8/04/2006

Quoting People's Daily Online -- 50 foreigners shaping China's modern development

Potrivit Scinteii Chinezesti (China Daily) cei cincizeci de straini care au influentat China moderna ii includ pe:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778): Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist and thinker;

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766 - 1834): British political economist and founder of population theory;

Hans Andersen (1805 - 1875): Well-known Danish writer of fairy tales;

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1875): Famous British Naturalist;

Karl Marx (1818 - 1883): German philosopher, thinker, social scientist and political theorist;

Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906): great Norwegian playwright;

Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939): Austrian originator of psychoanalysis;

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941): One of India's greatest poet, writer, artist as well as social activist;

Vladimir Lenin (1870 - 1924): Founder of former Soviet Union and Communism;

John D. Rockefeller, Jr (1874 - 1960): Son of the creator of Standard Oil and philanthropist;

Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) (1879 - 1953): Great former Soviet Union leader;

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955): German-born American physicist;

Harland Sanders (1890 - 1980): Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC);

Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971): Former premier of the Soviet Union;

Matsusita Kounosuke (1894 - 1989): Founder of Panasonic, world's renown household appliance in Japan;

Otto Braun (Li De in Chinese) (1901 - 1974): Military advisor Communist International of Germany to China;

Richard Milhous Nixon (1913 - 1994): One of the most influential presidents in American history;

Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920 - ): Former IOC president and social activist from Spain;

Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923 - ): Former U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State;

Alvin Toffler (1928 - ): American sociologist;

Steven Spielberg (1947 - ): Famous Hollywood movie director;

Bill Gates (1955 - ): Founder of software giant Microsoft;

Michael Jordan (1963 - ): American basketball legend.

Quoting People's Daily Online -- 50 foreigners shaping China's modern development

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