Uiser:AmaryllisGardener/People

In English, a list of modern people (from year 1400 AD) that IMO have had a positive influence on culture and politics (no scientists, physicists, or physiologists included).

• Susan B. Anthony, for her participation in the women's suffrage movement.
• Otto von Bismarck, a man of wisdom, rather than accomplishment, this Chancellor of the German Empire was against war and was pro-peace. After resigning after much conflict with Wilhelm II, he predicted events to occur in Europe that later came true. ([1])
• Chiang Kai-shek, an anti-communist leader of the Republic of China, a country now pushed back into the island of Taiwan.
• Winston Churchill, for being a great leader of the UK during World War II.
• Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States.
• Nathanael Greene, a Major General who was one of the best Generals in the American Revolutionary War.
• Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father of the US who wrote much of the Declaration of Independence.
• Martin Luther King, Jr., for peacefully promoting the rights of African-Americans.
• Douglas MacArthur, a very successful General during World War II.
• Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, a French supporter of the American Revolutionary War, and close friend of George Washington.
• Robert E. Lee, a general in the Confederacy who was against slavery, and thus symbolizes the good people of the Confederacy (regardless of how many there were).
• Martin Luther, a central figure of the Protestant Reformation, known for The Ninety-Five Theses.
• Ronald Reagan, for many accomplishments in settling the Cold War, reviving patriotism in the US, and strengthening UK-US relations.
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, for shedding light on the horrors of communism, and Soviet forced labor camps.
• Margaret Thatcher, for taking a stand against communism and strengthening US-UK relations.
• Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist helping slaves by way of the Underground Railroad and participant in the women's suffrage movement.
• Yulia Tymoshenko, for her efforts to hold off Russification attempts in Ukraine.
• Booker T. Washington, for being an excellent, integrous (which I consider a word) civil rights leader.
• George Washington, a Founding Father of the US who was a General during the American Revolutionary War, and later, the first President of the United States.
• Arseniy Yatsenyuk, as with Tymoshenko, for his efforts to hold off Russification attempts in Ukraine.
• Malala Yousafzai, for promoting education for girls in the Middle East, even after surviving an assassination attempt.