Over the past month the BBC have been running a series of programmes to decide the most influential individual of the 20th century in several categories such as Sport, Science and Leaders. The public then voted for their choice, before the winners of each category went up against each other in the final. The winner was announced to be World War Two code breaker, Alan Turing. I feel that the winner and the shortlist (which can be found here) definitely have a British bias, so I thought I'd ask what you guys think. So Phuks, who do you think was the most influential figure of the 20th Century?
I'm not sure how you would pick someone, but I think the world would be much more different without J.R.R Tolkien, especially science. If you look at the western world, how it sees itself, and the effect his work has had on science fiction. A lot of people like Hitler would have been replaced I think you could argue, if they did not exist.