The most influential European of the 20th Century

[Rash]

Forgot, I would png hitler.

[Rash]

Give me PNG authority, I can clean this mess up pronto.

[Melvin]

Give me PNG authority, I can clean this mess up pronto.

 

Margaret Thatcher

[Bruv119]

Reginald Mitchell  

Nuff said.

zack1234  a close second.

[RTHolmes]

Alexander Fleming.

[rpm]

Wernher von Braun

[morfiend]

 The Rothchilds followed closely by Tesla.............









       

[icepac]

Ferdinand Porsche made a working diesel/electric car in 1901.

[morfiend]

Ferdinand Porsche made a working diesel/electric car in 1901.

 Tesla powered a pearce arrow with a 25hp electric motor and a magic box of valves!




   

[Banshee7]

Banshee7, are you going to tell us what grade we get collectively if we help you with this class project?  

Only if you give me enough credible sources to site 

I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone had to say and the differences in American/European responses.  Of course, I picked Hitler.  The number of lives he affected during and after the war made him stand out to me. 

[nrshida]

Hitler was incredibly influential...

I disagree because I think influence means the capability to affect, manipulate or shape events, development, policy, doctrine etc. and Hitler totally failed to do this. Thankfully he was little more than the tragic end point of the distasteful European experimentation with fascism. Let's face it, his artwork sucked arse too.


It's hard to name one person because many have been influential in sequence. In addition to the others here mentioned, how about: Alan Turing, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Richard Trevithick, Justin Bieber.

[Rash]

Bond, James Bond.

[mthrockmor]

nrshida, by your definition Hitler did this in spades. He effected, at one point the lives of 100 million killed, designs of governments and international borders that remained points of contention for decades. He created leadership vacuums that were filled by other totalitarian regimes and concepts. His massacre of Jews ultimately lead to the birth of Israel and those tension points that have existed to this day.

I think we would need to go to Napoleon to find another egolamanic who has had such a massive impact on the world scene. As someone else noted Lenin is a close second in my mind, though he and Stalin played second fiddle to the Hitler vacuum. Even Mao received leverage he likely would not have received if it were not for the changing dynamics post-Hitler. All of this is of course, just my opinion.

Boo

[uptown]

I never realized Eisenhower and Reagan were Europeans...

doh!  


Then my vote would have to be for Mr.Bean  

[Mashed71]

Tim Berners-Lee?