Top People in Values
Top Books in Values
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Cesare Beccaria
1738 – 1794
Italian

Thinker. His well reasoned opposition to torture and capital punishment made people think. In addition, he pointed out that better childhood conditions and education could reduce crime.

Contemporaries
1717–1783Jean d'Alembert
1679–1754Christian Wolff
1759–1997Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1833William Wilberforce
1703–1791John Wesley
1668–1744Giambattista Vico
1754–1838Charles Talleyrand
1688–1772Emmanuel Swedenborg
1720–1788Prince Charles Stuart
1759–1836Charles Simeon
1771–1832Sir Walter Scott
1788–1860Arthur Schopenhauer
1768–1834Friedrich Schleiermacher
1775–1854Friedrich von Schelling
1675–1755Louis Saint-Simon
1760–1825Claude Saint-Simon
1740–1814Marquis de Sade
1758–1794Maximilien Robespierre
1721–1764Jeanne Pompadour
1792–1878Pius IX
1746–1827Johann Pestalozzi
1743–1805William Paley
1771–1858Robert Owen
1784–1885Sir Moses Montefiore
1689–1755Charles Montesquieu
1689–1762Lady Mary Montagu
1773–1836James Mill
1773–1859Klemens Metternich
1754–1834Richard Martin
1743–1793Jean Marat
1766–1834Thomas Malthus
1707–1778Carolus Linnaeus
1792–1866John Keble
1694–1746Francis Hutcheson
1715–1771Claude-Adrien Helvétius
1770–1831Georg Hegel
1749–1832Johann Goethe
1753–1824Jean Jacques Cambacérès
1788–1824Lord George Byron
1778–1840George Brummell
1754–1825Thomas Bowdler
1757–1827William Blake
1700–1782Daniel Bernoulli
1685–1753George Berkeley
1760–1797François-Noël Babeuf
1775–1817Jane Austen