The Most Influential Person in History.

[cim]

Obviously the smartest of the first thousand or so homo sapiens.

 

[ultimifier]

Gene Simmons from Kiss

This guy did like 4500 women or something.
Gave a lot of people happiness :)

wilt chamberlain claims to have slept with over 10000 woman.

 

[Aura Guardian]

... Atilla the Hun, perhaps. That guy caused the only Y Chromosome in a chunk of Europe to be his, and only his. Atilla certainly has had a major impact on Europe, and we all know a large portion of world history was from European's actions (of course, of late, the US has been hopping in: WWI, WWII, Cold War)

 

[Trax]

On the current world, almost certainly Mao Zedong.

 

[Engineer Pikachu]

On the current world, almost certainly Mao Zedong.

lol, I was just about to go "CHAIRMAN MAO!" when I clicked the link to the second page...

 

[CaptKirby]

The creator of xkcd for making an easy way to get nerd sex you could not obtain before.

 

[Chill Murray]

My vote goes to either Aristotle or Genghis Khan.

Aristotle wins out as far as thought is concern because his way of thinking is still prevalent in today's society, even though Galileo debunked much of his thinking. He preached that all things had an essence natural to them, which is where Christian theology gets its idea of a soul from. If you've ever thought that the reason that something did something was because it was natural for that thing to do so, you've engaged in Aristotelean thinking.

If we're talking about genetic influence, however, I'd go with Genghis Khan. Something like 3% of humans can claim him as a direct ancestor.

 

[eastamazonantidote]

My vote goes to either Aristotle or Genghis Khan.

This is actually kinda creepy. I was going to say the exact same thing and provide the same arguments for the two. However, nobody doesn't know about Julius Caesar.