The most unfortunate aspect to researching this list was the realization that that I could do a top 100 most evil men and still have a multitude of people for a second list! The selection of this list is based not upon death tolls, but upon the general actions, and impact, or brutality of the people. From bad to worst, here are the top 10 evil men in history.
10. Attila The Hun
Attila was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. An unsuccessful campaign in Persia was followed in 441 by an invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire, the success of which emboldened Attila to invade the West. He passed unhindered through Austria and Germany, across the Rhine into Gaul, plundering and devastating all in his path with a ferocity unparalleled in the records of barbarian invasions and compelling those he overcame to augment his mighty army. Attila drowned in his own blood on his wedding night.
9. Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre was a leader of the French revolution and it was his arguments that caused the revolutionary government to murder the king without a trial. In addition, Robespierre was one of the main driving forces behind the reign of terror, a 10 month post-revolutionary period in which mass executions were carried out. The Terror took the lives of between 18,500 to 40,000 people, with 1,900 being killed in the last month. Among people who were condemned by the revolutionary tribunals, about 8 percent were aristocrats, 6 percent clergy, 14 percent middle class, and 70 percent were workers or peasants accused of hoarding, evading the draft, desertion, rebellion, and other purported crimes.
In an act of coincidental justice, Robespierre was guillotined without a trial in 1794.
8. Ruhollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Khomeini was the religious leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989. In that time he implemented Sharia Law (Islamic religious law) with the Islamic dress code enforced for both men and women by Islamic Revolutionary Guards and other Islamic groups. Opposition to the religious rule of the clergy or Islam in general was often met with harsh punishments. In a talk at the Fayzieah School in Qom, August 30, 1979, Khomeini said:
“Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction to our country in the name of democracy will be oppressed. They are worse than Bani-Ghorizeh Jews, and they must be hanged. We will oppress them by God’s order and God’s call to prayer.”
In the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners, following the People’s Mujahedin of Iran operation Forough-e Javidan against the Islamic Republic, Khomeini issued an order to judicial officials to judge every Iranian political prisoner and kill those who would not repent anti-regime activities. Many say that thousands were swiftly put to death inside the prisons. The suppressed memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri reportedly detail the execution of 30,000 political activists.
After eleven days in a hospital for an operation to stop internal bleeding, Khomeini died of cancer on Saturday, June 04, 1989, at the age of 86.
7. Idi Amin Dada
Idi Amin was an army officer and president of Uganda. He took power in a military coup in January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. His rule was characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extra judicial killings and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is unknown; estimates range from 80,000 to 500,000. On August 4, 1972, Amin issued a decree ordering the expulsion of the 60,000 Asians who were not Ugandan citizens (most of them held British passports). This was later amended to include all 80,000 Asians, with the exception of professionals, such as doctors, lawyers and teachers. Amin was eventually overthrown, but until his death, he held that Uganda needed him and he never expressed remorse for the abuses of his regime.
6. Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II was King of Belgium from 1865-1909. With financial support from the government, Leopold created the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which relied on forced labour and resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese. The regime of the Congo Free State became one of the more infamous international scandals of the turn of the century. The area of land privately owned by the King was an area 76 times larger than Belgium, which he was free to rule as a personal domain through his private army, the Force Publique. Leopold’s rubber gatherers tortured, maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt.
5. Pol Pot
Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975. During his time in power Pol Pot imposed an extreme version of agrarian communism where all city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions is estimated to have killed around 2 million Cambodians (approximately one third of the population). His regime achieved special notoriety for singling out all intellectuals and other “bourgeois enemies” for murder. The Khmer Rouge committed mass executions in sites known as the Killing Fields. The executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save ammunition, executions were often carried out using hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks.
4. Vlad Ţepeş
Vlad III of Romania (also known as Vlad the Impaler) was Prince of Wallachia three times between 1448 and 1476. Vlad is best known for the legends of the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker’s popular Dracula novel. In Romania he is viewed by many as a prince with a deep sense of justice. His method of torture was a horse attached to each of the victim’s legs as a sharpened stake was gradually forced into the body. The end of the stake was usually oiled, and care was taken that the stake not be too sharp; else the victim might die too rapidly from shock. Wikipedia has an article that describes, in great details, the methods of Vlad’s cruelty. The list of tortures he is alleged to have employed is extensive: nails in heads, cutting off of limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off of noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to animals, and boiling alive. There are claims that on some occasions ten thousand people were impaled in 1460 alone.
3. Ivan IV of Russia
Ivan IV of Russia, also know as Ivan the Terrible, was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 to 1547 and was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title of Tsar. In 1570, Ivan was under the belief that the elite of the city of Novgorod planned to defect to Poland, and led an army to stop them on January 2. Ivan’s soldiers built walls around the perimeter of the city in order to prevent the people of the city escaping. Between 500 and 1000 people were gathered every day by the troops, then tortured and killed in front of Ivan and his son. In 1581, Ivan beat his pregnant daughter-in-law for wearing immodest clothing, causing a miscarriage. His son, also named Ivan, upon learning of this, engaged in a heated argument with his father, which resulted in Ivan striking his son in the head with his pointed staff, causing his son’s (accidental) death.
2. Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, becoming “Führer” in 1934 until his suicide in 1945. By the end of the second world war, Hitler’s policies of territorial conquest and racial subjugation had brought death and destruction to tens of millions of people, including the genocide of some six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were spotted within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule.
1. Josef Stalin
Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Under Stalin’s leadership, the Ukraine suffered from a famine (Holodomor) so great it is considered by many to be an act of genocide on the part of Stalin’s government. Estimates of the number of deaths range from 2.5 million to 10 million. The famine was caused by direct political and administrative decisions. In addition to the famine, Stalin ordered purges within the Soviet Union of any person deemed to be an enemy of the state. In total, estimates of the total number murdered under Stalins reign, range from 10 million to 60 million.
Bonus: Emperor Hirohito of Japan
Hirohito was the Emporer of Japan from 1926 to 1989. In 1937, Japanese troops committed the war crime that is now known as the Rape of Nanking (the then Capital of China, now known as Nanjing). The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938. During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians. A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread. The death toll is generally considered to be between 150,000 and 300,000. The Wikipedia article contains images and descriptions of the atrocities committed.
Notable Omissions: Oliver Cromwell, Mao Tse-tung, Kim Il-sung, Caligula
KitKat- bush can’t do what fdr did, because it has been realised as wrong. congress wouldn’t send the bill through to bush, and bush can’t just declare it.
Yea, actually he could.
If you would look up your history, you would see FDR signed Executive Order Number 9066. EO’s don’t require Congressional approval. FDR sent over 100,000 Japanese Americans to interment camps and Bush could do the exact same thing if he wanted to, wrong or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment
i don’t think we’ll be going anywhere too far from iraq, but he did start a war by himself.
You mean other then the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq Congressional approval he received? Or do you mean other then the 21 OTHER nations that took part?
Yeah, other then that he was ALL alone!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_force_in_Iraq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Resolution_to_Authorize_the_Use_of_United_States_Armed_Forces_Against_Iraq
i don’t mean to offend, and i’m sorry if i did. i wasn’t saying you can’t call people crazy, but you should consider what you say and the feelings of those that you’re saying it to.~
You didn’t ‘offend’ me, but before you make such sweeping statements about history, as you’ve made here, you should educate yourself a bit.
And let me be clear: I’m not name calling. I sincerely think that if anyone can accuse Bush/Rove/Cheney of being one of the most ‘EVIL’ men alive, if not *THE MOST*, they should seek mental treatment. They obviously are suffering from some hysterical delusion and should seek help.
Hobolad – but war? Like in Iraq, it’s not the “bad guys” who take the brunt of the war, it’s the people. Y’know, WW2 was still just some blokes given guns and told to fight against another load of blokes given guns and told to fight.
Maybe we should attempt the Neville Chamberlain school of diplomacy. You know, give in, give in, and give in, until you have nothing left.
I always find it fascinating when the people who are against war seem to leave out the term ‘JUSTICE’ from their arguments. I wonder why?
Hobolad – but it’s making Bush and friends even richer, so that’s some comfort at least…
Specifically, how is it making Bush richer, as you claim? You do realize that the Executive Branch members are required, by law, to put their investments into ‘Blind Trusts’ and are also required to file notice with the US Office of Government Ethics if they receive any special treatment or other reward for policy?
loose cannon: i would like to say that you make all your references to wikipedia. wikipedia is not the most reliable source.
i did look up some informations about sending the japanese-americans to internment camps. on friday i found a source that, to my understanding, said congress passed the law on to fdr, who signed it. i may have misunderstood, but the source i found tonight: http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/american_historical_documents_1942_executive_order_9066_japanese_relocation_order – says that fdr signed it first, and that congress put it into law over a month later. if congress had voted it down, it wouldn’t have happened. but people were pressuring the government to pass the law. there were economic factors and nativist motives involved. fdr did not and could not have decided to pass that law on his own.
when i said bush started the war all on his own, i meant he STARTED it. if he hadn’t ordered troops in on a ‘police operation’ or whatever for things that weren’t there, we wouldn’t be doing what we’re doing. this is a war for oil. not to liberate the people, not to stop horrible people. to secure our oil supply. i’m not saying that saddam hussein wasn’t a horrible person, he was. but that wasn’t bush’s motivation. it was oil. if we had just gone into afgahnastan to find osama bin ladin, who is the initiator of the attack on new york, i really wouldn’t care as much. but i haven’t heard a word about him or afgahnastan in a very long time.
and maybe that’s my fault for not having cable or sattelite. for not reading news articles online. for not spending time looking for a reason to believe bush. maybe it’s my fault for having parents who lean strongly against bush. i think we all develop our political views based on our parents’. not to say everyone takes the same side as their parents, but certainly they had an influence on their decisions. but this is all besides the point.
and in light of your denial of name calling, i would like to ask if you have a degree in psychology. you don’t know these people, you only know one small aspect of them: that they dislike bush and impulsively made a comment about him being a terrible person. people do that sort of thing all the time. when someone does something to make you angry, do you say you hate them? i think a lot of teenagers have said or thought that about their parents, and nearly everyone has said or thought it about SOMEONE. not everyone means it, and not everyone thinks about what they are saying or doing. particualarly online, where next to no one knows who they are.
it’s perfectly fine for you to think that they’re crazy, plenty of people think that about other people as well, but is it kind or polite to say so to them? is it fair to suggest they get mental help based on one or two comments about a very touchy political subject?~
Loose_Cannon You said “Anyone who continues along this argument, that Bush/Cheney/Rove are the most ‘EVIL’, must be a nut with very serious mental problems. OR, they’re incredibly ignorant.” You are the only poster on this topic who has brought up Karl Rove whatsoever, and you have mentioned him six times now. I will leave the other posters to consider the implications of this as I must decline to watch more straw men being set up and destroyed.
Mathilda – You are the only poster on this topic who has brought up Karl Rove whatsoever.
Huh? Many people on the left use this group interchangeably. Cheney is this, Bush is that, Rove is another, blah, blah. I was simply stringing them together to keep the conversation straight.
This is just – well – weak. This your best reply?
Loose_Cannon – Actually, yes. As I have just pointed out the fact that you are apparently arguing with “many people on the left” who are not posting on this topic I really do not have anything else to say to you. I’ll stick with responding to people who are replying to comments posted here, thank you.
kitkat -i may have misunderstood, but the source i found tonight – http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/american_historical_documents_1942_executive_order_9066_japanese_relocation_order – says that fdr signed it first, and that congress put it into law over a month later.
Let me see if I can’t explain this a little better: Congress passes a bill, the President signs it, it becomes law. Not the other way around. Executive Orders are a means for the President to execute his authority as Commander-in-Chief and the Executive Branch. You’re only source for this is a web blog that lists an out-of-date book from almost 20 years ago.
As Commander of the Armed Services of America, the President could execute an EO without Congressional approval and in fact Presidents do this all the time.
You’re wrong. Bush could, as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Services, and as *THE* Executive Branch, do as FDR once did, and round up people he deemed a threat to national security.
i think a lot of teenagers have said or thought that about their parents, and nearly everyone has said or thought it about SOMEONE. not everyone means it, and not everyone thinks about what they are saying or doing. particualarly online, where next to no one knows who they are.
That’s exactly my point. It’s emo, pussy BS. It’s *EXACTLY* what you would expect from a spoiled teenager who didn’t get their way. It’s not logical or rational, it’s emotional and hysterical.
And I would say the same exact thing if someone came here accusing Clinton, or Carter, or Reagan, or Nixon as the *MOST EVIL* men ever. This is not a political debate, per se. It’s a ‘CHILDISH, EMOTIONAL, HYSTERICAL’ debate.
This is why political discourse in this country has deteriorate to such a degree. While one side is trying to have a rational, thoughtful, meaningful debate, the other side is yelling *NAZI*, *DEVIL*, or *HITLER*.
and in light of your denial of name calling, i would like to ask if you have a degree in psychology.
Why would I need a psychology degree to point out the obvious? If someone mentions that their butt is being monitored by aliens on Mars or that the CIA is reading their thoughts from Langley, it’s pretty obvious that they are crazy. Same for the people who would call Bush one of the *MOST EVIL*. Or Clinton, or Reagan, or their parents.
kitkat – is it fair to suggest they get mental help based on one or two comments about a very touchy political subject?
Is it fair? Absolutely! And it’s factual.
I said it in several posts here; if anyone truly believes that BUSH or CHENEY or Clinton or Reagan (I’ll leave Rove out, since it seems to raise Mathilda’s blood pressure a couple of points when I mention him) are the most evil, then I am sincere in stating they should seek mental treatment.
I don’t believe this be a political issue, but simply a matter of mental health. If you’re a grown, mature, educated individual and you can look at this list and say “Nay, Bush is much more evil then these guys”, then yeah, you should seek mental treatment cause you’re nuts.
kitkat – this is a war for oil. not to liberate the people, not to stop horrible people. to secure our oil supply…blah, blah, blah
You kinda trailed off there, Kitkat. You are under the impression that I care what you think about the war in Iraq. Let me assure you I don’t.
This conversation is about your misstatement. You distinctly said “(H)e did start a war by himself.”
You are factually wrong. He had the support of Congress and the support of the American public. Furthermore, our country wasn’t the only country. There were 21 other nations that took part.
You decided to restate your opinion from a ‘he did it’ to a ‘he started it’, then trail off into ‘war for oil’, yada, yada, yada.
This thread is about *THE MOST EVIL MEN*. If you’re looking for emotional support on your view of the war I would suggest you try the DU forums. You’ll find plenty of people who will agree with you and provide you the emotional support you are desperately seeking.
loose cannon:
“if anyone truly believes that BUSH or CHENEY or Clinton or Reagan (I’ll leave Rove out, since it seems to raise Mathilda’s blood pressure a couple of points when I mention him)…”
“This is not a political debate, per se. It’s a ‘CHILDISH, EMOTIONAL, HYSTERICAL’ debate.”
you are trying to pick a fight with people, plain and simple. the remark about not mentioning rove was completely unnecessary. you are being just as childish as some of the other people by commenting like that. there’s no reason and no sense to it except to make other’s angry or upset. you are being just as much a whiney teenager by calling people crazy and stupid.
and bush did initiate the war. bush put us there, waiting for a reason to make it such. he secured support for when it would happen, but it wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t sent us in.~
To Loose_Cannon:
I DID have ***** with Aliens! (it’s wierd what they do to you!)
I DID shake Bigfoot’s hand!
And I DID eat dinner with Elvis last night! (at appleby’s!)
And Im telling YOU that Bush is a naughty boy, Cheney is and even naughtier boy, and they should be on this list.
Yes, Hitler may have been involved with the Holocaust. But, Bush has his own Holocaust. The Holocaust of the Ozone Layer. He is pulling a genocide on the enviroment by not joining other countries on the Kyoto Protocal.
Global Warming is upon us!
I DONT WANNA GO TO THE MENTAL INSTITUTION MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why create a list that rates the “most evil of all time”? In its creation does it not say that we will honor your evil by continued reference? Why not make a list of the nicest people in history? Not one comes to mind does it? Thats because we are raised and taught to remember the darker aspects of our society. Face it folks we’re all evil we just like to point out and list the worst amoung us so we don’t feel so bad about ourselves. Now feel free to continue your little political battle. Seriously who gives a ***** whos in office gas prices will still stand at $3.00 tomorrow.
CHAINSAW: my personal reasons for doing so are that they make for more controversial and interesting lists for the readers on the site – I guess it is similar to the way press never reports nice news. Having said that, I have done lists of great inventions and the wonders of the world – not all lists here are evil
Leopold 3 million people? I’ve usually heard 8 million, and that’s conservative. Personally I think ranking evil is an anti-humanist pursuit.
Having said that, if you want to be utilitarian about it,(and you’ve have to include a lot of criteria for *****ysis) I’d think Leopold would be higher on the list. Considering also that when the ‘Kongo Free State’ ceased to exist they left behind a single person with a college education (compare that to British colonies), and today Congo, Rwanda and other formally Belgian colonized nations are festering wounds of Colonization. 4 Million people died in the Second Congo War, I don’t know how many were slaughtered in Rwanda, and today the Congo is still one of the largest humanitarian crises on the planet, I’d say the legacy of Leopold’s evil should not be played down.
Furthermore, as someone who has been to Cambodia, seen Tol Slong and the Killing Fields, I’d like to point out the level of ambiguity over the numbers dead. The most serious and rigorous *****yses have come to a number far lower than 2 million. I don’t think that diminishes the suffering of the country, or the evil of Pol Pot, but if you were to use numbers killed as a barometer, Pol Pot would be behind Leopold, even on your numbers, with 3 million to Leopold’s name 2 million to Brother number 1.
Lastly, a really crucial point: Where is Mao?? The Great Leap forward left over 30 million starved to death. I wouldn’t take the time to say this, but when you make a list like this you better subject the entries to some scrutiny.
Can’t believe a single Pope didn’t make it. Ok, so maybe they didn’t individually amass a body count to equal your ‘ten dinner guests to die for’ but then their god must take the blame. Now I come to think of it – yes GOD – be him muslim, christian or god of the fairies at the bottom of the garden – he, it? whatever – should surely be No1 for never have so many died, or suffer so much at the hands, thoughts or will of one man!
Judas should be on the list as well. People will try to fall back on the idea his actions were inherent and he had not choice, but his plight is one of paradox which is stated both ways in the Bible….every man has a choice…yet it was predistined.
I highly doubt Judas went to heaven and I especially doubt he was Jesus’ most trusted disciple since his motives for coming and his greed showed itself before he decided to commit the crime.
I guess where you left is quantity vs. severity.
Judas only killed one man…but that one man is God…quite tough.
this is cool but i think idi amin of ugandan should be on that list
destiny: You are not the first to mention him. Taking the comments in to account, I have updated the ordering of the list and have added Amin in position number 7.
if you guys think bush is evil, then you are retarded, hes not hte best but he sure as hell didnt kill millions of people,so u cant even compare them. god and i thought bush was dumb
what about bob knight?
khomeini is an inspriration/ a saint to millions of muslims worldwide till today, while the people in the rest of the list arent an inspiration to anyone- its an unfair blasphemy to a good man- kindly correct it.
Why do you people keep talking Bush? If he is evil, then do not worry! His “empire of balefulness” will end soon; after all, he is just a president, and presidents are not perpetual rulez of a nation.
I just need to make a quick question, and I need someone to answer it for me, please. One of my uncles told me that I can expect to see Mayan emperors, and Roman emperors on a list of most evil men in History; but, if they’re not in the top ten, then, where can they be spotted at?
Jigga, millions of people, past and present, have been inspired by Hitler. Should he be taken off the list as well. If Germany had won WWII he would also be seen as a “good man”, just as you describe khomeini. Taking into account on both men’s views on Jews, they probably would of been good friends.
and in reply to Xay Xay…
I’m an agnostic but if I were to presume that the bible was fact, then it would seem to me that Judas was responsible for death of Jesus, one man. Was not Jesus born with the sole intention of being sacrificed? If so, then Judas was only doing his role in ensuring that God’s master plan would unfold. Seems to me Judas got the short end of the stick.
I was raised Catholic and have read the bible from front to back, so I do have some backround knowledge and am not speaking out of my *****. Cheers!
khomeini is a God man. You don’t know him. Ask about him from who has seen him in Jamaran then talk about him!
Soha: I don’t understand how you can consider a man who ordered the execution of his political opponents to not be an evil man? The only possible way you could consider this okay is if you believe that people who oppose Islamist regimes should be murdered.
I agree with those who said British ,french, dutch,spanish and portugeese rulers during the colonization period were the most evil men and women in history.They opressed and killed millions of poor nations in africa and asia ,and robbed thier countries for years and years ,ended only after world war 2,after they realise that oppression is evil.so thanks to Hitler for making them feel the pain of oppression and occupation of ones country by an invader.
such an ignorant statement, motsu. If my great great grandfather was a slave trader should me and my family be murdered? He wasn’t really a slave trader, but im just saying…
Loose Cannon: two words for you, WAKE UP!
Bush is not Evil, he is just stupid.
Loose Cannon, what you don’t understand is that we stay here because this is our country and our government is supposed to WORK FOR US. But, I have a feeling you won’t be able to digest that. The problem with our current administration is that they do what they want, not what we, as the people, want. We stay because we can only hope that in 2008, our dictators will be out of office!
I agree that Bush and Cheney don’t deserve a place on this list, as these ten have truly brutalized and terrorized in a much more violent and menacing way.
Loose Cannon, you are an instigator. Yes, Cheney was mentioned in the first comment, but it was a rather benign statement which you answered with “Here they come; The Bush/Cheney/Rove-Haters! With their view of evil so skewed, they will hysterically compare legendary evil people who killed millions, like Hitler, Pol Pot, and Stalin to liberating millions from Iraq and Afghanistan.” You immediately go on the defensive attack, clearly showing that no matter what points may be brought up, anyone who is against these men is clearly unbalanced and in need of help. Psychologically, the more defensive someone is, the more they fear they will be proven wrong.
People all around the world hate America and Americans, and its really not the liberals they are complaining about (except maybe in countries who fear the ideas in our Bill of Rights may infect their own people). They may have laughed at Clinton, but they are crying over Bush.
I suppose its wishful thinking to hope there’ll never be an updated list with brand new people.
Love the site [&hopelessly addicted!], especially the history lists.
nicci: not in my lifetime I hope! And thanks for the compliment
“The selection of this list is based not upon death tolls, but upon the general actions, and impact, or brutality of the people. From bad to worst, here are the top 10 evil men in history.”
According to this Vlad III should be on the top place and not Stalin. By the way where is Joseph Mengele, or this list is only for leaders.
Hitler was far more cruel than Stalin.
Where is Columbus? He killed more people than Pol Pot and Idi Amin by far…
Where is Margaret Thatcher she destroyed 10′s of 1000′of lives’+towns and villages when she closed the coal mines.
I love seeing the little snipes people make about my previous statements from months ago. It fills me with joy to think someone was so profoundly perturbed by it they feel the need to address it months later:
aplspud -You immediately go on the defensive attack, clearly showing that no matter what points may be brought up, anyone who is against these men is clearly unbalanced and in need of help.
Not true. I clearly state what you yourself said in your first line: “Bush and Cheney don’t deserve a place on this list.” From that point, which we can both agree to, I simply state a sane and educated person couldn’t possibly make a comparison to Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot.
I don’t say ANYWHERE that you have to like Bush or Cheney. I don’t say anywhere that you have to AGREE with Bush or Cheney.
Rae – WAKE UP!
Wide awake, thank you very much. But Bush and Cheney still don’t deserve to be on this list.
Brian – Where is Margaret Thatcher she destroyed 10’s of 1000′of lives’+towns and villages when she closed the coal mines.
Maybe because this is a list of the ‘Top 10 Most Evil MEN‘ and Margaret Thatcher is a woman.
Or, it could simply be that she wasn’t evil enough to out match Stalin, Pol Pot, or Hitler.
Also, specifically, how were these lives ‘DESTROYED’? Did they all die at once? Were none of them able to find other jobs?
Maybe we should have kept the Horse-Buggy industry and mechanical manual typewriter industry going to avoid ‘destroying 10′s of 1000′s of lives’ too!
…I LOVE JESUS!!! WHOOT WHOOT!!! Lol, evil people hm? I believe everyone has an inner evil of some type, like we ALL have our own secrets and our own type of darkness…to me though, only Christ can snuff out that darkness and bring in the light!! Merry CHRISTmas!!!!
Jesus it’s people like Loose Cannon who just love to shove their so-called “intelligence” in other’s faces like they havd some kind of f*ckin PhD in f*ckin whatever. has it ever occurred to you, o mighty egghead, that people have different definitions of evil? it doesn’t always have to mean who killed the most, how many millions, etc. people are going to cite bush or cheney or whatever for being evil, but not necessarily because they did things in league with stalin and hitler. jesus christ, stop acting like you know so f*cking much that you just can’t wait to grab on to every single comment on here that’s said *something* about your dear ol’ bush. and by the way, for someone who so sarcastically comments on those still remarking on your old posts, it certainly hasn’t stopped your loud egotistical butt from trolling on here as well. so fly off wikipedia worm, and stop being such a damn know-it-all, in-your-face loud mouth!
I haven’t read all the comments above, but I read a discussion about including Bush. Why not? I’m sure he’d make the top 100 any day, if not the top 10.
The point about ‘liberating people’ in Iraq and Afghanistan shows how ignorant the world is on issues of these countries. Literally hundreds of thousands of CIVILIONS have been killed in Afghanistan, and Iraq is going through Civil War, and Bush is to blame. Thanks.
V. interesting list..
But just a thought, seeing as you had begun to discuss evil….
Would a person being considered for such a crown as ‘most evil’ not have to show some slightly more involved participation in their atrocities than some of the listed? I mean the decisions of leaders disconnected from the reality of those lives affected by them cannot be as evil as a man who enjoys the act of torturing and maiming with his own hands? Your ’10 most evil women’ list definitely takes into account a more ‘hands on’ approach?
just a thought.
Also, cannot accept the Iranian leader surpasses the likes of say
Caligula
Dr Mengeles….very evil…very hands on…
Nero (as already pointed out)
Anyone invovled in religious punishments in the 14th century?… the flaying alive of heritics was left to a special type of person…and again, who is more evil, the man who orders the torture or the torturer?
And just to be contensious…are executioners more evil than those who go to watch?
Quote Gadzooks-
“Jesus it’s people like Loose Cannon who just love to shove their so-called “intelligence” in other’s faces like they havd some kind of f*ckin PhD in f*ckin whatever. has it ever occurred to you, o mighty egghead, that people have different definitions of evil? it doesn’t always have to mean who killed the most, how many millions, etc. people are going to cite bush or cheney or whatever for being evil, but not necessarily because they did things in league with stalin and hitler. jesus christ, stop acting like you know so f*cking much that you just can’t wait to grab on to every single comment on here that’s said *something* about your dear ol’ bush. and by the way, for someone who so sarcastically comments on those still remarking on your old posts, it certainly hasn’t stopped your loud egotistical butt from trolling on here as well. so fly off wikipedia worm, and stop being such a damn know-it-all, in-your-face loud mouth!”
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SAYING WHAT NEEDED TO BE SAID. I’m sure he’ll come back again with another smart ass remark.
P.S. Who said anything about bigfoot, alien ***** probes, etc? Do you think anyone who isn’t a dumbass republican is into all those conspiracy theories? You are windier than a sack full of farts.
Alex – P.S. Who said anything about bigfoot, alien ***** probes, etc?
I did.
Comparing Bush/Cheney/Clinton, etc, to Hitler/Pol Pot/Stalin is as sure sign of mental illness, as believing in alien ***** probes, Bigfoot, etc.
What part of that comparison confuses you, Alex?
Do you think anyone who isn’t a dumbass republican is into all those conspiracy theories?
No, anyone who would compare Bush/Cheney/Clinton to Hitler/Pol Pot/Stalin is certainly as ignorant and/or insane as someone who would believe in those conspiracy theories.
You are windier than a sack full of farts.
And you really need to pay closer attention to what you read.
Alex, like most people in this thread, perhaps even yourself, I don’t believe Bush or Cheney or Clinton belong on this list.
People like you and Gadzooks are so hysterical and emotional about your hatred for Republicans, which I am not one, and Bush/Cheney/Rove, that anyone who simply points out the logical truth is labeled a heretic and a Republican.
It is a never-ending source of amusement for me to watch all you hysterical, emo-fueled ‘Chicken Little’s’ attempt to insult me over something that we essentially agree on; That Bush/Cheney/Clinton don’t belong on this!
Alex, Gadzoks – Please post more!
“Alex, like most people in this thread, perhaps even yourself, I don’t believe Bush or Cheney or Clinton belong on this list.”
Loose Cannon, not once in my first post did I say that Bush or Cheney should be on this list. You are automatically being defensive over something I didn’t even say! I do in fact agree with you that even though they are very bad men, they don’t belong on this list.
And as I predicted in my first post, you came back and posted some more smart ass remarks. So I now know that no matter what I say, you’re always going to come back with more smart ass remarks. (AS HOW YOU’VE BEEN DOING WITH ALL OF YOUR PREVIOUS COMMENTS) I know that inside your head, you are going to be right no matter what! So I’m just going to accept the fact that you are just lost in your own little world of defending whatever you are defending by quoting everybody and then posting your smart ass comments.
So having said that, this will be my last post. I’m not going to feed your fire by arguing back at you. You mean nothing to me and judging by all of your previous posts, I want nothing to do with you. It seems that judging by all of your previous posts, you are living a sad and lonely life.
So keep on posting. The more you post, the smaller your balls must be.
P.S. Who got beat as a child?
“I did.” ~Loose Cannon
Alex – P.S. Who got beat as a child?
Wow. I am extremely humbled by your reply. I just don’t know what to say.
I especially like how you took my answer to your previous question, then asked another question, and used my reply to answer THAT previous question. Especially on the subject of child abuse. That’s comedy gold, right there. I can’t think of anything funnier or more mature. You are a fine example of the people who have argued with me here. I can only wish that more people follow your fine example when discussing this topic on this forum.
And all over a subject we both agree on! Nothing says intellect like arguing over a premise we both agree on.
Have a great day, Alex!
ive been looking on this sight for a while and have been suprised by some peoples comments.
This loose cannon guy never shuts up and needs to shut DOWN his computer. Take a rest. Think about how ANGRY teenagers make him and how hes just a *****ing loose CANNON BABY! READY TO BLOW! WOO HOOOO! YEAH!
come on dude. Your aiming your cannon balls at all the wrong. Heres a guy (john madden) who checks him email everyday to see if hes got a response from a 13 year old kid from wyoming.
heres a guy who instigates. who gets up at 7 in the damn morning to comment on every damn list and back talk anyone who says anything TOOO RADICALLLL! WUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!!!!!!!!!
“Have a great day, Alex!”
you think your professional (i sure as hell am not) but you still tell people to “have a great day” after you completley obliterate them and there comments.
“That’s comedy gold, right there. I can’t think of anything funnier or more mature. You are a fine example of the people who have argued with me here. I can only wish that more people follow your fine example when discussing this topic on this forum.”
why (if you sre not an intigator) would you say that?
lets look at the first sentence shall we?
“i cant think of anything funnier or more mature”
you put funny and mature in the same sentence, they just dont go together especially when your trying to make a point.
you just make people *****ed by doing that, you “oxymoronic genius.”
Max – who gets up at 7 in the damn morning to comment on every damn list and back talk anyone who says anything TOOO RADICALLLL!
You got me, Max. I get up every morning for work and, in the process of drinking my coffee and checking my email, I respond to this forum! Oh, the horror of it!
I find it hilarious that I am the subject of your anger because I suggested anyone who thinks Bush and Cheney should be on this list is either mentally ill or ignorant. And every response to me on this forum sounds like it came from a certified mental patient who didn’t take his Xanax that day, including yours.
But kudos to you for insinuating that Alex is a 13 year old from Wyoming. That’s pretty funny.
Here’s the thing, Max: I don’t really care if I ***** people off. None of you, Gadzooks, Alex, or yourself, can discuss the topic of this forum because you know I’m right and the majority here agree with me.
So, the only thing you can do is attempt, very poorly, to insult me.
Very amusing. Please write again!
Have a great day!
At least Loose Cannon can spell, use punctuation and grammar. Max might have had a valid point, but I’m not sure because I couldn’t understand what he was trying to say with all the nin-com-poopery in his post.
If you’re having problems, write it in Word first, check the spelling and grammar and get back to us later. Besides, Loose Cannon is smarter, funnier and ‘righter’ than you are Max.
Oops, I posted this a little early. I should have waited half a day. Sorry dude.
Motsu I agree with what you said.Good list to whoever created this. I would of liked if they added Mao Zedong and Christopher Columbus.
SpidaPig – I would of liked if they added Mao Zedong and Christopher Columbus.
I’m curious why you would nominate Columbus, Spidapig. What offenses do you consider he committed were the most evil?
Well, this has been going on for a while. Does anyone have list by numbers? Mao, Stalin, and Hitler would all have to be near the top. I believe the Japanese killed nearly five million Chinese in the 30′s/40′s. Not sure that any one person is responsible for that. Anyway, thank you for the list. It does cause one to wonder if government itself is the root cause.
JasonR – I believe the Japanese killed nearly five million Chinese in the 30’s/40’s. Not sure that any one person is responsible for that.
Good comments, Jason. And I agree that the Japanese aggression, especially in places such as Nanking and Manila, was evil. Historian Chalmers Johnson has written that:
The Germans killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians [i.e. Soviet citizens]; the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese.
That is real evil.
It’s mind boggling to me that I feel the need to post this, but I’m going to anyway…
Okay, so to start, I’m relatively new here at ListVerse, and I have to say that I find these debates most entertaining, especially the ones I have an opinion on, like the ongoing Bush debate here. However, I would just like to agree with whoever said that posters should use word to spell check. I find myself much more sympathetic to Loose Cannon, mainly due to the fact that Loose Cannon does not use IM slang or improper english.
I also find it terribly amusing that we feel the need to argue over something like this at all. And that an argument can go on as long as this has completely astounds me. You have to think that at some point, we would all just lose interest, but that hasn’t seemed to happen.
So, I would just like to thank you all for an entertaining evening, and tell Loose Cannon that I admire him for his persistance in arguing. I don’t think I would have kept up with it for this long. Good for you for standing up for what you believe in.
Darn it. Negated my own comment by using improper grammer.
Shakespeare’s Girl – So, I would just like to thank you all for an entertaining evening, and tell Loose Cannon that I admire him for his persistance in arguing.
Thank you, S. Girl, for taking the time to read all the comments, especially mine, and posting your intelligent and informed opinion about them.
I think we have a real problem in our society today when it comes to rational political dialog. Many of us can see that while we disagree with the current administration on many issues, it’s hardly one of the most evil in history. But as long as one segment of society is screeching ‘Cheney makes Stalin look like Bambi’ there’s never going to be a logical, intelligent debate on the truly most evil people in history and that’s unfortunate because this is a really good and worthwhile discussion.
It’s unfortunate that many of the people who disagreed with me on this forum felt the need to attack me personally. Insinuating that I was abused as a child or that I manically rush to this forum everyday to debate this topic with children is sign of the decline in logically debating politics. I only hope that I showed that I was rising above it.
Thanks, again, S. Girl.
COnsidering that Bush’s grandpappy prescott helped finance hitler’s rise to power and used slave labor from concentration camps, then george senior spent his whole time as director of the cia assasinating and deposing democratically elected leaders to put in fascst religious zealots, and then george w *****ed on th constitution and now has halliburton building concentration camps and rail cars full of shackles in the U.S., I don;t think that the bushes are too far off the top ten. That being said, our government was complicit in the repatriation and murder of over 2 millions russian soldiers after WWII, and we also facilitated communism’s takeover of half of the world, I don’t think anyone is really blameless.