It took a while but I finally ran across a list of the most evil people in history. You can find it here. In the same vein , the link has the ten most good people in history. While I may dispute the lists, I give kudos for the attempt.
Please read the article if you want to know why these people were selected. I will spare you my own descriptions of their perfidy.
Here is the list:
1. Tomas de Torquemada
2. Vlad the Impaler
3. Adolph Hitler
4. Ivan the Terrible
5. Adolph Eichmann
6. Pol Pot
7. Mao Tse-Tung
8. Idi Amin
9. Joseph Stalin
10. Genghis Khan
3 responses so far ↓
avi // June 13, 2008 at 5:06 am
vlad,ivan,genghis shouldn’t be there
hec // June 21, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Vlad the impaler also protected eastern europe from middle eastern invasion.
ReasonableCitizen // June 21, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Well then. I still have a hard time thinking well of Vlad when:
“He impaled every person in the city of Amlas — 20,000 men, women and children. Vlad often ordered people to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs. But his favorite method was impalement on stakes, hence the surname “Tepes” which means “The Impaler” in the Romanian language.”
What say you?