Who is your favorite “underrated” historical figure?

Answer 1

Paul Bragg the health matters explorer from 1930 approximately

Answer 2

mine is , professor calvey , a black man in 1900 , modernize farmers technique , use of peanut shells you refuse to use today , first black professor in a southern state university in 1910's . shame the blacks now think crying about there cause , when he used hes brain to get where he was .and yes i a white .

Answer 3

Siddhartha Gautama, known as The Buddha.  Or whoever exactly he was. Had Buddhism been adopted by western civilization, there would have been fewer wars.

Source(s): Historians aren't exactly sure who the buddha was.

Answer 4

Emperor Norton I

Answer 5

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER, the gentle scientist who unlocked the miracles and mysteries of plants to serve all of humanity.

Answer 6

George Carlin

Answer 7

Grant and Oppenheimer 

Answer 8

Norman Borlaug.

Never heard of him?  Yeah, that's why he's underrated.  Borlaug developed (or lead the devlelopment) of advanced agricultural practices and modified strains of crops that were more pesticide and disease resistant which lead to the green revolution - which in turn has have LITERALLY BILLIONS from stavation.  We would not be able to support a seven and a half billion humans on this Earth without his innovations.

Answer 9

Patrick Henry, you don't see many followers but his hope stays alive on New Hampshire license plates.

Answer 10

Ibn al-Muqaffa, Donato di Niccolò & Baibars al-Bunduqdari.....also Benjamin Franklin & Max Stirner but they aren't underrated I guess