The Great Leader (Guess) List

[mrboo123]

Since Civ4 still far away (2 months?) and I'm bored, how about we talk about which great leaders (not the leader of the civs, but the tycoons, scientists, artists, etc.) should be in the game? I might be helpful if you tells us which one he/she is in.

[LordShiva]

JP Morgan

Marco Polo

Leo da Vinci

Aristotle

Ibn Batuta

[molly bloom]

al Biruni

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~~history/Mathematicians/Al-Biruni.html

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/brunel_kingdom_isambard.shtml

al Tusi

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~~history/Mathematicians/Al-Tusi_Nasir.html

Roger Bacon

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~~history/Mathematicians/Bacon.html

Kautilya

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1986595.stm

Heron of Alexandria

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~~history/Mathematicians/Heron.html

Behzad

http://www.afghanmagazine.com/arts/behzad/behzad.html

[Dis]

edit: I misread the original post

[Addled Platypus]

Madam Currie
Alfred Einstein
Sister Terresa
Stephen Hawking
Nobel
Oppenheimer

Afraid I dony know of any tycoons out of the US

NO Donald Trump

[Dis]

Westinghouse

[joncnunn]

Thomas Edison
Grant
Sherman
McArthur
Patton

[Aro]

Sophocles
Voltaire
Charles Chaplin (I don’t know if England, American or Swiss )
Woody Allen







Edited to makes sense...

[Yolky]

Alexander Grahm Bell. Without him no Telephone, no internet.

Tesla inveted the radio

Forgot my Canadain history, but the person who invented the vaccine for polio, that could help city health.

What's his name who is a billionare in England who owns the soccer teams. What about Ted Turner for TV, wich could help entertainment.

Ford for cars, more production since you get your products to places faster.

I don't know if this is what you are looking for, might have read your post wrong.

davor

[Zoid]

Arthur C Clarke, a true visionary. Came up with the idea of putting satellites in geostationary orbit. Thus making it possible to send TV and phone signals around the globe.

http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/

[Dis]

Originally posted by joncnunn
Thomas Edison
Grant
Sherman
McArthur
Patton

Edison is waay overated. DC power sucks. I prefer Tesla.

And Sherman. Isn't he a war criminal? Blame him for the total war strategy other people used in later wars (such as ww2)

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Yolky
Alexander Grahm Bell. Without him no Telephone, no internet.

IIRC some other guy from the other side of the US tried to patent the telephone the same day as Bell did, but he was a few hours late so he didn't get it

[GeoModder]

Konstantin Tsjolkovski, the father of rocketry

Charles Babbage, the 'inventor' of the computer

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by Yolky
Alexander Grahm Bell. Without him no Telephone, no internet.

Without him, someone else almost certainly would have figured it out in plenty of time to provide the infrastructure for the Internet. I'm not trying to denigrate Bell's achievement, but it is a mistake to assume that just because a particular person invented something first, we would not have it without that person.

[OliverFA]

Elvis!!!