based on their whole lives, not isolated events. No athletes. Women ok.

My answer: Jesus. The most influential man in history of mankind with the biggest following second to none.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Greatest composer ever.

Votaire: defender of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and the right to a fair trial. Voltaire distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the masses (today america excellent example). To Voltaire, only an enlightened monarch or an enlightened absolutist, advised by philosophers like himself, could bring about change as it was in the king's rational interest to improve the power and wealth of his subjects and kingdom. Voltaire essentially believed monarchy to be the key to progress and change.
Plus a great sense of humor. Jean-Baptiste Rousseau sent a copy of his "Ode to Posterity" to Voltaire. Voltaire read it through and said, "I do not think this poem will reach its destination