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Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Roald Amundsen
1872 – 1928
Norwegian

The first explorer to reach the South Pole in Antarctica. When his colleague, Umberto Nobile, disappeared somewhere near the North Pole, Amundsen went looking for him. Nobile turned up, but Amundsen was never seen again.

Contemporaries
1881–1973Ludwig von Mises
1872–1970Bertrand Russell
1820–1910Florence Nightingale
1844–1900Friedrich Nietzsche
fl. c. 1806–c. 1873John Stuart Mill
1818–1883Karl Marx
1883–1946John Maynard Keynes
1889–1945Adolf Hitler
1809–1882Charles Darwin
1874–1965Sir Winston Churchill
1821–1890Sir Richard Burton
1829–1912William Booth