The most important people in the world

2. Ludwig van Beethoven  He was a great composer  He was one of the best pianist  he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers  His best known compositions include 9 symphonies

3. Joan of Arc  she is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint  she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII of France.  To the present day, Joan of Arc has remained a significant figure in Western civilization

4. Maria Curie  She was a Polish physicist  She was chemist, working mainly in France  who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity.  She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields  She was the only person to win in multiple sciences.  She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris  in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in Paris' Panthéon.

5. Mahatma Gandhi  was the preeminent leader of Indian  Gandhi led India to independence  He inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world  He was one of the best person in peace  He was one of the most intelligent people on india

6. Mother Teresa  Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity  She was the recipient of numerous honours including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize  She run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis

7. Albert Einstein  was a theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity  one of the two pillars of modern physics  he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics  Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers along with over 150 non-scientific works  His great intellectual achievements and originality have made the word "Einstein" synonymous with genius

8. Galileo Galilei  His achievements include improvements to the telescope  Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy“  His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus  the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his honour)  the observation and analysis of sunspots  Galileo also worked in applied science  inventing an improved military compass and other instruments.

9. Isaac Newton  Newton's Principia formulated the laws of motion  He formulated the universal gravitation that dominated scientists' view of the physical universe for the next three centuries.  It also demonstrated that the motion of objects on the Earth and that of celestial bodies could be described by the same principles.  Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based  Newton contributed to the study of power series, generalised the binomial theorem to non-integer exponents.