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Rank	Name	Time Frame	Occupation	Influence
1	Muhammad	c. 570–632	Spiritual and political Leader	Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of the world religion of Islam.
2	Isaac Newton	1643–1727	Scientist	English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion laid the groundwork for classical mechanics.
3	Jesus	4 BC–33 AD	Spiritual leader	The central figure of Christianity, revered by Christians as the Son of God and the incarnation of God. Also regarded as a major prophet in Islam.
4	Buddha (Siddartha Gautama)	563–483 BC	Spiritual leader	Spiritual teacher and philosopher from ancient India born in Nepal. Founder of Buddhism. Popularly known as the Light of Asia.
5	Confucius	551–479 BC	Philosopher	Chinese thinker and social philosopher, founder of Confucianism, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Indonesian thought and life.
6	Paul of Tarsus	5–67 AD	Christian apostle	One of the most notable of early Christian missionaries, credited with proselytizing and spreading Christianity outside of Palestine (mainly to the Romans) and author of numerous letters of the New Testament of the Bible.
7	Cài Lún	50–121 AD	Political official in imperial China	Widely regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process.
8	Johannes Gutenberg	1398–1468	Inventor	German printer who invented the European mechanical printing press.
9	Christopher Columbus	1451–1506	Explorer	Italian navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages led to general European awareness of the American continents.
10	Albert Einstein	1879–1955	Scientist	German-born theoretical physicist, best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc².