NON-political historic figures who were basically only good for the world?

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NON-political figures who were basically only good for the world, creating ripples that brought inspiration and hope to others and/or a markedly positive impact on the world even if not well-known?

* Archimedes

* Aeschylus

* Socrates

* Plato

* Aristotle

* Leonardo da Vinci

* William Shakespeare

* Isaac Newton

* Charles Darwin

* Leo Tolstoy (Russian author, pacifist, Christian anarchist, helped inspire figures like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Victor Hugo, Virgnia Woolf, Charles Dickens)

* Joseph Lister (introduced use of antiseptics and handwashing in medicine)

* Edward Jenner (smallpox vaccine)

* Alexander Fleming (discovered use of a superior antiseptic, and invented penicillin)

* Jonas Salk (polio vaccine)

* Marie Curie (the theory of radioactivity in physics, and the use of radiation in medicine to fight cancer)

* Norman Borlaug (founder of the green revolution in 20th century agriculture)

* Albert Einstein

* JRR Tolkien

* the Beatles

* Princess Diana