Who is the world's worst person who ever lived?

Answer 1

That's a difficult question, and it would depend on how you measured "worst," and what actions you think are worse than others. There are a lot of mass murderers, serial rapists, child molesters, creepy scientists that learned things through torture and pain rather than trying to heal, etc. Some people would choose someone who did something offensive in a religious context, etc.

Here are some of the possibilities:

• Adolf Hitler: Genocidal Ruler reportedly responsible for the policies that led to more than 11 million deaths, including 6 million Jews.
• Pol Pot: Reportedly responsible for the policies that resulted in 3 million deaths (out of a total population of 8 million) in his own country.
• Joseph Stalin: ruler reportedly responsible for the policies that resulted in 15-25 million deaths of his own people by many means including labor camps and allowing mass starvation.
• Charles Cullen: serial killer (killed people while he was a nurse and made it look like natural causes)
• Idi Amin: Corrupt leader reportedly responsible for the policies that led to 500,000 deaths.
• Osama bin Laden: Terrorist reportedly responsible for the 9-11 attack and other mass-casualty attacks, totalling over 200,000 people if you count the war that he helped start in Algeria.
• Mao Zedong, reportedly responsible for policies that led to the death of over 40 million people, including about 30 million by famine.

Here are some other possibilities from online lists:

• Albert Fish: Serial killer
• J. Edgar Hoover
• Josef Mengele
• Kermit Gosnell
• Atilla the Hun
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Bloody Mary
• Emperor Hirohito
• Genghis Khan
• Vlad Tepes
• Saddam Hussein