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[edit] Actors and entertainers

1. Woody Allen
2. Julie Andrews
3. Lauren Bacall
4. Amitabh Bachchan
5. Jeff Bridges
6. Michael Caine
7. Jim Carrey
8. Jackie Chan
9. Julie Christie
10. Tom Cruise
11. Sean Connery
12. Stephen Colbert
13. Michael Crawford
14. Daniel Day-Lewis
15. Olivia de Havilland
16. Robert De Niro
17. Kirk Douglas
18. Clint Eastwood
19. Harrison Ford
20. Jodie Foster
21. Morgan Freeman
22. Tom Hanks
23. Dustin Hoffman
24. Anthony Hopkins
25. Samuel L. Jackson
26. Jenna Jameson
27. Ron Jeremy
28. Nicole Kidman
29. Dilip Kumar
30. Jet Li
31. Art Linkletter
32. Christopher Lee
33. Jay Leno
34. David Letterman
35. Sophia Loren
36. Roger Moore
37. Mike Myers
38. Jack Nicholson
39. Leslie Nielsen
40. Chuck Norris
41. Peter O'Toole
42. Al Pacino
43. Gwyneth Paltrow
44. Sean Penn
45. Sidney Poitier
46. Lynn Redgrave
47. Vanessa Redgrave
48. Julia Roberts
49. Susan Sarandon
50. Adam Sandler
51. Arnold Schwarzenegger
52. Steven Segal
53. Will Smith
54. Sissy Spacek
55. Howard Stern
56. Jon Stewart
57. Meryl Streep
58. Hilary Swank
59. Elizabeth Taylor
60. Shirley Temple
61. John Travolta
62. Jean-Claude Van Damme
63. Christopher Walken
64. Denzel Washington
65. Sigourney Weaver
66. Robin Williams

[edit] Artists

[edit] Animators and cartoonists

1. Jim Davis
2. Frank Miller
3. Alan Moore
4. Garry Trudeau
5. Bill Watterson

[edit] Architects

1. Frank Gehry
2. Oscar Niemeyer
3. I. M. Pei
4. Jørn Utzon

[edit] Dancers and choreographers

1. Merce Cunningham
2. Twyla Tharp
3. Mikhail Baryshnikov

[edit] Fashion

1. Giorgio Armani
2. John Galliano
3. Valentino Garavani
4. Hubert de Givenchy
5. Marc Jacobs
6. Karl Lagerfeld
7. Ralph Lauren
8. Calvin Klein
9. Alexander McQueen
10. Vivienne Westwood
11. Yohji Yamamoto

[edit] Graphics and type designers

1. Matthew Carter
2. Adrian Frutiger
3. Milton Glaser
4. Steven Heller
5. Zuzana Licko
6. Hermann Zapf

[edit] Interactive arts and games

1. John D. Carmack
2. Richard Garriott
3. Shigeru Miyamoto
4. Sid Meyer
5. Peter Molyneux
6. John Romero
7. Alexey Pajitnov
8. Will Wright

[edit] Painters and sculptors

1. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
2. Chuck Close
3. Helen Frankenthaler
4. Jenny Holzer
5. Jasper Johns
6. Robert Rauschenberg
7. Frank Stella
8. Andrew Wyeth
9. Eva Zeisel

[edit] Photographers

1. Annie Leibovitz

[edit] Other

1. Yoko Ono

[edit] Athletes

[edit] Football/soccer

1. Michelle Akers
2. Gordon Banks
3. Franz Beckenbauer
4. David Beckham
5. Bobby Charlton
6. Johan Cruijff
7. Eusébio
8. Mia Hamm
9. Thierry Henry
10. Kevin Keegan
11. Diego Maradona
12. Pelé
13. Michel Platini
14. Ronaldinho
15. Ronaldo
16. Alfredo di Stéfano
17. Zinedine Zidane
18. Dino Zoff

[edit] Baseball

1. Hank Aaron
2. Ernie Banks
3. Yogi Berra
4. Barry Bonds
5. Steve Carlton
6. Roger Clemens
7. Rickey Henderson
8. Reggie Jackson
9. Sandy Koufax
10. Tommy Lasorda
11. Greg Maddux
12. Willie Mays
13. Stan Musial
14. Cal Ripken, Jr.
15. Nolan Ryan
16. Tom Seaver

[edit] American football

1. Tom Brady
2. Jim Brown
3. Dick Butkus
4. John Elway
5. Brett Farve
6. Peyton Manning
7. Dan Marino
8. Joe Montana
9. Jerry Rice
10. Barry Sanders
11. OJ Simpson
12. Emmitt Smith
13. Lawrence Taylor
14. Reggie White

[edit] Basketball

1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2. Larry Bird
3. Kobe Bryant
4. Julius Erving
5. Magic Johnson
6. Michael Jordan
7. Shaquille O'Neal
8. Oscar Robertson
9. John Stockton
10. Dennis Rodman
11. Allen Iverson

[edit] Ice hockey

1. Scotty Bowman
2. Martin Brodeur
3. Don Cherry
4. Ken Dryden
5. Phil Esposito
6. Wayne Gretzky
7. Gordie Howe
8. Bobby Hull
9. Mario Lemieux
10. Mark Messier
11. Mike Modano
12. Bobby Orr
13. Patrick Roy
14. Joe Sakic
15. Vladislav Tretiak
16. Steve Yzerman

[edit] Rugby

[edit] Cricket

1. Ricky Ponting
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Viv Richards
4. Glenn McGrath
5. Brian Lara
6. Muttiah Muralitharan

[edit] Tennis

1. Andre Agassi
2. Björn Borg
3. Margaret Court
4. Roger Federer
5. Steffi Graf
6. Billie Jean King
7. Rod Laver
8. John McEnroe
9. Martina Navratilova
10. Pete Sampras
11. Serena Williams

[edit] Golf

1. Jack Nicklaus
2. Greg Norman
3. Arnold Palmer
4. Gary Player
5. Annika Sörenstam
6. Tom Watson
7. Kathy Whitworth
8. Tiger Woods
9. Mickey Wright

[edit] Olympians

1. Evelyn Ashford
2. Roger Bannister
3. Bonnie Blair
4. Nadia Comăneci
5. Peggy Fleming
6. Haile Gebrselassie
7. Hicham El Guerrouj
8. Janet Evans
9. Michael Johnson
10. Marion Jones
11. Olga Korbut
12. Michelle Kwan
13. Pat McCormick
14. Shannon Miller
15. Michael Phelps
16. Paula Radcliffe
17. Steve Redgrave
18. Mary Lou Retton
19. Mark Spitz
20. Ian Thorpe

[edit] Professional wrestling

1. Steve Austin
2. Ric Flair
3. Hulk Hogan
4. Dwayne Johnson
5. Vince McMahon

[edit] Boxing

1. Muhammad Ali
2. George Foreman
3. Joe Frazier
4. Evander Holyfield
5. Mike Tyson

[edit] Other

1. Lance Armstrong
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Garry Kasparov
4. Danica Patrick

[edit] Authors and journalists

1. Christiane Amanpour
2. Edward Albee
3. Mitch Albom
4. Maya Angelou
5. Margaret Atwood
6. David Attenborough
7. Carl Bernstein
8. Ray Bradbury
9. Tom Brokaw
10. Tom Clancy
11. John Maxwell Coetzee
12. Bob Costas
13. Michael Crichton
14. Walter Cronkite
15. Joan Didion
16. Jules Feiffer
17. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
18. John Grisham
19. Stephen King
20. Doris Lessing
21. Frank McCourt
22. David McCullough
23. Toni Morrison
24. Joyce Carol Oates
25. Keith Olbermann
26. Bill O'Reilly
27. Harold Pinter
28. Dan Rather
29. J. K. Rowling
30. Salman Rushdie
31. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
32. Studs Terkel
33. John Updike
34. Elie Wiesel
35. Bob Woodward

[edit] Composers and musicians

[edit] Rock, punk, alternative

1. Aerosmith

   Steven Tyler

   Joe Perry

2. The Beatles

   Paul McCartney

   Ringo Starr

3. Jeff Beck
4. Chuck Berry
5. David Bowie
6. Eric Clapton
7. The Clash
8. Elvis Costello
9. Pink Floyd

   Roger Waters

   David Gilmour

   Richard Wright

   Nick Mason

10. Chrissie Hynde
11. John Lydon
12. The Rolling Stones

    Mick Jagger

    Keith Richards

    Charlie Watts

    Ronnie Wood

    Mick Taylor

    Bill Wyman

13. Grace Slick
14. Patti Smith
15. Bruce Springsteen
16. Michael Stipe
17. Van Morrison
18. Velvet Underground

    John Cale

    Lou Reed

    Maureen Tucker

19. Neil Young
20. The Who

    Pete Townshend

    Roger Daltrey

[edit] Rap, Hip-hop

1. 50 Cent
2. Jay-Z
3. Dr. Dre
4. Nas
5. Grandmaster Flash
6. Eminem

[edit] Pop

1. The Beach Boys
2. David Byrne
3. Cher
4. Petula Clark
5. The Everly Brothers
6. Michael Jackson
7. Elton John
8. Bette Midler
9. Joni Mitchell
10. Moby
11. Cliff Richard
12. Little Richard
13. Jessica Simpson
14. Britney Spears
15. Ronnie Spector
16. Barbra Streisand
17. U2
18. Jimmy Webb
19. Stevie Wonder
20. Robbie Williams

[edit] Classical & opera

1. Milton Babbitt
2. Pierre Boulez
3. James Levine
4. Yo-Yo Ma
5. Lorin Maazel
6. Kurt Masur
7. Ennio Morricone
8. Itzhak Perlman
9. André Previn
10. Leontyne Price
11. Joan Sutherland
12. John Williams

[edit] Jazz, soul, blues, R&B

1. Aretha Franklin
2. B. B. King
3. The Supremes

   Diana Ross

   Mary Wilson (singer)

4. Tina Turner
5. The Four Tops

   Abdul "Duke" Fakir

   Levi Stubbs

6. Martha Reeves
7. Etta James
8. Booker T. Jones
9. Smokey Robinson
10. Bo Diddley
11. Ornette Coleman

[edit] Folk, country, funk

1. Garth Brooks
2. Rosanne Cash
3. George Clinton
4. Bob Dylan
5. Jerry Lee Lewis
6. Dolly Parton
7. Simon & Garfunkel

   Art Garfunkel

   Paul Simon

[edit] Other

1. Boy George
2. Meredith Monk
3. Asha Bhosle
4. Lata Mangeshkar

[edit] Directors, playwrights, and screenwriters

1. Mel Brooks
2. Mark Burnett
3. Ken Burns
4. James Cameron
5. John Carpenter
6. Francis Ford Coppola
7. Peter Jackson
8. George Lucas
9. Hayao Miyazaki
10. Martin Scorsese
11. Ridley Scott
12. Steven Spielberg
13. Oliver Stone
14. Wachowski Brothers
15. Andrew Lloyd Webber
16. Shyam Benegal

[edit] Entrepreneurs and businesspeople

1. Anil Ambani
2. Mukesh Ambani
3. Jeff Bezos
4. Richard Branson
5. Sergey Brin
6. Michael Bloomberg
7. Warren Buffett
8. Michael Dell
9. Bernard Ebbers
10. Lawrence Ellison
11. Larry Flynt
12. Bill Gates
13. Andy Grove
14. Carlos Slim Helú
15. Steve Jobs
16. Stan Lee
17. Ingvar Kamprad
18. Hugh Hefner
19. Carl Icahn
20. Robert Metcalfe
21. Michael Milken
22. Lakshmi Mittal
23. Gordon Moore
24. Rupert Murdoch
25. Larry Page
26. T. Boone Pickens, Jr.
27. Sumner Redstone
28. Charles Schwab
29. Jeffrey Skilling
30. Martha Stewart
31. Donald Trump
32. Ted Turner
33. Jack Welch
34. Oprah Winfrey
35. Meg Whitman
36. Steve Wynn
37. Hiroshi Yamauchi
38. Muhammad Yunus

[edit] Explorers

1. Buzz Aldrin
2. Neil Armstrong
3. John Glenn
4. Chuck Yeager
5. Andy Green
6. Joseph Kittinger
7. Reinhold Messner
8. E. Lee Spence
9. Robert Ballard

[edit] Inventors, scientists and mathematicians

1. Ralph H. Baer
2. Tim Berners-Lee
3. Vint Cerf
4. Richard Dawkins
5. Michael E. DeBakey
6. Freeman Dyson
7. Douglas Engelbart
8. Charles Geschke
9. Jane Goodall
10. Brian Greene
11. Stephen Hawking
12. David Ho
13. Bob Kahn
14. Dean Kamen
15. C. Everett Koop
16. Raymond Kurzweil
17. Richard Leakey
18. Benoît Mandelbrot
19. Marvin Minsky
20. John Forbes Nash
21. Jakob Nielsen
22. Richard Stallman
23. Linus Torvalds
24. Stephen Pinker
25. Grigori Perelman
26. Gene Spafford
27. Ivan Sutherland
28. Dennis Ritchie
29. Ken Thompson
30. Neil deGrasse Tyson
31. Craig Venter
32. John Warnock
33. James D. Watson
34. Andrew Wiles
35. Niklaus Wirth

[edit] Philosophers, jurists, social scientists

1. Kenneth Arrow
2. Gary Becker
3. Judith Butler
4. Ronald Coase
5. Noam Chomsky
6. Alan Dershowitz
7. René Girard
8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
9. Jürgen Habermas
10. Paul Krugman
11. Ernesto Laclau
12. Lawrence Lessig
13. Alasdair MacIntyre
14. Charles Murray
15. Sandra Day O'Connor
16. Claude Lévi-Strauss
17. Seymour Papert
18. Richard Posner
19. Robert D. Putnam
20. Paul Samuelson
21. Joseph E. Stiglitz
22. Amartya Sen
23. Robert Solow
24. Laurence Tribe
25. Slavoj Žižek

[edit] Politicians and leaders

[edit] European

[edit] England

1. Tony Blair
2. Gordon Brown
3. John Major
4. Margaret Thatcher
5. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

[edit] France

1. Jacques Chirac
2. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
3. Nicolas Sarkozy

[edit] Germany

1. Helmut Kohl
2. Angela Merkel
3. Helmut Schmidt
4. Gerhard Schröder

[edit] Italy

1. Giuliano Amato
2. Giulio Andreotti
3. Silvio Berlusconi
4. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
5. Francesco Cossiga
6. Romano Prodi
7. Oscar Luigi Scalfaro

[edit] Russia

1. Mikhail Gorbachev
2. Dmitry Medvedev
3. Vladimir Putin

[edit] Spain

1. José María Aznar
2. Juan Carlos I of Spain
3. Felipe González
4. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

[edit] Poland

1. Wojciech Jaruzelski
2. Tadeusz Mazowiecki
3. Donald Tusk
4. Lech Wałęsa

[edit] Heads of state

1. Eddie Fenech Adami

   Valdas Adamkus

   Albert II of Belgium

   Traian Băsescu

   Beatrix of the Netherlands

   Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

   Dimitris Christofias

   Heinz Fischer

   Ivan Gašparovič

   Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

   Tarja Halonen

   Toomas Hendrik Ilves

   Lech Kaczyński

   Václav Klaus

   Horst Köhler

   Margrethe II of Denmark

   Mary McAleese

   Giorgio Napolitano

   Karolos Papoulias

   Georgi Parvanov

   Aníbal Cavaco Silva

   László Sólyom

   Danilo Türk

   Valdis Zatlers

[edit] North American

[edit] Canada

1. Kim Campbell
2. Jean Chrétien
3. Joe Clark
4. Stephen Harper
5. Paul Martin
6. Brian Mulroney
7. John Turner

[edit] Mexico

1. Felipe Calderón
2. Luis Echeverría
3. Miguel de la Madrid
4. Carlos Salinas de Gortari
5. Ernesto Zedillo
6. Vicente Fox

[edit] United States

1. Madeleine Albright
2. Dennis Banks
3. Clyde Bellecourt
4. George H. W. Bush
5. George W. Bush
6. Laura Bush
7. Jimmy Carter
8. Bill Clinton
9. Dick Cheney
10. Rudy Giuliani
11. Nancy Pelosi
12. Colin Powell
13. Condoleezza Rice

[edit] Latin American

1. Fidel Castro
2. Raul Castro
3. Hugo Chavez
4. Juan Evo Morales Ayma
5. Alberto Fujimori
6. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
7. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

[edit] Asian & Oceanian

[edit] Australia

1. Malcolm Fraser
2. Bob Hawke
3. John Howard
4. Paul Keating
5. Kevin Rudd
6. Gough Whitlam

[edit] New Zealand

1. Jim Bolger
2. Helen Clark
3. Mike Moore
4. Geoffrey Palmer
5. Jenny Shipley

[edit] Indian subcontinent

1. Hamid Karzai
2. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
3. Dr. Manmohan Singh

[edit] Middle East

1. Benjamin Netanyahu
2. Ariel Sharon
3. Shimon Peres
4. King Abdullah II
5. Bashar al-Assad

[edit] Other

1. Akihito
2. Bhumibol Adulyadej
3. Hassanal Bolkiah
4. Kim Dae-jung
5. Hu Jintao
6. Kim Jong-il
7. Junichirō Koizumi
8. Mahathir bin Mohamad
9. Lee Myung-bak
10. Jiang Zemin

[edit] African

1. Muammar al-Gaddafi
2. Omar Hassan al-Bashir
3. Joseph Kabila
4. Nelson Mandela
5. Thabo Mbeki
6. Mohammed VI of Morocco
7. Hosni Mubarak
8. Robert Mugabe
9. Girma Wolde-Giorgis
10. Umaru Yar'Adua

[edit] Other

1. Kofi Annan
2. Ban Ki-moon
3. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
4. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

[edit] Religious leaders

1. Pope Benedict XVI
2. Billy Graham
3. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
4. Desmond Tutu
5. Rowan Williams

[edit] Revolutionaries and activists

1. Joan Baez
2. Jim Bakker
3. Matt Drudge
4. Betty Ford
5. Bob Geldof
6. Al Gore
7. Aung San Suu Kyi
8. Osama bin Laden
9. Rush Limbaugh
10. Markos Moulitsas
11. Nicholas Negroponte
12. Pat Robertson
13. Jack Thompson (attorney)
14. George Soros

[edit] Other

1. The last surviving veteran of World War I.
2. The last surviving veteran of World War II.
3. The last surving veteran of the Korean War.
4. The last surviving veteran of the Spanish Civil War.