Most Underrated Person in History
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Argueably, Dante Alighieri.
I don't think I've ever met one person who knew before I told them that Dante had written a book other than Inferno. Sure there's a game about Inferno now, but I don't count it. This guy's fame has fallen off the radar in today's world.
Besides, he invented fan-fiction and where would the internet be without that?
I don't think I've ever met one person who knew before I told them that Dante had written a book other than Inferno. Sure there's a game about Inferno now, but I don't count it. This guy's fame has fallen off the radar in today's world.
Besides, he invented fan-fiction and where would the internet be without that?
Nikola Tesla.
That assface Edison gets all the credit for science in that time period.
Fuck Edison!
That assface Edison gets all the credit for science in that time period.
Fuck Edison!
He may has been mentioned but, I would say El Cid Campeador. He defended a castle while he was dead.
Then how about Pope Pius XII? Schindler saved about a thousand Jews and got a movie made about him. Pius XII saved a few hundred thousand and is called "Hitler's Pope".Queen Michael said:
'In 1945, Rabbi Isaac Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, sent a message to Msgr. Angelo Roncalli (the future Pope John XXIII), expressing his gratitude for the actions taken by Pope Pius XII on behalf of the Jewish people. "The people of Israel," wrote Rabbi Herzog, "will never forget what His Holiness and his illustrious delegates, inspired by the eternal principles of religion, which form the foundation of true civilization, are doing for our unfortunate brothers and sisters in the most tragic hour of our history, which is living proof of Divine Providence in this world."'
A Righteous Gentile: Pope Pius XII and the Jews [http://www.catholicleague.org/pius/dalinframe.htm]
And he predicted what would happen if the war ended and the winners being the union that there would be a tremendous economic disaster. Which happened.bz316 said:
Isaac Newton... yeah I know he is already famous but I don't think he's rated enough STILL.
Here's why:
Pretty much all fundamentals of mechanics (basically all of physics except for the electricity stuff and radiation) were postulated by him and that my friends includes the big-un GRAVITY. Plus he did loads of stuff on light and diffraction etc and thus discovered the visible spectrum of light. He is recognised internationally for this. Scientists even rank him higher than Einstein. With things like Mathematics you often hear how loads of stuff was actually discovered way before the westerners by chinese or indian or arabic people but not this guy. He even got the unti of FORCE named after him... that's as near as you'll get to being a Jedi in this world.
Speaking of maths he also invented calculus which is differeniation and integration to plebs (well, so did another guy at the same time but who really cares about him anyway). Differentiation is also a massive fundamental of maths. You learn it in A level maths and even in my first year of engineering at least half the maths I did had elements of differentiation in it.
Cop shows would be lacking nowadays because he is in fact also the inventor of the "sting" operation which he used to catch counterfeitors when he worked for the Royal Mint in London.
One book ranks him as the 2nd most influential person in history... behind Mohammed and beating Jesus (suck it John Lennon, this guy really is bigger than Jesus).
He was also a very humble man with one famous quote of his being If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Here's why:
Pretty much all fundamentals of mechanics (basically all of physics except for the electricity stuff and radiation) were postulated by him and that my friends includes the big-un GRAVITY. Plus he did loads of stuff on light and diffraction etc and thus discovered the visible spectrum of light. He is recognised internationally for this. Scientists even rank him higher than Einstein. With things like Mathematics you often hear how loads of stuff was actually discovered way before the westerners by chinese or indian or arabic people but not this guy. He even got the unti of FORCE named after him... that's as near as you'll get to being a Jedi in this world.
Speaking of maths he also invented calculus which is differeniation and integration to plebs (well, so did another guy at the same time but who really cares about him anyway). Differentiation is also a massive fundamental of maths. You learn it in A level maths and even in my first year of engineering at least half the maths I did had elements of differentiation in it.
Cop shows would be lacking nowadays because he is in fact also the inventor of the "sting" operation which he used to catch counterfeitors when he worked for the Royal Mint in London.
One book ranks him as the 2nd most influential person in history... behind Mohammed and beating Jesus (suck it John Lennon, this guy really is bigger than Jesus).
He was also a very humble man with one famous quote of his being If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.
He loses recognition in my book for that god awful autobiography.Berserker119 said:
I would say Nixon alot too his era of detente is remarkble in the cooling of the cold war before Reagon gets his lets bomb the bastards mentality.
But truly benedict Arnold without his contributions to the American revolution we would have never gotten aid from france ergo we would have been untrained ergo we would have lost alot of soldiers ergo we would have lost the revolutionary war. The fact that he was so underrated was the reason why he betrayed the American forces because he didn't get the shoutout he deserved.
Fair enough, in that case disregard what I said as the gabberings of a madman who lives in a cave.EMFCRACKSHOT said:
I'll go for Frank Whittle then, he's a very important figure here in Lincolnshire. I live near Cranwell and he gets the recognition he deserves as far as I can tell.
Ah, economics! I suppose that's what you were talking about with the whole "believer of the rights of many against the few." Never mind the millions of people the south was holding in unwilling bondage or the millions of others who owned no slaves and lived in poverty because of the devaluation of labor caused by slavery...Skullkid4187 said:
Seriously.. in which country do you live? Everyone I know knows at least about all three parts of Divine Comedy.Crimson King said:
As for me, it's Marian Rejewski; Polish mathematician and cryptographer who (altogether with few companions) broke the Enigma code - which was quite substantial for Allied victory in World War 2. And I don't know single person who knew, that it wasn't British or American scientist who did that. Bah, some people didn't knew about Enigma at all.
Oh man, I have to agree, I love that guy, along with Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor.ciortas1 said:
