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Originally Posted by Arbitrageur
6. Tsai Lun (inventor of paper)
9. Columbus
these people are not in my top 100
somebody was going to discover paper, therefore it's unimportant who actually did. It is telling that you had to tell us who he was.
Columbus is famous partially for doing something he didn't do, that has to bump you down a good bit imo.
The imo worst guess in this thread was Bin Laden, followed by hitler.
No one will know hitlers name in 200+ years except history majors, the winners of the wars are famous for over 200 years sometimes, but that is not usually the case for the losers(yes it sometimes happens too). Think of all the genocides that will happen in the future(or better yet don't), the name of their leader will replace hitlers name in the "worst person in the world" category.
Bin laden isn't even in the top 100,000 of all time.
Not picking someone in the last 60 years is almost required in top 10 lists like this, there is just no way to see how much those people changed the future.
Last edited by the orange crush; 02-09-2015 at 01:26 AM.