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"An Ideal World: The Greatest 100"

Here's the basic idea, i want a list of 100 great people that would represent the best of civilization, dead or alive and i want reasons.
I'm looking for a panel to decide who goes on the list, probably around 9-15 people just to vote on who gets added.
So you suggest people
They get added to a list
The panel vote on who to include

The Panel
SHEEPY
Witch-King
Notorious Biggles
Icarus
Trish
Flock
Paradox
Mav
Coin

To Be Judged
Ghengis Khan - Mongol Leader
Aristotle - Philosopher
Charlemagne - First Roman emporer
Homer - Philososper
Alexander Graham Bell - Inventor of the telephone
John Logie Baird
Mahatma Ghandi - Led a peaceful revolution against English rule
Aneurin Bevan - Socialist and founder of the NHS
Martin Luther King - Black civil rights leader
Che Guevara - Leader of cuban revolution against America
Buddha - Founder of Buddhism
George Orwell - Writer
William Shakespeare - Writer
Albert Einstein - Extremely influential and important scientist
The Wright Brothers - Inventors of the aeroplane
Yuri Gagarin - First man in sapce
Matsuo "Basho" Munefusa - Japanese poet
Galileo Galilie - Astronomer and physicist
Pele - Footballer
Elvis Presley - Entertainer
Sir Isaac Newton - The father of science
Sir James Young Simpson - Physician and creator of anaethetic
Sir Walter Raleigh - Explorer and Poet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Writer
Sir Charles Babbage - Mathmetician and creator of the computer calculator
Sir Steve Redgrave - Multi-Olympic gold winning rower
Ada Lovelace - Founder of scientific computing
Alan Turing - Founder of computer science
Leonardo Da Vinci - Artist and inventor
Jack Nicholson - Entertainer
Viscount Montgomery - War-time army commander
Alexander The Great - Great soldier and leader
John Carmack - Computer games programmer
Wilhelm Steinitz - World chess champion
Tim Berners-Lee
Bill Gates - Owner of Microsoft
Ian Callum - Director of Design at Jaguar
Abraham Lincoln - President of America
Plato - Philosopher
Walt Disney - Creator of Disney entertainments
Thomas Edison - Prolific inventor
Shigeru Miyamoto - Computer games creator
Pete Sampras - Tennis player
Steve Jobs - CEO of Apple
Charles Darwin - Explorer, Naturist, Scientist, Writer
Ozzy Osbourne - Entertainer
Yuji Naka - Creator of Sonic the Hedgehog
Will Wright - Creator of The Sims
Rowan Atkinson - Comedian and actor
Voltaire - French writer and Philosopher
Etsujin - Poet and painter
Jimi Hendrix - Guitarist and poet
Kobayashi Issa - Poet
Philip K Dick
Steven Hawking
Ray Mears
Bill Hicks - Comedian
Edgar Allan Poe - Poet
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Composer
Johann Bach - Composer
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Composer
Edward Elgar - Composer
Wolfgang Mozart - Composer
Pablo Picasso - Artist
George Lucas - Director/Writer
Steven Spielburg - Director/Writer
Tim Burton - Director/Writer
Stan Lee - Founder of Marvel Comics
Henry Ford - Founder of the Ford car factory
Winston Churchill - War-time prime minister
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Engineer
Bob Geldof - Singer, Writer, Entertainer, charity worker
Freddie Mercury - Singer, Writer, Entertainer
Florence Nightingale - Nurse
J.R.R Tolkien - Writer
William Wallace - Warrior and leader
Jacques Cousteau - Naturist
The current Dalai Lama - Spiritual leader
Donald Trump - Billionaire businessman
Robert Stevenson -
Bruce Lee - Actor, philosopher
Muhammad Ali - Boxer
Charlie Chaplin - Actor
Marilyn Monroe - Actress, model, icon
Mother Teresa - Nurse, carer, modern day Florence Nightingale
Bob Dylan - Singer, actor, poet
David Livingston - Explorer
Alexander Fleming -
Christopher Columbus - Explorer
Atilla the Hun -
Hannibal -
Salvador Dali
Jean Jaques Rousseau
Neil Armstrong
John Cleese
Michael Palin
Julius Caesar
Peter Kay
V.I. Lenin
Paul McCartney
Audrey Hepburn
Stevie Wonder
Tanni Grey-thompson
Jane Tomlinson
Roald Dahl
Louis Braille
Louis Pastuer
Joan Of Arc
Charles Dickens
Lord Byron
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Henry VIII
Mary Shelley
Bill Clinton
Leonard Bernstein
Michael Schumacher
Queen Victoria
Bob Marley
Napoleon
John Thaw
Michael Faraday
Marie Curie
Emmelline Pankhurst
Malcolm X
Hippocrates
Edward Jenner
Howard Florey
Ernest Chain
Alexander Fleming
Ranulph Phiennes
Ann Frank
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Thom Yorke
Dylan Thomas
Richard III
Galen
Tom Morello
Gerard Mitchell
Mark Hutchinson
Ben Hudson
William Wallace



The Greatest 100
Jesus Christ - Voted in favour by 5 to 4
Karl Marx - Voted in favour by 5 to 4
Vincent Van Gogh - Voted in favour by 6 to 3
John Lennon - Voted in favour by 6 to 3
Sigmund Freud - Voted in favour by 8 to 1
Nelson Mandela - Voted in favour by 7 to 2

Rejected
David Beckham - Voted against by 8 to 1
Guy Fawkes - Voted against by 9 to 0
Adolf Hitler - Voted against by 8 to 1
Adam Smith - Voted against by 5 to 4

I'd like to be on the panel.

Mav wrote:
> Please don't use that ten.

Everyone on that list is going to be judged, i picked these 10 because i felt they were arguable.

Mav wrote:
> Woah woah woah - get the shortlist done first (or rather, very long
> list).

I could have this list open for 2 months and people would still be coming up with new people to add to it, Ann Frank the one i just thought of for example.


> Then everyone(How many people use this forum ?) can vote for their top ten then, from that, find the
> top 100 with the most votes but have the final ten open for debate.
> You can assign forum personalities different people, maybe, Great
> Britons style.
>
> Then a final vote for the best one.

It's a lot of work to be counting that ammount of votes all at once, which is why i've got the panel, you know there are a lot of people on here who haven't got a clue about the large majority and will vote for Nelson Mandela without having a clue about his past or knowing Einstein was important in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, i've got a select group and i'm trusting them to pick the right people.
As for finding the greatest person at the end, that does interest me although asking people to argue would pushing my luck, i'm thinking about it.

Please don't use that ten.

Ralph Fiennes. Don't know if he's on there, but the guy ran seven marathons in seven days after a heart bypass.

He's one of the most physically fit people ever.

Flock wrote:
> lcarus wrote:
> Well if it's just those ten, I'll have to say none of them.
>
> For the moment it's just those ten, i picked them specifically
> because all of them could be argued for and against.

Yup, I have explanations for all ten. I'll refrain from them though unless required. Saves time that way.

Woah woah woah - get the shortlist done first (or rather, very long list).

Then everyone can vote for their top ten then, from that, find the top 100 with the most votes but have the final ten open for debate. You can assign forum personalities different people, maybe, Great Britons style.

Then a final vote for the best one.

I'll update the list tonight otherwise i'm doing it constantly everytime someone adds a new name.

Mav wrote:
> Winston Churchill - On there
> Isengard Brunel - On there
> Thomas Edison - On there
> Richard III - Not on there

lcarus wrote:
> Well if it's just those ten, I'll have to say none of them.

For the moment it's just those ten, i picked them specifically because all of them could be argued for and against.