Mahatma Gandhi's principles were good enough to motivate ordinary people in India as well as Martin Luther King of the United States. I would not be surprised that those principles will hold good for the next 1,000 years too.
Tilly Karupaiah, Malaysia
Mahatma Gandhi is the one man (and now it is already becoming difficult to believe that he was a man in flesh and blood) that led an illiterate and backward-looking people by personal example. He used reason and love where others would have used force.
Mukesh Agarwal, Russia
Gandhi's views are applicable in any part of the world, at any point of time, in any type of situation.
Kamal Taparia
Mahatma Gandhi's concept of non-violent civil disobedience as a form of protest, will be used by people for long time and is a gift to humanity in an otherwise violent world.
Rajesh Krishnamurthy
How could anyone be greater than the man whose (approximate) birth-date created the millennium date in the first place? Furthermore, there isn't anyone who has impacted the world as much as Jesus, over such an extended period of history and throughout such a vast diversity of cultures, ethnic groups and lands.
Jonathan Wilson, Zambia
Jesus Christ's ideals still persist in the world, and have made a profound and lasting impact.
Chris Guerra
As the world's greatest painter-designer-inventor-engineer-architect, Leonardo da Vinci had the greatest vision and his ideas have affected and influenced the shape of our lives today more than any other individual.
Judith Taylor, Netherlands
Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and a scientist at the same time, and he has a lot say even today and in the next millennium too.
Graziella, Italy
In modern times what Nelson Mandela has achieved for human rights is unsurpassed. He had a lengthy spell in prison and suffered badly, but he came back, fought for his ideals and with tremendous scrutiny by the wide world brought relative peace to South Africa.
Colin White
Nelson Mandela's outstanding lack of bitterness after 27 years in prison and his pre-eminent role in the reconciliation between races.
Rainer Hornung, Denmark
Sir Isaac Newton completely changed our understanding of the physical world, the behaviour of objects and time.
Neil Clough, UK
A neglected thinker, Karl Marx made a deep analysis of the currently leading political system and its deficiencies.
Djordje Vidanovic, Denmark
