Adam
Eve

Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Ronald Reagan
Pope John Paul II

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Adam Smith
Maximillian Kolbe
G. K. Chesterton
Winston Churchill

Margaret Thatcher
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
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*Last two spots reserved for the glaringly obvious ones that I'll think of right after I hit 'Submit.'

[Silverstar]

George Washinngton
Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
Pope John Paul II
Thomas Moore
G.K. Chesterson
Johannes Guttenburg
Winston Churchill
Mother Theresa
Henry Ford
Friedrich Hayek
Julius Caesar
Thomas Jefferson

More to follow.

[Aga*]

Julius Caesar!
Doesn't anyone read and actually understand roman history?
Pah!

[MTGAP]

[3iff]

My selections...so far...in no specific order

Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Winston Churchill
Brian Eno
Yuri Gagarin
Isaac Asimov
Alan Turing
Joss Whedon
Marie Curie
Paul McCartney
M C Escher
Arthur C Clarke
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Francois Truffaut
Richard Dawkins

Seeing some of the other choices makes me strongly suspect that some religeous candidate will win... At least to my knowledge, none of my selections have been the cause of wars...

There are some interesting (and bizarre) choices out there!

[MTGAP]

[Dented Ford]

[Scurra]

[Lepton]

My computer shows the following results. PLEASE post if you see any errors.

[The Great Crep'er]

Aww, why is a fictional character getting all the glory with ten votes? Ooops[/controversy]

You know I kid, just wish at least socrates could have made it higher. The man started us one a new path.
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[The Great Crep'er]

I think I might just sit this entire thing out. Not sure why the canidates are so skewed towards most of the people from a distant past, too many explorers, inventors, religious figures, not enough Clooney types if you know where I'm getting at.
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[Stubby]

bah! Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Tiegs didn't make the cut.

[MTGAP]

Ronald Reagan? What?
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[RSA*]

poop I forgot to make a list

[MTGAP]

Other than Jesus, I think the top 10 are very good. Not perfect. Mozart should be higher than Beethoven.
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[Duke Gnome]

You've omitted Bach, who also got 3 votes.

[Lepton*]

Good catch, Duke Gnome. I'll try to include him.

[Undercover Monk]

Then put Ceaser back in and we can have an even number just give the top seed a buy next round.
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

[AZu]

Looked for it but couldn't find it. How long will each poll last?

[Lepton*]

One week.

[Courk]

All the match ups sound like really weird lawyer firms.

[Duke Gnome]

Darwin didn't make your list either.

[Lepton]

Two changes for the second half of the Round of 32(ish):
1. The ongoing polls are posted as ""stickies", so they will stay at the top of the thread listing.
2. Julius Caesar, JS Bach, and Charles Darwin have been added to the original 32 in such a way as to maintain the pseudo-advantage of candidates who got a large number of nominations. These 3-way battles starkly illuminate the question: "what IS greatness?"

For ties, I'll renew the poll for three days. After that, I'll ask the opinion of the next person I see, in order to break the tie.