Perpetual growing list of influencers pursued along my journey to discover understanding, bias, capacity, equality, inequality, fission, fusion, perception, perspective, reality and relativity include:
Order: Date of Birth
- Adam & Eve (3760 BCE) First Man, First Woman
- Homer (750 BC) Author, Poet
- Laozi aka Lao Tzu (601 – 531) Philosopher, Writer
- Pythagoras of Samos (570 – 495 BC) Philosopher
- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha (563/480 – 483/400 BC) Monk, Teacher, Buddhism
- Confucius (551 – 479 BC) Teacher, Editor, Politician, Philosopher
- Sun Tzu (544 – 496 BC) Military General, Military Strategist, Writer, Philosopher
- Heraclitus of Ephesus (535 - 475 BC) Philosopher
- Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519 – 430 BC) Patrician, Statesman, Dictator, Military Leader
- Parmenides of Elea (515 – 450 BC) Philosopher
- Socrates (470 – 399 BC) Philosopher, First Moral Philosopher
- Leucippus (5th Century BC) Philosopher, Theory of Atomism
- Democritus (460 – 370 BC) Philosopher, Atomic Theory
- Xenophon of Athens (430 – 354 BC) Philosopher, Historian, Soldier, Mercenary
- Plato (423 – 348 BC) Philosopher
- Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) Philosopher, Scientist
- Alexander III of Macedon (356 – 323 BC) King
- Xun “Xunzi” Kuang (314 – 217 BC) Philosopher
- Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (280 – 203 BC) Statesman, Military General, Dictator, Strategist
- Hannibal Barca (247 – 183 BC) Military Leader
- Marcus Licinius Crassus (112- 53 BC) Military Leader, Politician, Real Estate, Mining
- Gaius Julius Caesar (100 – 44 BC) Politician, Military General, Historian
- Gaius Octavius Thurinus “Augustus” (63 BC – 14 AD) Emperor, Military Leader
- Jesus (4 BC – 33) Jewish Preacher, Religious Leader
- Judas Iscariot (Unknown – 33) Disciple, Betrayed Jesus
- Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180) Emperor, Philosopher
- Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430) Theologian, Philosopher
- Muhammad (570 – 632) Founder of Islam
- Khalid ibn al-Walid ibn al-Mughira al-Makhzumi (Unknown – 642) Arab Muslim Commander
- Al-Ghazali (1058 – 1111) Philosophers, Theologians, Jurists, Mystic
- Genghis “Temüjin” Khan (1162 – 1227) Military Leader, Silk Road, Land
- Subutai (1175 – 1248) General, Military Strategist
- Mansa Musa I (1280 – 1337) Salt, Gold, Mining, Military Leader
- Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici (1389 – 1464) Banking, Politician
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Universal Genius
- Jakob Fugger (1459 – 1525) Banking, Copper, Mining
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) Diplomat, Politician, Historian, Philosopher, Writer
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543) Mathematician, Astronomer
- Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) Astronomer, Physicist, Engineer, Polymath
- Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630) German Astronomer, Mathematician, Astrologer
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) Philosopher
- René Descartes (1596 – 1650) Philosopher, Mathematician, Scientist
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619 – 1683) French Politician
- Shivaji Bhonsle (1627 – 1680) Warrior King
- Samuel Wolf Oppenheimer (1630 – 1703) Banking, Diplomat
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677) Philosopher
- John Locke (1632 – 1704) Philosopher, Physician, Economist
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726) Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Theologian, Philosopher
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716) Polymath, Philosopher
- Simon Wolf Oppenheimer (1665 – 1726) Banking
- Jacob Simon Wolf Oppenheimer (Unknown – 1760) Banking
- George Berkeley (1685 – 1753) Philosopher
- Montesquieu (1689 – 1755) Judge, Intellectual, Political Philosopher
- Voltaire – François-Marie Arouet (1694 – 1178) Writer, Historian, Philosopher
- Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783) Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Logician, Engineer
- David Hume (1711 – 1776) Philosopher, Historian, Economist, Writer
- Frederick the Great – Frederick II (1712 – 1786) Ruler of the Kingdom of Prussia, Strategist, Tactician
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) Philosopher, Political Philosopher, Alchemist, Writer
- Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) Economist, Philosopher, Author
- Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach (1723 – 1789) Author, Philosopher, Encyclopedist
- George Washington (1732 – 1799) A Founding Father of United States, President, Commander-in-Chief Army
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736 – 1806) Military Engineer, Physicist
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) A Founding Father of United States, President, Politician, Lawyer, Author
- Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743 – 1794) Chemist
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744 – 1812) Banking
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 – 1827) Engineer, Mathematician, Statistician, Physicist, Astronomer
- John Jacob Astor (1763 – 1848) Fur, Merchant, Real Estate, Investor
- John Dalton (1766 – 1844) Chemist, Physicist, Meteorologist
- Baron Amschel Mayer von Rothschild (1773 – 1855) Banking
- Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774 – 1855) Banking
- Nathan Mayer Freiherr von Rothschild (1777 – 1836) Banking
- Carl Von Clausewitz (1780 – 1831) Military Leader, Military Theorist
- Carl Mayer Freiherr von Rothschild (1788 – 1855) Banking
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) Philosopher
- Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867) Scientist
- James Mayer de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild (1792 – 1868) Banking
- Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794 – 1877) Railroads, Shipping
- Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (1801 – 1850) Economist
- Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805 – 1865) Mathematician
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) President, Politician, Lawyer
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) Writer, Philosopher, Abolitionist, Naturalist, Critic, Surveyor, Historian
- Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) Philosopher, Economist, Historian, Sociologist, Political Theorist, Journalist, Socialist
- Friedrich Engels (1820 – 1895) Philosopher, Communist, Social Scientist, Journalist, Businessman
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881) Novelist, Writer, Essayist, Journalist, Philosopher
- Walter Bagehot (1826 – 1877) Journalist, Businessman, Essayist,
- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) Writer
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) Scientist, Mathematical Physics
- Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919) Carnegie Steel Company, U.S. Steel, Mining
- Jason “Jay” Gould (1836 – 1892) Railroad Developer, Speculator
- John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (1837 – 1913) Banking, Finance, Industrial Consolidation
- Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839 – 1903) Scientist: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
- John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (1839 – 1937) Oil, Industrialist
- Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844 – 1906) Physicist, Philosopher
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) Philosopher, Cultural Critic, Composer, Poet, Philologist
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845 – 1923) Mechanical Engineer, Physicist
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) Inventor, Businessman
- Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (1848 – 1923) Engineer, Sociologist, Economist, Political Scientist, Philosopher
- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849 – 1936) Physiologist
- Barney Barnato (1851 – 1897) Diamond, Gold Mining
- Cecil John Rhodes PC (1853 – 1902) Diamond, Gold Mining
- Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Scientific Philosopher
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1856 – 1879) Statesman, Military Leader
- Andrey Andreyevich Markov (1856 – 1922) Mathematician
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Playwright, Critic, Polemicist, Political Activist
- Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943) Inventor, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer
- Sir Joseph John Thomson (1856 – 1940) Physicist
- Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858 – 1947) Theoretical Physicist
- Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) Ford Motor Company, Assembly Line, Mass Production
- Hermann Minkowski (1864 – 1909) Mathematician
- Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867 – 1934) Physicist, Chemist
- Irving Fisher (1867 – 1947) Economist, Statistician, Inventor
- Paul Moritz Warburg (1868 – 1932) Investment Banker
- Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (1868 – 1951) Theoretical Physicist
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Lawyer, Politician, Activist
- Ernest Rutherford (1871 – 1937) Physicist
- Karl Schwarzschild (1873 – 1916) Physicist, Astronomer
- John Broadus Watson (1878 – 1958) Psychologist
- Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Theoretical Physicist
- Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (1880 – 1957) Diamond, Gold, Mining
- Ludwig von Mises (1881 – 1973) Theoretical Economist
- Charles Ponzi (1882 – 1949) Swindler, Con Artist
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 – 1946) Economist
- Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885 – 1962) Physicist
- Mir Osman Ali Khan Siddiqi, Asaf Jah VII (1886 – 1967) Diamonds, Banking
- Isabel Paterson (1886 – 1961) Journalist, Novelist, Political Philosopher
- Erwin Schrödinger (1887 – 4 January 1961) Physicist
- Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) Politician, Demagogue, Dictator, Revolutionary
- Michael Polanyi (1891 – 1976) Polymath, Physical Chemistry, Economics, Philosophy
- Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (1891 – 1944) General, Military Theorist
- Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895 – 1970) Soldier, Military Historian, Military Theorist
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986) Philosopher, Speaker, Writer
- Gregory Breit (1899 – 1981) Physicist
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894 – 1974) Physicist
- Friedrich Hayek (1899 – 1992) Economist, Philosopher, Psychology, Political Science, Law
- Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (1900 – 1958) Theoretical Physicist
- Enrico Fermi (1901 – 1954) Physicist
- Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901 – 1976) Theoretical Physicist
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902 – 1984) Theoretical Physicist
- Oskar Morgenstern (1902 – 1977) Economist
- Jan Tinbergen (1903 – 1994) Economist
- John von Neumann (1903 – 1957) Mathematician, Physicist, Computer Scientist, Polymath
- Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967) Theoretical Physicist
- Burrhus Skinner (1904 – 1990) Psychologist, Behaviorist, Author, Inventor, Social Philosopher
- Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982) Writer, Philosopher
- Harry Frederick Oppenheimer (1908 – 2000) Diamond, Mining
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986) Writer, Intellectual, Philosopher, Activist, Social Theorist
- Hendrik Casimir (1909 – 2000) Physicist
- John Archibald Wheeler (1911 – 2008) Theoretical Physicist
- Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006) Economist
- Alan Turing (1912 – 1954) Mathematician, Computer Scientist, Logician, Cryptanalyst, Philosopher, Theoretical Biologist
- Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915 – 2009) Economist
- Edward Norton Lorenz (1917 – 2008) Mathematician, Meteorologist, Pioneer of Chaos Theory
- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918 – 1988) Theoretical Physicist
- Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) Political Leader, Activist, Lawyer
- Samuel Moore Walton (1918 – 1992) American Businessman, Entrepreneur, Mass Retail
- Lawrence Robert Klein (1920 – 2013) Economist, Econometrics
- Kenneth Joseph “Ken” Arrow (1921 – 2017) Economist, Mathematician, Writer, Political Theorist
- John Bordley Rawls (1921 – 2002) Political Philosopher
- Freeman John Dyson (1923 – Present) Theoretical Physicist, Mathematician
- Lloyd Stowell Shapley (1923 – 2016) Mathematician, Economist
- Fidel Castro (1926 – 2016) Communist, Politician, Revolutionary, President of Cuba
- John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928 – 2015) Mathematician
- Avram Noam Chomsky (1928 – Present) Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Historian, Social Critic, Political Activist
- Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (1928 – 2016) Astronomer
- Peter Ware Higgs (1929 – Present) Theoretical Physicist
- Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) Minister, Activist
- Murray Gell-Mann (1929 – Present) Physicist
- Gary Stanley Becker (1930 – 2014) Economist, Sociologist
- Warren Buffett (1930 – Present) Investor
- George Soros (1930 – Present) Investor, Philanthropist
- Amartya Kumar Sen (1933 – Present) Economist, Philosopher
- Steven Weinberg (1933 – Present) Theoretical Physicist
- Daniel Kahneman (1934 – Present) Psychologist, Economist
- Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. (1937 – Present) Economist
- Bernard Lawrence Madoff (1938 – Present) Investment Advisor, Financier, Con Artist, Federal Prison Inmate
- Robert Nozick (1938 – 2002) Philosopher
- Muhammad Yunus (1940 – Present) Entrepreneur, Banker, Economist, Civil Society Leader
- Lance Jerome Taylor (1940 – Present) Economist
- Michael Rubens Bloomberg (1942 – Present) Businessman, Politician, Philanthropist, Author
- Stephen William Hawking (1942 – 2018) Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author, Researcher
- Rüdiger “Rudi” Dornbusch (1942 – 2002) Economist
- Charles Henry Bennett (1943 – Present) Physicist, Information Theorist
- Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (1943 – Present) Economist, Public Policy Analysis, Professor
- Thomas Warren Campbell (1944 – Present) Physicist, Lecturer, Author
- Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (1944 – Present) Economist
- Lawrence Joseph Ellison (1944 – Present) Technology, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
- James Joseph Heckman (1944 – Present) Economist, Professor of Economics
- Nicholas F. Oppenheimer (1945 – Present) Diamond, Mining
- Robert Bernard Reich (1946 – Present) Economist, Professor, Author, Political Commentator
- Alan Harvey Guth (1947 – Present) Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist
- Oliver Simon D’Arcy Hart (1948 – Present) Economist
- Raymond Kurzweil (1948 – Present) Inventor, Futurist
- Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (1949 – 1993) Drug Lord, Narcoterrorist
- Bengt Robert Holmström (1949 – Present) Economist
- Edward Witten (1951 – Present) Theoretical Physicist, Mathematical Physics
- Vladimir Putin (1952 – Present) Politician, Intelligence Officer, President of Russia
- Paul Robin Krugman (1953 – Present) Economist
- William Gates III (1955 – Present) Technology, Entrepreneur, Investor, Author, Philanthropist, Humanitarian
- Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (1957 – Present) Business Magnate, Entrepreneur, Innovator
- Peter Williston Shor (1959 – Present) Mathematician
- Jordan Bernt Peterson (1962 – Present) Clinical Psychologist
- Jack Ma Yun (1964 – Present) Chinese Business Magnate, Investor, Philanthropist
- Jeffrey Bezos (1964 – Present) Technology, Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist
- Samuel Benjamin Harris (1967 – Present) Occupation; Author, Philosopher, Neuroscientist
- David Hanson Jr. (1969 – Present) Roboticist
- Elon Musk (1971 – Present) Technology, Entrepreneur, Investor, Engineer
- Thomas Piketty (1971 – Present) Economist
- Sergey Brin (1973 – Present) Computer Scientist, Internet Entrepreneur
- Lawrence Page (1973 – Present) Computer Scientist, Internet Entrepreneur
- Mark Zuckerberg (1984 – Present) Technology Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
