LEADERS
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Julius Caesar
Queen Victoria
Louis XIV of France
etc...

Anyone else worth nominating from this list? Food for thought for those who are still deciding.
http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/10/whos-biggest-the-100-most-significant-figures-in-history/

@Jeff: As I said, Otto Von Bismarck, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great, and Gustavus Adolphus.

It's not so much that, I think, since I absolutely love Peter F. Hamilton, who spends half his time needlessly wordbuilding. I just don't get Heinlein at all, including Starship Troopers.

Genghis Khan must be on the list; not only as a strategist, but as a potent ancestor... 1 in 200 men are descended from him..... (looking sideways....)

He is a direct ancestor of mine according to my dad, who apparently took a test to see. Oddly enough, I have almost exclusively European heritage. Guess he screwed a white chick or something.

He sure did; some of his descendants were part of the Golden Horde that liked to pass on their genes on their visits...

What can I say .... it's good to be the king.

I read at one point that genetic dilution is so strong, that genetic links basically disappear after five generations. Genetically speaking, you're just as related to you great-great-great grandfather as to any random person on earth.

(of course, the big disclaimer here is that people still tend to marry/procreate within the same genetic stock, so still do have similar features after five gens. But if you have one ancestor from an entirely different stock, chances are that this influence is all but lost five gens later)

@ YHN

Okay, agree to disagree on Starship Troopers the movie. I'll let your most recent post be the final argument on that topic.

Re-updated. Left out people that I recently realized were nominated.

Leaders:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Gandhi
Hannibal
Theodore Roosevelt
Augustus Caesar
Tamerlane
Tokugawa
Cincinnatus
Erwin Rommel
Genghis Khan
Napoleon Bonaparte
Alfred the Great
Muhammad
Deng Xiaoping
Charlemagne
Nelson Mandela
Alexander the Great
Winston Churchill
Margaret Thatcher
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Theodora
Alaric I
Winfield Scott
Isabella I
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Malcolm X

Artists:
William Shakespeare
The Beatles
J.R.R. Tolkien
Arnold Schoenberg
Vincent Van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Henry David Thoreau
Claude Monet
Leonardo da Vinci
Lao Tzu
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Vergil
Lord Byron
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Michaelangelo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Raymond Carver
Homer
Bob Dylan
Franz Liszt
Johann Sebastian Bach
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kanye West
Giotto di Bondone
Eminem
Rivers Cuomo
Salvador Dali
Raphael
Robert A. Heinlein
Janis Joplin
Sappho
George R. R. Martin

Scientists/Inventors:
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Jonas Salk
Robert Oppenheimer
Nikola Tesla
Werner von Braun
Mendeleev
Archimedes
James Joule
Aristotle
Isaac Newton
Carl Bosch
Alan Turing
Copernicus
Marie Curie
Avicenna
Charles Darwin
David Suzuki
James Watt
Thomas Kuhn
Stephen Hawking
Sigmund Freud
Galileo Galilei
Gregor Mendel
Johannes Gutenberg
Edward Teller
Jane Goodall
Rosalind Franklin
Gotthold Eisenstein

Wild Card:
Plato
Immanuel Kant
Rene Descartes
Benjamin Franklin
Gichin Funakoshi
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Martin Luther
John Locke
Jesus
Mansa Musa
Bill Gates
Constantine
Olga of Kiev
Karl Marx
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
Noam Chomsky
Richard Dawkins
Saul of Tarsus
Emma Watson
Adam Smith
Buddha
Billy Waugh
Mother Teresa
Susan B. Anthony
Jan Hus

And I also just realized when you put Malcolm X after Charles the Fifth and Isabella the First, it looks like he's Malcolm the Tenth.

Thank you for accepting my nomination.

How does Eminem make this last? His lyrics are clearly very negative.

For like the third time, can someone move my nomination of Leonardo da Vinci from the Artist category to the scientists/inventors category? He was a true renaissance man, but a better inventor than artist.

Also, TrPrado, I appreciate you compiling the list, but that's nowhere near a complete list of nominated people (if people are allowed to submit more than one nomination)

@Lando I'm not necessarily defending Eminem's inclusion (especially since my pick of Cruyff failed), but while his lyrics are generally negative and often somewhat offensive, based purely on his skills as a rapper he's incredibly good.

Hey, here's a suggestion for either artist, scientist/inventor, or grab bag: Randall Munroe of xkcd. I'm just tossing that out there for everyone...

I'll nominate Randall Munroe as Artist, since I passed on that category when nominating for the others.

"@Lando I'm not necessarily defending Eminem's inclusion (especially since my pick of Cruyff failed), but while his lyrics are generally negative and often somewhat offensive, based purely on his skills as a rapper he's incredibly good."

I'm really no rapper-fan, but from Eminem I like many songs, in his music category he is like as you said "incredibly good". 8 Mile was a revelation and a rap-battle with lyrics. On the Internet circulates a joke: The best rapper is white (Eminem), the best golfer black (Tiger Woods) and Germany would like to wage no more war.

Epic rap-battles of history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS8jJyrIzLc

Ho ho.

Richard Feynman must be included, surely.

That's an interesting joke, but more accurate for about 5 years ago. I casually follow golf, and Tiger's lost his winning edge almost completely, not winning a major since 2008. But I digress...

Better list. Da Vinci has been moved as requested and Feynman and Munroe have been added. Also, to address goldfinger's question, it's one nomination per category per person. Therefore, suggestions don't count toward the list.

Leaders:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Gandhi
Hannibal
Theodore Roosevelt
Augustus Caesar
Tamerlane
Tokugawa
Cincinnatus
Erwin Rommel
Genghis Khan
Napoleon Bonaparte
Alfred the Great
Muhammad
Deng Xiaoping
Charlemagne
Nelson Mandela
Alexander the Great
Winston Churchill
Margaret Thatcher
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Theodora
Alaric I
Winfield Scott
Isabella I
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Malcolm X

Artists:
William Shakespeare
The Beatles
J.R.R. Tolkien
Arnold Schoenberg
Vincent Van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Henry David Thoreau
Claude Monet
Randall Munroe
Lao Tzu
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Vergil
Lord Byron
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Michaelangelo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Raymond Carver
Homer
Bob Dylan
Franz Liszt
Johann Sebastian Bach
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kanye West
Giotto di Bondone
Eminem
Rivers Cuomo
Salvador Dali
Raphael
Robert A. Heinlein
Janis Joplin
Sappho
George R. R. Martin

Scientists/Inventors:
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Jonas Salk
Robert Oppenheimer
Nikola Tesla
Werner von Braun
Mendeleev
Archimedes
James Joule
Aristotle
Isaac Newton
Carl Bosch
Alan Turing
Copernicus
Marie Curie
Avicenna
Charles Darwin
David Suzuki
James Watt
Thomas Kuhn
Stephen Hawking
Sigmund Freud
Galileo Galilei
Gregor Mendel
Johannes Gutenberg
Edward Teller
Jane Goodall
Rosalind Franklin
Gotthold Eisenstein
Leonardo da Vinci
Richard Feynman

Wild Card:
Plato
Immanuel Kant
Rene Descartes
Benjamin Franklin
Gichin Funakoshi
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Martin Luther
John Locke
Jesus
Mansa Musa
Bill Gates
Constantine
Olga of Kiev
Karl Marx
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
Noam Chomsky
Richard Dawkins
Saul of Tarsus
Emma Watson
Adam Smith
Buddha
Billy Waugh
Mother Teresa
Susan B. Anthony
Jan Hus

We currently have 116 nominations. 12 more until this can get rolling. So, yeah, there were too many good choices to possibly stop at 64 people.

I think I'm losing the ability to read... Where's Gottfried Leibniz?

Specifically, we need 5 more in the leaders category, and 7 more in the wild card category, i think. That way we have 32 in each.

Thanks TrPrado for organizing it all

The organization itself wasn't too hard since obi had already started a running list a few pages back.

Some of these could be leaders. Only a handful of industrialists have made the cut so far so not sure where to place them.

Leaders:
Joan of Arc
"@Jeff: As I said, Otto Von Bismarck, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great, and Gustavus Adolphus."

Wild Card:
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Steve Jobs
Alfred Nobel (inventor?)
Oprah Winfrey
Marilyn Monroe
Elvis Presley (artist?)

Octavious: I'll take that as a nomination, but would you be willing to throw him into Wild Card instead of Scientist/Inventor even though he had his MOST major contributions (since plenty of his other contributions were at least somewhat major) in science and technology? I'd like to keep the lists all down to 32.

Would it be helpful if I posted suggestion lists for the people who have not nominated for the Leader and Wild Card categories?

Oh, looks like Jeff already started a suggestions list, thanks.

Suggestions:

Leader:
Joan of Arc
Catherine the Great
Elizabeth I
Hatshepsut
Nefertiti
Queen Victoria
Louis XIV
Otto von Bismarck
Cesare Borgia
Peter the Great
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Cleopatra
Dowager Cixi
Wu Zhao
Cyrus the Great
Sun Tzu
Gustavus Adolphus
Frederick the Great

Wild Card:
Pythagoras
Marie Antoinette (she's here because I don't count her even as a leader :D)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
George S. Patton (we should probably move him to Leader, but he was nominated as Wild Card)
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Steve Jobs
Alfred Nobel
Oprah Winfrey
Marilyn Monroe
Elvis Presley