In search of a great Arab leader? - In Depth. Forty years after the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the late Egyptian president, his position remains unfilled: No other leader has emerged as a symbol of pan-Arab unity and the struggle for independence from Western influence. Nasser, who was the president of Egypt between 1956 and 1970, wielded great influence on the Arab intelligentsia and masses alike. His weekly speeches brought Arab streets to a standstill as the people listened, mesmerised, to his every sentence broadcast on Egyptian radio. His words resonated in the alleyways of neighbourhoods across Arab cities and towns - at times in defiance of pro-Western governments in countries such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia, whose regimes viewed him with fear and suspicion. His pull was so strong that his positions defined people's outlook and moved them to oppose what they viewed as complacent and impotent governments. Product of his era Friends and allies Etched on Arab memory From the onset Israel saw Nasser's leadership as a threat.
The World's Most Powerful People List. List of Arab scientists and scholars. Khalid ibn al-Walid The Great Arab General From Military Strategy Gurus A to Z. The Great Arab General - From Military Strategy Gurus & Masters "Khalid ibn al-Walid" Who was Khalid ibn al-Walid Khālid ibn al-Walīd (592-642) (Arabic: خالد بن الوليد) also known as Sayf-Allah al-Maslul (the Drawn Sword of God or Sword of Allah), was one of the two famous Arab generals of the Rashidun army during the Muslim conquests of the 7th Century. The other great general was Amr ibn al-'As. He is noted for his military prowess, commanding the forces of Muhammad and those of his immediate successors of the Rashidun Caliphate; Abu Bakr and Umar ibn al-Khattab.
In having the distinction of being undefeated in over a hundred battles against the numerically superior forces of the Byzantine Roman Empire, Sassanid Persian Empire, and their allies, he is regarded as one of the finest military commanders in history. Khalid ibn Walid was from the Meccan tribe of Quraish, who opposed Muhammad, and he played a vital role in their victory at the Battle of Uhud. Legacy See also: Bin Laden wins votes in contest for 'greatest Arab'
UK | Wales | Bevan is ultimate Welsh hero. NHS founder Aneurin Bevan has beaten off icons from the ancient and modern world in an online poll to find the greatest-ever Welsh person. In results on Monday - St David's Day - the post-war health minister was the most popular out of 100 people. The competition was stiff - he beat the 15th Century rebel prince of Wales Owain Glyndwr by just 117 votes.
Singer Tom Jones was third, Plaid's first MP Gwynfor Evans fourth and actor Richard Burton fifth. The announcement at a ceremony in Cardiff Bay brought to an end six-months' of online voting organised by Culturenet Cymru - funded by the Welsh assembly - thought to be the largest poll of its kind attracting more than 3.5 million hits and 85,000 registered votes. A trustee of the Bevan Foundation and leader of the Transport and General Workers Union, Jim Hancock, championed Aueurin Bevan, who was MP for Ebbw Vale from 1929 to 1960, at the Cardiff event.
"An icon of the left, he was a true working class hero," said Mr Hancock. Famous People - Famous People in History, Famous People List & Biography. RTÉ Television: Ireland's Greatest. At the end of 2009 Ipsos/ MRBI, the independent market research agency, conducted a survey amongst a nationally representative sample of Irish respondents aged 15+. Quotas were set by gender, age, social class and region to ensure a representative sample of the population was achieved. Eligibility was based on Irish Citizenship rules and in the interests of balance & fairness, serving politicians and RTÉ personalities were excluded from the survey. On Monday March 22nd the top 40 names from this survey were put up on the RTÉ website (in alphabetical order), and people were then given the chance to vote for their greatest Irish person from that Top 40. Two weeks later, the web vote closed and the Top Ten was announced.
Now, after thousands of public votes on the RTE Website, the search for Ireland's Greatest has been narrowed down to the final five: Bono, Michael Collins, James Connolly, John Hume and Mary Robinson. Voting Details. Top 100 Greatest Germans. This is a list of the 100 famous Germans, including statesmen such as: Adenaueur, Brandt and Bismark and culturual figures such as Bach, Goethe and Gutenberg. 1. Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) West Germany's first chancellor after the Second World War (1949-63).
He played a key role in the re-integration of Germany in European and international affairs. He forged closer ties with France, US and the European Community. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Other Famous Germans This list is partly inspired from a German TV programme Unsere Besten ("Our Best") shown on German public television (ZDF) in November 2003, similar to the BBC series 100 Greatest Britons. Infamous Germans Adolf Hitler Related pages Germans who resisted Hitler and the Nazis. Adenauer voted Germany's greatest. German television viewers have voted post-war Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as the greatest German of all time.
More than three million votes were registered by phone, text message and over the internet in a contest run on ZDF television. Reformation Monk Martin Luther came second, with communist philosopher Karl Marx third. Adolf Hitler and other Nazis were excluded from the poll. The final of the Greatest German series was fought between 10 figures, including physicist Albert Einstein and the inventor of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg.
Economic miracle Composer Johann Sebastian Bach and writer Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe were also in the running. Famous names from Germany and abroad were shown making the case for their favourite. Bill Gates championed Gutenberg, while the leader of Germany's Communist Party after the fall of the Berlin Wall argued in favour of Karl Marx, to applause from a small but raucous section of the studio audience. 100 Greatest Britons. 100 Greatest Britons was broadcast in 2002 by the BBC. The programme was based on a television poll conducted to determine whom the United Kingdom public considered the greatest British people in history.[1][2] The series, Great Britons, included individual programmes featuring the individuals who featured in the top ten, with viewers having further opportunities to vote after each programme.[3] It concluded with a debate.
All of the top 10 were dead by the year of broadcast. The poll resulted in nominees including Guy Fawkes, who was executed for trying to blow up the Parliament of England; Oliver Cromwell who created a republican England; Richard III, suspected of murdering his nephews; James Connolly, an Irish nationalist and socialist who was executed by the Crown in 1916; and a surprisingly high ranking of 17th for actor and singer Michael Crawford (the second highest-ranked entertainer, after John Lennon). Top 10 on the list[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Entertainment | Churchill voted greatest Briton. Sir Winston Churchill has been named the greatest Briton of all time in a nationwide poll attracting more than a million votes. Participants in the survey voted the second World War leader top of the list of the country's 100 most significant individuals, with 447,423 votes. He beat his nearest rival, engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, by more than 56,000 votes.
Proceeds from phone votes will fund a permanent memorial to Churchill at a venue yet to be decided. The result came after a lively two-hour live debate on BBC2 in which celebrities including former Tory minister Michael Portillo and TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson argued the case for their choices for greatest Briton. It marked the conclusion of a month-long survey in which viewers cast their votes by telephone and e-mail. Late surge Former Northern Ireland Secretary Dr Mo Mowlam put the case for Churchill in the last of six BBC documentaries this week, provoking a late surge of support for him.
In third place was Diana, Princess of Wales. Press Office - Top 10 Great Britons. The Greatest American. The Greatest American was a four-part American television series hosted by Matt Lauer in 2005. The show featured biographies and lists of influential persons in U.S. history, and culminated in a contest in which millions in the audience nominated and voted for the person they felt was the "greatest American". The competition was conducted by AOL and the Discovery Channel and reported on by the BBC. Nominations[edit] Nominations were accepted through 31 January 2005. Top 25[edit] Alphabetical list[edit] On 18 April 2005, AOL and The Discovery Channel announced the top 100 nominees.
The remaining 75 nominees: References[edit] External links[edit] The Greatest American page on The Discovery Channel. The Greatest Americans.