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

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	(#5 -- 100 Greatest Britons)
2.	1642-1727	Isaac Newton	(#6 -- 100 Greatest Britons)
3.	1809-1882	Charles Darwin	(#4 -- 100 Greatest Britons)
4.	1473-1543	Nicolaus Copernicus
5.	1564-1642	Galileo Galilei
6.	1879-1955	Albert Einstein	(#10 -- Unsere Besten)	(TIME's Person of the Century)
7.	1451-1506	Christopher Columbus
8.	1809-1865	Abraham Lincoln
9.	1397-1468	Johann Gutenberg	(#8 -- Unsere Besten)
10.	1578-1657	William Harvey

Other lists

• Person of the Year, Person of the Century , List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004
• 100 Greatest Britons, The Greatest Canadian, Unsere Besten, De Grootste Nederlander, List of South Africans, Great South Africans, Suuret Suomalaiset

See also

• Almanac
• Millennium