10 Most Evil Men in History
I found this “cute” little book in the library called, The Wicked History of the World. On the last page it lists the 50 worst people in history. I was curious to see what most people think are the 10 most evil people in history. I was thinking about who I thought the top 10 were. Before doing this I was curious to see who others felt were the most evil. The most interesting lists I saw listed Ann Coulter and Joe McCarthy as the most evil in history. Another listed Bill Clinton as worse than Hitler. These people don’t have a clue. When I see Ann Coulter, I do not shudder with fear. In fact, I think Michael Jackson is far more scary than Ann Coulter. Joe McCarthy? He never gassed anyone alive or impaled babies. He just threatened the jobs of a few actors and other people from Hollywood. One person said that Vlad the Impaler wasn’t so bad. After all, he was abused as a child and had an allergy that made him cruel. Whatever!! Vlad the Impaler was pure evil.
To me, the most evil who make you shudder just to hear his name. If you were to go back into time and be in the same room with this person and share your opinion openly, would you survive coming back to the future? These people take your freedom and individuality and force you to live in fear. They enjoy watching you suffer and have no sense of humanity. They are unfair narcissists who are intolerant. They want to be worshipped and see themselves as gods. If someone gets hurt, it is never their fault. If you disagree with them, you die. They only want POWER. (THAT is why George Bush CANNOT be on the list ok?? Plus if Bush was evil, Iraq would be the 51st state, Saddam wouldn’t have had a trial, Cindy Sheehan would have been boiled alive, and Chavez really would be smelling sulfur because he would be burning at the stake for insulting Bush. )
Here is my try and you are welcome to disagree. This is difficult by the way, I only put those who are dead on my list. Also, I only put leaders. There are many evil men who were not leaders. (Charles Manson for example)
Nero- This one was hard. A Roman Emperor had to be on the list. Tiberius molested boys on his island retreat. That was after he was kind of retired. He was a dirty old man. Caligula was bad but was he insane? So I went with Nero who was a complete narcissist.
Vlad the Impaler I have read both sides. Those who defend him and those who hate him. I am sorry he is just plain evil no matter what his reasoning was. It was him or Elizabeth Bathory.
Ivan the Terrible Yeah, I have hard both sides about him too, yeah and Hitler built the autobahn, I still think he is evil.
Yasuhiko Asaka (Rape of Nanking)
Tamerlane (he still makes people shutter in fear)
Lenin (Man Made Famines of Ukraine)
Genghis Khan
Mao (Worse than Hitler)
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler (and the other leaders of the Nazi party) I put him as number one only because unlike the other leaders he was elected to office. He is so evil that he talked his own people into elected him president (though it might have been rigged) despite his questionable past.
Honorable Mention- Henry VIII, Pope Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia, Elizabeth Bathory, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Napoleon, Kim Il Sung
In our time I would have to say Mugabe and Kim Jong Il
on October 2nd, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Why is Napoleon on the honorable mention list? What did he do that was so evil?
In fact he removed the death penalty in france, gave the jews and other minorities human rights and never tried to get revenge.
Of course he was involved in alot of wars but this was a diffrent time.
He also striped the church of its power (however some may consider himevil for this).
I am not critizing your list, just wondering why Napoleon is on it.
Ps. I am sorry if i made any gramatic mistakes, i am swedish
on October 3rd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
No, I am glad you questioned my list. I wanted to hear what others think.
on October 9th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Vlad is #1
on October 10th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Vlad is the scariest in my opinion. Elizabeth Bathory isn’t much better.
on November 11th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
what about Ilse Koch…”the bitch of buchenwald”?….she made Elizabeth Bathory look like Mother Theresa
on November 11th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
I have to go with Stalin for sheer disposal to unlimited power over tens of millions of lives
on December 3rd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
What about Idi Amin. The man was also a psycho in his time. Maybe add him to your list.
on December 4th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I did forget about him!! He is added to my list. I will make a new list soon. It seems that it is impossible to just name 5 or 10.
on December 6th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Yeah, I would put Idi Amin somewhere near the top.
on February 26th, 2008 at 4:57 am
definitely glad stalin is on the list, but why is napoleon an honorable mention? i really dont think he was that bad.
on February 26th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I will replace napoleon with Idi Amin who was definitely worse.
on February 29th, 2008 at 4:55 am
how do you measure evil, by the way
on March 9th, 2008 at 5:00 am
napoleon maybe on a top 50 but not my top 18
on March 18th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
1. Purposely extended the Great Depression in order to rape the U.S. economy.
2. Had foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, but encouraged it.
3. Nuclear bombed Japan when they were about to surrender.
Pure evil.
on March 19th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
say what they did that was evil,will ya?
on March 19th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
osoma Bin Ladin might have also been responsiable for the darfur Genocide.
on March 19th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Osama Bin Ladin is responsiable for the deaths of over 3000 americans. thats genocide! You dont have to add him to the list, but I would really apresiated if you do.
on March 24th, 2008 at 9:21 am
What makes someone evil? Taking away someone’s freedoms! The more they control you through fear and through murder the more evil they are. Hitler judged your worthiness to live based on your genetic make up!
If you must add Roosevelt, then you have to add Abraham Lincoln. See why those men aren’t as evil as Hitler or Stalin? They represent an elected office and did not have power all to themselves. Also, I could walk in Roosevelt’s face and disagree with him and not worry about getting my genitals electrocuted. Trust me, if Bush was as evil as people say he were, half of Hollywood would be burned at the stake!
on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
HELLO, JACK THE RIPPER!!!!!!! WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS MISS HIM
on July 9th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Excuse me but where is Josef Mengele? truly he is at least worse than Napoleon
on November 17th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Genghis Khan is exaggerated and actually a genuis. He used scholars and engineers to help use technology. The Mongols were also afraid of blood do to their culture so deaths were caused by arrows. Excutions were usually suffocation the most humane compairing the tortures in similar times like the deaths of the Spainish inquisition.
Also no Pol Pot he killed one third of all Cambodians he imlied Mao’s ideas to an extreme the whole Khmer rouge
Idi Amin Dada who killed and tortured many Ugandans in his harsh dictatorship.
on November 24th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Yo, u could measure evil in how many peole someone killed, how they killed people, why they killed people, or if they didn’t actually kill people directly you could measure what they did indirectly that led to something. something like that could easily measure “evil”, but then again “evil” is just a view/oppinion. You could just gathr mass murders for starters.
on November 24th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hey im not sure if this is true at all, but wasn’t there a person who lured people to his mansion to kill off with traps and stuff. I heard about it a long time ago but I acyually think his name was Sherlock Holmes, I was afraid to bring it up in case I was completly wrong. I hope someone knows what im talking about.
on November 24th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Never mind his name was H.H. Holmes. Hahaha, i was off by a lot, i think it was at the same time as Jack the Ripper.
Wow, back then evil was different, now it would probably be Jack the Rip off artist.
on December 12th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Stalin was only bad towards his own people, and recently Russia did a poll to decide who their national hero was gona be and Stalin and Lenin were ranked on the top 10. So despite this cruelity they still love them so they cant be on the list. They same goes for Mao, he only killed his own people and the Chinese still love him so if the people he supposedly murdered love him, then he cant be considered evil.