The greatest person who ever lived

Nana Mouskouri

Dolly Parton

The greatest person who ever lived was a faggot!

Gutenberg.

Me!

Buddha

Among the greatest, after me:

William Shakespeare

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Socrates

Mahatma Gandhi

Duh.

Lá Sènatrice

Karine Jean Pierre

Christine Baranski

Helen Lawson

The answer to this is always "your mother" unless, of course, you resent being born.

Depends on what "greatest" means.

A religious leader? A great scientist? A conqueror of civilizations? A phenomenal athlete? An inventor, a composer, an artist, a politician,1 a military figure, a saint?

For me, the names Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister spring to mind.

Hunter Biden

Beau Biden

You didn't know my mother, R13. While I am grateful she carried and birthed me, she was a WASP, and they don't do anything maternal after that.

Vivian Vance

The Nazarene

(Jumps into a fox hole for the barrage incoming)

If he were proved to be real, r19, I'd agree with you.

Another vote for Viv

My Nana. Made the world’s best fudge

West - Caesar Augustus

East - Qin Shi Huang

Not sure about Africa, the Americas, or Australia

Adolph Hitler.

The one who discovered antibiotics - Google says it was Alexander Fleming.

Though the one who discovered you should wash your hands before operating on someone - Lister? - him too, if that was him. Many people have been killed by dirty hands on surgeons, midwives, etc.

Shelley Hack

Jill Zarin

Lina, my Irish father’s next door neighbor. She taught him how to grow tomatoes 🍅 and how to cook Italian when he was a teenager, during the Depression.

George Jetson

Mr. Kraft, inventor of the world's most perfect food 😛

The discoverer of hand washing was Ignatz Sammelweis. He was drummed out of the medical profession as a heretic and died in an asylum.

Lincoln

Not Greg.

Charles Darwin?

Could greatest also mean the most fabulous? I guess I would say either Da Vinci or Charo.

Helen Lawson

Albert Einstein

Michelangelo

Pasteur

Alexander the Great

Louise Glück

MY DADDY!!!!1!1!1!1!!

Jim French, Roy Dean, Lou Thomas, Norbert Jobst, Pat Dallas

---photographers of nude men in the 70s.

Genghis Khan

Abraham Lincoln

R31 - sad. Shows how insane the masses can be over a new scientific idea that conflicts with their folkways.

Anyhow, soon after Sammelweise, Florence Nightingale introduced hand washing before tending wounds of soldiers in the Crimean War.

Nice to have a female hero - well, heroine - or herox? Anyway, wiki says:

Nightingale was a prodigious and versatile writer. In her lifetime, much of her published work was concerned with spreading medical knowledge. Some of her tracts were written in simple English so that they could easily be understood by those with poor literary skills. She was also a pioneer in data visualization with the use of infographics, using graphical presentations of statistical data in an effective way.

At least they didn't stick her in an asylum.

Another vapid post: you cannot rank or compare Picasso to Einstein to Churchill or Lincoln or MLK or Mandela; or to women ER, BJ King, Curie. The context for each is very different.

I loved and respected my grandparents on my mothers side. They were born in the 1911 or so in Liverpool U.K. They lived and suffered through two wars and a couple of depressions. They went through hungry times and saw plenty of contemporaries suffer and meet their ends. They were quite poor and poor people died of stupid stuff like appendicitis back then. A bunch of his relatives went very young for dumb reasons. My grand mother worked in a bomb factory making triggers. Grandad joined the RAF to become a parachute packer as he called himself in the battle with Germany. He packed the airplanes with bombs and bullets before they left for the continent. He was never proud of this. So strangely living through all this back then gave them a certain peace in there souls that i regard as a sign of greatness just for surviving.

R44 Oh Rose, you're so stuck up.

What a stupid thread. Clearly it’s Beyoncé.

Maybe not the greatest, but the largest, Kim Kardashian's ass, especially in a Marilyn Monroe knockoff.

r44, had her sense of humor removed from the meanest person who ever lived 😠

MLK Jr. was a womanizer and Gandhi was a racist.

Muriel.

Trump

Trump troll

Another vote for Gutenberg.

Slim Whitman

Kristin Davis

Julianna Moore, seriously.

Santa Claus

Rafael Nadal, Thomas Jefferson, Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur, Galileo.

Personally? My great grandfather who helped build the Hoover Dam during the Depression. Started his own bulldozing business after and made a small fortune. I adored him as a child and he taught me all about FDR and why being a liberal was the only way to be. He also taught me to love traveling. He had this fancy globe that he'd let me spin. Where ever my finger landed when it stopped spinning? He'd tell me all about the far off place, what to see if I ever made it there, and how, if I worked hard, that could happen. He was truly magical.

When I was about five my father split. My mother, a part time seamstress, couldn't afford to pay our rent. Grandpa swooped in a bought us a house, saving us from homelessness. He lived to be almost 100 and will never forget him. I was grateful for him until his last breath and was in the room when he passed. It was honor to be there.

He was just pure joy, hard work, humor and love.

This guy...

I think we all know Donald Trump's answer, right?

Timotay

Anne Murray

Is this even a question?? Martha Stewart. She can do ANYTHING up to and including prison. And come out in a handmade prison shawl and perfect hair and make everyone want to learn to crochet in the process.

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer is the greatest man that ever lived.

"Is this even a question?? Martha Stewart. She can do ANYTHING"

Except dress properly for a funeral 🙄

Fred Rogers

Harvey Weinstein

Jimmy Glick

Benjamin Franklin

Ugh that's Jiminy at R69. Stupid autocorrect!

JOEY STEFANO

r59 Thomas Jefferson? Really? A slave owner!

I'll vote for the 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher Diagoras, known as the "first atheist"

I got to be in at least the top 10.

The person who is currently pounding my ass.

Voltaire

This was on PBS or A&E or some channel in the 1990's. I think it was The Most Influential person. We were watching the last part of it. My mom said Issac Newton, I said Martin Luther, and my brother said Guttenberg. (Brother and I were in our 20's, so not dumb dumbs). They ended up being the top three. I believe Guttenberg was number one. It was also very telling of our true personalities. My mother is a scientist, I like to tell people when they're wrong, and my brother wants (or did then) equality and dignity for the world. So there you go.

(I may have guessed Shakespeare first but he was number five. We hadn't seen the whole show so we weren't eliminating guesses from earlier. I will always be proud that we nailed it down like that, as a group.)

R78 Gutenberg was my guess too when I watched it. He was number one on the list.

Angela Lansbury

[Quote]My mom said Issac Newton, I said Martin Luther, and my brother said Guttenberg.

Your brother is right, R78.

Sorry, I should have looked up the spelling.

Einstein - in addition to his scientific achievements, he was an anti-racist and taught at Lincoln University.

R70- Bonnie Franklin

I second R60!

R7 MLK was a very eloquent speaker. Also a desperate pussy hound. Not a great man.

R86- The public could tolerate that. The public would NOT tolerate his being a COCK hound.

R86 That's quite true. Although personally a cock hound is someone I could get behind.

Hey guys! Forgetting someone?

Jesus.

Greatest by weight and volume.

Walter Mercado

Zara Cully

Marie Curie is my lifelong heroine, I’ve even been to her grave in the Panthéon.

Gutenberg may not have intended to be great or to change the world, but it's really hard to argue that others were more important. He gave us knowledge. He was like Prometheus.

Al Gore, inventor of the internet.

Me, of course.

Jesus!

Brendad

R98 You love your gardener that much huh?

Armie Hammer

Nikola Tesla

This depends on how you define "great."

Sondra Prill

Stop posting Jesus. There is no proof he existed. The same goes for Buddha.

Jesus Christ

R103, See r14. 🙂

[quote]MLK was a very eloquent speaker. Also a desperate pussy hound. Not a great man.

So was JFK - and Bertrand Russell and I think Byron? People don't seem to hold it against the "great"

^ Behind every great man there's some awesome sex stories 😉

Jesus Christ. My best friend. My now deceased dog.

An “awesome sex story” from the link about MLK at R50 for you, R109.

“The most damaging memos describe King witnessing a rape in a hotel room. Instead of stopping it, handwritten notes in the file say he encouraged the attacker to continue.”

Miss Liza Minnelli

Could Alexander The Great do this through a haze of pills and booze?

Sinatra. It was his world and we were just living in it.

Are you a relation to Frank?

If you like sociopaths, R113.

Anyone who’ll give me a billion dollars!

Winston Churchill

R111, but it wasn't rape, rape...

R116, I'll settle for about $10 million.

^ I'll look at Elon Musk for $250K and a pony 😉

Charlemagne

It is an honor just to be nominated.

Madonna

Liza in her prime was magnificent. I saw her in person when she toured with Sinatra. And I saw Frank Sinatra one other time as a solo. I was very fortunate, and I wish I had truly appreciated them as much as I would right now.

Lola Falana

Miss McTurtle, Miss Cancun Rafael, and Miss Lindzebelle.

Donald J Trump.

^^^^

I don't know who the greatest is, but Carl Sagan and Mr. Rogers are way up there.

A lot of people are saying Donald Trump.