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The Greatest Minds of All Time

List of the Greatest Minds of All Time, throughout history. This list represents the most influential thinkers across various disciplines, ranked in a way that represents the power of their ideas and their impact on the world. The wisest men and women include top philosophers, physicists, famous poets, thinkers, teachers, physiologists, artists, inventors, engineers, the most irreplaceable CEOs in the world, economists and politicians and those whose talents span across many fields of study. This list takes a historic perspective, so the greatest thinkers who are included on this list come from many different eras. The greatest minds of the 21st century may be quite different from great geniuses from the distant past, but each person should be judged within the context of the time that they were living. For example, inventing a new type of telephone in 2013 would not qualify one as "the most brilliant mind of all time," but in 1876 when Alexander Graham Bell first patented the telephone, it was an act of genius not seen before. See Also: The Most Influential People of All Time.

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Nikola Tesla
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Albert Einstein
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Isaac Newton
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Galileo Galilei
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Aristotle
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Archimedes
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Socrates
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Plato
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Pythagoras
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Euclid
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Alan Turing
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Michelangelo
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Michael Faraday
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Max Planck
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Johannes Kepler
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Marie Curie
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Blaise Pascal
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Niels Bohr
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Enrico Fermi
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Hippocrates
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Leonhard Euler
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Edwin Hubble
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Benjamin Franklin
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Werner Heisenberg
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Alexander Fleming
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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René Descartes
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Marcus Aurelius
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Stephen Hawking
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Richard Feynman
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Charles Darwin
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Erwin Schrödinger
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James Watt
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Confucius
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Sun Tzu
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Wright Brothers
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Louis Pasteur
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Wilhelm Röntgen
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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Homer
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Robert Oppenheimer
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William Shakespeare
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George Orwell
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Mark Twain
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Buddha
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Ptolemy
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jesus of Nazareth
4 B.C - 30 A.D.
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Democritus
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Voltaire
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Johannes Brahms
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Immanuel Kant
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Gregor Mendel
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Alexander the Great
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Isaac Asimov
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Jules Verne
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Dante Alighieri
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Frédéric Chopin
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Charles Dickens
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Vincent van Gogh
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Johannes Vermeer
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Francis Bacon
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
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Rembrandt
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Epicurus
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Thomas Jefferson
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Otto von Guericke
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Adam Smith
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Carl Gustav Jung
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Werner Von Braun
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Abraham Lincoln
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Hypatia
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Leo Tolstoy
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Alfred Nobel
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Alexander Hamilton
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Antonio Vivaldi
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Ernest Rutherford
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Bertrand Russell
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Raphael
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Wilhelm Ostwald
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Johann Philipp Reis
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Paine
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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Augustus
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Claude Monet
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John von Neumann
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