George Lucas, really? Einstein could help you count to 5, but I'm going to have to call foul on you list
This should be numbers 1-5 on every list. Just saying. Also at the top of the most under-appreciated people list
The first movie still stands up. Second was good as well. OP - how are you defining "incredible"? Like Andre the Giant drinking cases of wine incredible, or "visionary ahead of their time" incredible? If the latter, DaVinci is #1 with a bullet.
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t check Wiki for their names. You think there’s a chance in hell I can remember the names of every character that rolls across the screen in front of my kids? Well, except for that Hairy Growler one...
Nice conversation starter! I would tend to go with people that were the brains behind the things to come like Rutherford (physicist) not business leaders that pulled together existing science no matter how short term influential they were. Also Hippocrates was an original thinker. People like Henry Ford just introduced business methods that were bound to come out.
Alexander the Great is probably worth considering in this thread. Arguably changed the course of human history (at least western civilization) more than any other human.