Who are the WORLD LEADERS of the past present and future?

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who are the world leaders

 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/23/nelsonmandela1 

The Most Important Leaders in World History

Top 100 leadership quotes. 

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1. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. —Lao Tzu
2. Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs 29:18
3. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? —Benjamin Disraeli
4. You manage things; you lead people. —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
5. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. —Max DePree
6. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren Bennis
7. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — General George Patton
8. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. —Jack Welch
9. A leader is a dealer in hope. —Napoleon Bonaparte
10. You don’t need a title to be a leader. –Multiple Attributions
11. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. —John Maxwell
12. My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. —General Montgomery
13. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. —Peter Drucker
14. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. —Margaret Mead
15. The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. —Sir Winston Churchill
16. The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. —Warren Bennis
17. To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. —Andre Malraux
18. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. —Aristotle
19. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. —Brian Tracy
20. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. —Ralph Nader
21. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. —Peter Drucker
22. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. —Publilius Syrus
23. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
24. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. —Theodore Roosevelt
25. Leadership is influence. —John C. Maxwell
26. You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. —Ken Kesey
27. When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. —Napoleon Bonaparte
28. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. —Harry S. Truman
29. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. —John Maxwell
30. So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. —Peter Drucker
31. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. —Tony Blair
32. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. —Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
33. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. —Kenneth Blanchard
34. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. —Polybius
35. A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. —John Maxwell
36. A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. —Rosalynn Carter
37. The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. —Jim Rohn
38. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. —Sam Walton
39. A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. —Douglas MacArthur
40. A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. —Ovid
41. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. —Andrew Carnegie
42. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. —General Dwight Eisenhower
43. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. —Eric Hoffer
44. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. —Brian Tracy
45. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. —Max Lucado
46. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. —General George Patton
47. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. —Bill Gates
48. All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. —John Kenneth Galbraith
49. Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. —Eleanor Roosevelt
50. Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. —Donald Rumsfeld
51. Education is the mother of leadership. —Wendell Willkie
52. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. —Stephen Covey
53. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. —General Colin Powell
54. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. —John Zenger
55. He who has great power should use it lightly. —Seneca
56. He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. —Solon
57. I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. —Warren Bennis
58. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. —Herbert Swope
59. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. —Maya Angelou
60. If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. —Benjamin Franklin
61. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. —John Quincy Adams
62. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. —Thomas Jefferson
63. It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. —Latin Proverb
64. It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. —Nelson Mandela
65. Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. —Ross Perot
66. Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. —Vince Lombardi
67. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell
68. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy
69. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. —Jesse Jackson
70. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. —Woodrow Wilson
71. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. —Norman Schwarzkopf
72. Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. —Colin Powell
73. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. —Erskine Bowles
74. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. —Bill Bradley
75. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. —Tom Peters
76. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. —Stephen Covey
77. Never give an order that can’t be obeyed. —General Douglas MacArthur
78. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. —Abraham Lincoln
79. What you do has far greater impact than what you say. —Stephen Covey
80. Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. —Chinese Proverb
81. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. —Arnold Glasow
82. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. —Walter Lippman
83. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. —Ken Blanchard
84. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. —Harvey Firestone
85. To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. —Friedrich Nietzsche
86. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. —Pat Riley
87. True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. —Bill Owens
88. We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. —Marco Rubio
89. Whatever you are, be a good one. —Abraham Lincoln
90. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt
91. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. —John J Pershing
92. A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. —John Maxwell
93. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. —Fuchan Yuan
94. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t. —Dee Dee Myers
95. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. —Stephen King
96. My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back. –Unknown
97. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. –George Patton
98. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. –Dwight Eisenhower
99. You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership. –Dwight Eisenhower
100. Earn your leadership every day. –Michael Jordan

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   http://www.filibustercartoons.com/greats.htm

The World's Greatest People

BRITAIN	GERMANY	INDIA	AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AFRICA	HOLLAND

CANADA	FINLAND	FRANCE	CZECH REPUBLIC	UNITED STATES	BELGIUM

NEW ZEALAND	ROMANIA	HUNGARY	PORTUGAL	BULGARIA	SPAIN

ARGENTINA	RUSSIA	CHILE	GREECE	UKRAINE	ISRAEL

First the countries of the world were trying to decide who their best pop star was. Now they're trying to name their best citizens.

Following the lead of Britain, who held a "Greatest Briton" survey in 2002, over a dozen countries have so far held popular votes through their national TV network to determine their greatest citizen.
This is the way it usually works. The network makes a website, where ordinary people can submit names of great individuals. After a certain cut-off point, the network tallies all the entries, and assembles a list of the top ten most popular names. Over the course of the next few weeks, ten local national celebrities (usually of a b-list nature) serve as official "advocates" for one each of the top ten greats on ten special episodes. When this is done, a second public vote is held to rank the top ten, and determine the greatest citizen of all.
Here are the country-by-country results thus far.

GUIDE TO COLORS
scientist / inventor	activist	athlete
politician / ruler	TV personality	singer / musician
military figure	author / poet	artist
businessman	actor / director	religious leader
Nobel Prize winner	FB foreign born	X assassinated / murdered

UNITED KINGDOM
"Greatest Britons" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Sir Winston Churchill	World War II-era prime minister	1965
2	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	London's leading engineer and architect of the 19th century	1859
3	Princess Diana	ex-wife of Prince Charles, glamorous social activist	1997
4	Charles Darwin	biologist, founder of evolution theory	1882
5	William Shakespeare	legendary playwright, director	1616
6	Sir Isaac Newton	scientist, pioneer of gravity, motion theories	1727
7	Queen Elizabeth the First	powerful ruler during golden age of British expansion and enlightenment	1603
8	John Lennon	musician, lead singer, lyricist of "the Beatles"	1980 X
9	Adm. Horatio Nelson	naval commander who led British forces to victory during Napoleonic wars	1805 X
10	Oliver Cromwell	republican military ruler who briefly deposed the monarchy	1658

GERMANY"Our Best " Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Konrad Adenauer	West Germany's first Chancellor	1967
2	Martin Luther	leader of the reformation, father of Protestant Christianity	1546
3	Karl Marx	philosopher, founder of Communist ideology	1883
4	Sophie and Hans Scholl	leaders of White Rose Society, a non-violent Nazi resistance movement	1943 X
5	Willy Brandt	socialist chancellor of West Germany during the 70's	1992
6	Johann Sebastian Bach	classical composer	1750
7	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	18th century writer, author of Faust	1832
8	Johannes Gutenberg	inventor of the printing press	1468
9	Otto von Bismarck	founder and first chancellor of united German Empire	1898
10	Albert Einstein	scientist, founder of theory of relativity	1955

INDIA(No official website)Mahatma Ghandi, India's leading independence leader and "father of the nation" was excluded from the voting process because he is already widely revered by most Indians, and was thus deemed to be "above" such a contest.
India is also the only country to date that held their contest through a magazine, rather than than a TV series. 

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Mother Teresa	Catholic nun, child poverty activist	1997 FB
2	Jawaharlal Nehru	India's first prime minister, independence leader	1964
3	Vallabhbhai Patel	Deputy PM, independence leader, secured the inclusion of the sovereign "princely states" of colonial India into the independent Indian federation	1950
4	Indira Gandhi	left-wing prime minister who ruled during the 60's and 70's	1984 X
5	J.R.D. Tata	pilot, founder of Air India	1993
6	B.R. Ambedkar	cabinet minister, architect of the Indian constitution, "untouchable" caste rights activist, Bhuddist revivalist	1956
7	Dhirubhai Ambani	founder of Reliance industries, India's biggest corporation	2002
8	Sachin Tendulkar	cricket champion
9	J.P. Narayan	independence leader, founder and leader of socialist political party	1979
10	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	(then) current prime minister

AUSTRALIA(No official website)
The Australians were apparently in a big rush because their version of the show was greatly condensed. They did the entire special in just one day, with the celebrity advocates choosing the top seven, followed by a citizen "jury" ranking their picks (though only the "number one" rank was ultimately revealed). As such, this list may be dismissed as being the least legitimate "greatest" pick.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Lord Howard Florey	inventor of penicillin	1968
?	Henry Parkes	founder of Australian federation	1896 FB
?	Lt. Thomas Derrick	heroic World War II soldier who was killed in action	1945
?	Rupert Murdoch	media mogul, owner of FOX network and many other outlets
?	Evonne Goolagong Cawley	tennis champion
?	Michael Leunig	political cartoonist, comic strip artist
?	Barry Humphries	actor and comedian best-known for "Dame Edna" role

SOUTH AFRICA"Great South Africans" Official Website
The "Greatest South African" special was canceled mid-series due to controversy over some of the members of the top 100. As a result, the top 10 were never ranked. Nelson Mandela was given the number one spot automatically.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Nelson Mandela	South Africa's first black president, anti-apartheid activist
?	Dr. Christiaan Barnard	surgeon, performed first open heart transplantation	2001
?	F.W. de Klerk	last white president, dismantled apartheid system
?	Mahatma Gandhi	Indian independence leader, also active in lobbying for rights of Indian-South Africans	1948 FB X
?	Nkosi Johnson	young AIDS activist	2002
?	Winnie Mandela	radical political activist, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela
?	Thabo Mbeki	current president
?	Gary Player	PGA golf champion
?	Jan Smuts	World War II-era prime minister	1950
?	Desmond Tutu	Anglican archbishop, anti-apartheid activist

HOLLAND"The Greatest Dutchperson" Official Website 
Though Pim Fortuyn is ranked in first place, the Dutch television station which ran the contest has since admitted that a large number of call-in votes could not be counted due to time restraints. After the contested ended, it was revealed that had the vote counting deadline been extended, Prince William would have actually placed first and Fortuyn second.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Pim Fortuyn	leader of conservative political party	2002 X
2	Prince William of Orange	Dutch independence leader, Holland's first independent Head of State	1584 X
3	Willem Drees	post-World War II socialist prime minister	1988
4	Antoni van Leeuwenhoek	biologist, pioneer of microscope technology	1723
5	Desiderius Erasmus	Humanist philosopher	1536
6	Johan Cruijff	soccer player / coach
7	Adm. Michiel de Ruyter	naval commander who led Dutch forces to victory in Dutch-Anglo wars	1679
8	Ann Frank	Jewish girl who kept a diary as she hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam	1945 FB
9	Rembrandt	Renaissance-era painter	1669
10	Vincent van Gogh	impressionist painter	1890

CANADA"The Greatest Canadian" Official Website 
You can view the whole top 100 here.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Tommy Douglas	socialist party leader, founder of Canadian health care system	1986 FB
2	Terry Fox	Cancer activist who died during an attempted cross-country marathon	1981
3	Pierre Trudeau	left-wing prime minister during 70's and 80's	2000
4	Dr. Frederick Banting	inventor of Insulin	1941
5	David Suzuki	host of nature television show, environmentalist
6	Lester Pearson	prime minister, UN diplomat, founder of modern peacekeeping	1972
7	Don Cherry	television hockey commentator
8	Sir John A. MacDonald	Canada's first prime minister	1891 FB
9	Alexander Graham Bell	purported inventor of the telephone	1922 FB
10	Wayne Gretzky	hockey player

FINLAND"Great Finns" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	C.G.E. Mannerheim	independence leader, military commander-in-chief, president during 40's	1951
2	Risto Ryti	president who led Finland in war against Soviet Union during the 1940's	1956
3	Urho Kekkonen	prime minister and president of Finland who ruled for 30 years (1950-1981)	1986
4	Adolf Ehrnrooth	General who led national forces to victory in Finnish-Soviet wars	2004
5	Tarja Halonen	current (and first female) president
6	Dr. Arvo Ylppö	doctor who helped reduce infant mortality rates	1992
7	Mikael Agricola	founder of written Finnish language, Protestant reformist cleric	1557
8	Jean Sibelius	classical composer	1957
9	Aleksis Kivi	author, playwright, wrote first full-length Finnish novel	1872
10	Elias Lönnrot	poet, author of the Kalevala, Finland's "national epic"	1884

FRANCE"The Greatest Frenchpeople" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Charles DeGaulle	anti-Nazi resistance leader, president during 50's-60's	1970
2	Louis Pasteur	microbiologist, pioneer of germ research	1895
3	Abbé Pierre	catholic priest, anti-poverty activist
4	Marie Curie	radiation researcher	1934 FB
5	Coluche	comedian, anti-poverty / anti-intolerance activist	1986
6	Victor Hugo	author of Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables	1885
7	Bourvil	comedic actor, singer	1970
8	Molière	17th century satirical author, critic	1673
9	Jacques Cousteau	underwater explorer, researcher, TV show host	1997
10	Edith Piaf	singer	1963

CZECH REPUBLIC"Greatest Czechs " Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Emperor Charles the Fourth	Holy Roman Emperor, leader of Bohemian renaissance, founder of Czech state	1378
2	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Czech independence leader, first president of Czechoslovakia	1937
3	Václav Havel	anti-Communist activist, first post-Communist president of Czechoslovakia
4	Jan Ámos Komenský	Protestant bishop, prominent writer, intellectual, and philosopher	1670
5	Jan Žižka	Pro-Hussite general during Bohemian Civil War	1424
6	Jan Werich	author, film director	1980
7	Jan Hus	early Protestant reformist leader, founder of Hussite movement	1415
8	Antonín Dvorák	classical composer	1904
9	Karel Capek	pioneering science fiction author	1938
10	Božena Nemcová	folk author	1862

UNITED STATES"The Greatest American" Official Website
You can check out the names of the top 100 nominees here.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Ronald Reagan	conservative president during 1980's	2004
2	Abraham Lincoln	19th century president who fought to abolish slavery in the American Civil War	1865 X
3	Martin Luther King Jr.	anti-segregation activist	1968 X
4	George Washington	leader of war of independence against Britain, first president of the USA	1799
5	Ben Franklin	founding father, inventor	1790
6	George W. Bush	current president
7	Bill Clinton	liberal president during 1990's
8	Elvis Presley	rock / blues singer	1977
9	Oprah Winfrey	women's talk-show host, self-help author
10	Franklin D. Roosevelt	president during World War II	1945 $

BELGIUM
"The Greatest Belgian" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Father Pater Damien	Catholic missionary who worked with lepers, outcasts	1889
2	Dr. Paul Janssen	medical research pioneer	2003
3	Eddy Merckx	champion cyclist
4	Ambiorix	anti-Roman Belgic tribal leader	?
5	Adolf Daens	Flemish-rights politician and union activist	1907
6	Andreas Vesalius	anatomist, author of first major anatomy text	1564
7	Jacques Brel	singer, actor, director	1978
8	Gerardus Mercator	geographer, inventor of the modern world map	1594
9	Peter Paul Rubens	Renaissance-era painter	1640
10	Hendrik Conscience	author, activist for preserving the Flemish language	1883

AFRICA"Greatest Africans of All Time" Official Website
This was another magazine poll, but I thought it was worth including. 

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Nelson Mandela	South Africa's first black president, anti-apartheid activist
2	Kwame Nkrumah	first president of independent Ghana, Africa's first de-colonized country	1972
3	Robert Mugabe	radical Marxist, anti-white current president of Zimbabwe
4	Julius Nyerere	first president of independent Tanzania	1999
5	Marcus Garvey	Jamaican founder of "back to Africa" nationalist movement	1940
6	Patrice Lumumba	Marxist prime minister of Zaire	1961 X
7	Martin Luther King Jr.	anti-segregation activist in the United States	1968 X
8	Thabo Mbeki	current president of South Africa
9	Malcolm X	radical black-rights/Muslim activist in the United States	1965 X
10	Kofi Annan	(then) current United Nations Secretary-General, originally from Ghana

NEW ZEALAND "New Zealand History Makers" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Dr. Ernest Rutherford	founder of nuclear physics	1937
2	Kate Sheppard	female suffrage activist (NZ was the first country to grant female suffrage)	1934
3	Sir Edmund Hillary	explorer, first man to climb Mt. Everest
4	Charles Upham	heroic World War II soldier	1994
5	Billy T. James	comedian	1991
6	David Lange	liberal prime minister during 1980's	2005
7	Apirana Ngata	Maori rights activist, cabinet minister, member of parliament	1950
8	Dr. Colin Murdoch	inventor of the disposable syringe
9	Roger Douglas	conservative finance minister during 1980's
10	Rua Kenana Hepetipa	founder of Te Wairua Tapu Maori religion, claimed to be brother of Jesus	1937

ROMANIA"Greatest Romanians " Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Prince Stephen the Third	ruler of Moldavia who fought against Ottoman invaders	1504
2	King Carol the First	first king of fully united, independent Romania	1914
3	Mihai Eminescu	poet, conservative political writer	1889
4	Prince Michael the Brave	first monarch to achieve local sovereignty and united rule over the three provinces of Romania	1601
5	Richard Wurmbrand	Lutheran minister, leader of underground Christian movement during Communist era	2001
6	Ion Antonescu	fascist dictator of Romania during World War II	1946
7	Mircea Eliade	nationalist historian of Romanian history and religion	1986
8	Prince Alexander I. Cuza	liberal, reformist ruler of Romania during 19th Century	1873
9	Constantin Brancusi	abstract artist, sculptor	1957
10	Nadia Comaneci	five-time gold medal-winning gymnast

HUNGARY
"Greatest Hungarians" Official Website
Note: The "Greatest Hungarians" contest is still ongoing. There is not yet a top 10. The final results will not be known until 2007 sometime. 

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PORTUGAL"Greatest Portuguese" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	António de Oliveira Salazar	longtime right-wing dictator (1933-1968)	1970
2	Álvaro Cunhal	Communist Party leader. Exiled dissident and later post-Salazar cabinet minister	2005
3	Aristides de Sousa Mendes	diplomat who tried to welcome Jewish refugees into Portugal during the Holocaust	1954
4	King Alfonso the First	first King of independent Portugal	1185
5	Luís de Camões	epic poet	1580
6	King John the Second	15th Century king who promoted the second-wave of Portugese exploration and imperialism	1495
7	Henry the Navigator	prince who was influential in financing and promoting Portuguese exploration and colonization of the "New World."	1460
8	Fernando Pessoa	poet	1935
9	The Marquis of Pombal	18th Century prime minister who led government of reform and modernization	1782
10	Vasco da Gama	explorer, first man to sail directly from Europe to India	1524

BULGARIA"Greatest Bulgarians" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Vasil Levski	leader of the armed uprisings against the Ottoman Empire that eventually secured modern Bulgarian independence	1873 X
2	Peter Deunov	philosopher and theologian, founder of the "Esoteric Christianity" movement	1944
3	Czar Asparukh	First ruler of the united Bulgarian Empire	c. 700
4	Czar Simon the First	powerful ruler during golden age of Bulgarian expansion and enlightenment	927
5	Hristo Botev	revolutionary general who died in the battle for independence	1876
6	Czar Boris the First	Bulgaria's first Christian monarch, influential in Christianizing the nation	907
7	Saint Cyril & Saint Methodius	Catholic missionaries / saints influential in spreading Christianity across the Slavic nations	869, 885
8	Stefan Stambolov	nationalist prime minister who led government of growth and modernization in the face of Russian/Ottoman threats	1895 X
9	Ivan Vazov	nationalist poet and novelist	1921
10	Saint Paisius of Hilendar	Renaissance-era patriotic cleric, epic author, and historian	1773

SPAIN
"Greatest Spaniards" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	King Juan Carlos the First	present king, helped lead Spain from dictatorship to democracy.
2	Miguel Cervantes	author and playwright. Wrote Don Quixote.	1616
3	Christopher Columbus	explorer, first European to discover North America	1506
4	Queen Sofia	current queen, wife of Juan Carlos. Philanthropist
5	Adolfo Suarez	first post-Franco president of Spain (1976-1981)
6	Dr. Ramon y Cajal	founder of modern neuroscience	1934
7	Crown Prince Felipe	current crown prince, son of Sofia and Juan Carlos
8	Pablo Picasso	abstract artist	1973
9	Saint Teresa	Patron saint of Spain, Catholic theologian	1582
10	Felipe Gonzalez	socialist president (1982-1996)

ARGENTINA"Greatest Argentines" Official Website

Note: The "Greatest Argentines" list was not ranked 1 to 10, but rather just pitted the final 10 candidates against each other tournament-style to establish a top five, then allowing voters to chose who should be number one.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	José de San Martín	leader of war of independence against Spain	1850
top 5	Juan Manuel Fangio	Forumal 1 racer	1995
top 5	Dr. Rene Favaloro	creator of bypass surgery, first surgeon to perform the operation	2000
top 5	Che Guevara	Communist revolutionary and architect of Cuban coup. Government minister in Castro regime	1967 X
top 5	Alberto Olmedo	comedian / actor	1988
?	Jorge Luis Borges	poet and author	1986
?	Eva Peron	activist first lady and "power behind the throne" of president Juan Peron (1946-1955)	1952
?	Manuel Belgrano	founding father, independence leader, diplomat	1820
?	Roberto Fontanarrosa	cartoonist	2007
?	Diego Maradona	World Cup soccer star

RUSSIA"Greatest Russians" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Prince Alexander Nevsky	Russian ruler during Middle Ages	1263
2	Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin	prime minister during early 20th Century, presided over period of post-feudal modernization	1911 X
3	Josef Stalin	longtime Communist dictator (1924-1953) during World War II and post-war modernization	1953
4	Alexander Pushkin	poet and author	1837
5	Czar Peter the Great	18th Century Czar, credited with establishing Russia as a major world power	1725
6	Vladimir Lenin	Communist revolutionary and intellectual, founder and first head of state of the Soviet Union	1924
7	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	author	1811
8	Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov	18th Century general who helped secure Russian military dominance of the region	1800
9	Dmitrij Ivanovich Mendeleyev	inventor of the Periodic Table of Elements	1968
10	Ivan the Terrible	16th century ruler, first Czar of united Russian Empire	1907

CHILE
"Greatest Chileans" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Salvador Allende	socialist president during 1970s, overthrown by Augusto Pinochet	1973 X(?)
2	Capt. Arturo Prat	hero of the 19th Century Pacific War against Bolivia and Peru	1879
3	Saint Alberto Hurtado	Jesuit priest	1952
4	Victor Jara	folk singer, tortured and killed under military regime	1973 X
5	Manuel Rodriguez	independence leader	1818
6	Jose Miguel Carrera	independence leader	1821
7	Lautaro	aboriginal leader	1603
8	Gabriela Mistral	poet	1957
9	Pablo Neruda	poet	1973
10	Violeta Parra	singer	1967

GREECE"Greatest Greeks" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Alexander the Great	king of Macedonia, freed Greeks from Persian rule	323
2	Dr. George Papanikolaou	inventor of the "Pap" test for cervical cancer	1962
3	Theodoros Kolokotronis	rebel general in the fight for Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire	1843
4	Konstantinos Karamanlis, Sr.	longtime prime minister and president (1950s through 1990s)	1998
5	Socrates	philosopher	399 BC
6	Aristotle	philosopher	322 BC
7	Eleftherios Venizelos	prime minister during 1910s through 1930s	1936
8	Kapodistrias	first president of independent (post Ottoman) Greece	1831 X
9	Plato	philosopher	347 BC
10	Pericles	reformist leader of Athens	429 BC

UKRAINE
"Greatest Ukrainians" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Prince Yaroslav the Wise	11th Century leader of the Russian Empire	1054
2	Mykola Amosov	pioneering heart surgeon	2002
3	Stepan Bandera	leader of anti-Nazi, anti-Soviet resistance group	1959 X
4	Taras Shevchenko	artist, poet	1861
5	Bohdan Khmelnytsky	Cossack leader who helped liberate the Ukraine from Polish rule	1657
6	Valeri Lobanovsky	USSR national team soccer coach	2002
7	Vyacheslav Chornovil	anti-Communist politician, died mysteriously	1999
8	Hryhorii Skovoroda	poet and composer	1794
9	Lesya Ukrainka	poet and playwright	1913
10	Ivan Franko	poet and author	1916

ISRAEL"Greatest Israelis" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Yitzhak Rabin	prime minister who championed peace with the Palestinians	1995 FB X
2	David Ben-Gurion	first prime minister of independent Israel	1973 FB
3	Ehud Manor	singer, playwright	2005
4	Menachem Begin	conservative prime minister during 70's and 80's	1992 FB
5	Ilan Ramon	first Israeli astronaut, died in Columbia explosion	2003
6	Naomi Shemer	songwriter, composer	2004
7	Rehavam Ze'evi	far-right ultra-zionist politician	2001 X
8	Ariel Sharon	general, conservative prime minister during 2000's
9	Ezer Weizman	air force general, president (1993-2000)	2004
10	Ninet Tayeb	pop star

OVERALL STATS
"Politician" is by far the most commonly occurring profession on the lists. The United States and Portuguese lists feature the most politicians- seven out of 10. Second is India with six out of 10.
South Africa has the most Nobel Prize winners, with three- all of whom won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Canada and Israel have the most foreign-born, with three.
Bulgaria's list is the most "historical," featuring eight people who died before the year 1900, including four who died before 1000 AD. Greece's features seven who died before 1900, and six who died before 1000 AD.
The least historic is South Africa. Six of their 10 are still alive, with two more having only died within the last three years of the contest.
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EPILOGUE
In 1992 American historian Michael H. Hart wrote a book entitled The 100, which purported to provide "a ranking of the most influential persons in history." I thought it might be interesting to note his top ten picks. Only a couple names appear on the previous lists we've looked at.
Beside each name I've noted the modern-day country we can say these people "came from."

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Country	Died
1	Muhammad	prophet and founder of the Islamic faith	Saudi Arabia	c.632
2	Sir Isaac Newton	scientist, pioneer of gravity, motion theories	Britain	1727
3	Jesus Christ	prophet and founder of Christianity	Palestine	c. 29 X
4	Gautama Buddha	founder of Buddhism	Nepal	c. 483 BC
5	Confucius	founder of Confucianism	China	c. 479 BC
6	St. Paul of Tarsus	Christian theologian influential in spreading Christianity outside of the Middle East	Turkey	c. 67
7	Tsai Lun	inventor of paper	China	121
8	Johannes Gutenberg	inventor of the printing press	Germany	1468
9	Christopher Columbus	explorer, first European to discover North America	Italy/Spain	1506
10	Albert Einstein	scientist, founder of theory of relativity	Germany	1955

The three countries we've looked at (Spain, England, and Germany) all include "their" people in their respective national tallies.The World's Greatest People

BRITAIN	GERMANY	INDIA	AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AFRICA	HOLLAND

CANADA	FINLAND	FRANCE	CZECH REPUBLIC	UNITED STATES	BELGIUM

NEW ZEALAND	ROMANIA	HUNGARY	PORTUGAL	BULGARIA	SPAIN

ARGENTINA	RUSSIA	CHILE	GREECE	UKRAINE	ISRAEL

First the countries of the world were trying to decide who their best pop star was. Now they're trying to name their best citizens.

Following the lead of Britain, who held a "Greatest Briton" survey in 2002, over a dozen countries have so far held popular votes through their national TV network to determine their greatest citizen.
This is the way it usually works. The network makes a website, where ordinary people can submit names of great individuals. After a certain cut-off point, the network tallies all the entries, and assembles a list of the top ten most popular names. Over the course of the next few weeks, ten local national celebrities (usually of a b-list nature) serve as official "advocates" for one each of the top ten greats on ten special episodes. When this is done, a second public vote is held to rank the top ten, and determine the greatest citizen of all.
Here are the country-by-country results thus far.

GUIDE TO COLORS
scientist / inventor	activist	athlete
politician / ruler	TV personality	singer / musician
military figure	author / poet	artist
businessman	actor / director	religious leader
Nobel Prize winner	FB foreign born	X assassinated / murdered

UNITED KINGDOM
"Greatest Britons" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Sir Winston Churchill	World War II-era prime minister	1965
2	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	London's leading engineer and architect of the 19th century	1859
3	Princess Diana	ex-wife of Prince Charles, glamorous social activist	1997
4	Charles Darwin	biologist, founder of evolution theory	1882
5	William Shakespeare	legendary playwright, director	1616
6	Sir Isaac Newton	scientist, pioneer of gravity, motion theories	1727
7	Queen Elizabeth the First	powerful ruler during golden age of British expansion and enlightenment	1603
8	John Lennon	musician, lead singer, lyricist of "the Beatles"	1980 X
9	Adm. Horatio Nelson	naval commander who led British forces to victory during Napoleonic wars	1805 X
10	Oliver Cromwell	republican military ruler who briefly deposed the monarchy	1658

GERMANY"Our Best " Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Konrad Adenauer	West Germany's first Chancellor	1967
2	Martin Luther	leader of the reformation, father of Protestant Christianity	1546
3	Karl Marx	philosopher, founder of Communist ideology	1883
4	Sophie and Hans Scholl	leaders of White Rose Society, a non-violent Nazi resistance movement	1943 X
5	Willy Brandt	socialist chancellor of West Germany during the 70's	1992
6	Johann Sebastian Bach	classical composer	1750
7	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	18th century writer, author of Faust	1832
8	Johannes Gutenberg	inventor of the printing press	1468
9	Otto von Bismarck	founder and first chancellor of united German Empire	1898
10	Albert Einstein	scientist, founder of theory of relativity	1955

INDIA(No official website)Mahatma Ghandi, India's leading independence leader and "father of the nation" was excluded from the voting process because he is already widely revered by most Indians, and was thus deemed to be "above" such a contest.
India is also the only country to date that held their contest through a magazine, rather than than a TV series. 

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Mother Teresa	Catholic nun, child poverty activist	1997 FB
2	Jawaharlal Nehru	India's first prime minister, independence leader	1964
3	Vallabhbhai Patel	Deputy PM, independence leader, secured the inclusion of the sovereign "princely states" of colonial India into the independent Indian federation	1950
4	Indira Gandhi	left-wing prime minister who ruled during the 60's and 70's	1984 X
5	J.R.D. Tata	pilot, founder of Air India	1993
6	B.R. Ambedkar	cabinet minister, architect of the Indian constitution, "untouchable" caste rights activist, Bhuddist revivalist	1956
7	Dhirubhai Ambani	founder of Reliance industries, India's biggest corporation	2002
8	Sachin Tendulkar	cricket champion
9	J.P. Narayan	independence leader, founder and leader of socialist political party	1979
10	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	(then) current prime minister

AUSTRALIA(No official website)
The Australians were apparently in a big rush because their version of the show was greatly condensed. They did the entire special in just one day, with the celebrity advocates choosing the top seven, followed by a citizen "jury" ranking their picks (though only the "number one" rank was ultimately revealed). As such, this list may be dismissed as being the least legitimate "greatest" pick.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Lord Howard Florey	inventor of penicillin	1968
?	Henry Parkes	founder of Australian federation	1896 FB
?	Lt. Thomas Derrick	heroic World War II soldier who was killed in action	1945
?	Rupert Murdoch	media mogul, owner of FOX network and many other outlets
?	Evonne Goolagong Cawley	tennis champion
?	Michael Leunig	political cartoonist, comic strip artist
?	Barry Humphries	actor and comedian best-known for "Dame Edna" role

SOUTH AFRICA"Great South Africans" Official Website
The "Greatest South African" special was canceled mid-series due to controversy over some of the members of the top 100. As a result, the top 10 were never ranked. Nelson Mandela was given the number one spot automatically.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Nelson Mandela	South Africa's first black president, anti-apartheid activist
?	Dr. Christiaan Barnard	surgeon, performed first open heart transplantation	2001
?	F.W. de Klerk	last white president, dismantled apartheid system
?	Mahatma Gandhi	Indian independence leader, also active in lobbying for rights of Indian-South Africans	1948 FB X
?	Nkosi Johnson	young AIDS activist	2002
?	Winnie Mandela	radical political activist, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela
?	Thabo Mbeki	current president
?	Gary Player	PGA golf champion
?	Jan Smuts	World War II-era prime minister	1950
?	Desmond Tutu	Anglican archbishop, anti-apartheid activist

HOLLAND"The Greatest Dutchperson" Official Website 
Though Pim Fortuyn is ranked in first place, the Dutch television station which ran the contest has since admitted that a large number of call-in votes could not be counted due to time restraints. After the contested ended, it was revealed that had the vote counting deadline been extended, Prince William would have actually placed first and Fortuyn second.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Pim Fortuyn	leader of conservative political party	2002 X
2	Prince William of Orange	Dutch independence leader, Holland's first independent Head of State	1584 X
3	Willem Drees	post-World War II socialist prime minister	1988
4	Antoni van Leeuwenhoek	biologist, pioneer of microscope technology	1723
5	Desiderius Erasmus	Humanist philosopher	1536
6	Johan Cruijff	soccer player / coach
7	Adm. Michiel de Ruyter	naval commander who led Dutch forces to victory in Dutch-Anglo wars	1679
8	Ann Frank	Jewish girl who kept a diary as she hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam	1945 FB
9	Rembrandt	Renaissance-era painter	1669
10	Vincent van Gogh	impressionist painter	1890

CANADA"The Greatest Canadian" Official Website 
You can view the whole top 100 here.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Tommy Douglas	socialist party leader, founder of Canadian health care system	1986 FB
2	Terry Fox	Cancer activist who died during an attempted cross-country marathon	1981
3	Pierre Trudeau	left-wing prime minister during 70's and 80's	2000
4	Dr. Frederick Banting	inventor of Insulin	1941
5	David Suzuki	host of nature television show, environmentalist
6	Lester Pearson	prime minister, UN diplomat, founder of modern peacekeeping	1972
7	Don Cherry	television hockey commentator
8	Sir John A. MacDonald	Canada's first prime minister	1891 FB
9	Alexander Graham Bell	purported inventor of the telephone	1922 FB
10	Wayne Gretzky	hockey player

FINLAND"Great Finns" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	C.G.E. Mannerheim	independence leader, military commander-in-chief, president during 40's	1951
2	Risto Ryti	president who led Finland in war against Soviet Union during the 1940's	1956
3	Urho Kekkonen	prime minister and president of Finland who ruled for 30 years (1950-1981)	1986
4	Adolf Ehrnrooth	General who led national forces to victory in Finnish-Soviet wars	2004
5	Tarja Halonen	current (and first female) president
6	Dr. Arvo Ylppö	doctor who helped reduce infant mortality rates	1992
7	Mikael Agricola	founder of written Finnish language, Protestant reformist cleric	1557
8	Jean Sibelius	classical composer	1957
9	Aleksis Kivi	author, playwright, wrote first full-length Finnish novel	1872
10	Elias Lönnrot	poet, author of the Kalevala, Finland's "national epic"	1884

FRANCE"The Greatest Frenchpeople" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Charles DeGaulle	anti-Nazi resistance leader, president during 50's-60's	1970
2	Louis Pasteur	microbiologist, pioneer of germ research	1895
3	Abbé Pierre	catholic priest, anti-poverty activist
4	Marie Curie	radiation researcher	1934 FB
5	Coluche	comedian, anti-poverty / anti-intolerance activist	1986
6	Victor Hugo	author of Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables	1885
7	Bourvil	comedic actor, singer	1970
8	Molière	17th century satirical author, critic	1673
9	Jacques Cousteau	underwater explorer, researcher, TV show host	1997
10	Edith Piaf	singer	1963

CZECH REPUBLIC"Greatest Czechs " Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Emperor Charles the Fourth	Holy Roman Emperor, leader of Bohemian renaissance, founder of Czech state	1378
2	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Czech independence leader, first president of Czechoslovakia	1937
3	Václav Havel	anti-Communist activist, first post-Communist president of Czechoslovakia
4	Jan Ámos Komenský	Protestant bishop, prominent writer, intellectual, and philosopher	1670
5	Jan Žižka	Pro-Hussite general during Bohemian Civil War	1424
6	Jan Werich	author, film director	1980
7	Jan Hus	early Protestant reformist leader, founder of Hussite movement	1415
8	Antonín Dvorák	classical composer	1904
9	Karel Capek	pioneering science fiction author	1938
10	Božena Nemcová	folk author	1862

UNITED STATES"The Greatest American" Official Website
You can check out the names of the top 100 nominees here.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Ronald Reagan	conservative president during 1980's	2004
2	Abraham Lincoln	19th century president who fought to abolish slavery in the American Civil War	1865 X
3	Martin Luther King Jr.	anti-segregation activist	1968 X
4	George Washington	leader of war of independence against Britain, first president of the USA	1799
5	Ben Franklin	founding father, inventor	1790
6	George W. Bush	current president
7	Bill Clinton	liberal president during 1990's
8	Elvis Presley	rock / blues singer	1977
9	Oprah Winfrey	women's talk-show host, self-help author
10	Franklin D. Roosevelt	president during World War II	1945 $

BELGIUM
"The Greatest Belgian" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Father Pater Damien	Catholic missionary who worked with lepers, outcasts	1889
2	Dr. Paul Janssen	medical research pioneer	2003
3	Eddy Merckx	champion cyclist
4	Ambiorix	anti-Roman Belgic tribal leader	?
5	Adolf Daens	Flemish-rights politician and union activist	1907
6	Andreas Vesalius	anatomist, author of first major anatomy text	1564
7	Jacques Brel	singer, actor, director	1978
8	Gerardus Mercator	geographer, inventor of the modern world map	1594
9	Peter Paul Rubens	Renaissance-era painter	1640
10	Hendrik Conscience	author, activist for preserving the Flemish language	1883

AFRICA"Greatest Africans of All Time" Official Website
This was another magazine poll, but I thought it was worth including. 

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Nelson Mandela	South Africa's first black president, anti-apartheid activist
2	Kwame Nkrumah	first president of independent Ghana, Africa's first de-colonized country	1972
3	Robert Mugabe	radical Marxist, anti-white current president of Zimbabwe
4	Julius Nyerere	first president of independent Tanzania	1999
5	Marcus Garvey	Jamaican founder of "back to Africa" nationalist movement	1940
6	Patrice Lumumba	Marxist prime minister of Zaire	1961 X
7	Martin Luther King Jr.	anti-segregation activist in the United States	1968 X
8	Thabo Mbeki	current president of South Africa
9	Malcolm X	radical black-rights/Muslim activist in the United States	1965 X
10	Kofi Annan	(then) current United Nations Secretary-General, originally from Ghana

NEW ZEALAND "New Zealand History Makers" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Dr. Ernest Rutherford	founder of nuclear physics	1937
2	Kate Sheppard	female suffrage activist (NZ was the first country to grant female suffrage)	1934
3	Sir Edmund Hillary	explorer, first man to climb Mt. Everest
4	Charles Upham	heroic World War II soldier	1994
5	Billy T. James	comedian	1991
6	David Lange	liberal prime minister during 1980's	2005
7	Apirana Ngata	Maori rights activist, cabinet minister, member of parliament	1950
8	Dr. Colin Murdoch	inventor of the disposable syringe
9	Roger Douglas	conservative finance minister during 1980's
10	Rua Kenana Hepetipa	founder of Te Wairua Tapu Maori religion, claimed to be brother of Jesus	1937

ROMANIA"Greatest Romanians " Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Prince Stephen the Third	ruler of Moldavia who fought against Ottoman invaders	1504
2	King Carol the First	first king of fully united, independent Romania	1914
3	Mihai Eminescu	poet, conservative political writer	1889
4	Prince Michael the Brave	first monarch to achieve local sovereignty and united rule over the three provinces of Romania	1601
5	Richard Wurmbrand	Lutheran minister, leader of underground Christian movement during Communist era	2001
6	Ion Antonescu	fascist dictator of Romania during World War II	1946
7	Mircea Eliade	nationalist historian of Romanian history and religion	1986
8	Prince Alexander I. Cuza	liberal, reformist ruler of Romania during 19th Century	1873
9	Constantin Brancusi	abstract artist, sculptor	1957
10	Nadia Comaneci	five-time gold medal-winning gymnast

HUNGARY
"Greatest Hungarians" Official Website
Note: The "Greatest Hungarians" contest is still ongoing. There is not yet a top 10. The final results will not be known until 2007 sometime. 

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
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PORTUGAL"Greatest Portuguese" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	António de Oliveira Salazar	longtime right-wing dictator (1933-1968)	1970
2	Álvaro Cunhal	Communist Party leader. Exiled dissident and later post-Salazar cabinet minister	2005
3	Aristides de Sousa Mendes	diplomat who tried to welcome Jewish refugees into Portugal during the Holocaust	1954
4	King Alfonso the First	first King of independent Portugal	1185
5	Luís de Camões	epic poet	1580
6	King John the Second	15th Century king who promoted the second-wave of Portugese exploration and imperialism	1495
7	Henry the Navigator	prince who was influential in financing and promoting Portuguese exploration and colonization of the "New World."	1460
8	Fernando Pessoa	poet	1935
9	The Marquis of Pombal	18th Century prime minister who led government of reform and modernization	1782
10	Vasco da Gama	explorer, first man to sail directly from Europe to India	1524

BULGARIA"Greatest Bulgarians" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Vasil Levski	leader of the armed uprisings against the Ottoman Empire that eventually secured modern Bulgarian independence	1873 X
2	Peter Deunov	philosopher and theologian, founder of the "Esoteric Christianity" movement	1944
3	Czar Asparukh	First ruler of the united Bulgarian Empire	c. 700
4	Czar Simon the First	powerful ruler during golden age of Bulgarian expansion and enlightenment	927
5	Hristo Botev	revolutionary general who died in the battle for independence	1876
6	Czar Boris the First	Bulgaria's first Christian monarch, influential in Christianizing the nation	907
7	Saint Cyril & Saint Methodius	Catholic missionaries / saints influential in spreading Christianity across the Slavic nations	869, 885
8	Stefan Stambolov	nationalist prime minister who led government of growth and modernization in the face of Russian/Ottoman threats	1895 X
9	Ivan Vazov	nationalist poet and novelist	1921
10	Saint Paisius of Hilendar	Renaissance-era patriotic cleric, epic author, and historian	1773

SPAIN
"Greatest Spaniards" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	King Juan Carlos the First	present king, helped lead Spain from dictatorship to democracy.
2	Miguel Cervantes	author and playwright. Wrote Don Quixote.	1616
3	Christopher Columbus	explorer, first European to discover North America	1506
4	Queen Sofia	current queen, wife of Juan Carlos. Philanthropist
5	Adolfo Suarez	first post-Franco president of Spain (1976-1981)
6	Dr. Ramon y Cajal	founder of modern neuroscience	1934
7	Crown Prince Felipe	current crown prince, son of Sofia and Juan Carlos
8	Pablo Picasso	abstract artist	1973
9	Saint Teresa	Patron saint of Spain, Catholic theologian	1582
10	Felipe Gonzalez	socialist president (1982-1996)

ARGENTINA"Greatest Argentines" Official Website

Note: The "Greatest Argentines" list was not ranked 1 to 10, but rather just pitted the final 10 candidates against each other tournament-style to establish a top five, then allowing voters to chose who should be number one.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	José de San Martín	leader of war of independence against Spain	1850
top 5	Juan Manuel Fangio	Forumal 1 racer	1995
top 5	Dr. Rene Favaloro	creator of bypass surgery, first surgeon to perform the operation	2000
top 5	Che Guevara	Communist revolutionary and architect of Cuban coup. Government minister in Castro regime	1967 X
top 5	Alberto Olmedo	comedian / actor	1988
?	Jorge Luis Borges	poet and author	1986
?	Eva Peron	activist first lady and "power behind the throne" of president Juan Peron (1946-1955)	1952
?	Manuel Belgrano	founding father, independence leader, diplomat	1820
?	Roberto Fontanarrosa	cartoonist	2007
?	Diego Maradona	World Cup soccer star

RUSSIA"Greatest Russians" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Prince Alexander Nevsky	Russian ruler during Middle Ages	1263
2	Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin	prime minister during early 20th Century, presided over period of post-feudal modernization	1911 X
3	Josef Stalin	longtime Communist dictator (1924-1953) during World War II and post-war modernization	1953
4	Alexander Pushkin	poet and author	1837
5	Czar Peter the Great	18th Century Czar, credited with establishing Russia as a major world power	1725
6	Vladimir Lenin	Communist revolutionary and intellectual, founder and first head of state of the Soviet Union	1924
7	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	author	1811
8	Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov	18th Century general who helped secure Russian military dominance of the region	1800
9	Dmitrij Ivanovich Mendeleyev	inventor of the Periodic Table of Elements	1968
10	Ivan the Terrible	16th century ruler, first Czar of united Russian Empire	1907

CHILE
"Greatest Chileans" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Salvador Allende	socialist president during 1970s, overthrown by Augusto Pinochet	1973 X(?)
2	Capt. Arturo Prat	hero of the 19th Century Pacific War against Bolivia and Peru	1879
3	Saint Alberto Hurtado	Jesuit priest	1952
4	Victor Jara	folk singer, tortured and killed under military regime	1973 X
5	Manuel Rodriguez	independence leader	1818
6	Jose Miguel Carrera	independence leader	1821
7	Lautaro	aboriginal leader	1603
8	Gabriela Mistral	poet	1957
9	Pablo Neruda	poet	1973
10	Violeta Parra	singer	1967

GREECE"Greatest Greeks" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Alexander the Great	king of Macedonia, freed Greeks from Persian rule	323
2	Dr. George Papanikolaou	inventor of the "Pap" test for cervical cancer	1962
3	Theodoros Kolokotronis	rebel general in the fight for Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire	1843
4	Konstantinos Karamanlis, Sr.	longtime prime minister and president (1950s through 1990s)	1998
5	Socrates	philosopher	399 BC
6	Aristotle	philosopher	322 BC
7	Eleftherios Venizelos	prime minister during 1910s through 1930s	1936
8	Kapodistrias	first president of independent (post Ottoman) Greece	1831 X
9	Plato	philosopher	347 BC
10	Pericles	reformist leader of Athens	429 BC

UKRAINE
"Greatest Ukrainians" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Prince Yaroslav the Wise	11th Century leader of the Russian Empire	1054
2	Mykola Amosov	pioneering heart surgeon	2002
3	Stepan Bandera	leader of anti-Nazi, anti-Soviet resistance group	1959 X
4	Taras Shevchenko	artist, poet	1861
5	Bohdan Khmelnytsky	Cossack leader who helped liberate the Ukraine from Polish rule	1657
6	Valeri Lobanovsky	USSR national team soccer coach	2002
7	Vyacheslav Chornovil	anti-Communist politician, died mysteriously	1999
8	Hryhorii Skovoroda	poet and composer	1794
9	Lesya Ukrainka	poet and playwright	1913
10	Ivan Franko	poet and author	1916

ISRAEL"Greatest Israelis" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Yitzhak Rabin	prime minister who championed peace with the Palestinians	1995 FB X
2	David Ben-Gurion	first prime minister of independent Israel	1973 FB
3	Ehud Manor	singer, playwright	2005
4	Menachem Begin	conservative prime minister during 70's and 80's	1992 FB
5	Ilan Ramon	first Israeli astronaut, died in Columbia explosion	2003
6	Naomi Shemer	songwriter, composer	2004
7	Rehavam Ze'evi	far-right ultra-zionist politician	2001 X
8	Ariel Sharon	general, conservative prime minister during 2000's
9	Ezer Weizman	air force general, president (1993-2000)	2004
10	Ninet Tayeb	pop star

OVERALL STATS
"Politician" is by far the most commonly occurring profession on the lists. The United States and Portuguese lists feature the most politicians- seven out of 10. Second is India with six out of 10.
South Africa has the most Nobel Prize winners, with three- all of whom won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Canada and Israel have the most foreign-born, with three.
Bulgaria's list is the most "historical," featuring eight people who died before the year 1900, including four who died before 1000 AD. Greece's features seven who died before 1900, and six who died before 1000 AD.
The least historic is South Africa. Six of their 10 are still alive, with two more having only died within the last three years of the contest.
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EPILOGUE
In 1992 American historian Michael H. Hart wrote a book entitled The 100, which purported to provide "a ranking of the most influential persons in history." I thought it might be interesting to note his top ten picks. Only a couple names appear on the previous lists we've looked at.
Beside each name I've noted the modern-day country we can say these people "came from."

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Country	Died
1	Muhammad	prophet and founder of the Islamic faith	Saudi Arabia	c.632
2	Sir Isaac Newton	scientist, pioneer of gravity, motion theories	Britain	1727
3	Jesus Christ	prophet and founder of Christianity	Palestine	c. 29 X
4	Gautama Buddha	founder of Buddhism	Nepal	c. 483 BC
5	Confucius	founder of Confucianism	China	c. 479 BC
6	St. Paul of Tarsus	Christian theologian influential in spreading Christianity outside of the Middle East	Turkey	c. 67
7	Tsai Lun	inventor of paper	China	121
8	Johannes Gutenberg	inventor of the printing press	Germany	1468
9	Christopher Columbus	explorer, first European to discover North America	Italy/Spain	1506
10	Albert Einstein	scientist, founder of theory of relativity	Germany	1955

The World's Greatest People

BRITAIN	GERMANY	INDIA	AUSTRALIA	SOUTH AFRICA	HOLLAND

CANADA	FINLAND	FRANCE	CZECH REPUBLIC	UNITED STATES	BELGIUM

NEW ZEALAND	ROMANIA	HUNGARY	PORTUGAL	BULGARIA	SPAIN

ARGENTINA	RUSSIA	CHILE	GREECE	UKRAINE	ISRAEL

First the countries of the world were trying to decide who their best pop star was. Now they're trying to name their best citizens.

Following the lead of Britain, who held a "Greatest Briton" survey in 2002, over a dozen countries have so far held popular votes through their national TV network to determine their greatest citizen.
This is the way it usually works. The network makes a website, where ordinary people can submit names of great individuals. After a certain cut-off point, the network tallies all the entries, and assembles a list of the top ten most popular names. Over the course of the next few weeks, ten local national celebrities (usually of a b-list nature) serve as official "advocates" for one each of the top ten greats on ten special episodes. When this is done, a second public vote is held to rank the top ten, and determine the greatest citizen of all.
Here are the country-by-country results thus far.

GUIDE TO COLORS
scientist / inventor	activist	athlete
politician / ruler	TV personality	singer / musician
military figure	author / poet	artist
businessman	actor / director	religious leader
Nobel Prize winner	FB foreign born	X assassinated / murdered

UNITED KINGDOM
"Greatest Britons" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Sir Winston Churchill	World War II-era prime minister	1965
2	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	London's leading engineer and architect of the 19th century	1859
3	Princess Diana	ex-wife of Prince Charles, glamorous social activist	1997
4	Charles Darwin	biologist, founder of evolution theory	1882
5	William Shakespeare	legendary playwright, director	1616
6	Sir Isaac Newton	scientist, pioneer of gravity, motion theories	1727
7	Queen Elizabeth the First	powerful ruler during golden age of British expansion and enlightenment	1603
8	John Lennon	musician, lead singer, lyricist of "the Beatles"	1980 X
9	Adm. Horatio Nelson	naval commander who led British forces to victory during Napoleonic wars	1805 X
10	Oliver Cromwell	republican military ruler who briefly deposed the monarchy	1658

GERMANY"Our Best " Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Konrad Adenauer	West Germany's first Chancellor	1967
2	Martin Luther	leader of the reformation, father of Protestant Christianity	1546
3	Karl Marx	philosopher, founder of Communist ideology	1883
4	Sophie and Hans Scholl	leaders of White Rose Society, a non-violent Nazi resistance movement	1943 X
5	Willy Brandt	socialist chancellor of West Germany during the 70's	1992
6	Johann Sebastian Bach	classical composer	1750
7	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	18th century writer, author of Faust	1832
8	Johannes Gutenberg	inventor of the printing press	1468
9	Otto von Bismarck	founder and first chancellor of united German Empire	1898
10	Albert Einstein	scientist, founder of theory of relativity	1955

INDIA(No official website)Mahatma Ghandi, India's leading independence leader and "father of the nation" was excluded from the voting process because he is already widely revered by most Indians, and was thus deemed to be "above" such a contest.
India is also the only country to date that held their contest through a magazine, rather than than a TV series. 

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Mother Teresa	Catholic nun, child poverty activist	1997 FB
2	Jawaharlal Nehru	India's first prime minister, independence leader	1964
3	Vallabhbhai Patel	Deputy PM, independence leader, secured the inclusion of the sovereign "princely states" of colonial India into the independent Indian federation	1950
4	Indira Gandhi	left-wing prime minister who ruled during the 60's and 70's	1984 X
5	J.R.D. Tata	pilot, founder of Air India	1993
6	B.R. Ambedkar	cabinet minister, architect of the Indian constitution, "untouchable" caste rights activist, Bhuddist revivalist	1956
7	Dhirubhai Ambani	founder of Reliance industries, India's biggest corporation	2002
8	Sachin Tendulkar	cricket champion
9	J.P. Narayan	independence leader, founder and leader of socialist political party	1979
10	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	(then) current prime minister

AUSTRALIA(No official website)
The Australians were apparently in a big rush because their version of the show was greatly condensed. They did the entire special in just one day, with the celebrity advocates choosing the top seven, followed by a citizen "jury" ranking their picks (though only the "number one" rank was ultimately revealed). As such, this list may be dismissed as being the least legitimate "greatest" pick.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Lord Howard Florey	inventor of penicillin	1968
?	Henry Parkes	founder of Australian federation	1896 FB
?	Lt. Thomas Derrick	heroic World War II soldier who was killed in action	1945
?	Rupert Murdoch	media mogul, owner of FOX network and many other outlets
?	Evonne Goolagong Cawley	tennis champion
?	Michael Leunig	political cartoonist, comic strip artist
?	Barry Humphries	actor and comedian best-known for "Dame Edna" role

SOUTH AFRICA"Great South Africans" Official Website
The "Greatest South African" special was canceled mid-series due to controversy over some of the members of the top 100. As a result, the top 10 were never ranked. Nelson Mandela was given the number one spot automatically.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Nelson Mandela	South Africa's first black president, anti-apartheid activist
?	Dr. Christiaan Barnard	surgeon, performed first open heart transplantation	2001
?	F.W. de Klerk	last white president, dismantled apartheid system
?	Mahatma Gandhi	Indian independence leader, also active in lobbying for rights of Indian-South Africans	1948 FB X
?	Nkosi Johnson	young AIDS activist	2002
?	Winnie Mandela	radical political activist, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela
?	Thabo Mbeki	current president
?	Gary Player	PGA golf champion
?	Jan Smuts	World War II-era prime minister	1950
?	Desmond Tutu	Anglican archbishop, anti-apartheid activist

HOLLAND"The Greatest Dutchperson" Official Website 
Though Pim Fortuyn is ranked in first place, the Dutch television station which ran the contest has since admitted that a large number of call-in votes could not be counted due to time restraints. After the contested ended, it was revealed that had the vote counting deadline been extended, Prince William would have actually placed first and Fortuyn second.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Pim Fortuyn	leader of conservative political party	2002 X
2	Prince William of Orange	Dutch independence leader, Holland's first independent Head of State	1584 X
3	Willem Drees	post-World War II socialist prime minister	1988
4	Antoni van Leeuwenhoek	biologist, pioneer of microscope technology	1723
5	Desiderius Erasmus	Humanist philosopher	1536
6	Johan Cruijff	soccer player / coach
7	Adm. Michiel de Ruyter	naval commander who led Dutch forces to victory in Dutch-Anglo wars	1679
8	Ann Frank	Jewish girl who kept a diary as she hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam	1945 FB
9	Rembrandt	Renaissance-era painter	1669
10	Vincent van Gogh	impressionist painter	1890

CANADA"The Greatest Canadian" Official Website 
You can view the whole top 100 here.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Tommy Douglas	socialist party leader, founder of Canadian health care system	1986 FB
2	Terry Fox	Cancer activist who died during an attempted cross-country marathon	1981
3	Pierre Trudeau	left-wing prime minister during 70's and 80's	2000
4	Dr. Frederick Banting	inventor of Insulin	1941
5	David Suzuki	host of nature television show, environmentalist
6	Lester Pearson	prime minister, UN diplomat, founder of modern peacekeeping	1972
7	Don Cherry	television hockey commentator
8	Sir John A. MacDonald	Canada's first prime minister	1891 FB
9	Alexander Graham Bell	purported inventor of the telephone	1922 FB
10	Wayne Gretzky	hockey player

FINLAND"Great Finns" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	C.G.E. Mannerheim	independence leader, military commander-in-chief, president during 40's	1951
2	Risto Ryti	president who led Finland in war against Soviet Union during the 1940's	1956
3	Urho Kekkonen	prime minister and president of Finland who ruled for 30 years (1950-1981)	1986
4	Adolf Ehrnrooth	General who led national forces to victory in Finnish-Soviet wars	2004
5	Tarja Halonen	current (and first female) president
6	Dr. Arvo Ylppö	doctor who helped reduce infant mortality rates	1992
7	Mikael Agricola	founder of written Finnish language, Protestant reformist cleric	1557
8	Jean Sibelius	classical composer	1957
9	Aleksis Kivi	author, playwright, wrote first full-length Finnish novel	1872
10	Elias Lönnrot	poet, author of the Kalevala, Finland's "national epic"	1884

FRANCE"The Greatest Frenchpeople" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Charles DeGaulle	anti-Nazi resistance leader, president during 50's-60's	1970
2	Louis Pasteur	microbiologist, pioneer of germ research	1895
3	Abbé Pierre	catholic priest, anti-poverty activist
4	Marie Curie	radiation researcher	1934 FB
5	Coluche	comedian, anti-poverty / anti-intolerance activist	1986
6	Victor Hugo	author of Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables	1885
7	Bourvil	comedic actor, singer	1970
8	Molière	17th century satirical author, critic	1673
9	Jacques Cousteau	underwater explorer, researcher, TV show host	1997
10	Edith Piaf	singer	1963

CZECH REPUBLIC"Greatest Czechs " Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Emperor Charles the Fourth	Holy Roman Emperor, leader of Bohemian renaissance, founder of Czech state	1378
2	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Czech independence leader, first president of Czechoslovakia	1937
3	Václav Havel	anti-Communist activist, first post-Communist president of Czechoslovakia
4	Jan Ámos Komenský	Protestant bishop, prominent writer, intellectual, and philosopher	1670
5	Jan Žižka	Pro-Hussite general during Bohemian Civil War	1424
6	Jan Werich	author, film director	1980
7	Jan Hus	early Protestant reformist leader, founder of Hussite movement	1415
8	Antonín Dvorák	classical composer	1904
9	Karel Capek	pioneering science fiction author	1938
10	Božena Nemcová	folk author	1862

UNITED STATES"The Greatest American" Official Website
You can check out the names of the top 100 nominees here.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Ronald Reagan	conservative president during 1980's	2004
2	Abraham Lincoln	19th century president who fought to abolish slavery in the American Civil War	1865 X
3	Martin Luther King Jr.	anti-segregation activist	1968 X
4	George Washington	leader of war of independence against Britain, first president of the USA	1799
5	Ben Franklin	founding father, inventor	1790
6	George W. Bush	current president
7	Bill Clinton	liberal president during 1990's
8	Elvis Presley	rock / blues singer	1977
9	Oprah Winfrey	women's talk-show host, self-help author
10	Franklin D. Roosevelt	president during World War II	1945 $

BELGIUM
"The Greatest Belgian" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Father Pater Damien	Catholic missionary who worked with lepers, outcasts	1889
2	Dr. Paul Janssen	medical research pioneer	2003
3	Eddy Merckx	champion cyclist
4	Ambiorix	anti-Roman Belgic tribal leader	?
5	Adolf Daens	Flemish-rights politician and union activist	1907
6	Andreas Vesalius	anatomist, author of first major anatomy text	1564
7	Jacques Brel	singer, actor, director	1978
8	Gerardus Mercator	geographer, inventor of the modern world map	1594
9	Peter Paul Rubens	Renaissance-era painter	1640
10	Hendrik Conscience	author, activist for preserving the Flemish language	1883

AFRICA"Greatest Africans of All Time" Official Website
This was another magazine poll, but I thought it was worth including. 

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Nelson Mandela	South Africa's first black president, anti-apartheid activist
2	Kwame Nkrumah	first president of independent Ghana, Africa's first de-colonized country	1972
3	Robert Mugabe	radical Marxist, anti-white current president of Zimbabwe
4	Julius Nyerere	first president of independent Tanzania	1999
5	Marcus Garvey	Jamaican founder of "back to Africa" nationalist movement	1940
6	Patrice Lumumba	Marxist prime minister of Zaire	1961 X
7	Martin Luther King Jr.	anti-segregation activist in the United States	1968 X
8	Thabo Mbeki	current president of South Africa
9	Malcolm X	radical black-rights/Muslim activist in the United States	1965 X
10	Kofi Annan	(then) current United Nations Secretary-General, originally from Ghana

NEW ZEALAND "New Zealand History Makers" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Dr. Ernest Rutherford	founder of nuclear physics	1937
2	Kate Sheppard	female suffrage activist (NZ was the first country to grant female suffrage)	1934
3	Sir Edmund Hillary	explorer, first man to climb Mt. Everest
4	Charles Upham	heroic World War II soldier	1994
5	Billy T. James	comedian	1991
6	David Lange	liberal prime minister during 1980's	2005
7	Apirana Ngata	Maori rights activist, cabinet minister, member of parliament	1950
8	Dr. Colin Murdoch	inventor of the disposable syringe
9	Roger Douglas	conservative finance minister during 1980's
10	Rua Kenana Hepetipa	founder of Te Wairua Tapu Maori religion, claimed to be brother of Jesus	1937

ROMANIA"Greatest Romanians " Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Prince Stephen the Third	ruler of Moldavia who fought against Ottoman invaders	1504
2	King Carol the First	first king of fully united, independent Romania	1914
3	Mihai Eminescu	poet, conservative political writer	1889
4	Prince Michael the Brave	first monarch to achieve local sovereignty and united rule over the three provinces of Romania	1601
5	Richard Wurmbrand	Lutheran minister, leader of underground Christian movement during Communist era	2001
6	Ion Antonescu	fascist dictator of Romania during World War II	1946
7	Mircea Eliade	nationalist historian of Romanian history and religion	1986
8	Prince Alexander I. Cuza	liberal, reformist ruler of Romania during 19th Century	1873
9	Constantin Brancusi	abstract artist, sculptor	1957
10	Nadia Comaneci	five-time gold medal-winning gymnast

HUNGARY
"Greatest Hungarians" Official Website
Note: The "Greatest Hungarians" contest is still ongoing. There is not yet a top 10. The final results will not be known until 2007 sometime. 

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
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PORTUGAL"Greatest Portuguese" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	António de Oliveira Salazar	longtime right-wing dictator (1933-1968)	1970
2	Álvaro Cunhal	Communist Party leader. Exiled dissident and later post-Salazar cabinet minister	2005
3	Aristides de Sousa Mendes	diplomat who tried to welcome Jewish refugees into Portugal during the Holocaust	1954
4	King Alfonso the First	first King of independent Portugal	1185
5	Luís de Camões	epic poet	1580
6	King John the Second	15th Century king who promoted the second-wave of Portugese exploration and imperialism	1495
7	Henry the Navigator	prince who was influential in financing and promoting Portuguese exploration and colonization of the "New World."	1460
8	Fernando Pessoa	poet	1935
9	The Marquis of Pombal	18th Century prime minister who led government of reform and modernization	1782
10	Vasco da Gama	explorer, first man to sail directly from Europe to India	1524

BULGARIA"Greatest Bulgarians" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Vasil Levski	leader of the armed uprisings against the Ottoman Empire that eventually secured modern Bulgarian independence	1873 X
2	Peter Deunov	philosopher and theologian, founder of the "Esoteric Christianity" movement	1944
3	Czar Asparukh	First ruler of the united Bulgarian Empire	c. 700
4	Czar Simon the First	powerful ruler during golden age of Bulgarian expansion and enlightenment	927
5	Hristo Botev	revolutionary general who died in the battle for independence	1876
6	Czar Boris the First	Bulgaria's first Christian monarch, influential in Christianizing the nation	907
7	Saint Cyril & Saint Methodius	Catholic missionaries / saints influential in spreading Christianity across the Slavic nations	869, 885
8	Stefan Stambolov	nationalist prime minister who led government of growth and modernization in the face of Russian/Ottoman threats	1895 X
9	Ivan Vazov	nationalist poet and novelist	1921
10	Saint Paisius of Hilendar	Renaissance-era patriotic cleric, epic author, and historian	1773

SPAIN
"Greatest Spaniards" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	King Juan Carlos the First	present king, helped lead Spain from dictatorship to democracy.
2	Miguel Cervantes	author and playwright. Wrote Don Quixote.	1616
3	Christopher Columbus	explorer, first European to discover North America	1506
4	Queen Sofia	current queen, wife of Juan Carlos. Philanthropist
5	Adolfo Suarez	first post-Franco president of Spain (1976-1981)
6	Dr. Ramon y Cajal	founder of modern neuroscience	1934
7	Crown Prince Felipe	current crown prince, son of Sofia and Juan Carlos
8	Pablo Picasso	abstract artist	1973
9	Saint Teresa	Patron saint of Spain, Catholic theologian	1582
10	Felipe Gonzalez	socialist president (1982-1996)

ARGENTINA"Greatest Argentines" Official Website

Note: The "Greatest Argentines" list was not ranked 1 to 10, but rather just pitted the final 10 candidates against each other tournament-style to establish a top five, then allowing voters to chose who should be number one.

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	José de San Martín	leader of war of independence against Spain	1850
top 5	Juan Manuel Fangio	Forumal 1 racer	1995
top 5	Dr. Rene Favaloro	creator of bypass surgery, first surgeon to perform the operation	2000
top 5	Che Guevara	Communist revolutionary and architect of Cuban coup. Government minister in Castro regime	1967 X
top 5	Alberto Olmedo	comedian / actor	1988
?	Jorge Luis Borges	poet and author	1986
?	Eva Peron	activist first lady and "power behind the throne" of president Juan Peron (1946-1955)	1952
?	Manuel Belgrano	founding father, independence leader, diplomat	1820
?	Roberto Fontanarrosa	cartoonist	2007
?	Diego Maradona	World Cup soccer star

RUSSIA"Greatest Russians" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Prince Alexander Nevsky	Russian ruler during Middle Ages	1263
2	Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin	prime minister during early 20th Century, presided over period of post-feudal modernization	1911 X
3	Josef Stalin	longtime Communist dictator (1924-1953) during World War II and post-war modernization	1953
4	Alexander Pushkin	poet and author	1837
5	Czar Peter the Great	18th Century Czar, credited with establishing Russia as a major world power	1725
6	Vladimir Lenin	Communist revolutionary and intellectual, founder and first head of state of the Soviet Union	1924
7	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	author	1811
8	Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov	18th Century general who helped secure Russian military dominance of the region	1800
9	Dmitrij Ivanovich Mendeleyev	inventor of the Periodic Table of Elements	1968
10	Ivan the Terrible	16th century ruler, first Czar of united Russian Empire	1907

CHILE
"Greatest Chileans" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Salvador Allende	socialist president during 1970s, overthrown by Augusto Pinochet	1973 X(?)
2	Capt. Arturo Prat	hero of the 19th Century Pacific War against Bolivia and Peru	1879
3	Saint Alberto Hurtado	Jesuit priest	1952
4	Victor Jara	folk singer, tortured and killed under military regime	1973 X
5	Manuel Rodriguez	independence leader	1818
6	Jose Miguel Carrera	independence leader	1821
7	Lautaro	aboriginal leader	1603
8	Gabriela Mistral	poet	1957
9	Pablo Neruda	poet	1973
10	Violeta Parra	singer	1967

GREECE"Greatest Greeks" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Alexander the Great	king of Macedonia, freed Greeks from Persian rule	323
2	Dr. George Papanikolaou	inventor of the "Pap" test for cervical cancer	1962
3	Theodoros Kolokotronis	rebel general in the fight for Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire	1843
4	Konstantinos Karamanlis, Sr.	longtime prime minister and president (1950s through 1990s)	1998
5	Socrates	philosopher	399 BC
6	Aristotle	philosopher	322 BC
7	Eleftherios Venizelos	prime minister during 1910s through 1930s	1936
8	Kapodistrias	first president of independent (post Ottoman) Greece	1831 X
9	Plato	philosopher	347 BC
10	Pericles	reformist leader of Athens	429 BC

UKRAINE
"Greatest Ukrainians" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Prince Yaroslav the Wise	11th Century leader of the Russian Empire	1054
2	Mykola Amosov	pioneering heart surgeon	2002
3	Stepan Bandera	leader of anti-Nazi, anti-Soviet resistance group	1959 X
4	Taras Shevchenko	artist, poet	1861
5	Bohdan Khmelnytsky	Cossack leader who helped liberate the Ukraine from Polish rule	1657
6	Valeri Lobanovsky	USSR national team soccer coach	2002
7	Vyacheslav Chornovil	anti-Communist politician, died mysteriously	1999
8	Hryhorii Skovoroda	poet and composer	1794
9	Lesya Ukrainka	poet and playwright	1913
10	Ivan Franko	poet and author	1916

ISRAEL"Greatest Israelis" Official Website

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Died
1	Yitzhak Rabin	prime minister who championed peace with the Palestinians	1995 FB X
2	David Ben-Gurion	first prime minister of independent Israel	1973 FB
3	Ehud Manor	singer, playwright	2005
4	Menachem Begin	conservative prime minister during 70's and 80's	1992 FB
5	Ilan Ramon	first Israeli astronaut, died in Columbia explosion	2003
6	Naomi Shemer	songwriter, composer	2004
7	Rehavam Ze'evi	far-right ultra-zionist politician	2001 X
8	Ariel Sharon	general, conservative prime minister during 2000's
9	Ezer Weizman	air force general, president (1993-2000)	2004
10	Ninet Tayeb	pop star

OVERALL STATS
"Politician" is by far the most commonly occurring profession on the lists. The United States and Portuguese lists feature the most politicians- seven out of 10. Second is India with six out of 10.
South Africa has the most Nobel Prize winners, with three- all of whom won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Canada and Israel have the most foreign-born, with three.
Bulgaria's list is the most "historical," featuring eight people who died before the year 1900, including four who died before 1000 AD. Greece's features seven who died before 1900, and six who died before 1000 AD.
The least historic is South Africa. Six of their 10 are still alive, with two more having only died within the last three years of the contest.
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EPILOGUE
In 1992 American historian Michael H. Hart wrote a book entitled The 100, which purported to provide "a ranking of the most influential persons in history." I thought it might be interesting to note his top ten picks. Only a couple names appear on the previous lists we've looked at.
Beside each name I've noted the modern-day country we can say these people "came from."

rank	Name	Profession / reputation	Country	Died
1	Muhammad	prophet and founder of the Islamic faith	Saudi Arabia	c.632
2	Sir Isaac Newton	scientist, pioneer of gravity, motion theories	Britain	1727
3	Jesus Christ	prophet and founder of Christianity	Palestine	c. 29 X
4	Gautama Buddha	founder of Buddhism	Nepal	c. 483 BC
5	Confucius	founder of Confucianism	China	c. 479 BC
6	St. Paul of Tarsus	Christian theologian influential in spreading Christianity outside of the Middle East	Turkey	c. 67
7	Tsai Lun	inventor of paper	China	121
8	Johannes Gutenberg	inventor of the printing press	Germany	1468
9	Christopher Columbus	explorer, first European to discover North America	Italy/Spain	1506
10	Albert Einstein	scientist, founder of theory of relativity	Germany	1955

The three countries we've looked at (Spain, England, and Germany) all include "their" people in their respective national tallies.
The three countries we've looked at (Spain, England, and Germany) all include "their" people in their respective national tallies.

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