Who has changed history, good or bad?

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I am writing a history paper, and need to pick a "change agent". (Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King). Except I want to write about someone people usually don't think about. Like, the apgar score lady. Do you have any good ideas?
 
el cid campidor was one of the greatest heroes in history he was exiled twice & he died on his horse writing a poem & during the battle over the land his wife took the throne & after she took the throne the men defending the castle saw his dead bodie & they lost the condidence to fight but while only 1 man saw the body he defended his corpse with his life & when it was over the king resigned & the man told the other men that el cid has died on his horse & so his wife took the throne & she shouted out the castle "el cid shall live forever in spirit"
 
Freud, the "father of psychoanalysis"

Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press. His invention of the printing press 'made literacy and education possible for everyone because they could access writings that had once been too expensive or too rare for the common man or woman'

Queen Elizabeth I, whose reign was called "the Golden Age." Restored the Church of England to power after Queen Mary

Gregory Pincus, endocrinologist and developer of the birth control pill

Joseph Lister, English surgeon who introduced carbolic acid to sterilize surgical instruments and to clean wounds; totally changed surgical procedures

Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin

Charles Darwin

Elizabeth Blackwell, first American woman awarded a medical degree by a college; founded a woman's medical college

Marie Curie, whose investigations led to discovery of radioactivity and the element radium

Mary Baker Eddy, the only American woman to found a lasting American-based religion, the Church of Christ, Scientist

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the position of U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Margaret Sanger, founder of the birth control movement in the US, and started Planned Parenthood

Victoria Woodhull, first woman to be nominated for and campaign for the US presidency; also, along with her sister, was one of the first two female stockbrokers on Wall Street
 
Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin: Structure of DNA. There are TONS of things you could write about them
 
Some downright evil people you might write about:

Idi Amin, former President of Uganda, responsible for up to half a million deaths in the nation, rumored to be a cannibal.

Pol Pot, former leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, a communist revolutionary movement, responsible for the deaths of about 21% of the population of the country, up to 2.5 million people.

Maximilien Robespierre, one of the most prominent figures of the French Revolution, responsible in large part for the Reign of Terror that ended only with his execution.

Some good people you might write about:

Virginia Apgar, the "apgar lady" you mentioned.

Benjamin Rush, who considered to be the "Father of American Psychiatry." He improved the scene for treating psychiatric illnesses and developed the disease theory of addiction. He was also an early abolitionist.

Jonas Salk, who developed the first effective vaccine for polio.

A few others:
C. R. Alder Wright, who invented heroin.

Grigori Rasputin, whose bizarre persona helped incite the Russian February Revolution, ending the Romanov dynasty. (There are some interesting stories about what happened to his penis after he was assassinated.)

Helena Blavatsky, whose "Theosophical Society" founded the basis for modern new age spirituality.
 
if you really really wanna go far out on a limb....hmmmmm go with Shih Huang Ti lol. First emporer to unify China. easily justifiable.
 
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