List your nations 10 most important figures

[Gillipig]

Here are mine:
1. Gustav Vasa
2. Charles XII of Sweden
3. Carl von Linné or "Carl Linnaeus" as he's called internationally.
4. Alfred Nobel
5. Olof Palme
6. Ingmar Bergman
7. August Strindberg
8. Astrid Lindgren
9. Ingemar Johansson (Sorry Björn Borg but he's the greatest swedish athlete ever!)
10. Selma Lagerlöf

[Timminz]

1. Tommy Douglas
2. Terry Fox
3. Pierre Trudeau
4. Sir Frederick Banting
5. David Suzuki
6. Lester B. Pearson
7. Don Cherry
8. Sir John A. MacDonald
9. Alexander Graham Bell
10. Wayne Gretzky


* taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Canadian

[Gillipig]

1. Tommy Douglas
2. Terry Fox
3. Pierre Trudeau
4. Sir Frederick Banting
5. David Suzuki
6. Lester B. Pearson
7. Don Cherry
8. Sir John A. MacDonald
9. Alexander Graham Bell
10. Wayne Gretzky


* taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Canadian

And you agree?
Don Cherry ahead of Gretzky? And ahead of Bell? Haha I wonder who's had the lagest influence on the world.

[DiM]

there's no objective way of creating such a top.
in 2006 there was a national poll and a tv programme to decide the greatest 100 romanians of all time.

100 Greatest Romanians

to be honest i don't agree with many things in that top, but then you have to realise most people are idiots and they are more likely to vote for an athlete or a pop star than they are to vote for a great scientist.

as for Timminz's post, just be glad justin bieber is not in that top 10

[saxitoxin]

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[Phatscotty]

Fine...

[Symmetry]

Huh, I'd have placed money on Reagan and Washington featuring somewhere on PS's list. I would have lost. Still, I would have made money on a bet that he'd spam the thread with pictures and have difficultly counting.

[Phatscotty]

Huh, I'd have placed money on Reagan and Washington featuring somewhere on PS's list. I would have lost. Still, I would have made money on a bet that he'd spam the thread with pictures and have difficultly counting.

I listed my nations top 10. it's not spam you freak. At least you admit you are wrong

I can count fine. Perhaps you are having difficulty understanding what an honorable mention is.

[Symmetry]

Huh, I'd have placed money on Reagan and Washington featuring somewhere on PS's list. I would have lost. Still, I would have made money on a bet that he'd spam the thread with pictures and have difficultly counting.

I listed my nations top 10. it's not spam you freak. At least you admit you are wrong

I can count fine. Perhaps you are having difficulty understanding what an honorable mention is.

Perhaps you have difficulty counting how often Bobby Jindal is on your list. Hopefully you'll have corrected your error. Still, more important than George Washington?

[saxitoxin]

Ron Paul

Paul Ryan

Allen West

Rand Paul

Eric Cantor

Marco Rubio

Jason Chaffetz

Justin Amash

Bobby Jindal

Michelle Bachmann

Bobby Jindal

Now we know who is responsible for all the vandalisms that have been occurring ...

[thenobodies80]

1. Leonardo da Vinci (simply the best)
2. Dante Alighieri
3. Giulio Cesare
4. Michelangelo Buonarroti
5. Galileo Galilei
6. Alessandro Volta
7. Cristoforo Colombo (a lucky guy )
8. Camillo Benso
9. Giacomo Leopardi
10. Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino (Italian magistrates that worked together, both killed by Sicilian Mafia in the summer of 1992)

[DiM]

1. Leonardo da Vinci (simply the best)
2. Dante Alighieri
3. Giulio Cesare
4. Michelangelo Buonarroti
5. Galileo Galilei
6. Alessandro Volta
7. Cristoforo Colombo (a lucky guy )
8. Camillo Benso
9. Giacomo Leopardi
10. Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino (Italian magistrates that worked together, both killed by Sicilian Mafia in the summer of 1992)

how about marco polo and amerigo vespucci?
also i find it odd that you selected camillo cavour instead of vittorio emanuele or garibaldi.


PS: i heard silvio berlusconi throws some wicked parties, doesn't that earn him a spot?

[Phatscotty]

Ron Paul

Paul Ryan

Allen West

Rand Paul

Eric Cantor

Marco Rubio

Jason Chaffetz

Justin Amash

Bobby Jindal

Michelle Bachmann

Bobby Jindal

Now we know who is responsible for all the vandalisms that have been occurring ...

Pardon me for going with a list of the living, but not for throwin the curve ball

[Timminz]

Some people go with actual track records; others, with personal expectations for the future.



"Gaze into my crystal ball..."

[nietzsche]

If you guys use adblock, you can block the images, I did and I'm very happy about it

[Phatscotty]

If you guys use adblock, you can block the images, I did and I'm very happy about it

you missed out on an awesome Sax-attack

[Haggis_McMutton]

Exhibit 432 of scotty using apparently innocuous threads to push his political agenda.

HAS HE NO SHAME ???

P.S. I'm gonna give another americans a couple more shots at this. There's one american figure that should definitely be on this list, but that most people have probably not even heard about. (though I mentioned this a while ago on CC, so maybe someone remembers what I'm talking about). Also, juan, no spoilers. I think you know who I'm talking about.

[nietzsche]

If you guys use adblock, you can block the images, I did and I'm very happy about it

you missed out on an awesome Sax-attack

Oh no, I only blocked yours

[Phatscotty]

If you guys use adblock, you can block the images, I did and I'm very happy about it

you missed out on an awesome Sax-attack

Oh no, I only blocked yours

[saxitoxin]

Exhibit 432 of scotty using apparently innocuous threads to push his political agenda.

HAS HE NO SHAME ???

P.S. I'm gonna give another americans a couple more shots at this. There's one american figure that should definitely be on this list

I know who you're talking about but it's an urban legend. Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem, Palestine, not at the NASCAR track outside Enterprise, Alabama.

[Symmetry]

Exhibit 432 of scotty using apparently innocuous threads to push his political agenda.

HAS HE NO SHAME ???

P.S. I'm gonna give another americans a couple more shots at this. There's one american figure that should definitely be on this list

I know who you're talking about but it's an urban legend. Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem, Palestine, not at the NASCAR track outside Enterprise, Alabama.

Are you saying that Palestine was a nation when Jesus was born? Some of our more right wing posters in this forum might object to that.

[Army of GOD]

top 10 off the top of my head (in no particular order):

Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Luther King, Jr.
Teddy Roose
Franlkin
Ali
Bill Gates
John Adams
Einstein (does he count? Do they have to be American-born?)

The problem is that those who helped form the US have a disproportionate advantage. I tried spreading to love though to people like Ali, Gates and Einstein (though that's probably more of a bias).

[Phatscotty]

Exhibit 432 of scotty using apparently innocuous threads to push his political agenda.

HAS HE NO SHAME ???

P.S. I'm gonna give another americans a couple more shots at this. There's one american figure that should definitely be on this list, but that most people have probably not even heard about. (though I mentioned this a while ago on CC, so maybe someone remembers what I'm talking about). Also, juan, no spoilers. I think you know who I'm talking about.

They are the 10 most important. It's totally on topic. calm the F down

You will see

[saxitoxin]

If the standard of important is who has had the most impact on human civilization, I would name the following the USA's 10 most important figures, over Scott's list -

USA

1. Thomas Edison
for inventing the motion picture camera, phonograph and usable electric light bulb
2. Robert Oppenheimer
for the atom bomb
3. George Washington
for serving as Chairman of the U.S. Constitutional Convention (since the U.S. constitution is/was the model for most of the constitutions of the western hemisphere)
4. Benjamin Franklin
for discovering the principle of conservation of charge
5. Neil Armstrong
for being the first man on the moon
6. Wilbur Wright
for inventing the airplane
7. Louis Armstrong
for popularizing jazz
8. Theodore Roosevelt
for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War and various military and zoological achievements
9. Ernest Hemingway
for contributions to English literature
10. Jonas Salk
for the polio vaccine

I would name Germany's --

GERMANY

1. Karl Marx
for founding Marxism
2. Friedrich Nietzsche
for contributions to philosophy
3. Friedrich Engels
for founding Marxism
4. Ernst Thälmann
for peace activism
5. Walter Ulbricht
for peace activism
6. Max Planck
for quantum theory
7. Johann Goethe
for contributions to German literature
8. Immanuel Kant
for contributions to philosophy
9. Ferdinand Zeppelin
for inventing the rigid airship
10. Sigmund Jähn
for achievements in space flight

[Army of GOD]

If the standard of important is who has had the most impact on human civilization, I would name the following the USA's 10 most important figures, over Scott's list -

USA

1. Thomas Edison
for inventing the motion picture camera, phonograph and usable electric light bulb
2. Robert Oppenheimer
for the atom bomb
3. George Washington
for serving as Chairman of the U.S. Constitutional Convention (since the U.S. constitution is/was the model for most of the constitutions of the western hemisphere)
4. Benjamin Franklin
for discovering the principle of conservation of charge
5. Neil Armstrong
for being the first man on the moon
6. Wilbur Wright
for inventing the airplane
7. Louis Armstrong
for popularizing jazz
8. Theodore Roosevelt
for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War and various military and zoological achievements
9. Ernest Hemingway
for contributions to English literature
10. Jonas Salk
for the polio vaccine

I was thinking about going with Edison too, but figured the Tesla-boner-getters would be on my ass.

also, I was actually considering Armstrong too for a second.