[wordsofearnest]

#49 Fredrick Law Olmstead? I had to google his name to find out he was a landscaper! I'm sure he did good work but top 100 influential persons.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I'm sure he did good work but top 100 influential persons

Without Oldstead landscape designs would not be important. Shrubs, trees, lawns etc. would not fill suburban yards, major parks would not have the design qualities well known in the country. Barren, undecorated lots, and parks which are merely woods and fields in the state of nature would make living in the U.S. very different.

[Tenniel]

Part of his "good work" was an 800-odd-acre tract on Manhattan Island now known as Central Park, which arguably had an effect on a century's worth of property values, not to mention shaping the local frame of reference (both geographic and social) for a few million inhabitants over the years.

That said, I'd put him at about 70 on the list, give or take.

[Torie]

Olmsted designed Central Park, among others, and was a giant of his time, in his field, and revolutionized it. He deserves his place.