There is such a psychological test: a person is asked quickly and without hesitation to name a poet, fruit and bird. Interestingly, 90% of people immediately call Pushkin, an apple and chicken. Pushkin is undoubtedly a genius of literature. And who else can be ranked among the outstanding personalities of the past, what outstanding personalities of our time are known?
Pledge of fame
Those who left a significant mark in history will be remembered for centuries, and it doesn’t matter in which area they “inherited” - politics, art or science.
Prominent personalities are celebrities who care about the minds of hundreds of thousands of people. How did they manage to reach the top? What is it, natural giftedness and genius, work on oneself or just a finger of fate? It seems that on the way to world fame all 3 factors are mandatory:
- Talent. He must be present. Yashin is a great goalkeeper, Einstein is a gifted physicist, Richelieu is a talented politician, and Leonardo da Vinci is just a genius. Each of them is an outstanding personality of his time.
- Industriousness. Without it, talent will simply be buried in the ground.
- Fate A certain set of circumstances often plays a decisive role in the life of a genius and takes him to the path of public recognition.
The most famous personalities in the world
You can conduct an experiment: sit down at the table and write offhand all the most famous personalities in the world. Each will have its own list. Who can enter there? Of the writers - Pushkin, Lermontov, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Exupery, Shakespeare, Byron. The outstanding personalities of our time in literature are Joan Rowling and Stephen King, and maybe Astrid Lindgren.
Of the artists - the immortal da Vinci, Picasso, Van Gogh, the unsurpassed marine painter Aivazovsky, Levitan and Shishkin.
Of the women, Cleopatra, the beautiful Roxolana, the legendary Mata Hari and the inimitable Coco Chanel. And also Monica Bellucci, Greta Garbo, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren - outstanding personalities of our time. All of them became famous thanks to their bright appearance and acting talent.
Historical figures - Louis XIV, Cardinal Richelieu, Peter I, Catherine II, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Fidel Castro, Roosevelt.
Among scientists, one cannot help but recall Lomonosov, Newton, Archimedes, Tsialkovsky, Mendeleev. Perelman Grigory Yakovlevich is an outstanding personality of Russia of our time, a mathematician well-known throughout the world who proved the Poincare conjecture.
The list goes on
Maya Plisetskaya is an icon of the Soviet ballet. She set a record - she danced on stage until she was 65, hardly anyone can repeat her achievement. But besides her there were Marie Ramberg, Anna Pavlova, Matilda Kshesinskaya, Ulanova.
Our country has presented the world with many famous people in the past and in the present. Outstanding people of our time in Russia have proven themselves in various fields:
- Sport - Alina Kabaeva; Elena Isinbaeva, who set 27 world records and jumps with a pole to a height of 5.06 m; Alexander Karelin, whom 13 years no one could defeat in Greco-Roman wrestling; Sergey Bubka; Vladislav Tretyak; undefeated skater Irina Rodnina;
- art - the whole world is admired by the works of artists Sergei Marshennikov, Dmitry Annenkov, Nikolai Blokhin, Stanislav Plutenko, Konstantin Lupanov, Alexey Chernigin;
- fashion - Natalia Vodianova, Vlada Roslyakova and Sasha Pivovarova - one of the highest paid models in the world;
- scientists - Sergey Brin (immigrated to America, together with mathematician Larry Page created Google, known to everyone), Zhores Alferov, Yuri Oganesyan, Alexey Starobinsky.
All of them are outstanding personalities of the new time, distinguished by their talents and incredible hard work.
No one should be forgotten
World history is like a huge picture of puzzles, and each puzzle in it is in its place, otherwise we would not know our world as we see it today. With billions of invisible threads, our past is firmly connected with the present, and each outstanding personality of his time played a role in the life scene.
Each area had its own outstanding personalities, and to list them all, you will need a multi-volume encyclopedia.
Can literature cross out Jules Verne, Defoe, Nosov, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Zhukovsky, Chukovsky, Bulgakov, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle or Jane Austen? Also significant are the works of great philosophers - Confucius, Diogenes, Aristotle, Luther, Machiavelli.
Mahatma Gandhi, Lincoln, Churchill, Mao Zedong, de Gaulle - politicians who were able to change the face of countries, charismatic personalities, which enthralled hundreds of thousands of ordinary people.
Caesar, Macedonian, Napoleon, Nevsky, Dorn, Suvorov, Kutuzov - the greatest commanders of their time. The list goes on: Tamerlan, Genghis Khan, Hannibal Barka, Saladin and others.
In a century of great geographical discoveries, China, Portugal, Spain, and Italy presented the world with the greatest travelers, fearless romantics, and people of duty who opened a new page in the era.
Dramatic medicine
Few people know that many doctors carried out deadly experiments on themselves, some of which ended tragically. The purpose of the experiments was to save humanity, to find cures for unknown diseases, to study viruses and bacteria. These are Max Pettenkofer, Rudolf Emmerich, Ilya Mechnikov, the English doctor White, the French doctor Bular, Antoine Clot, the Austrian doctor Rosenfeld, Dr. Finlay, Lasear, the Englishman Ross and the Italian Grassi and other heroes who sacrificed themselves for the sake of science. Their motto is: "Shining on others, I burn."
Hippocrates and Avicena, Sklifasovsky, Botkin, Amosov, Bekhterev, cardiologist Bakeria, Leyla Denmark, Freud, Louis Pasteur and many more talented doctors - surgeons, virologists, pediatricians, oncologists, oculists, gynecologists - all of whom are outstanding personalities millions.
Unknown heroes
We know, remember and honor those famous people who are captured in history, who have become the main characters of outstanding events in this or that sphere. But in everyday life, those who live daily are risking themselves in the name of our safety and well-being.
April 1986 - a terrible accident in Chernobyl. Dozens of engineers, soldiers, firefighters, and just social activists gave their lives, extinguishing the raging atomic death flame.
March 2007 - a fire raged in a nursing home in the city of Yeysk. Of all the staff, only one nurse rushed to save patients. She saved the lives of more than 30 old people, but she died heroically from asphyxiation.
September 2004 - Lieutenant Turkin died by covering a grenade with his body. She was thrown by terrorists into a group of children.
The fifth grader Sergey Krivov saved the child by pulling him out of the river. About his exploit it became known by chance, he did not even tell anyone about it, showing not only the courage of a real man, but also the modesty of a spiritually rich person.
During the fire, 12-year-old Stas Slynko took his 5-year-old sister out of the fire, saving his child’s life. His heroism was marked by the medal "For courage in a fire." Professionals noted that in a critical situation the guy acted surprisingly accurately, preserving the composure and endurance of an adult man in the face of danger.
All of them and many others are outstanding personalities of our time.
Many heroes are called Bruce Willis, Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan. But you should remember that their life is a game. They transform into heroes in front of the camera. In life, these are the most ordinary people, and how they behave in moments of danger is unknown.
Top famous personalities
In every country in every era there were outstanding personalities. Who can determine with certainty - Hegel or Copernicus made a greater contribution to science, or maybe Pierre and Maria Curie or academician Sakharov?
Undoubtedly, the astronauts Gagarin, Leonov, Tereshkova, Svetlana Savitskaya and Anatoly Solovyov are outstanding people of all times and peoples in Russian society. But no less courageous are Bering, Columbus, Magellan and Amundsen, the significance of the discoveries of which can hardly be overestimated.
If you return to the world of art, on what scale can you measure the talents of artists Diego Velazquez or Caravaggio, Claude Monet or Filippo Brunelleschi? Or how can you compare the talents of Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Mozart and Bach?
Mother Teresa is a nun who has dedicated her life to helping the poor and infirm. Through her work, she saved thousands of lives, restored hope to millions.
But is not Bill Gates - the founder of Microsoft and the richest man in the world - not worthy to be called an outstanding personality? And Walt Disney, whose cartoons have long become classics of the children's cinema? Or Olivier, who created the famous salad, included in the menu of every mistress of Russia? Therefore, it is impossible to designate 10 outstanding people of all time, this is too narrow a framework.
