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These are history’s 10 most influential people according to Wikipedia

A group of computer programmers created a Python script that analyzes dated from Wikipedia articles and ranks them based on length of entry, number of links to pages, and how long the person in the article lived. According to this ranking, here are the 10 most influential people in history:

10. Joseph Stalin

9. Sir Sidney Lee

8. Napoleon

7. George Washington

6. Queen Victoria

5. Winston Churchill

4. Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. Abraham Lincoln

2. Carl Linnaeus

1. Adolf Hitler 

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