This is a list of international rankings.

By category[link]

General[link]

• Global Gender Gap Report (four categories)
• Globalization Index (several categories)

Agriculture[link]

• Largest producing countries of agricultural commodities

Economy[link]

• World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report
• The Heritage Foundation/The Wall Street Journal: the current annual Index of Economic Freedom
• Gini index: List of countries by income equality
• Global Innovation Index (Boston Consulting Group)
• Global Innovation Index (INSEAD)
• List of countries by economic complexity

Education[link]

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
• International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
• Educational Testing Service: 2003-2004 TOEFL Test Year Data Summary
• Webometrics Ranking of World Universities

Environment[link]

• Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
• Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
• Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI)
• Happy Planet Index (HPI)
• List of countries by ecological footprint
• Sustainable Society Index (SSI)

Geography[link]

• List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area (all)

Health[link]

• Global Hunger Index (GHI)

Intelligence[link]

• IQ and the Wealth of Nations

Politics[link]

• Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index
• Reporters Without Borders: Worldwide Press Freedom Index
• Worldwide Governance Indicators
• Failed State Index
• Composite Index of National Capability
• List of countries by military expenditures
• List of countries by military expenditures per capita

Society[link]

• United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Index
• Economist Intelligence Unit: Quality-of-Life Index 2005
• Save the Children: State of the World's Mothers report 2007
• Legatum Prosperity Index
• Dashboard of Sustainability (includes a ranking by Millennium Development Goals)

Technology[link]

• Economist Intelligence Unit: E-readiness
• OECD: List of countries by number of broadband Internet users

See also[link]

• index number

External links[link]

• Because Every Country Is The Best At Something

The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by Michael H. Hart, reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.^[1]

The first person on Hart's list is the Prophet of Islam Muhammad.^[2] Hart asserted that Muhammad was "supremely successful" in both the religious and secular realms. He also believed that Muhammad's role in the development of Islam was far more influential than Jesus' collaboration in the development of Christianity. He attributes the development of Christianity to St. Paul, who played a pivotal role in its dissemination."^[3]

The 1992 revisions included the demotion of figures associated with Communism, such as Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong, and the introduction of Mikhail Gorbachev. Hart took sides in the Shakespearean authorship issue and substituted Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford for William Shakespeare. Hart also substituted Niels Bohr and Henri Becquerel with Ernest Rutherford, thus correcting an error in the first edition. Henry Ford was also promoted from the "Honorary Mentions" list, replacing Pablo Picasso. Finally, some of the rankings were re-ordered, although no one listed in the top ten changed position.

Hart wrote another book in 1999, entitled A View from the Year 3000,^[4] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half of those entries are fictional people from 2000–3000, but the remainder are actual people. These were taken mostly from the 1992 edition, with some re-ranking of order.

Hart's Top 10 (from the 1992 edition)[link]

Rank	Name	Time Frame	Image	Occupation	Influence
1	Muhammad	c. 570–632		Secular and religious leader	The central human figure of Islam, regarded by Muslims as a prophet of God and the last messenger. Active as a social reformer, diplomat, merchant, philosopher, orator, legislator, military leader, humanitarian, philanthropist.
2	Isaac Newton	1643–1727		Scientist	English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion laid the groundwork for classical mechanics.
3	Jesus Christ	7–2 BC – 26–36 AD		Spiritual leader	The central figure of Christianity, revered by Christians as the Son of God and the incarnation of God.
4	Buddha	563–483 BC		Spiritual leader	Spiritual teacher and philosopher from ancient India. Founder of Buddhism and is also considered an Gautama Buddha in Hinduism.
5	Confucius	551–479 BC		Philosopher	Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Indonesian thought and life. Founded Confucianism, and influenced Neo-Confucianism and New Confucianism.
6	St. Paul	5–67 AD		Christian apostle	One of the most notable of early Christian missionaries, credited with proselytizing and spreading Christianity outside of Palestine (mainly to the Romans) and author of numerous letters of the New Testament of the Bible.
7	Cài Lún	50–121 AD		Political official in imperial China	Widely regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process.
8	Johannes Gutenberg	1398–1468		Inventor	German printer who invented the mechanical printing press.
9	Christopher Columbus	1451–1506	70px	Explorer	Italian navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages led to general European awareness of the American continents.
10	Albert Einstein	1879–1955		Scientist	German theoretical physicist, best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2.

See also[link]

• Time 100

References[link]

1. ^ Michael H. Hart The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History. first published in 1978, reprinted with minor revisions 1992. ISBN 978-0-8065-1068-2
2. ^ The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History^{[dead link]}
3. ^ Michael H. Hart, "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History", Citadel Publishing, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8065-1350-8
4. ^ Michael H. Hart. A view from the year 3000: a ranking of the 100 most influential persons of all time; first published in 1999

External links[link]

• Religious Affiliation of History's 100 Most Influential People

Zhang Jike
Personal information
Full name	ZHANG Jike
Nationality	China
Playing style	Right-handed, shakehand grip
Highest ranking	1 (June 2012)[1]
Born	(1988-02-16) February 16, 1988 (age 24)[2] Qingdao, Shandong, China
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb; 11 st)
Medal record Men's table tennis Competitor for  China World Championships Gold 2012 Dortmund Team Gold 2011 Rotterdam Singles Bronze 2011 Rotterdam Doubles Gold 2010 Moscow Team Bronze 2009 Yokohama Doubles Silver 2009 Yokohama Mixed Doubles World Cup Gold 2011 Paris Singles Silver 2010 Magdeburg Singles Gold 2010 Dubai Team Gold 2009 Linz Team Asian Championships Silver 2009 Lucknow Singles Silver 2009 Lucknow Doubles Silver 2009 Lucknow Mixed Doubles Gold 2009 Lucknow Team

Zhang Jike (simplified Chinese: 张继科; traditional Chinese: 張繼科; pinyin: Zhāng Jì Kē; born February 16, 1988 in Qingdao, Shandong, China) is a Chinese table tennis player.^[2][3]

Zhang Jike is the reigning World Champion and World Cup winner in singles. Should he win the Olympic gold medal in singles, he will be the fourth male player in the history of table tennis to achieve a career grand slam.

Equipment[link]

Zhang Jike currently uses a Butterfly Viscaria FL blade with a black DHS Neo Hurricane III National Version (Blue Sponge) for his forehand and a red Butterfly Tenergy 64 for his backhand.

Butterfly introduced in 2011 a new blade in his name. Though the blade is designed for Zhang, he has not used it so far.

Career records[link]

Singles (as of December 6, 2011)^[3]

• World Championships: winner (2011)
• Men's World Cup: winner (2011); runner-up (2010).
• Pro Tour winner (3): China Open, Suzhou (2010); German Open (2011); Slovenian Open (2012). Runner-up (3): Qatar Open (2010); China Open, Suzhou (2011); Austrian Open (2011).
• Pro Tour Grand Finals appearances: 2. Record: runner-up (2011); SF (2009).
• Asian Championships: Runner-up (2): 2009; 2012.
• Asian Cup: winner (2010).

Men's Doubles

• World Championships: semi-final (2009, 11).
• Pro Tour winner (6): Kuwait Open 2010; Slovenian, English, UAE, German, China (Suzhou) Open 2011.
  Runner-up (7): Kuwait, Qatar Open 2008; China (Suzhou) Open 2009; German Open 2010; Qatar, China (Shenzen), Austrian Open 2011.
• Pro Tour Grand Finals: winner (2011).
• Asian Games: winner (2010).

Mixed Doubles

• World Championships: runner-up (2009).
• Asian Games: QF (2010).
• Asian Championships: runner-up (2009).

Team

• World Championships: winner (2010).
• World Team Cup: winner (2009, 10).
• Asian Games: winner (2010).
• Asian Championships: winner (2009).

See Also[link]

• List of table tennis players

References[link]

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