The best way to answer that question is to flip the sign bit and the verb tense. Whom do we remember best from the past one thousand years? Or longer?<p>The best way to be remembered across the millenia is to be either a sage of some sort (philosopher, mathematician, prophet, law-giver) or to kill a lot of people (conqueror, ruler, and so forth).<p>Therefore, the people who lived in the past hundred years who will be best remembered a thousand years from now will be Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and some thinkers that you've never heard of but that ultra-conservative Christians love to quote.<p>"Those of you who will live into the twenty-first century, come put a wreath on my grave, because this will be the slogan: No more twentieth centuries…" - Isaac Asimov (1974)<p>Have a nice day, and pleasant dreams.