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by Duggie on December 27th, 2005

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Which single person was directly responsible for the most deaths?

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  • by Polly Math on March 1st, 2009

    Polly Math

    Chairman Mao (more than Stalin)

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  • by Alatea on February 18th, 2006

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    Stalin. The Soviet Union appears the greatest megamurderer of all, apparently killing near 61,000,000 people. Stalin himself is responsible for almost 43,000,000 of these. Most of the deaths, perhaps around 39,000,000 are due to lethal forced labor.

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  • by Xaqaria on December 27th, 2007

    Xaqaria

    Mao Zedong. 70 million. 30 million starved to death during a two year period of terrible economic policy called "The Great Leap Forward."

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  • by klc223 on June 30th, 2007

    klc223

    God.

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  • by Gomensnana on June 30th, 2007

    Gomensnana

    Mao Zedong at over 50 million. Look him up :)

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  • by Joshua Zambrano on February 6th, 2006

    Joshua Zambrano

    I'd say Adam, Eve, or Satan. From a Biblical standpoint that makes sense since it was the willful disobedience by Adam and Eve, with a little help from Satan, that meant the whole human race should die at all. As the Bible says:

    Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
    13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
    14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
    15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
    16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
    17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
    18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
    19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
    20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
    21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

    I guess it depends on one's definition of a person, I was assuming it to not simply be a synonym for human but rather to be a synonym for "entity" since it seems a more non-specific word.

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  • by Diego Perez on December 30th, 2005

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    I would say Stalin has killed the most people. He's killed about 20 million give or take a few, but he didn't kill them with his hands yet his words.

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  • by borajon on November 23rd, 2010

    borajon

    These are some of the worse answers i've ever read. BTW Mao did kill/order the killing of the greatest number of people .... so well done people who answered Mao and not Stalin. If you want to know the greatest number of indirect deaths cause there is no way of knowing this for sure, but Genghis Khan was possibly responsible for many hundreds of millions of deaths by launching bodies infected with the plague/plague carrying fleas when besieging cities, which may have caused the introduction of the bacteria to europe.

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  • by Mr. Josh on June 30th, 2007

    Mr. Josh

    Whoever drove the plane into 9/11

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  • by catsmeow94 on March 1st, 2009

    catsmeow94

    stalin, hitler!

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  • by Robert32 on June 30th, 2007

    Robert32

    Joseph Stalin

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  • by Twhupfold on June 30th, 2007

    Twhupfold

    'Directly' responsible, as in killed with their own hands / 'fired the gun' / etc is very hard to say, perhaps the people who dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? (I think around 60'000 deaths either both together or in one individual bombing - I can't remember off the top of my head)

    Stalin is responsible for the most over-all though, estimated at around 60 million : (

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  • by Autism Knows is finally Maestro on March 1st, 2009

    Autism Knows is finally Maestro

    George bush & Jim Jones & Hitler

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  • by The Mess on March 1st, 2009

    The Mess

    Super Mario

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