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This is a list of living people of significant historical importance, influence within their discipline, and popular notability. In connection with an on-going debate about the criteria for inclusion on the ITN main-page portal, it is proposed that the death of a member of this list would warrant inclusion.

Criteria for inclusion include several of the following:

  • Popular notability beyond the boundaries of their field or discipline
  • Enduring notability beyond a generation or popular era
  • Noted for a body of work that singularly altered their field or discipline
  • Holding a prominent and powerful office for an unusual length of time
  • Winning major awards in their field or discipline (Nobel, Oscar, Grammy, Pulitzer, Olympic medal, MVP (Most Valuable Player), etc.)
  • Holding several records in their field or discipline
  • Induction into a professional Hall of Fame, inclusion on a major Top n List

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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.