The Greatest Human Ever

[Lepton]

The last tournament is over, so it's time to start the next. The regular sorts of rules will apply. Voting periods will be one week plus my earliest convenience.

Please post or send me a GL message with a list of up to 20 humans whom you consider to be "the greatest". The deadline for these submissions is August 8th. Assuming there are enough submissions, we'll use the top 64 (with run-offs, if necessary).

In order to ensure that our lists are independent, please try to compose your list before you look at the lists of others. This will prevent the "oh yeah, that's a good idea, I'll add him/her" sort of reaction that could skew the nomination process.

Lastly, I encourage you to do some research about the people mentioned. This is a great opportunity to learn about some truly great humans.

[dethwing]

If not for the dethwing joke I would have voted the first. But how could I refuse the honor?
In alphabetical order:

Abraham Lincoln
Adolf Hitler
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Christopher Columbus
Elvis Presley
Évariste Galois
George Washington
Gottfried Leibniz
Helen Keller
Isaac Newton
Jesus Christ
Leonardo da Vinci
Johannes Gutenberg
John Lennon
Ludwig van Beethoven
Michael Jordan
Muhammad
Paul McCartney
Ted Williams
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[Scurra]

Aristotle
Jane Austen
Johann Sebastian Bach
Napoleon Bonaparte
Gautama Buddha
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Jesus Christ
Oliver Cromwell
Charles Darwin
Elizabeth I
Mohondas Gandhi
Johannes Gutenberg
Qin Shi Huang
John Lennon & Paul McCartney*
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Isaac Newton
Florence Nightingale
William Shakespeare
J.R.R. Tolkien
Leonardo da Vinci

*yes, you might disqualify this entry. But the problem for me is that as individuals they don't make it, but together they do.
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_{still Quiz Olympiad champion. Must get a life.
New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon}

[dethwing]

If you do allow for that, will you allow me to go back and combine mine and add someone else?

[Ctuchik]

In reverse alphabetical order:

Thomas Jefferson
Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama)
Stephen Hawking
Queen Elizabeth II
Pope John Paul II
Nelson Mandela
Mother Teresa
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonardo da Vinci
Konrad Zuse
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jesus
Isaac Newton
Garry Kasparow
Christopher Columbus
Bill Gates
Benjamin Franklin
Aristoteles
Albert Einstein
Abraham Lincoln

[wordcross]

Mohammed
Jesus
Moses
Abraham
Bill Gates
Winston Churchill
Bono
Mother Teresa
Da Vinci
Galileo
Ghandi
Gutenberg
Aristotle
Kant
Spielberg
Stephen King
Joss Whedon
Franklin
Tesla
Edison
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[Undercover Monk]

I apologize in advance for misspellings

Abe Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Aristotle
Cristopher Columbus
C.S. Lewis- If youve never read his non-narnia books you should
Elvis Presley
Franklin Delanor Rooselvelt
George Washington
Issac Newton
Jesus Christ
John Wesley
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King Jr.
Michaelangelo
Michael Jordan
Ronald Regan
Thomas Jefferson
Walt Disney
William Shakespear
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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

[Lepton*]

Sorry dudes, the line gets drawn at "how many brains are there?", so Lennon/McCartney are two people.

Fascinating submissions...

[Scurra]

That's fine - I certainly won't argue. My list will stand at 19 people then.
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_{still Quiz Olympiad champion. Must get a life.
New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon}

[Jack Crazyquilt]

What, you can't just compromise by nominating Yoko Ono?

Ummm...I'll just be leaving now. Rather quickly.

[Agamemnon]

Alexander III of Macedon
Ronald Hutton
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji
Derren Victor Brown
Lev Davidovich Bronstein
Christiaan Neethling Barnard
Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir
Richard Christopher Wakeman
Pierre Morad Omidyar
Ingvar Feodor Kamprad
Gaius Octavius Thurinus
László József Bíró
Nicolas François Appert
Lester William Polsfuss
Hildegard of Bingen

[Jack Crazyquilt]

Hey, I think I've actually heard about that eighth guy there! Didn't he use to play keyboards for Yes?

[Dragon Phoenix]

Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannes Brahms
Gustav Mahler
Dmitri Shostakovich
Franz Schubert
Antonin Dvorak
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
Peter Gabriel
Kate Bush
David Sylvian
Steven Wilson
Paul Simon
Bryan Ferry
Brian Eno
Franz Marc
Vincent van Gogh
Claude Monet
Edward Munch
Terry Pratchett
Lu Schaper
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[MillerTime]

Adolf Hitler
Albert Einstein
Alexander the Great
Charlemagne
Christopher Columbus
Gautama Buddha
Genghis Khan
Jesus
Julius Caesar
King Henry VIII
Leonhard Euler
Mohammed
Mohandas Gandhi
Napoleon Bonaparte
Odysseus
Plato
Queen Victoria
Sir Isaac Newton
William the Conqueror
William Shakespeare

[The Ragin' South Asian]

I was wondering when someone would nominate Hitler

[dethwing]

Yeah because it took all of 53 minutes to wonder.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

I only read MillerTime's posts, which is why I'm going to nominate him when I make my list. No one else can measure up.

[Undercover Monk]

Hitler wont get a single vote from me cause this is "greatest human" not "most influential" he was very important to history but murdering hundreds of thousands of people does not make you great.
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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

[Agamemnon]

[Dented Ford]

Oh great! Let's define great.

[Scurra]

Well, I have to say that Hitler almost made my list too, but in the end he was pushed out by Napoleon. It was a tough call though. (And I had totally forgotten Alexander. He might even have beaten out Napoleon...)

I have to say that I am now looking forward to this poll immensely, especially after seeing the initial lists. Trying to judge between a sitcom and a drama is one thing, but at least they have some reference points in common. This one is going to be mad...
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_{still Quiz Olympiad champion. Must get a life.
New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon}

[Amb]

Greatest Human Beings:

Bolded = People who I definitely feel should be there.
1. Mother Theresa
2. Stephen Hawking
3. Bill Gates
4. Thomas Edison
5. Dr Phil (lol)
6. Steve Irwin (The Crocodile Hunter)
7. Abraham Lincoln
8. Angelina Jolie
9. Nelson Mandella
10.Martin Luther King
11.William Shakespeare
12. C.S Lewis
13. Winston Churchill
14. Walt Disney
15. William The Conquerer
16. O.J Simpson
17. Noah
18. Christopher Columbus
19. Billy Graham
20. Gutenberg

I am voting against Jesus and Mohammed. A Jesus vs Mohammed match up would be immoral.

[Scurra]

That's cheating, Amb. You weren't asked to start voting before the nominations stage has finished
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_{still Quiz Olympiad champion. Must get a life.
New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon}

[Undercover Monk]

[Undercover Monk]

Oh and Im glad Lewis and Disney showed both very great men.
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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

[Dented Ford]

Jesse Owens
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Edmund Hillary
Douglas Bader
Elizabeth I
Mozart
Nelson Mandela
Leonardo da Vinci
Charles Darwin
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill
Hippocrates
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
Capt. James Cook
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Alexander the Great
F.D. Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin (one for the controversialists since I didn't put Hitler!)

I'm leaving off the "mainstream" religious figures because I didn't want to have to field a major chunk of my list with them, and there's probably enough nominations anyway for me not to worry about them. Still I felt it was worth putting the Buddha in my list.

[MillerTime]

[Ctuchik]

I just listened to Beethoven's 5th Symphony ... I replaced Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Ludwig van Beethoven on my list

[Lepton*]

Cool, just make sure that your post above reflects your desired list on the 8th of August.

[Zag]

I voted for "influencing history" only because it was the closest to what I thought the primary criterion should be: "Had the greatest positive impact on the largest number of people."

My nominations

Jesus
Lao Tzu (why have you all missed him?!?)
Gandhi
Henry David Thoreau
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther
Thomas Becket
William Shakespeare
John Adams
George Washington
Abe Lincoln
George W. Bush.

(Just kidding on that last one.)

[Scurra]

[Pablo]

I nominate Noah.

1. For his engineering genius.
2. For his workmanship.
3. Without his effort, history would have been WAY different. For one think, Jesus's birth would have been the result of a really immaculate conception - no father AND no mother. Not to mention no donkey and no wise men.

[Scurra]

...but the shepherds (and their flocks by night) would have been fine?
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_{still Quiz Olympiad champion. Must get a life.
New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon}

[Amb]

I nominated him first :-p

[Quail*]

Alexander the Great
Archimedes
Aristotle
Euclid
George Washington Carver
Jesus Christ
John Coltrane
Cindy Crawford
Thomas Edison
Farrah Fawcett
Yuri Gagarin
Siddhartha Gautama
Johannes Gutenberg
Jenna Jameson
Abraham Lincoln
Muhammad
Plato
William Shakespeare
Socrates
Cheryl Tiegs

[Duke Gnome]

Alexander the Great
Archimides
JS Bach
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Norman Borlaug
The Buddha
Oliver Cromwell*
Charles Darwin
Elizabeth I
Galileo*
Homer
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther
Napolean Bonaparte
Terry Pratchett
Margaret Thatcher
Guiseppe Verdi
Richard Wagner
George Washington
The Duke of Wellington*

*Choices if I were only allowed 3

[Amb]

Gutenberg is a great pick.

[MatthewV]

How about....

John
Bill
Jacob
Frank
Susan
Judy

[Duke Gnome]

[Pablo]