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The world's population is growing daily, and we have already reached the mark of 7 billion. However, not everyone can boast of being able to change the course of history. On our planet, only a small percentage of such people are a kind of elite, people who have reached unprecedented heights and are "at the helm" of world development.
The authoritative publication Forbes constantly makes a selection of the most influential people on the planet. Participants are selected based on a pivot table. Surprisingly, the selection conditions are very simple: applicants are compared by the number of people who are subject to them and popularity.
The most influential people in the world for 2017, according to Forbes:
Mark Zuckerberg
The last place is occupied by Mark Zuckerberg. He is the youngest representative of this rating. The founder of Facebook is only 32 years old, and he has already reached unprecedented heights. He is also the youngest member of the TOP 10 richest people in the world.
Surprisingly, it is almost twice as young as its main competitors. This year, the billionaire has significantly improved his position and has confidently entered the top ten since the end of the twenty.
At the moment, his fortune is estimated at 59 billion dollars. However, the young businessman does not suffer from star fever at all and leads a very modest life. He also donates significant amounts to charity.
Mark said that by the end of this year he wants to donate $ 3 billion to a kind of charity - the structure that will receive the investment is dedicated to the eradication of all currently existing diseases on Earth.
Narenda Modi
The penultimate one is Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi. Every year is more and more successful for Modi. Popularity among Indians is steadily growing.
It is noteworthy that even the harsh financial reform did not diminish his popularity. Painful changes were made as part of the fight against corruption. In the autumn of 2016, the prime minister issued an order that states the annulment of the two most nominal denominations.
Larry Page
A well-known figure on the Internet, it is Larry who is one of the main developers of the best Google search engine. In 2016, the company was completely reorganized and now Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet. Larry is elected to the post of chairman of the board.
Bill Gates
Larry was overtaken by a no less famous person - Bill Gates. He is the founder of the world famous Windows company, which is a world leader in software development. The richest man in the world, with a fortune exceeding $ 80 billion.
Janet Yellen
Leading US economist, Janet Yellen, is almost in the middle of our top. Concurrently, she is also the head of the US Federal Reserve System. It controls all activities of banking and other financial institutions.
It's funny, but it is very popular among ordinary Americans. This is ensured thanks to her simple approach and the ability to clearly express her thoughts in an accessible form.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis, head of the Vatican, is ranked fifth. He is also the oldest member of the TOP, because he recently turned 80 years old.
It is worth noting that a solid age does not at all prevent Francis from maintaining a huge amount of vital energy and inspiring people on the true path. After all, it is he who directs a huge flock to perform various good deeds.
Xi Jinping
The fourth place is occupied by the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping. In 2012, he was elected to the post and immediately set to work in the country. He became famous for his fight against corruption. The population is extremely supportive of his activities, due to the high degree of openness.
Angela Merkel
It is quite predictable that Angela Merkel has entered the top three this year. He is a very unusual person, but at the same time remains a prominent figure in political life.
The German chancellor, according to Forbes, can compete with Russia's influence in the West. The ambitious politician was able to relieve tension within the European Union and coped with the huge crowds of emigrants flooding into Germany.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump is in second place. Surpassing his predecessor, Barack Obama, who fell to forty-eighth after third place, Trump confidently entered the top ten most influential people on the planet.
Recall that earlier Trump was at the very bottom of the rating, but the rapid rise provided him with the presidency.
The ambitious politician who came to power with the slogan "Make America Great Again" immediately set to work.
Vladimir Putin
The first place in the ranking is occupied by Vladimir Putin. According to Forbes, he is the most powerful person in the world. Taking the first mark for the fourth time in a row, the politician proved that he is deservedly considered the most famous and popular person, whose influence on society simply cannot be denied.
There are people who could become famous all over the world. Their names immediately come to mind when talking about any area of life or art, because it was they who contributed to the development of the economy, creativity, politics and other industries. There are outstanding personalities in every generation, so the list of the most famous people will never be scarce.
Art: Walt Disney
This man was truly great and contributed to the development of children's animation. The younger generation of the whole world repeatedly reviews his animated films. During his life, he personally drew more than a hundred ribbons. More than 500 were filmed under his strict guidance. All Disney cartoons are permeated with light and goodness. Over time, Walt Disney founded his own studio, which is now world famous.Politics: Adolf Hitler
Undoubtedly, this man is a fanatic, a dictator and even, according to the majority, world evil. The youthful enthusiasm for the political movement of nationalists and anti-Semites did not pass without a trace. The belief in the exclusivity of the Aryan nation and in the fact that everyone should worship her was firmly planted in his head. When Hitler led the German Empire, he began to preach a policy of conquering Europe, and then world domination, which led to the Second World War.
Science: Albert Einstein
A real genius who made a huge contribution to the development of scientific activity. His discoveries and achievements were awarded the highest award - the Nobel Prize. The toric calculations of the famous theoretical physicist about how the universe works, and to this day no one has dared to dispute or supplement. On the basis of his theoretical research, serious breakthroughs in physics were made.
Sports: Michael Jordan
This athlete is a baseball player, does not have high growth or special talent. But he has ambition and perseverance in abundance. It was thanks to them that Jordan was able to achieve considerable success and become a famous player in the NBA team. His sports career was followed by millions, for whom the hardworking athlete became an idol and a role model.
Painting: Pablo Picasso
During his career, Picasso became the founder of cubism in the field of fine arts. Experts say that the works of this artist are the most expensive in the world and arouse genuine interest among visitors to museums and art galleries.
This list does not limit the number of outstanding people. If you wish, you can find out even more details of their lives and professional activities. You will see that success was not accidental for them. They had to fight for their fame, which inspires each of us to new achievements.
There have been many smart people in Russian history. Brilliant mathematicians, chemists, physicists, geologists, philosophers - they made a contribution to both Russian and world science.
1 Mikhail Lomonosov
The first Russian natural scientist of world importance, encyclopedist, chemist, physicist, astronomer, instrument maker, geographer, metallurgist, geologist, poet, artist, historian. A man under two meters, possessing tremendous strength, not shy about using it, and ready to give in the eye - if justice required. Mikhail Lomonosov is practically a superman.
2 Dmitry Mendeleev
Russian Da Vinci, the ingenious father of the periodic table of elements, Mendeleev was a versatile scientist and public figure. So, he made a significant and invaluable contribution to the oil industry.
Mendeleev said: “Oil is not fuel! You can also drown with banknotes! With his filing, the barbaric four-year payoff for oil fields was canceled. Then Mendeleev proposed to transport oil through pipes, developed oils based on oil refining waste, which cost several times cheaper than kerosene. Thus, Russia was able not only to refuse the export of kerosene from America, but also to import oil products to Europe.
Mendeleev was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times, but he never received it. Which is not surprising.
3 Nikolai Lobachevsky
The six-time rector of Kazan University, professor, the first textbooks he published were condemned for using and promoting the metric system of measures. Lobachevsky refuted Euclid's fifth postulate, calling the axiom of parallelism an "arbitrary constraint".
Lobachevsky developed completely new trigonometry of non-Euclidean space and differential geometry with the calculation of lengths, volumes, areas.
Recognition came to the scientist after his death, his ideas were continued in the works of such mathematicians as Klein, Beltrami and Poincaré. The realization that Lobachevsky's geometry is not an antagonism, but an alternative to Euclid's geometry gave impetus to powerful new discoveries and research in mathematics and physics.
4 Sofia Kovalevskaya
"Professor Sonya" is the first woman professor in the world and the first woman in Russia - a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Kovalevskaya was not only a brilliant mathematician and mechanic, but also distinguished herself in the literary field. The path of Kovalevskaya in science was not easy, which was associated, first of all, with gender prejudices.
5 Vladimir Vernadsky
Famous mineralogist, explorer of the earth's crust, "father" of the Soviet nuclear program. Vernadsky was one of the first people who paid attention to eugenics, he was engaged in geology, biochemistry, geochemistry, meteoritics. and many others. But, perhaps, his main contribution is the description of the laws of the Earth's biosphere and the noosphere as an integral part of it. Here the scientific insight of the Russian scientist is simply unique.
6 Zhores Alferov
Today, everyone enjoys the fruits of the discoveries of Zhores Alferov, the Russian Nobel Prize winner in 2000. All mobile phones have heterostructural semiconductors created by Alferov. All fiber-optic communication runs on its semiconductors and the Alferov laser.
Without the "Alferov laser" CD players and disk drives of modern computers would be impossible. Zhores Ivanovich's discoveries are used in car headlights, traffic lights, and supermarket equipment - product label decoders. At the same time, Alferov made the insights of the scientist, which led to qualitative changes in the development of all electronic technology, back in 1962-1974.
7 Kirik Novgorodets
Kirik Novgorodets - mathematician, writer, chronicler and musician of the 12th century; author of the first Russian mathematical and astronomical treatise "The Doctrine of Numbers"; calculated the smallest perceptible interval of time. Kirik was a deacon and domestic of the Antoniev Monastery in Novgorod. He is also considered the alleged author of Kirikov's Question.
8 Kliment Smolyatich
Kliment Smolyatich was one of the most prominent Russian medieval thinkers. Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus' (1147-1155), church writer, the first Russian theologian, the second metropolitan of Russian origin.
Smolyatich was considered the most highly educated person of his time. In the annals, he is mentioned as such a "scribe and philosopher, which has not yet happened in the Russian land."
9 Lev Landau
Lev Landau is a completely unique phenomenon. He was a child prodigy who did not lose his talent in adulthood. At the age of 13 he graduated from 10 classes, and at 14 he entered two faculties at once: chemistry and physics and mathematics.
For special merits, Landau was transferred from Baku to Leningrad University. Landau received 3 State Prizes of the USSR, the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Denmark, the Netherlands and the USA.
In 1962, the Royal Swedish Academy awarded Landau the Nobel Prize "for his fundamental theories of condensed matter, especially liquid helium."
For the first time in history, the award took place in a Moscow hospital, since shortly before the award, Landau was in a car accident.
10 Ivan Pavlov
A brilliant Russian scientist, Ivan Pavlov received his well-deserved Nobel Prize in 1904 "for his work on the physiology of digestion." Pavlov is a unique world-class scientist who managed to form his own school in the difficult conditions of a state under construction, to which the scientist made considerable claims. In addition, Pavlov was engaged in collecting paintings, plants, butterflies, stamps, books. Scientific research led him to refuse meat food.
11 Andrei Kolmogorov
Andrei Kolmogorov was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, the founder of a large scientific school. Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Lenin and Stalin Prizes, member of many scientific academies around the world, honorary doctor of universities from Paris to Calcutta. Kolmogorov - author of the axioms of probability theory and a set of theorems, author of the equation, inequality, mean, space and Kolmogorov complexity
12 Nikolai Danilevsky
A global thinker who laid the foundations for a civilizational approach to history. Without his work, there would be neither Spengler nor Toynbee. Nikolai Danilevsky saw “Europeanism”, looking at the world through “European glasses”, as one of the main diseases of Russia.
He believed that Russia had a special path, which should be rooted in Orthodox culture and the monarchy, dreamed of creating an All-Slavic Union and was sure that Russia should in no case follow the path of America.
13 Georgy Gamov
The father of the "hot universe" theory, at 24 Gamow completed Nobel-level work by developing the theory of alpha decay, at 28 he became the youngest corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in its entire history. He was also a half-glot - spoke freely in six languages.
Gamow has become one of the brightest stars in astrophysics and cosmology. He was the first to calculate models of stars with thermonuclear reactions, proposed a model of the shell of a red giant, and studied the role of neutrinos in the outbursts of new and supernovae.
In 1954, Gamow was the first to pose the problem of the genetic code. After the death of Gamow, the Nobel was awarded to the Americans for deciphering it.
14 Sergey Averintsev
Sergei Averintsev, a student of Alexei Losev, was one of the most prominent philologists, culturologists, biblical scholars and translators of the 20th century. He explored various layers of European, including Christian, culture - from antiquity to the present.
Literary critic, philosopher and culturologist Nikita Struve wrote about Averintsev: “A great scholar, biblical scholar, patrologist, subtle literary critic, poet who revived the tradition of spiritual poetry, Averintsev appears before my eyes no less as a humble disciple and a vivid witness of Christ. Rays of faith illuminated all his work.
15 Mikhail Bakhtin
One of the few Russian thinkers and literary critics canonized in the West. His books on the work of Dostoevsky and Rabelais "blew up" the literary establishment, his work "On the Philosophy of Action" became a reference book for intellectuals around the world.
Bakhtin was brought from Kazakh exile to Moscow in 1969 by Andropov. He also provided the "great lame" protection. Bakhtin was published and translated en masse. In England, at the University of Sheffield, there is the Bakhtin Center, which conducts scientific and educational work. Bakhtin's work gained particular popularity in France and Japan, where the world's first collected works of his were published, as well as a large number of monographs and works about him.
16 Vladimir Bekhterev
The great Russian psychiatrist and neuropathologist, Vladimir Bekhterev was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times, he treated drunkards with hypnosis en masse, studied parapsychology and crowd psychology, child psychology and telepathy. Bekhterev paved the way for the creation of so-called "brain atlases". One of the creators of such atlases, the German professor Kopsch, said: "Only two people know the structure of the brain perfectly - God and Bekhterev."
17 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Tsiolkovsky was a genius. He made many of his discoveries intuitively. A theoretician of cosmism, he worked a lot and fruitfully on applied things, on the creation of a theory of the flight of jet aircraft, he invented his own scheme of a gas turbine engine. The merits of Tsiolkovsky were highly appreciated not only by domestic scientists, but also by the creator of the first rockets, Wernher Von Braun.
Tsiolkovsky was quirky. So, he defended eugenics, believed in a cat society, and believed that criminals should be split into atoms.
Lev Vygotsky is an outstanding Russian psychologist, the creator of cultural-historical theory. Vygotsky made a real revolution in defectology, gave hope for a full life to people with disabilities. When Western society got tired of "life according to Freud", it switched to "life according to Vygodsky".
After the translation of Vygotsky's Thinking and Speech into English and Japanese, the Russian psychologist became a truly iconic figure. Stephen Toulmin of the University of Chicago even called his New York Review article on Vygotsky "Mozart in Psychology."
20 Peter Kropotkin
The "father of anarchism" and the eternal rebel Pyotr Kropotkin, who on his deathbed refused the special ration and special conditions of treatment offered by Lenin, was one of the most enlightened people of his time.
Kropotkin considered his main contribution to science to be his work on the study of the mountain ranges of Asia. For them, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Geographical Society. Kropotkin also made a great contribution to the study of the Ice Age.
Most of these people during their lifetime made such a contribution to the development of mankind that their memory will be alive as long as their descendants live on earth. Not everyone has worked for the good of people - some will be cursed for more than one generation. Introducing the most famous people in the world.
Top 10 most famous people in the world
- Jesus Christ- the central person in Christianity, to whom a huge number of prayers are addressed daily. Theologians and religious scholars claim that he was a real historical figure who changed the course of all history.
- Christopher Columbus, who discovered America and marked the beginning of the colonization of this continent by Europeans. Pictures are also dedicated to him, monuments are erected.
- Charles Darwin. He created the theory of evolution and the origin of living organisms. At first, he devoutly believed in God, and after traveling around the world he became an atheist.
- Adolf Gitler. Without a doubt, he belongs to the most famous people, because he distorted the lives of entire peoples, dragging them into a world war. He founded National Socialism, which today continues to grow with its supporters.
- Marilyn Monroe- an actress, singer and model, at whose feet lay not only mere mortals, but also the President of the United States. It is still considered an idol of popular culture and a standard of beauty.
- Genghis Khan. The most famous people include Genghis Khan - the first great khan of the Mongol Empire, who united the Mongol tribes and regularly attacked the states of Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and China. He was engaged in raising the level of literacy of his people, founded such a military strategy and tactics as intelligence, relied on surprise attacks and the dismemberment of enemy forces.
- Dmitriy Mendeleev- the creator of the famous periodic table and the author of the classic work "Fundamentals of Chemistry".
- Pablo Picasso. The most famous people on the planet include Pablo Picasso - an artist, the founder of cubism in the visual arts. According to experts, he is the most expensive writer in the world. Among visitors to museums around the world, his paintings are of the greatest interest.
- Coco Chanel hit the top of the most famous people in the world. Her little black dress is in every woman's wardrobe. Her influence on European fashion in the 20th century was colossal, and perfume became a bestseller among perfumes.
- Johann Sebastian Bach- a virtuoso organist, a representative of the Baroque era, during his life he wrote more than 1000 works in all genres known at that time, except for opera.
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Time is a harmful and elusive thing. It always oozes through your fingers and flows away to no one knows where. What to do if all your life you wanted to write symphonies better than Mozart's, and you have two children, a wife, a mother, and a burning project in addition to everything?
We are in website We are also extremely concerned about this problem: we want to realize ourselves in life and not choke on a bone. Not to give up and do great things, we are helped by examples of famous people who certainly had enough 24 hours a day.
Leonardo da Vinci
The famous “universal man” will head our list. Recall that Leonardo is an outstanding Renaissance artist (does everyone remember Gioconda?), an inventor (all his inventions formed the basis for the construction of modern submarines), a scientist, as well as a writer and musician. And he was the first to explain why the sky is blue: "The blue of the sky is due to the thickness of the illuminated particles of air, which is located between the Earth and the blackness above." He managed all this thanks to his own developed sleep system: he slept for a total of 2 hours (lights out for 15 minutes several times a day), and in all the rest of his free time he changed the world and himself for the better.
Anton Chekhov
The brilliant brother of his brother (he had such a pseudonym). The famous master of the short story, humorist and satirist, the greatest playwright and part-time doctor. He himself admitted: “Medicine is my legal wife, and literature is my mistress. When one gets bored, I spend the night at the other. Constantly torn at the crossroads of his two talents, Chekhov was engaged in medical affairs until the end of his life. He even gave his dogs names according to the name of drugs: Bromine and Hina. But he also respected his “mistress”: over the course of his life, Chekhov created more than 300 works, including short stories and impressive dramas. And the great comedian loved to collect stamps. Here was a man!
Vladimir Nabokov
Writer and entomologist, self-taught entomologist. In honor of Vladimir Vladimirovich, more than 20 genera of butterflies are named, one of which (that's cute!) Is called Nabokovia. Nabokov also played chess very well. They made several difficult chess problems. His love for this intellectual sport was reflected in the novel "Luzhin's Defense". Recall that Nabokov was fluent in English. "Lolita" in America is loved just as much as we do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe was known not only as a great writer and poet, but also as a scientist: he made some discoveries in the field of the theory of light. In addition, he actively collected minerals - his collection includes 18,000 copies (it is clear where Faust got such a craving for alchemy). The author of the famous drama was so lucky or well done that he slept only 5 hours a day, and he had enough strength for many, many accomplishments. Perhaps this is because Goethe adhered to strict rules and was a supporter of a healthy lifestyle: he did not drink alcohol at all and could not stand the smell of tobacco smoke. That is why he lived for 82 years and managed to create so many things.
Hugh Jackman
Not only a famous actor, but also a Broadway artist, and what a one! Within one season, he managed to get all the major theater awards. Everyone knows the third area of Jackman's activity, in which he achieved success - family life. Hugh and Deborra-Lee Furness have been married for 20 years, and together they have two children. Yes, what is there! Our Hugh is generally capable of everything: he can play the piano, guitar, violin, and also ... vibrate his pupils and even juggle. Probably even Wolverine can't do that.
Salvador Dali
Everyone says that he is crazy, but they are silent about the fact that he was universal. Dali is famous not only as a painter and sculptor, but also as the director of the terrible Andalusian Dog. Dali also wrote several "works": "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, told by himself" and "The Diary of a Genius." For the sake of his psychedelic masterpieces, the humble genius often "perverted" in terms of sleep. Let us explain: Dali hired a special servant for himself, who, seeing that the owner was starting to fall asleep in complete exhaustion, woke him up after waiting a few seconds. The disheveled Dali immediately grabbed the paper and tried to sketch what he saw in the first seconds of the superficial phase of sleep.
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian natural scientist, chemist and physicist, poet, artist... you can hardly list everything here. Lomonosov is not just an active figure - he is revered as a reformer. It was he who carried out the reform of versification. Therefore, by memorization of iambs and choreas, we, oddly enough, are obliged to an outstanding chemist. By the way, being smart does not mean being bullied. While studying in Marburg, for example, Lomonosov perfectly mastered the ability to handle a sword. Local bullies avoided this overly capable and skillful Muscovite. That's certainly a talented person is talented in everything!
Isaac Newton
Everyone should know that he is famous not only for the apple that fell on his head. Newton wrote books on theology, where he spoke about the denial of the Holy Trinity, and was also chairman of the Royal Society of Arts. Not many people know that Newton also invented two stunningly ingenious things: a means for carrying cats and a door for them (where would we be without them now?). His love for furry and mustachioed friends is to blame for this. Newton preferred vigorous activity to sleep - he took only 4 hours a day for night rest.
Benjamin Franklin
We all know him as an uncle from the dollar and politics, but Franklin is still like our Lomonosov. He was a journalist and inventor. He invented, for example, the stove (“Pennsylvania fireplace”), and also predicted the weather. The first developed a detailed map of the Gulf Stream. He founded the Philadelphia Academy, as well as the first public library in the States. Franklin also had musical talent. Uncle Ben managed to keep up with everything by strictly following the daily regimen, in which only 4 hours a day were allotted for sleep.
Alexander Borodin
A man whose portrait hangs both in the music class and in the chemistry class. Do you know that the author of the famous opera "Prince Igor" was also a chemist and physician? He jokingly called himself a "Sunday musician": he had to sacrifice days off in order to create something of that kind for the world of music. The memory of Borodin's everyday life was left by his wife: "I could sit for ten hours in a row, I could not sleep at all, not have lunch." Still would! After all, as you know, one of Borodin's mottos was such a super-motivating phrase: "All that we do not have, we owe only to ourselves." Alexander Porfirievich was also an active public figure - he was one of the initiators of the opening of Women's Medical Courses.
Flea (Michael Peter Balzary)
The tireless and daring bass player of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. He became famous for his unique style of playing the bass guitar, which was dubbed as slapping and popping - slaps and tweaks. It is surprising that Flea went to study music only in 2008 (after 25 years of playing as part of a group) - he admitted that he always played by ear, but did not know music theory. Nevertheless, Flea is recognized as one of the best bass players of all time. As they say, play for a quarter of a century and learn for a century. And if you think that rock musicians do nothing but rebel all day long, then Flea is a rebuttal to you: his filmography includes 25 films, including cartoons. By the way, he is that crazy boss in the movie "Back to the Future - 2".
Michael Bulgakov
In his youth, Bulgakov worked as a zemstvo doctor, and he had to be a generalist: a general practitioner, a gynecologist, a surgeon, and a dentist. "Notes of a Young Doctor" owe their birth to that period of the young Bulgakov's life. It was difficult to combine healing and creativity, so I had to “plow” a shift, treat the unpretentious village people all day, and then also carve out time for writing ... Whatever you don’t sacrifice for the sake of art. Once, in a letter to his mother, he wrote: “At night I write“ Notes of a Zemstvo Doctor. It might turn out to be a solid thing." Bulgakov is also an example of the correct attitude towards criticism. He collected critical articles about his work, including 298 negative and 3 positive reviews from critics.
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