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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 [[WP:ITN/DC|debate]] about the [[WP:ITNMP|criteria]] for inclusion on the [[WP:ITN|ITN main-page portal]], [[WP:ITN/DC#Proposed_changes|it is proposed]] that the death of a member of this list would warrant inclusion. | This is a '''list of living people''' of significant historical importance, influence within their discipline, and popular notability. In connection with an on-going [[WP:ITN/DC|debate]] about the [[WP:ITNMP|criteria]] for inclusion on the [[WP:ITN|ITN main-page portal]], [[WP:ITN/DC#Proposed_changes|it is proposed]] that the death of a member of this list would warrant inclusion. | ||
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* Noted for a body of work that singularly altered their field or discipline | * 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 | * Holding a prominent and powerful office for an unusual length of time | ||
− | * Winning major awards in their field or discipline (Nobel, Oscar, Grammy, Pulitzer | + | * 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 | * Holding several records in their field or discipline | ||
* Induction into a professional Hall of Fame, inclusion on a major Top ''n'' List | * Induction into a professional Hall of Fame, inclusion on a major Top ''n'' List | ||
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== Actors and entertainers == | == Actors and entertainers == | ||
# [[Woody Allen]] | # [[Woody Allen]] | ||
# [[Julie Andrews]] | # [[Julie Andrews]] | ||
+ | # [[Richard Attenborough]] | ||
# [[Lauren Bacall]] | # [[Lauren Bacall]] | ||
# [[Amitabh Bachchan]] | # [[Amitabh Bachchan]] | ||
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# [[Dilip Kumar]] | # [[Dilip Kumar]] | ||
# [[Jet Li]] | # [[Jet Li]] | ||
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# [[Christopher Lee]] | # [[Christopher Lee]] | ||
# [[Jay Leno]] | # [[Jay Leno]] | ||
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# [[Sophia Loren]] | # [[Sophia Loren]] | ||
# [[Steve Martin]] | # [[Steve Martin]] | ||
+ | # [[Mary Tyler Moore]] | ||
# [[Roger Moore]] | # [[Roger Moore]] | ||
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# [[Jack Nicholson]] | # [[Jack Nicholson]] | ||
# [[Chuck Norris]] | # [[Chuck Norris]] | ||
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# [[Sean Penn]] | # [[Sean Penn]] | ||
# [[Sidney Poitier]] | # [[Sidney Poitier]] | ||
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# [[Vanessa Redgrave]] | # [[Vanessa Redgrave]] | ||
# [[Julia Roberts]] | # [[Julia Roberts]] | ||
# [[Susan Sarandon]] | # [[Susan Sarandon]] | ||
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# [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] | # [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] | ||
− | + | # [[Jerry Sienfeld]] | |
− | #[[Jerry Sienfeld]] | ||
# [[Will Smith]] | # [[Will Smith]] | ||
# [[Sissy Spacek]] | # [[Sissy Spacek]] | ||
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# [[Meryl Streep]] | # [[Meryl Streep]] | ||
# [[Hilary Swank]] | # [[Hilary Swank]] | ||
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# [[Shirley Temple]] | # [[Shirley Temple]] | ||
# [[John Travolta]] | # [[John Travolta]] | ||
# [[Ryan Tubridy]] | # [[Ryan Tubridy]] | ||
− | # [[ | + | # [[Dick Van Dyke]] |
# [[Christopher Walken]] | # [[Christopher Walken]] | ||
# [[Denzel Washington]] | # [[Denzel Washington]] | ||
# [[Sigourney Weaver]] | # [[Sigourney Weaver]] | ||
+ | # [[Betty White]] | ||
# [[Robin Williams]] | # [[Robin Williams]] | ||
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== Artists == | == Artists == | ||
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# [[Ralph Lauren]] | # [[Ralph Lauren]] | ||
# [[Calvin Klein (fashion designer)|Calvin Klein]] | # [[Calvin Klein (fashion designer)|Calvin Klein]] | ||
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# [[Vivienne Westwood]] | # [[Vivienne Westwood]] | ||
# [[Yohji Yamamoto]] | # [[Yohji Yamamoto]] | ||
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=== Painters and sculptors === | === Painters and sculptors === | ||
− | # [[Christo | + | # [[Christo]] |
# [[Chuck Close]] | # [[Chuck Close]] | ||
# [[Helen Frankenthaler]] | # [[Helen Frankenthaler]] | ||
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# [[Michel Platini]] | # [[Michel Platini]] | ||
# [[Ronaldinho]] | # [[Ronaldinho]] | ||
− | # [[Ronaldo]] | + | # [[Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)|Ronaldo]] |
# [[Alfredo di Stéfano]] | # [[Alfredo di Stéfano]] | ||
# [[Zinedine Zidane]] | # [[Zinedine Zidane]] | ||
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# [[Reggie Jackson]] | # [[Reggie Jackson]] | ||
# [[Sandy Koufax]] | # [[Sandy Koufax]] | ||
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# [[Greg Maddux]] | # [[Greg Maddux]] | ||
# [[Willie Mays]] | # [[Willie Mays]] | ||
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# [[Nolan Ryan]] | # [[Nolan Ryan]] | ||
# [[Tom Seaver]] | # [[Tom Seaver]] | ||
+ | # [[Joe Torre]] | ||
===American football=== | ===American football=== | ||
+ | # [[Bobby Bowden]] | ||
# [[Tom Brady]] | # [[Tom Brady]] | ||
# [[Jim Brown]] | # [[Jim Brown]] | ||
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# [[Dan Marino]] | # [[Dan Marino]] | ||
# [[Joe Montana]] | # [[Joe Montana]] | ||
+ | # [[Joe Paterno]] | ||
# [[Jerry Rice]] | # [[Jerry Rice]] | ||
# [[Barry Sanders]] | # [[Barry Sanders]] | ||
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# [[Emmitt Smith]] | # [[Emmitt Smith]] | ||
# [[Lawrence Taylor]] | # [[Lawrence Taylor]] | ||
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===Basketball=== | ===Basketball=== | ||
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# [[Oscar Robertson]] | # [[Oscar Robertson]] | ||
# [[John Stockton]] | # [[John Stockton]] | ||
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===Ice hockey=== | ===Ice hockey=== | ||
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# [[Maeve Binchy]] | # [[Maeve Binchy]] | ||
# [[Ray Bradbury]] | # [[Ray Bradbury]] | ||
+ | # [[Peter Carey (novelist)]] | ||
# [[Tom Clancy]] | # [[Tom Clancy]] | ||
+ | # [[Bryce Courtenay]] | ||
# [[John Maxwell Coetzee]] | # [[John Maxwell Coetzee]] | ||
# [[Joan Didion]] | # [[Joan Didion]] | ||
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# [[John Grisham]] | # [[John Grisham]] | ||
# [[Seamus Heaney]] | # [[Seamus Heaney]] | ||
+ | # [[Thomas Keneally]] | ||
# [[Marian Keyes]] | # [[Marian Keyes]] | ||
# [[Stephen King]] | # [[Stephen King]] | ||
# [[Doris Lessing]] | # [[Doris Lessing]] | ||
+ | # [[Colleen McCullough]] | ||
# [[David McCullough]] | # [[David McCullough]] | ||
# [[John Montague (poet)]] | # [[John Montague (poet)]] | ||
# [[Toni Morrison]] | # [[Toni Morrison]] | ||
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# [[Joyce Carol Oates]] | # [[Joyce Carol Oates]] | ||
# [[Thomas Pynchon]] | # [[Thomas Pynchon]] | ||
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# [[Jeff Beck]] | # [[Jeff Beck]] | ||
# [[Chuck Berry]] | # [[Chuck Berry]] | ||
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# [[Ian Brown]] | # [[Ian Brown]] | ||
# [[Chris de Burgh]] | # [[Chris de Burgh]] | ||
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#: [[The Edge]] | #: [[The Edge]] | ||
#: [[Adam Clayton]] | #: [[Adam Clayton]] | ||
− | #: [[Larry Mullen | + | #: [[Larry Mullen Jr.]] |
# [[Van Morrison]] | # [[Van Morrison]] | ||
# Velvet Underground | # Velvet Underground | ||
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# [[Cliff Richard]] | # [[Cliff Richard]] | ||
# [[Little Richard]] | # [[Little Richard]] | ||
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# [[Britney Spears]] | # [[Britney Spears]] | ||
# [[Ronnie Spector]] | # [[Ronnie Spector]] | ||
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# [[Leontyne Price]] | # [[Leontyne Price]] | ||
# [[Steve Reich]] | # [[Steve Reich]] | ||
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# [[Kiri Te Kanawa]] | # [[Kiri Te Kanawa]] | ||
# [[John Williams]] | # [[John Williams]] | ||
=== Jazz, soul, blues, R&B === | === Jazz, soul, blues, R&B === | ||
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# [[B. B. King]] | # [[B. B. King]] | ||
# The Supremes | # The Supremes | ||
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# [[Andy Grove]] | # [[Andy Grove]] | ||
# [[Carlos Slim Helú]] | # [[Carlos Slim Helú]] | ||
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# [[Stan Lee]] | # [[Stan Lee]] | ||
# [[Ingvar Kamprad]] | # [[Ingvar Kamprad]] | ||
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# [[Lawrence Lessig]] | # [[Lawrence Lessig]] | ||
# [[Alasdair MacIntyre]] | # [[Alasdair MacIntyre]] | ||
− | # [[Charles Murray ( | + | # [[Charles Murray (political scientist)|Charles Murray]] |
# [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] | # [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] | ||
# [[Seymour Papert]] | # [[Seymour Papert]] | ||
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#: [[Traian Băsescu]] | #: [[Traian Băsescu]] | ||
#: [[Beatrix of the Netherlands]] | #: [[Beatrix of the Netherlands]] | ||
− | #: [[Carl XVI Gustaf | + | #: [[Carl XVI Gustaf]] |
#: [[Dimitris Christofias]] | #: [[Dimitris Christofias]] | ||
#: [[Heinz Fischer]] | #: [[Heinz Fischer]] | ||
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# [[Hosni Mubarak]] | # [[Hosni Mubarak]] | ||
# [[Robert Mugabe]] | # [[Robert Mugabe]] | ||
− | # [[ | + | # [[Hailemariam Desalegn]] |
# [[Umaru Yar'Adua]] | # [[Umaru Yar'Adua]] | ||
=== Other === | === Other === | ||
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# [[Ban Ki-moon]] | # [[Ban Ki-moon]] | ||
# [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]] | # [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]] | ||
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# [[Al Gore]] | # [[Al Gore]] | ||
# [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] | # [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] | ||
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# [[Rush Limbaugh]] | # [[Rush Limbaugh]] | ||
# [[Markos Moulitsas]] | # [[Markos Moulitsas]] | ||
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# The last surviving veteran of the Korean War. | # The last surviving veteran of the Korean War. | ||
# The [[Surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War|last surviving]] veteran of the Spanish Civil War. | # The [[Surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War|last surviving]] veteran of the Spanish Civil War. | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:05, 26 December 2020
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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
Contents
- 1 Actors and entertainers
- 2 Artists
- 3 Athletes
- 4 Writers
- 5 Composers and musicians
- 6 Directors, playwrights, and screenwriters
- 7 Entrepreneurs and businesspeople
- 8 Explorers
- 9 Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- 10 Philosophers, jurists, social scientists
- 11 Politicians and leaders
- 12 Revolutionaries and activists
- 13 Other
Actors and entertainers
- Woody Allen
- Julie Andrews
- Richard Attenborough
- Lauren Bacall
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Jeff Bridges
- Gay Byrne
- Michael Caine
- Jim Carrey
- Jackie Chan
- Julie Christie
- Tom Cruise
- Billy Connolly
- Sean Connery
- Stephen Colbert
- Michael Crawford
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Olivia de Havilland
- Robert De Niro
- Kirk Douglas
- Clint Eastwood
- Harrison Ford
- Jodie Foster
- Morgan Freeman
- Stephen Fry
- Gene Hackman
- Tom Hanks
- Dustin Hoffman
- Anthony Hopkins
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Jenna Jameson
- Ron Jeremy
- Pat Kenny
- Nicole Kidman
- Dilip Kumar
- Jet Li
- Christopher Lee
- Jay Leno
- David Letterman
- Sophia Loren
- Steve Martin
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Roger Moore
- Jack Nicholson
- Chuck Norris
- Peter O'Toole
- Al Pacino
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Sean Penn
- Sidney Poitier
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Julia Roberts
- Susan Sarandon
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Jerry Sienfeld
- Will Smith
- Sissy Spacek
- Howard Stern
- Jon Stewart
- Meryl Streep
- Hilary Swank
- Shirley Temple
- John Travolta
- Ryan Tubridy
- Dick Van Dyke
- Christopher Walken
- Denzel Washington
- Sigourney Weaver
- Betty White
- Robin Williams
Artists
Animators and cartoonists
Architects
Dancers and choreographers
Fashion
- Giorgio Armani
- John Galliano
- Valentino Garavani
- Hubert de Givenchy
- Marc Jacobs
- Karl Lagerfeld
- Ralph Lauren
- Calvin Klein
- Vivienne Westwood
- Yohji Yamamoto
Graphics and type designers
Interactive arts and games
- John D. Carmack
- Richard Garriott
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Sid Meyer
- Peter Molyneux
- John Romero
- Alexey Pajitnov
- Will Wright
Painters and sculptors
- Christo
- Chuck Close
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Damien Hirst
- David Hockney
- Jenny Holzer
- Jasper Johns
- Frank Stella
- Eva Zeisel
Photographers
Other
Athletes
Football/soccer
- Michelle Akers
- Gordon Banks
- Franz Beckenbauer
- David Beckham
- Bobby Charlton
- Johan Cruijff
- Eusébio
- Alex Ferguson
- Mia Hamm
- Thierry Henry
- Kevin Keegan
- Marcello Lippi
- Diego Maradona
- Jose Mourinho
- Pelé
- Michel Platini
- Ronaldinho
- Ronaldo
- Alfredo di Stéfano
- Zinedine Zidane
- Dino Zoff
Baseball
- Hank Aaron
- Ernie Banks
- Yogi Berra
- Barry Bonds
- Steve Carlton
- Roger Clemens
- Rickey Henderson
- Reggie Jackson
- Sandy Koufax
- Greg Maddux
- Willie Mays
- Stan Musial
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
- Nolan Ryan
- Tom Seaver
- Joe Torre
American football
- Bobby Bowden
- Tom Brady
- Jim Brown
- Dick Butkus
- John Elway
- Brett Favre
- Peyton Manning
- Dan Marino
- Joe Montana
- Joe Paterno
- Jerry Rice
- Barry Sanders
- O. J. Simpson
- Emmitt Smith
- Lawrence Taylor
Basketball
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Larry Bird
- Kobe Bryant
- Julius Erving
- Magic Johnson
- Michael Jordan
- Shaquille O'Neal
- Oscar Robertson
- John Stockton
Ice hockey
- Scotty Bowman
- Martin Brodeur
- Don Cherry
- Ken Dryden
- Phil Esposito
- Wayne Gretzky
- Gordie Howe
- Bobby Hull
- Mario Lemieux
- Mark Messier
- Mike Modano
- Bobby Orr
- Patrick Roy
- Joe Sakic
- Vladislav Tretiak
- Steve Yzerman
Rugby
Cricket
- Ricky Ponting
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Viv Richards
- Glenn McGrath
- Brian Lara
- Muttiah Muralitharan
- Sir Garfield Sobers
Tennis
- Andre Agassi
- Björn Borg
- Margaret Court
- Roger Federer
- Steffi Graf
- Billie Jean King
- Rod Laver
- John McEnroe
- Martina Navratilova
- Pete Sampras
- Serena Williams
Golf
- Pádraig Harrington
- Jack Nicklaus
- Greg Norman
- Arnold Palmer
- Gary Player
- Annika Sörenstam
- Tom Watson
- Kathy Whitworth
- Tiger Woods
- Mickey Wright
Gaelic Games
Olympians
- Evelyn Ashford
- Roger Bannister
- Bonnie Blair
- Usain Bolt
- Nadia Comăneci
- Peggy Fleming
- Haile Gebrselassie
- Hicham El Guerrouj
- Janet Evans
- Michael Johnson
- Marion Jones
- Olga Korbut
- Michelle Kwan
- Pat McCormick
- Shannon Miller
- Michael Phelps
- Paula Radcliffe
- Steve Redgrave
- Mary Lou Retton
- Michelle Smith
- Mark Spitz
- Ian Thorpe
Professional wrestling
Boxing
Other
Writers
- Chinua Achebe
- Cecelia Ahern
- Edward Albee
- Mitch Albom
- Maya Angelou
- Margaret Atwood
- David Attenborough
- Maeve Binchy
- Ray Bradbury
- Peter Carey (novelist)
- Tom Clancy
- Bryce Courtenay
- John Maxwell Coetzee
- Joan Didion
- Jules Feiffer
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Günter Grass
- John Grisham
- Seamus Heaney
- Thomas Keneally
- Marian Keyes
- Stephen King
- Doris Lessing
- Colleen McCullough
- David McCullough
- John Montague (poet)
- Toni Morrison
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Thomas Pynchon
- Philip Roth
- J. K. Rowling
- Salman Rushdie
- Danielle Steel
- Gore Vidal
- Elie Wiesel
Journalists
- Christiane Amanpour
- Carl Bernstein
- Charlie Bird
- Tom Brokaw
- Bob Costas
- Robert Fisk
- Jason O'Toole (journalist)
- Dan Rather
- Bob Woodward
Composers and musicians
Rock, punk, alternative
- AC/DC
- Aerosmith
- The Beatles
- Jeff Beck
- Chuck Berry
- Ian Brown
- Chris de Burgh
- Eric Clapton
- The Clash
- Alice Cooper
- Elvis Costello
- Pink Floyd
- Glen Hansard
- Chrissie Hynde
- John Lydon
- Morrissey
- Sinéad O'Connor
- The Rolling Stones
- Grace Slick
- Patti Smith
- Bruce Springsteen
- Michael Stipe
- U2
- Van Morrison
- Velvet Underground
- Paul Weller
- The Who
- Neil Young
Rap, Hip-hop
Pop
- The Beach Boys
- David Byrne
- Cher
- Petula Clark
- The Everly Brothers
- Boy George
- Elton John
- Bette Midler
- Joni Mitchell
- Moby
- Cliff Richard
- Little Richard
- Britney Spears
- Ronnie Spector
- Barbra Streisand
- Jimmy Webb
- Stevie Wonder
- Robbie Williams
Classical & opera
- Milton Babbitt
- John Barry
- Pierre Boulez
- Philip Glass
- James Levine
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Lorin Maazel
- Kurt Masur
- Ennio Morricone
- Itzhak Perlman
- André Previn
- Leontyne Price
- Steve Reich
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- John Williams
Jazz, soul, blues, R&B
- B. B. King
- The Supremes
- Tina Turner
- The Four Tops
- Martha Reeves
- Etta James
- Booker T. Jones
- Smokey Robinson
- Ornette Coleman
Folk, country, funk
- Garth Brooks
- Rosanne Cash
- George Clinton
- Leonard Cohen
- Bob Dylan
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Dolly Parton
- Simon & Garfunkel
Other
Directors, playwrights, and screenwriters
- Mel Brooks
- Mark Burnett
- Ken Burns
- James Cameron
- John Carpenter
- Ethan Coen
- Joel Coen
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Peter Jackson
- George Lucas
- Sam Mendes
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Martin Scorsese
- Ridley Scott
- Steven Spielberg
- Oliver Stone
- Wachowski Brothers
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Shyam Benegal
Entrepreneurs and businesspeople
- Anil Ambani
- Mukesh Ambani
- Jeff Bezos
- Richard Branson
- Sergey Brin
- Michael Bloomberg
- Warren Buffett
- Michael Dell
- Bernard Ebbers
- Lawrence Ellison
- Larry Flynt
- Bill Gates
- Andy Grove
- Carlos Slim Helú
- Stan Lee
- Ingvar Kamprad
- Hugh Hefner
- Carl Icahn
- Robert Metcalfe
- Michael Milken
- Lakshmi Mittal
- Gordon Moore
- Rupert Murdoch
- Denis O'Brien
- Michael O'Leary
- Larry Page
- T. Boone Pickens, Jr.
- Sumner Redstone
- Charles Schwab
- Jeffrey Skilling
- Martha Stewart
- Donald Trump
- Ted Turner
- Jack Welch
- Oprah Winfrey
- Meg Whitman
- Steve Wynn
- Hiroshi Yamauchi
- Muhammad Yunus
Explorers
- Buzz Aldrin
- Neil Armstrong
- John Glenn
- Chuck Yeager
- Ranulph Fiennes
- Andy Green
- Joseph Kittinger
- Reinhold Messner
- Mark Pollock
- E. Lee Spence
- Robert Ballard
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- Ralph H. Baer
- Jacque Fresco
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Vint Cerf
- Richard Dawkins
- Freeman Dyson
- Douglas Engelbart
- Charles Geschke
- Jane Goodall
- Brian Greene
- Stephen Hawking
- David Ho
- Bob Kahn
- Dean Kamen
- C. Everett Koop
- Raymond Kurzweil
- Richard Leakey
- Benoît Mandelbrot
- Marvin Minsky
- John Forbes Nash
- Jakob Nielsen
- Richard Stallman
- Linus Torvalds
- Stephen Pinker
- Grigori Perelman
- Gene Spafford
- Ivan Sutherland
- Dennis Ritchie
- Ken Thompson
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Craig Venter
- John Warnock
- James D. Watson
- Andrew Wiles
- Niklaus Wirth
Philosophers, jurists, social scientists
- Kenneth Arrow
- Gary Becker
- Judith Butler
- Ronald Coase
- Noam Chomsky
- Alan Dershowitz
- René Girard
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Jürgen Habermas
- Paul Krugman
- Ernesto Laclau
- Lawrence Lessig
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Charles Murray
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Seymour Papert
- Richard Posner
- Robert D. Putnam
- Paul Samuelson
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Amartya Sen
- Robert Solow
- Laurence Tribe
- Slavoj Žižek
Politicians and leaders
European
France
Germany
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
- Giuliano Amato
- Giulio Andreotti
- Silvio Berlusconi
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
- Francesco Cossiga
- Romano Prodi
- Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Russia
Spain
Poland
United Kingdom
- Tony Blair
- Gordon Brown
- John Major
- Margaret Thatcher
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- Prince Charles
Heads of state
- Eddie Fenech Adami
- Valdas Adamkus
- Albert II of Belgium
- Traian Băsescu
- Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Carl XVI Gustaf
- 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
- Mary Robinson
- Aníbal Cavaco Silva
- László Sólyom
- Danilo Türk
- Valdis Zatlers
North American
Canada
Mexico
- Felipe Calderón
- Luis Echeverría
- Miguel de la Madrid
- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
- Ernesto Zedillo
- Vicente Fox
United States
Latin American
Argentina
- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
- Néstor Kirchner
- Eduardo Duhalde
- Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
- Fernando De La Rua
- Carlos Saul Menem
- Jorge Rafael Videla
- Isabel Martínez de Perón
Brazil
Bolivia
Cuba
Peru
Venezuela
Asian & Oceanian
Australia
New Zealand
Indian subcontinent
Middle East
Other
- Akihito
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
- Hassanal Bolkiah
- Hu Jintao
- Wen Jiabao
- Kim Jong-il
- Junichirō Koizumi
- Mahathir bin Mohamad
- Lee Myung-bak
- Jiang Zemin
- Lee Kuan Yew
African
- Muammar al-Gaddafi
- Omar Hassan al-Bashir
- Joseph Kabila
- Nelson Mandela
- Thabo Mbeki
- Mohammed VI of Morocco
- Hosni Mubarak
- Robert Mugabe
- Hailemariam Desalegn
- Umaru Yar'Adua
Other
Religious leaders
- Pope Benedict XVI
- Billy Graham
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
- Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow
- Desmond Tutu
- Rowan Williams
Revolutionaries and activists
- Joan Baez
- Jim Bakker
- Matt Drudge
- Betty Ford
- Bob Geldof
- Al Gore
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Rush Limbaugh
- Markos Moulitsas
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Pat Robertson
- Jack Thompson (attorney)
- George Soros
Other
- The last surviving veteran of World War I.
- The last surviving veteran of World War II.
- The last surviving veteran of the Korean War.
- The last surviving veteran of the Spanish Civil War.