Outstanding personalities of our time. Outstanding personalities of Russia

There is such a psychological test: a person is asked to quickly and without hesitation name the poet, fruit and poultry. It is interesting that 90% of people immediately call Pushkin, an apple and a chicken. Pushkin is undoubtedly the genius of literature. And who else can be ranked among the outstanding personalities of the past, what outstanding figures of our time are known?

A pledge of fame

Those who left a notable mark in history will be remembered for centuries, and it does not matter in what area they have "inherited" - politics, art or science.

Outstanding 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 talent and genius, work on yourself or just a finger of fate? It seems that on the way to world fame all three factors are mandatory:

1. Talent. He must be present. Yashin - a great goalkeeper, Einstein - a gifted physicist, Richelieu - a talented politician, and Leonardo da Vinci - just a genius. Each of them is an outstanding personality of his time.
2. Industriousness. Without him, talent will simply be buried in the ground.
3. Fate. A certain confluence 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 of the world. Everyone will get their own list. Who can go in there? From literary men - Pushkin, Lermontov, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Exupery, Shakespeare, Byron. Outstanding personalities of our time in the literature are Joanne Rowling and Stephen King, or maybe Astrid Lindgren.

Of the artists - the immortal da Vinci, Picasso, Van Gogh, the unsurpassed maritime artist Aivazovsky, Levitan and Shishkin.

Of the women - Cleopatra, beautiful Roksolana, the legendary Mata Hari and inimitable Coco Chanel. And also Monica Bellucci, Greta Garbo, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren are outstanding personalities of our time. All of them became famous due to their bright appearance and actor's talent.

Historical figures - Louis XIV, Cardinal Richelieu, Peter I, Catherine II, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Fidel Castro, Roosevelt.

Among scientists it is impossible not to recall Lomonosov, Newton, Archimedes, Tsialkovsky, Mendeleyev. Perelman Grigory Yakovlevich - the outstanding personality of Russia of our time, a world-famous mathematician who proved the Poincare conjecture.

The list can be continued

Maya Plisetskaya is an icon of the Soviet ballet. She set a record - she danced to 65 years on stage, hardly anyone can repeat her achievement. But besides her there were also Marie Ramberg, Anna Pavlova, Matilda Kshesinskaya, Ulanova.

Our country has given the world many famous people in the past and in the present. The outstanding people of our time of Russia have shown themselves in various fields:

• Sport - Alina Kabaeva; Elena Isinbayeva, who set 27 world records and jumps with a pole to a height of 5.06 m; Alexander Karelin, who for 13 years no one could have won in the Greco-Roman wrestling; Sergei Bubka; Vladislav Tretiak; Undefeated figure skater Irina Rodnina;
• Art - the whole world admires the works of artists Sergey Marchennikov, Dmitry Annenkov, Nikolai Blokhin, Stanislav Plutenko, Konstantin Lupanov, Alexei Chernigin;
• Fashion - Natalia Vodyanova, Vlad Roslyakova and Sasha Pivovarova - one of the highest paid models in the world;
• Scientists - Sergey Brin (he immigrated to America, together with mathematician Larry Page created the famous Google), Zhores Alferov, Yuri Oganesyan, Alexei Starobinsky.

All of them are outstanding figures of the new time, distinguished by their talents and incredible diligence.

No one should be forgotten

World history is like a huge picture of puzzles, and every puzzle in it is in its place, otherwise we would not have known our world as we see it today. Billions of invisible threads our past is firmly connected with modernity, and each outstanding personality of his time played a certain role on the life scene.

In each sphere, there were outstanding personalities, and to list them all, a multivolume encyclopedia would be needed.

Can literature delete Jules Verne, Defoe, Nosov, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Zhukovsky, Chukovsky, Bulgakov, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle or Jane Austen? Also important are the works of the 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 who carried away hundreds of thousands of inhabitants.

Caesar, Macedonian, Napoleon, Nevsky, Dorn, Suvorov, Kutuzov - the greatest commanders of his time. The list can be continued: Tamerlane, Genghis Khan, Hannibal Barca, Saladin and others.

In the century of great geographical discoveries, China, Portugal, Spain, Italy presented the world with the greatest travelers, fearless romantics, people of duty who opened a new page of the era.

Dramatic Medicine

Few people know that many doctors carried out life-threatening experiments, some of which ended tragically. The aim of the experiments was to save mankind, to find medicines from unknown diseases, to study viruses and bacteria. They are Max Pettenkofer, Rudolf Emmerich, Ilya Mechnikov, the English physician White, the French doctor Bylar, Antoine Clotte, the Austrian doctor Rosenfeld, Dr. Finlay, Lacear, the Englishman Ross and the Italian Grassi and other heroes who sacrificed themselves for the sake of science. Their motto is "Shining Others, Burning."

Hippocrates and Avicenna, Sklifasovsky, Botkin, Amosov, Bekhterev, cardiologist Bakeriya, Leila Denmark, Freud, Louis Pasteur and many more talented doctors - surgeons, virologists, pediatricians, oncologists, ophthalmologists, gynecologists - they are all outstanding personalities whose activities save lives Million.

Unknown heroes

We know, we remember and revere those famous people who are sealed in history, who became the main characters of outstanding events in this or that sphere. But in everyday life, those who daily risk themselves in the name of our security and well-being live next to us.

April 1986 - a terrible accident in Chernobyl. Dozens of engineers, soldiers, firefighters and just community members gave their lives, extinguishing the raging atomic fatal flames.

March 2007 - a fire broke out in a nursing home in the town of Yeisk. Of all the staff, only one nurse rushed to save the patients. She saved the lives of more than 30 old people, but she heroically died from suffocation.

September 2004 - Lieutenant Turkin was killed, covering his body with a grenade. She was thrown by terrorists in a group of children.

Pyatiglassnik Sergei Krivov saved the child, pulling him out of the river. About his exploit became known by chance, he did not even tell anyone about this, having shown not only the courage of a real man, but also the modesty of a spiritually rich man.

12-year-old Stas Slynko during the fire took out of the fire his 5-year-old sister, saving the child's life. His heroism was awarded a medal "For courage in the fire." Professionals noted that in a critical situation the boy acted surprisingly accurately, keeping in the face of danger the coolness and endurance of an adult male.

All of them and many others are outstanding figures of our time.

Many heroes are called Bruce Willis, Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan. But we must remember that their life is a game. They are reincarnated as 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 were outstanding personalities. Who can determine with certainty whether Hegel or Copernicus made a greater contribution to science, or perhaps Pierre and Marie Curie or Academician Sakharov?

Undoubtedly, cosmonauts Gagarin, Leonov, Tereshkova, Svetlana Savitskaya and Anatoly Soloviev are outstanding people of all time and people in Russian society. But no less courageous Bering, Columbus, Magellan and Amundsen, the importance of discoveries which can not be overestimated.

If you go back to the art world, then by what scale can you measure the talents of artists Diego Velasquez 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 the infirm. Through her activities she saved thousands of lives, returned hope to millions.

And is Bill Gates - the founder of Microsoft and the richest man in the world - not worthy of being called an outstanding personality? And Walt Disney, whose cartoons have long become the classics of a children's cinema? Or Olivier, who created the famous salad, which entered the menu of every mistress of Russia? Therefore, it is impossible to identify 10 outstanding people of all time, this is too narrow a framework.

The most famous person in the world

Despite the fact that people who deserve all due respect and admiration, you can count a lot, still there is a personality that has been the most significant and influential in history for many centuries. This is Jesus Christ. Scientific research has confirmed its existence, but no one can comprehend its charisma and unprecedented influence on the entire Christian world for over 2000 years. This can only be explained by the divine essence of Christ.