Hart's Top 10 (from the 1992 edition) THE 100

Rank	Name		Influence
1	Prophet Muhammad (c. 570–632)		The central human figure of Islam, regarded by Muslims as a prophet of God and the last messenger. Active as a social reformer,diplomat, merchant, philosopher, orator, legislator, military leader, humanitarian, philanthropist.
2	Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727)		English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His law of universal gravitation and threelaws of motion laid the groundwork for classical mechanics.
3	Jesus Christ (7–2 BC – AD 26–36)		The central figure of Christianity, revered by Christians as the Son of God and the incarnation of God. Also regarded as a major prophet in Islam.
4	Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha (563 BC–483 BC)		Spiritual teacher and philosopher from ancient Nepal. Founder ofBuddhism and is also considered an Avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism.
5	Confucius (551 BC–479 BC)		Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Indonesian thought and life. Founded Confucianism, and influenced Neo-Confucianism and New Confucianism.
6	St. Paul the Apostle of Tarsus (5–67)		One of the most notable of early Christian missionaries, creditedwith proselytizing and spreading Christianity outside of Palestine (mainly to the Romans) and author of numerous letters of the New Testament of the Bible.
7	Cài Lún (50–121)		Widely regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermakingprocess.
8	Johannes Gutenberg (1398–1468)		German printer who invented the mechanical printing press.
9	Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)		Italian navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages led to general European awareness of the American continents.
10	Albert Einstein (1879–1955)		German theoretical physicist, best known for his theory of relativityand specifically mass–energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2.