These individual people have made a impact to our world. Some good and some bad. But these specific list is mostly good.
1. Bill Hicks
- Comedian, stand up and more.
- Genres: dark comedy, political satire, observational comedy
- Subject(s) American culture, American politics, current events, pop culture, human sexuality, philosophy, religion, spiritualllity, recreation drug use, emtheogens, conspiracy theories, consumerism.
- Voted sixth on Britain’s Channel 4 list of the 100 Greastest stand-up comic, and rose to number four on the 2010 list.
- Tool contains some of Hicks comedy samples in there songs and some of there lyrics were from some of Bills materials and ides.
- Inspired Joe Rogan, Dave Attell, lwis Black, Patton Oswalt, Russel Brand, Ron White and much more.
2. Micheal Moore
- Director, producer, writer, author, journalist, political activist, actor.
- Must watch doco called Where to invade next.
- Writer of 8 books.
- Supporter of Occupy wall street.
- Appeared in many music videos.
- After high school he created The Michigan Voice, a newspaper.
3. Socrates
- Notable ideas: Socratic method, Socratic irony.
- Was skilled in masonary and sculpting before being a philosopher.
- Served as a citizen soilder.
- Main interests were ethics and epistemology.
4. George Orwell
- Novelist, political writter and journalist.
- Creator of the books Animal farm, 1984 and much more.
5. Joe Rogan
- Podcast host, television host, stand up comedian and actor.
- Also a UFC commentator.
- Has a black belt in Brazillian jiu-jetsu.
- Won MMA personality of the year four times.
6. George Carlin
- Stand-up, television, flim, books, radio, social critic.
- Character comedy, observational comedy, word play, satire, political satire, black comedy, surreal humor, sarcasm, blue comedy
- Died of heart failure.
- Subjects he spoke on include american culture, everyday life, religion, politics, sports, death, recreation drug use, pop culture, nationlism and so much more.
- Created content since the sixtys.
- Written over seven books.
7. Plato
- Philosophier.
- Main interests include rhetoric, art, literature, justice, virtue, politics, education, family, freindship, love and more.
- Notable ideas such as Theory of forms, Platonic idealism, platonic realism, plato’s tripartile theory of the soul, hyperuranion, metaxy, theia mania, agathos kai sophos.
- Had unwritten doctrines.
8. Charles Darwin
- Known for survivial of the fittest,evolution by natural selection, the voyage of the beagie on the origin of species, common decent and more.
- Notable awards FRS (1839), Royal medal (1853), Wollaston medal (1859) and the Copley medal (1864).
- Had ten childred in his life.
- Naturalist, biologist, geologist, author and medical student.
9. Bernie Sanders
- United states senator and hopefully the next presdent of America.
- He thoughts on issues are income and wealth inequality, universal education, getting money out of politics and restoring democracy, a living wage, combating climate change, affordable housing, medicare for all and so much more.
10. Jacob Rothschild
- Known for Rothchild banking family of England.
- Part of the wealthiest family in human history.
- The rothschild family are behind the Suez Canal and the country of Brazil.
- Perharps the most popular conspiracy theory regarding the missing Malaysian plane MH370 is the Jacob Rothschild is behind it, so that he could profit by being the sole owner of a patent.
11. Woody Harrison
- Actor, activist, director, playwright.
- Won many awards for his acting and has been in movies and tv shows since the mid eighties.
- Appeared in many innteresting documentarys.
12. Elon Musk
- Enginneer, inventor, and investor.
- Companys his appart off Space x, Tesla motors, solarcity, OpenAI, co founder of paypal
- Wants to change the world and humanity.
- Wants to reduce global warming through sustainable energy.
- As of June 2016, he has an estimated net worth of US$12.7 billion.
- He has envisioned a high speed transportation known as the hyper look and a desing for a supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the musk electric jet.
- Musk is a trustee of the X Price Foundation and a signatory of The Giving People
- Musk was the 2012 recipent of Smithsonian magizine;s American ingenuity Award in the Technology category.
13. Karl Marx
- Creator of Communism.
- Main interests are Politics, economics, philosophy, sociology, labour, history, class, struggle and natural resources.
- Known for surplus value, contributions to the labour theory of value, class struggle, aleination and exploitation of the worker, materialist conception of history.
14. Isaac Newton
- Known for Newtonian mechanics, universal gravitation, calculus, Newton’s laws of motion, optics, binomial series, principia, Newton’s method.
- Knowledge of physics, natural philosophy, mathmatics, astronomy, alchemy and economics.
- Notable awards FRS (1672)
- Learnt the thoery of gravity when a apple droped on his head, when he was under a tree.
15. Serj Tankian
- Singer, artist, activist, poet, producer, song writer, musician.
- Mutiple albums and contributions to music.
- Can play vocalally, piano, keyboards, sampler theremin, guitar, bass, violin, drums, harmonica and much more.
- Assoiated acts are the F.C.C, Serart, scars of broadway, detones, tool and much more.
- Won at the grammy awards four times with the band system of a down.
- Has his own record label called Serjical strike records.
- Has created a complete Jazz and classical ablum.
16. Nikola Tesla
- Known for Induction motor, roatating field, tesla coil and radio remote control vehicle.
- Signigicant awards he won were Elliott cresson medal (1894), Order of prince Danilo (1895), Edison medal (1916) and many more.
- Tesla claimed to never sleep more then two hours. But later admited to “dozing” from time to time.
- Tesla motors the car manufacturer was inspired by the man.
- There is a life size statue of him in california that has a time capsule that is to be open on the 100th anniversay of Tesla’s death. It also creates free wifi for all.
17. Russel Brand
- Comedian, podcast host, author.
- Genres comedy he does are observational comedy, black comedy, blue comedy and improvisational comedy.
- He was influnced by Bill hicks, Richard pryor, Tenacious d, Eddie murphy, Monty python and many more.
- Has a youtube series called The Trews.
- Done voice acting in many animated movies.
- Was married to Katy Perry.
- Written many books about his life and on issues of political and cultural issues.
18. Edward Snowden
- Known for revealing details of classified united states government survelliance programs.
- Some call him a hero orthers call him a traitor.
19. Peter Joseph
- Flimaker, activist, musician and author.
- Founder of the zeitgeist movement.
- Directed the music video “God is dead?” by Black sabbath.
- Creator of a youtube series called Culture in decline.
- Son of a social worker.
20. Carl Sagan
- Fields of knowledge include Astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, astrobiology, space science, planatary science and more.
- Known for Search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI), Cosmos: apersonal voyage, voyager golden record, pioneer plaque, the dragons of eden, contact, pale blue dot.
- Notable awards include non-fiction (1978), Oersted medal (1990) and much more.
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