By Kendo62 

A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by Michael H. Hart, an astrophysicist, alien life researcher and white separatist. It was the first book of Hart, which was reprinted in 1992 with revisions.

It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history. In 1999, he wrote another book entitled A View from the Year 3000, voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history.

Roughly half of those entries are fictional people from 2000–3000, but the remainder are actual people. These were taken mostly from the 1992 edition, with some re-ranking of order. Shown below is his ranking, though, we are going to be listing just the first eight people on the list.

 

8.Johannes Gutenberg(1398-1468)

 

 

Johannes Gensfleisch was a German goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press. His introduction of mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is regarded as a milestone of the second millennium, ushering in the modern period of human history. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-