The 5 Most Influential People that Never Lived

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Its hard to create an impact regarding this world. You live and attempt to make the most of it, hopefully excelling in some way or different.

And with maybe, at the decline of the road, people will remember you as someone that tainted the world either for augmented or for worse.

Imagine how hard it is to have this available of impact on the subject of the world if you are never even living!

Well, these people managed to do that exact thing..

The 5 Most Influential People

Here is a list of 5, for now. In future, we will try to make this list abroad.

1 Robin Hood

An argument could be made that Robin Hood was based on someone that actually lived in about the same area at about the same time that did about the same things, but the Robin Hood we all know right now is a lot less … barbaric than the real version.

Digital Illustration Project Robin Hood by Joshua Chew
Digital Illustration Project Robin Hood by Joshua Chew.
Image source: artstation.com

2 Santa Claus

Santa Claus—otherwise known as Saint Nicholas or Kris Kringle — has a long history steeped in Christmas traditions. source: history.com

Cartoonist Thomas Nast drew several depictions of Santa Claus for Harpers Weekly. This cartoon comes from around 1881
Cartoonist Thomas Nast drew several depictions of Santa Claus for Harpers Weekly. This cartoon comes from around 1881.
Image source: history.com

I mean, let’s be honest, Christmas isn’t really about Jesus being born anymore, is it? It’s about a fat, bearded man climbing through your chimney to give you presents if you’ve been nice.

And if you haven’t been nice or don’t own a house with a chimney, you’re pretty much screwed.

3 Barbie

Despite Barbie not being an actual person, she has shaped society’s image of girls and how girls should behave for decades.

Heck, even her impossible figure has set the tone for what a girl’s body should look like.

Barbie for President. Barbie began her run for president in 1992, and has launched six consecutive campaigns.
Barbie for President. Barbie began her run for president in 1992, and has launched six consecutive campaigns.
Image source: history.com

Actually, Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. Info from Wikipedia

American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.

4 Rosie The Riveter

Women weren’t allowed in the army, but that didn’t mean that women couldn’t fight the war!

Rosie gave American women that small push they needed to take up jobs in the factories to keep the economy going while their men were off to war.

Rosie the Riveter displaying that women "Can Do It"
Rosie the Riveter displaying that women “Can Do It”.
Image source: storymaps.arcgis.com

Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II, and she became perhaps the most iconic image of working women.

American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers during the war, as widespread male enlistment left gaping holes in the industrial labor force.

Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home. Info from History.com

5 Romeo And Juliet

‘Romance is a dream that still lives in the hearts of millions’: Romeo and Juliet, They didn’t actually exist, but their story did inspire millions of women across the world into thinking they need to wait for the perfect man that’s willing to give his life for them.

Sadly, those same women usually grow up realizing that the perfect man doesn’t exist. You can swap the genders around in this story, since Romeo and Juliet pretty much screws it up for everyone.

'Romance is a dream that still lives in the hearts of millions': Romeo and Juliet, 1884, depicted in oil on canvas by Frank Bernard Dicksee. It hangs in Southampton City Art Gallery
Romeo and Juliet, 1884, depicted in oil on canvas by Frank Bernard Dicksee. It hangs in Southampton City Art Gallery.
Image source: dailymail.co.uk

The painting above of a stolen kiss between the most famous star-crossed lovers of them all has been voted the most romantic artwork in Britain.

Experts say that Romeo and Juliet, painted in oil by Frank Bernard Dicksee in 1884, remains popular because we all still crave ‘passion and faithfulness’. Info from Mail Online

Actually, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.

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