In genius rankings, Wikipedia 20 most influential people is 2012 ranking of the world’s most influential people, born (synthesized) before 1950, compiled by Chilean-born American social physicist Cesar Hidalgo—student (Ѻ) of human physics pioneer Laszlo Barabasi (see: HP pioneers)—head of MIT’s Media Lab’s Macro Connections group, based on parameters such as the number of language editions in which that person has a page, and the number of people known to speak those languages. [1]The top 17 of the Hidalgo 20 can be compared to the top 17 of the Cattell 1000, also shown below, a similar methodology compiled list done famously—it is the backbone to the Cox 300—by American science editor James Cattell in 1894.
List
The following is the Hidalgo compiled Wikipedia-reach based listing of the world’s most influential people, with the exclusion of the three non-existive religio-mythology aggregate figures; also shown are the top 17 of the Cattell 1000, the Hildago-Cattell combined ranking of names common to both listings, ranked by combined mean of ranking number, and the top 17 of the Hmolpedia citation rankings: [2]
The only name common to all three rankings (fourth column), Cattell, Hildago, and Hmolpedia, is Newton, with a tri-list combined ranking of 7.0 in position.
See also
● Who was smarter?
References
1. (a) Medeiros, Joao. (2012). “Infographic: History’s Most Influential People, Ranked by Wikipedia Reach” (Ѻ), Wired.co.uk, Nov 26.
(b) McDermott, Kerry. (2012). “Jesus, Confucius and Sir Isaac Newton to Wikipedia List of History’s Most Influential People” (Ѻ), MailOnline, Nov 28.
2. Removals: Jesus Christ (#1), Confucius (#2), and Buddha (#16), are the three Aggregate non-existive religio-mythology figures removed from the list, as they were not individual “people”, per se; the first and third, i.e. Jesus and Buddha, being religio-mythology figures, derived largely as extensions from the Imhotep-constructed Heliopolis creation myth theory, the second, i.e. Confucius, being largely a Chinese proverbs attributed aggregate figure, arguably non-existive, similar to other mythological figures, such as: Abraham, Moses, Mohammed, Lao Tzu, etc. (Ѻ)
