Life Magazine's "The 100 People Who Made the Millennium"

Listed in the order of importance, from most important to 100th most important, in the opinion of Life's editors.

The links will take you to a site on the Web about the person named
(not to Life Magazine's synopses).

� Thomas Edison � Christopher Columbus � Martin Luther � Galileo Galilei � Leonardo da Vinci � Isaac Newton � Ferdinand Magellan � Louis Pasteur � Charles Darwin � Thomas Jefferson � William Shakespeare � Napoleon Bonaparte � Adolf Hitler � Zheng He � Henry Ford � Sigmund Freud � Karl Marx � Nicolaus Copernicus � Orville and Wilbur Wright � Albert Einstein � Mohandas Gandhi � Kublai Khan � James Madison � Simon Bolivar � Mary Wollstonecraft � Guglielmo Marconi � Mao Zedong � Vladimir Lenin � Martin Luther King, Jr. � Alexander Graham Bell � Rene Descartes � Ludwig van Beethoven � St. Thomas Aquinas � Abraham Lincoln � Michelangelo � Vasco da Gama � Suleyman the Magnificent � Samuel F.B. Morse � John Calvin � Florence Nightingale � Hernan Cortes � Joseph Lister � Ibn Battuta � Zhu Xi � Gregor Mendel � John Locke � Akbar � Marco Polo � Dante Alighiere � John D. Rockefeller � Jean-Jacques Rousseau � Niels Bohr � Joan of Arc � Frederick Douglass � Louis XIV � Nikola Tesla � Immanuel Kant � Fan Kuan � Otto von Bismarck � William the Conqueror � Guido of Arezzo � John Harrison � Pope Innocent III � Hiram Maxim � Jane Addams � Cao Xueqin � Matteo Ricci � Louis Armstrong � Michael Faraday � Ibn-Sina � Simone de Beauvoir � Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi � Adam Smith � Marie Curie � Andrea Palladio � Peter the Great � Pablo Picasso � Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre � Antoine Laurent Lavoisier � Phineas T. Barnum � Edwin Hubble � Susan B. Anthony � Raphael � Helen Keller � Hokusai � Theodor Herzl � Queen Elizabeth I � Claudio Monteverdi � Walt Disney � Nelson Mandela � Roger Bannister � Leo Tolstoy � John von Neumann � Santiago Ramon y Cajal � Jacques Cousteau � Catherine de Medicis � Ibn-Khaldun � Kwame Nkruma � Carolus Linnaeus