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Martin Luther

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

Early Modern influential
281

Benjamin Franklin

Electricity experiments, founding father

Early Modern influential
213

Guru Nanak

Founder of Sikhism

Early Modern influential
183

John Calvin

Protestant reformer

Early Modern influential
175

Francis Bacon

Empiricism, scientific method

Early Modern influential
162

Peter the Great

Modernizer of Russia

Early Modern influential
154

Carl Linnaeus

Biological taxonomy

Early Modern influential
145

Mary Wollstonecraft

Early feminist philosopher

Early Modern influential
141

John Wesley

Founder of Methodism

Early Modern influential
140

William Harvey

Blood circulation

Early Modern influential
138

Napoleon Bonaparte

French Emperor and conqueror

Early Modern influential
138

William Shakespeare

Greatest playwright in English

Early Modern influential
138

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Early Modern influential
136

Machiavelli

The Prince, political philosophy

Early Modern influential
135

John Milton

Paradise Lost

Early Modern influential
133

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan, social contract

Early Modern influential
131

George Washington

First US President

Early Modern influential
127

Montesquieu

Separation of powers

Early Modern influential
127

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Calculus, optimism

Early Modern influential
126

Rene Descartes

Cogito ergo sum

Early Modern influential
125