3 people a country has contributed to the world
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Canadian:
Henry Woodward & Mathew Evans - co-inventors of the first electric light bulb
Reginald Fessenden - radio inventor who made the first radio-transmitted audio transmission and the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission; also invented sonar and patented the first television system
James Naismith - invented basketball
Henry Woodward & Mathew Evans - co-inventors of the first electric light bulb
Reginald Fessenden - radio inventor who made the first radio-transmitted audio transmission and the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission; also invented sonar and patented the first television system
James Naismith - invented basketball
Netherlands:
Vincent van Gogh
Baruch de Spinoza (Philosopher)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (built the first decent microscope and discovered microorganisms)
Runner-ups:
Johan Cruijff
Rembrandt van Rijn
Abel Tasman (discovered New Zealand and Tasmania)
Anne Frank was officially German, so sadly no inclusion.
@ThenamlessGuy: Dude! Both Ingmar and Ingrid Bergman, Alfred Nobel, Karl Linnaeus, Astrid Lingren... I live in the Netherlands, so I won't make a list, but don't pretend they don't have any decent people.
Vincent van Gogh
Baruch de Spinoza (Philosopher)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (built the first decent microscope and discovered microorganisms)
Runner-ups:
Johan Cruijff
Rembrandt van Rijn
Abel Tasman (discovered New Zealand and Tasmania)
Anne Frank was officially German, so sadly no inclusion.
@ThenamlessGuy: Dude! Both Ingmar and Ingrid Bergman, Alfred Nobel, Karl Linnaeus, Astrid Lingren... I live in the Netherlands, so I won't make a list, but don't pretend they don't have any decent people.
1. John Loggie Baird- Invented the television
2. James Watt - He transformed steam engines into the power of the Industrial Revolution. The electrical unit is named after him.
3. Robert Watson-Watt - Invented Radar
I got these from a few sites for Scottish Inventors.
There is a lot more here [http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/big-ideas/scottish-inventors.html]
2. James Watt - He transformed steam engines into the power of the Industrial Revolution. The electrical unit is named after him.
3. Robert Watson-Watt - Invented Radar
I got these from a few sites for Scottish Inventors.
There is a lot more here [http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/big-ideas/scottish-inventors.html]
China
1. Sun Tzu - philosopher wrote The Art of War
2. Cai Lun - regarded as the inventor of modern styles of paper
3. Chow Yun-Fat
1. Sun Tzu - philosopher wrote The Art of War
2. Cai Lun - regarded as the inventor of modern styles of paper
3. Chow Yun-Fat
USA:
1: Chuck Norris
2: There can be no #2 since Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks competition into space
3: No one tried to be #3 after seeing what happened to #2
Runner up: Chuck Norris, no one can beat chuck norris, not even chuck norris
sorry had to do it.
1: Chuck Norris
2: There can be no #2 since Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks competition into space
3: No one tried to be #3 after seeing what happened to #2
Runner up: Chuck Norris, no one can beat chuck norris, not even chuck norris
sorry had to do it.
Italy
1)Petrach (big influense on the Italian rennaisance)
2)Leanardo da Vinci- for his works of art
3)Tactius (Roman historian)
Greece
1)Aristotle
2)Pythagoras
3)Socraties
For my own country
1)Winston Churchill
2)Isambard K Brunel
3)Charles Darwin
Closely followed by William Shakespeare
1)Petrach (big influense on the Italian rennaisance)
2)Leanardo da Vinci- for his works of art
3)Tactius (Roman historian)
Greece
1)Aristotle
2)Pythagoras
3)Socraties
For my own country
1)Winston Churchill
2)Isambard K Brunel
3)Charles Darwin
Closely followed by William Shakespeare
Hungary:
1. Ernő Rubik. Inventor of the Rubik cube.
2. Elmyr de Hory. Celebrated art forger.
3. John von Neumann.
1. Ernő Rubik. Inventor of the Rubik cube.
2. Elmyr de Hory. Celebrated art forger.
3. John von Neumann.
The UK:
Paul Dirac - Predicted the existance of antimatter and shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Erwin Schrödinger.
Alexander Graham Bell - Credited with the invention of the telephone
Sir Isaac Newton - Gravity(and the laws of), Laws of Motion and numerous other discoveries
Paul Dirac - Predicted the existance of antimatter and shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Erwin Schrödinger.
Alexander Graham Bell - Credited with the invention of the telephone
Sir Isaac Newton - Gravity(and the laws of), Laws of Motion and numerous other discoveries