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i believe Jesus Christ is the most important person of all time as christianity shaped lot of norms and today's standards. his stories are the reason a lot of people have faith in god.      "Jesus has been acclaimed as the greatest religious leader who ever lived" a quote from
https://bible.org/illustration/who-jesus-christ

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In my opinion Martin luther king Jr. in the most important person from all history. he was a leader in  the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. he gave hope to the color people that one day they will be treated equal.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/biographical/

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In my opinion George Washington is the most important person of all time. He led us to win the war against the british powerhouse. He gave the U.S life and started a nation. He also was the first president of the nation.

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George Washington's Early Years

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at his family's plantation on Pope's Creek in Westmoreland County, in the British colony of Virginia, to Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-89). George, the eldest of Augustine and Mary Washington's six children, spent much of his childhood at Ferry Farm, a plantation near Fredericksburg, Virginia. After Washington's father died when he was 11, it's likely he helped his mother manage the plantation.

Did you know? At the time of his death in 1799, George Washington owned some 300 enslaved people. However, before his passing, he had become opposed to slavery, and in his will, he ordered that his enslaved workers be freed after his wife's death.

Few details about Washington's early education are known, although children of prosperous families like his typically were taught at home by private tutors or attended private schools. It's believed he finished his formal schooling at around age 15.

As a teenager, Washington, who had shown an aptitude for mathematics, became a successful surveyor. His surveying expeditions into the Virginia wilderness earned him enough money to begin acquiring land of his own.

In 1751, Washington made his only trip outside of America, when he traveled to Barbados with his older half-brother Lawrence Washington (1718-52), who was suffering from tuberculosis and hoped the warm climate would help him recuperate. Shortly after their arrival, George contracted smallpox. He survived, although the illness left him with permanent facial scars. In 1752, Lawrence, who had been educated in England and served as Washington's mentor, died. Washington eventually inherited Lawrence's estate, Mount Vernon, on the Potomac River near Alexandria, Virginia.

An Officer and Gentleman Farmer

In December 1752, Washington, who had no previous military experience, was made a commander of the Virginia militia. He saw action in the French and Indian War and was eventually put in charge of all of Virginia's militia forces. By 1759, Washington had resigned his commission, returned to Mount Vernon and was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he served until 1774. In January 1759, he married Martha Dandridge Custis (1731-1802), a wealthy widow with two children. Washington became a devoted stepfather to her children; he and Martha Washington never had any offspring of their own.

In the ensuing years, Washington expanded Mount Vernon from 2,000 acres into an 8,000-acre property with five farms. He grew a variety of crops, including wheat and corn, bred mules and maintained fruit orchards and a successful fishery. He was deeply interested in farming and continually experimented with new crops and methods of land conservation.

George Washington During the American Revolution

Washington proved to be a better general than military strategist. His strength lay not in his genius on the battlefield but in his ability to keep the struggling colonial army together. His troops were poorly trained and lacked food, ammunition and other supplies (soldiers sometimes even went without shoes in winter). However, Washington was able to give them direction and motivation. His leadership during the winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge was a testament to his power to inspire his men to keep going.

By the late 1760s, Washington had experienced firsthand the effects of rising taxes imposed on American colonists by the British and came to believe that it was in the best interests of the colonists to declare independence from England. Washington served as a delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774 in Philadelphia. By the time the Second Continental Congress convened a year later, the American Revolution had begun in earnest, and Washington was named commander in chief of the Continental Army.

Over the course of the grueling eight-year war, the colonial forces won few battles but consistently held their own against the British. In October 1781, with the aid of the French (who allied themselves with the colonists over their rivals the British), the Continental forces were able to capture British troops under General Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) in the Battle of Yorktown. This action effectively ended the Revolutionary War and Washington was declared a national hero.

America's First President

In 1783, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris between Great Britain and the U.S., Washington, believing he had done his duty, gave up his command of the army and returned to Mount Vernon, intent on resuming his life as a gentleman farmer and family man. However, in 1787, he was asked to attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and head the committee to draft the new constitution. His impressive leadership there convinced the delegates that he was by far the most qualified man to become the nation's first president.

At first, Washington balked. He wanted to, at last, return to a quiet life at home and leave governing the new nation to others. But public opinion was so strong that eventually he gave in. The first presidential election was held on January 7, 1789, and Washington won handily. John Adams (1735-1826), who received the second-largest number of votes, became the nation's first vice president. The 57-year-old Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, in New York City. Because Washington, D.C., America's future capital city wasn't yet built, he lived in New York and Philadelphia. While in office, he signed a bill establishing a future, permanent U.S. capital along the Potomac River-the city later named Washington, D.C., in his honor.

George Washington's Accomplishments

The United States was a small nation when Washington took office, consisting of 11 states and approximately 4 million people, and there was no precedent for how the new president should conduct domestic or foreign business. Mindful that his actions would likely determine how future presidents were expected to govern, Washington worked hard to set an example of fairness, prudence and integrity. In foreign matters, he supported cordial relations with other countries but also favored a position of neutrality in foreign conflicts. Domestically, he nominated the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay (1745-1829), signed a bill establishing the first national bank, the Bank of the United States, and set up his own presidential cabinet.

His two most prominent cabinet appointees were Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), two men who disagreed strongly on the role of the federal government. Hamilton favored a strong central government and was part of the Federalist Party, while Jefferson favored stronger states' rights as part of the Democratic-Republican Party, the forerunner to the Democratic Party. Washington believed that divergent views were critical for the health of the new government, but he was distressed at what he saw as an emerging partisanship.

George Washington's presidency was marked by a series of firsts. He signed the first United States copyright law, protecting the copyrights of authors. He also signed the first Thanksgiving proclamation, making November 26 a national day of Thanksgiving for the end of the war for American independence and the successful ratification of the Constitution.

During Washington's presidency, Congress passed the first federal revenue law, a tax on distilled spirits. In July 1794, farmers in Western Pennsylvania rebelled over the so-called "whiskey tax." Washington called in over 12,000 militiamen to Pennsylvania to dissolve the Whiskey Rebellion in one of the first major tests of the authority of the national government.

Under Washington's leadership, the states ratified the Bill of Rights, and five new states entered the union: North Carolina (1789), Rhode Island (1790), Vermont (1791), Kentucky (1792) and Tennessee (1796).

In his second term, Washington issued the proclamation of neutrality to avoid entering the 1793 war between Great Britain and France. But when French minister to the United States Edmond Charles Genet-known to history as "Citizen Genet"-toured the United States, he boldly flaunted the proclamation, attempting to set up American ports as French military bases and gain support for his cause in the Western United States. His meddling caused a stir between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans, widening the rift between parties and making consensus-building more difficult.

In 1795, Washington signed the "Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty; and The United States of America," or Jay's Treaty, so-named for John Jay, who had negotiated it with the government of King George III. It helped the U.S. avoid war with Great Britain, but also rankled certain members of Congress back home and was fiercely opposed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Internationally, it caused a stir among the French, who believed it violated previous treaties between the United States and France.

Washington's administration signed two other influential international treaties. Pinckney's Treaty of 1795, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo, established friendly relations between the United States and Spain, firming up borders between the U.S. and Spanish territories in North America and opening up the Mississippi to American traders. The Treaty of Tripoli, signed the following year, gave American ships access to Mediterranean shipping lanes in exchange for a yearly tribute to the Pasha of Tripoli.

George Washington's Retirement to Mount Vernon and Death

In 1796, after two terms as president and declining to serve a third term, Washington finally retired. In Washington's farewell address, he urged the new nation to maintain the highest standards domestically and to keep involvement with foreign powers to a minimum. The address is still read each February in the U.S. Senate to commemorate Washington's birthday.

Washington returned to Mount Vernon and devoted his attentions to making the plantation as productive as it had been before he became president. More than four decades of public service had aged him, but he was still a commanding figure. In December 1799, he caught a cold after inspecting his properties in the rain. The cold developed into a throat infection and Washington died on the night of December 14, 1799, at the age of 67. He was entombed at Mount Vernon, which in 1960 was designated a national historic landmark.

Washington left one of the most enduring legacies of any American in history. Known as the "Father of His Country," his face appears on the U.S. dollar bill and quarter, and dozens of U.S. schools, towns and counties, as well as the state of Washington and the nation's capital city, are named for him.

George Washington: An Interactive Timeline of His Life

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George Washington: Facts, Revolution & Presidency

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George Washington (1732-99) was commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) and served two terms as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797.

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In my opinion, I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the most important person in history. He was the 32nd president in the U.S and he also led the country during the worldwide economic depression. Roosevelt also created the new deal, by also defining modern american liberalism.
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt

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I believe Jesus Christ the son of god is the most important person in history. He started his public ministry around the Sea of Galilee. He was known for his unique an powerful teaching with a series of recorded miracles. Over the next three-plus years, his reputation spread throughout the region, although he tried to keep a low profile, Because he know other rulers did not accept what he was doing. He would spread to his followers that "God loves us, Love each other, People have unique value, The Kingdom of God has come to earth, God will judge us in the end, God forgives those who ask". For some reason he became a threat to the "organized religion". Jesus was mocked, tortured, and nailed on a wooden cross just outside Jerusalem. He died for the sake of the belief in God an for the sake of the future. As of today he still influences people to believe in God. An the third of the world are his Followers aka Christians. He gave people someone to believe in an someone that made them feel safe. Without him we would not know of God we would not know what would happen to us if we sinned or if we were to be forgiven, Therefor he gave our humanity hope to always believe that God will always be by your side through rough an hard times he will take care of you, Just have faith.
Source:
https://drivethruhistory.com/historical-influence-of-jesus/

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In my opinion, Thomas Edison is one of the most important person in history. Edison invented the first electric bulb, without his invention we would have lived in dark. Edison invention made a huge impact in the world because people could now see in the dark or at night.
Source:
https://www.biography.com/inventor/thomas-edison

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In my opinion, Noah from the Bible is the most important historical figure. When God deeply regretted creating humanity, Noah was like “No God! Give us another chance!” which He did. It was Noah that convinced God to not abandon this timeline, which you can create your own idea as to if this turned out for the worst, or the better. Regardless, a pivotal point in humanity.

Scholarly Article:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/date-of-noahs-ark/2D0BA47C12949A055DD314EE975A02DD

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During the American Revolution, he led the colonial forces to victory over the British and became a national hero. In 1787, he was elected president of the convention that wrote the U.S. Constitution. Two years later, Washington became America's first presiden

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I believe Martin Luther King Jr. is an important character in history because he fought for equality for all African-Americans everywhere. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott so that all the people of Montgomery could be allowed to take the bus rather than walk long distances. Dr. King was inspired by Mahatma Ghandi to not fight for equality with violence and bloodshed but with words and peace and thus resulting in him winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and thus resulting in more freedom for African-Americans.

Reference:
https://thekingcenter.org/about-dr-king/

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Dolores Huerta is the most important person due to the fact that she brought forth and drove a movement for the rights of field workers without violence. Dolores, along with her co-founder Ceaser Chavez, are the roots of the UFA (United Farm Workers). Huerta’s work as a political activist, although drowned by her co-founder, paved the way for fair wages, as well as humane conditions deserved, by those in the field. Dolores faced brutal hate for being a strong female feminist, the prejudice would stem from both sides of the boycotts. Huerta persevered to fight for those who could not stand up to the people in power.
As expressed, Dolores Huerta was and continues to be an influential person in this world. Dolores’ work aided to pave the way our society sees hardworking people of all races and gender. Huerta fought for the cause she believed in, her crude journey allowed us to consume the harvests of fields knowing the workers have more equitable conditions. Although our world is not perfect, Huerta inspires many people to take initiative for their rights and causes regardless of race or gender.

Reference:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/17/551490281/dolores-huerta-the-civil-rights-icon-who-showed-farmworkers-si-se-puede

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I think that benjamin is the most important person ever and if not, one of the most important because without him we wouldn't have been learning right now since there woudn't have been electricity. Especially since we have coronavirus around the world, we could not have been learning through online without him.
https://www.biography.com/scholar/benjamin-franklin

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I believe Harriet Tubman is one of the most important people of all time. She is an important person in history because had helped many slaves escape and women's suffrage movement. She had changed peoples perspectives towards women and blacks.
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/history/harriet-tubman/#:~:text=Harriet%20Tubman%20is%20well%20known,Union%20during%20the%20Civil%20War.

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I personally think that Benjamin Franklin was the most important person of all time, because, while others are great, anyone who expounded on electricity couldn't have done what they did without Benjamin Franklin's initial discovery.
https://www.biography.com/scholar/benjamin-franklin

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One of the most important people of all time was Aristotle. He was a very influential philosopher from ancient Greece. His theories in biology, ethics, and formal logic have carried on to current times. Aristotle’s “Poetics” was composed around 330 B.C. A large portion of his work was inspired by scholars Socrates and Plato.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/

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I chose Jesus because He shaped our world to be the way it is. In His teachings He taught people to be loving and kind as well as showing overall morals. Without His teachings the works would be so much more corrupt. He clearly is important historically as a common measurement of time is based around his life. B.C standing for Before Christ and A.D standing for Anno Domini, which is Latin for “In the year of the Lord” also known as the birth of Christ.  https://www.ancient.eu/Jesus_Christ/

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I chose Clarence Birdseye because he was the one that invented the Quick freezing machine. Flash freezing.
https://www.famousscientists.org/clarence-birdseye/

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The most important person to me is Sir Isaac Newton because I started with nothing but a farm but he didn’t give up and ended up going to a university where he was very successful in and he even thought up of gravity from a falling apple.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/inventions/isaac-newton

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Isaac Newton is best know for his theory about the law of gravity, but his "Principia Mathematica" (1686) with its three laws of motion greatly influenced the Enlightenment in Europe. Born in 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England, Sir Isaac Newton began developing his theories on light, calculus and celestial mechanics while on break from Cambridge University. Years of research culminated with the 1687 publication of "Principia," a landmark work that established the universal laws of motion and gravity. Newton's second major book, "Opticks," detailed his experiments to determine the properties of light. Also a student of Biblical history and alchemy, the famed scientist served as president of the Royal Society of London and master of England's Royal Mint until his death in 1727.

Isaac Newton: Early Life and Education

Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. The son of a farmer who died three months before he was born, Newton spent most of his early years with his maternal grandmother after his mother remarried. His education was interrupted by a failed attempt to turn him into a farmer, and he attended the King's School in Grantham before enrolling at the University of Cambridge's Trinity College in 1661.

Newton studied a classical curriculum at Cambridge, but he became fascinated by the works of modern philosophers such as René Descartes, even devoting a set of notes to his outside readings he titled "Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae" ("Certain Philosophical Questions"). When the Great Plague shuttered Cambridge in 1665, Newton returned home and began formulating his theories on calculus, light and color, his farm the setting for the supposed falling apple that inspired his work on gravity.

Isaac Newton's Telescope and Studies on Light

Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667 and was elected a minor fellow. He constructed the first reflecting telescope in 1668, and the following year he received his Master of Arts degree and took over as Cambridge's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. Asked to give a demonstration of his telescope to the Royal Society of London in 1671, he was elected to the Royal Society the following year and published his notes on optics for his peers.

Through his experiments with refraction, Newton determined that white light was a composite of all the colors on the spectrum, and he asserted that light was composed of particles instead of waves. His methods drew sharp rebuke from established Society member Robert Hooke, who was unsparing again with Newton's follow-up paper in 1675. Known for his temperamental defense of his work, Newton engaged in heated correspondence with Hooke before suffering a nervous breakdown and withdrawing from the public eye in 1678. In the following years, he returned to his earlier studies on the forces governing gravity and dabbled in alchemy.

Isaac Newton and the Law of Gravity

In 1684, English astronomer Edmund Halley paid a visit to the secluded Newton. Upon learning that Newton had mathematically worked out the elliptical paths of celestial bodies, Halley urged him to organize his notes. The result was the 1687 publication of "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), which established the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravity. Newton's three laws of motion state that (1) Every object in a state of uniform motion will remain in that state of motion unless an external force acts on it; (2) Force equals mass times acceleration: F=MA and (3) For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

"Principia" propelled Newton to stardom in intellectual circles, eventually earning universal acclaim as one of the most important works of modern science. His work was a foundational part of the European Enlightenment.

With his newfound influence, Newton opposed the attempts of King James II to reinstitute Catholic teachings at English Universities. King James II was replaced by his protestant daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange as part of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and Newton was elected to represent Cambridge in Parliament in 1689. Newton moved to London permanently after being named warden of the Royal Mint in 1696, earning a promotion to master of the Mint three years later. Determined to prove his position wasn't merely symbolic, Newton moved the pound sterling from the silver to the gold standard and sought to punish counterfeiters.

The death of Hooke in 1703 allowed Newton to take over as president of the Royal Society, and the following year he published his second major work, "Opticks." Composed largely from his earlier notes on the subject, the book detailed Newton's painstaking experiments with refraction and the color spectrum, closing with his ruminations on such matters as energy and electricity. In 1705, he was knighted by Queen Anne of England.

Isaac Newton: Founder of Calculus?

Around this time, the debate over Newton's claims to originating the field of calculus exploded into a nasty dispute. Newton had developed his concept of "fluxions" (differentials) in the mid 1660s to account for celestial orbits, though there was no public record of his work. In the meantime, German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz formulated his own mathematical theories and published them in 1684. As president of the Royal Society, Newton oversaw an investigation that ruled his work to be the founding basis of the field, but the debate continued even after Leibniz's death in 1716. Researchers later concluded that both men likely arrived at their conclusions independent of one another.

Death of Isaac Newton

Newton was also an ardent student of history and religious doctrines, and his writings on those subjects were compiled into multiple books that were published posthumously. Having never married, Newton spent his later years living with his niece at Cranbury Park near Winchester, England. He died in his sleep on March 31, 1727, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

A giant even among the brilliant minds that drove the Scientific Revolution, Newton is remembered as a transformative scholar, inventor and writer. He eradicated any doubts about the heliocentric model of the universe by establishing celestial mechanics, his precise methodology giving birth to what is known as the scientific method. Although his theories of space-time and gravity eventually gave way to those of Albert Einstein, his work remains the bedrock on which modern physics was built.

Isaac Newton Quotes

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."

"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."

"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."

"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."

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Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1927) was an English mathematician and physicist who developed influential theories on light, calculus and celestial mechanics. Years of research culminated with the 1687 publication of "Principia," his landmark work that established the universal laws of motion and gravity.

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I chose Isaac newton because he opened our eyes to physics and how the world works
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j2MGGBAAAAAJ&hl=en

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i chose Abraham Lincoln because i see him has one of the most important people in history, he fought to end slavery and his actions are seen to impact the world till this day
https://millercenter.org/president/lincoln

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I chose Walt Disney because he co-founded one of the largest companies in the world which has influenced millions. Fun fact: my grandma met him once.

https://www.biography.com/business-figure/walt-disney

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I chose Thomas Edison because he did create the lightbulb. Without this guy we probably wouldn't see anything during the night so this definitely changed the world for the better. He even created a movie camera and viewer.
https://www.history.com/news/thomas-edison-inventions

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i chose george washington because he was a brave man and took leadership and lead the american soldiers and became president. https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/biography/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIh6KD_5HG6wIVvxitBh29GA7NEAAYASAAEgLWIfD_BwE

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I chose George Washington because he changed the U.S a lot and the U.S. changed the world. Without him, the U.S. maybe wouldn't have even survived. That is why I chose George Washington to be the most important person in the history of the world.

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/george-washington

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I choose Diogenes a greek philosopher because he had an interesting way of thinking and I think it really makes you think about how the world works.
https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/?p=20099

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I believe Abraham Lincoln is the most important person because of the changes he made while president that impact our lives to this day.
https://millercenter.org/president/lincoln