World Almanac's Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium

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In 2000, the World Almanac published The Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium as listed by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and second-generation historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.:

1.	1564-1616	William Shakespeare	A&E's 5th		5th Greatest Briton
2.	1642-1727	Isaac Newton	A&E's 2nd	2nd in The 100	6th Greatest Briton
3.	1809-1882	Charles Darwin	A&E's 4th	16th in The 100	4th Greatest Briton
4.	1473-1543	Nicolaus Copernicus	A&E's 9th	19th in The 100	108th Best German
5.	1564-1642	Galileo Galilei	A&E's 10th	12th in The 100
6.	1879-1955	Albert Einstein	A&E's 8th	10th in The 100	10th Best German	TIME's Person of the Century
7.	1451-1506	Christopher Columbus	A&E's 6th	9th in The 100
8.	1809-1865	Abraham Lincoln	A&E's 28th
9.	1397-1468	Johann Gutenberg	A&E's 1st	8th in The 100	8th Best German
10.	1578-1657	William Harvey	A&E's 69th	55th in The 100

Other lists

• TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century
• A&E's Biography of the Millennium
• 100 Greatest Britons
• The Greatest Canadian
• Unsere Besten
• De Grootste Nederlander
• List of South Africans, Great South Africans
• Suuret Suomalaiset
• Belg der Belgen
• Le Plus Grand Français
• The 100 (book)

See also

• Almanac
• Millennium

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