The following is from Michael Hart's book and lists Prophet Muhammad as the most influential man in History. A Citadel Press Book, published by Carol Publishing Group Ranking, list of 100 most influential persons in history:
- Prophet Muhammad
- Isaac Newton
- Jesus Christ
- Buddha
- Confucius
- St. Paul
- Ts'ai Lun
- Johann Gutenberg
- Christopher Columbus
- Albert Einstein
- Karl Marx
- Louis Pasteur
- Galileo Galilei
- Aristotle
- Lenin
- Moses
- Charles Darwin
- Shih Huang Ti
- Augustus Caesar
- Mao Tse-tung
- Genghis Khan
- Euclid
- Martin Luther
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- James Watt
- Constantine the Great
- George Washington
- Michael Faraday
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
- Sigmund Freud
- Alexander the Great
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Adolf Hitler
- William Shakespeare
- Adam Smith
- Thomas Edison
- Anthony van Leeuwenhoek
- Plato
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Werner Heisenberb
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Fleming
- Simon Bolivar
- Oliver Cromwell
- John Locke
- Michelangelo
- Pope Urban II
- Umar ibn al-Khattab
- Asoka
- St. Augustine
- Max Planck
- John Calvin
- William T.G. Morton
- William Harvey
- Antoine Henri Becquerel
- Gregor Mendel
- Joseph Lister
- Nikolaus August Otto
- Louis Daguerre
- Joseph Stalin
- Rene Descartes
- Julius Caesar
- Francisco Pizarro
- Hernando Cortes
- Queen Isabella I
- William the Conqueror
- Thomas Jefferson
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Edward Jenner
- Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
- Hohann Sebastian Bach
- Lao Tzu
- Enrico Fermi
- Thomas Malthus
- Francis Bacon
- Voltaire
- John F. Kennedy
- Gregory Pincus
- Sui Wen Ti
- Mani
- Vasco da Gama
- Charlemagne
- Cyprus the Great
- Leonhard Euler
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Zoroaster
- Menes
- Peter the Great
- Mencius
- John Dalton
- Homer
- Queen Elizabeth
- Justinian I
- fJohannes Kepler
- Pablo Picasso
- Mahavira
- Niels Boh
