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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
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
Animators and cartoonists
Jim Davis
Matt Groening
Frank Miller
Alan Moore
Garry Trudeau
Bill Watterson
Frank Gehry
Oscar Niemeyer
I. M. Pei
Dancers and choreographers
Twyla Tharp
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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
Matthew Carter
Adrian Frutiger
Milton Glaser
Steven Heller
Zuzana Licko
Hermann Zapf
Interactive arts and games
John D. Carmack
Richard Garriott
Shigeru Miyamoto
Sid Meyer
Peter Molyneux
John Romero
Alexey Pajitnov
Will Wright
Christo
Chuck Close
Helen Frankenthaler
Damien Hirst
David Hockney
Jenny Holzer
Jasper Johns
Frank Stella
Eva Zeisel
Annie Leibovitz
Yoko Ono
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
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
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
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Larry Bird
Kobe Bryant
Julius Erving
Magic Johnson
Michael Jordan
Shaquille O'Neal
Oscar Robertson
John Stockton
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
Paul O'Connell
Brian O'Driscoll
Ronan O'Gara
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Viv Richards
Glenn McGrath
Brian Lara
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sir
Garfield Sobers
Andre Agassi
Björn Borg
Margaret Court
Roger Federer
Steffi Graf
Billie Jean King
Rod Laver
John McEnroe
Martina Navratilova
Pete Sampras
Serena Williams
Pádraig Harrington
Jack Nicklaus
Greg Norman
Arnold Palmer
Gary Player
Annika Sörenstam
Tom Watson
Kathy Whitworth
Tiger Woods
Mickey Wright
Peter Canavan
DJ Carey
Eddie Keher
Christy Ring
Henry Shefflin
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
Steve Austin
Ric Flair
Hulk Hogan
Dwayne Johnson
Vince McMahon
Muhammad Ali
George Foreman
Joe Frazier
Evander Holyfield
Mike Tyson
Lance Armstrong
Jeff Gordon
Garry Kasparov
Danica Patrick
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
Christiane Amanpour
Carl Bernstein
Charlie Bird
Tom Brokaw
Bob Costas
Robert Fisk
Jason O'Toole (journalist)
Dan Rather
Bob Woodward
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Steven Tyler
Joe Perry
The Beatles
Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
Jeff Beck
Chuck Berry
Ian Brown
Chris de Burgh
Eric Clapton
The Clash
Alice Cooper
Elvis Costello
Pink Floyd
Roger Waters
David Gilmour
Nick Mason
Glen Hansard
Chrissie Hynde
John Lydon
Morrissey
Sinéad O'Connor
The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger
Keith Richards
Charlie Watts
Ronnie Wood
Mick Taylor
Bill Wyman
Grace Slick
Patti Smith
Bruce Springsteen
Michael Stipe
U2
Bono
The Edge
Adam Clayton
Larry Mullen Jr.
Van Morrison
Velvet Underground
John Cale
Lou Reed
Maureen Tucker
Paul Weller
The Who
Pete Townshend
Roger Daltrey
Neil Young
50 Cent
Jay-Z
Dr. Dre
Nas
Grandmaster Flash
Eminem
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
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
B. B. King
The Supremes
Diana Ross
Mary Wilson (singer)
Tina Turner
The Four Tops
Abdul "Duke" Fakir
Martha Reeves
Etta James
Booker T. Jones
Smokey Robinson
Ornette Coleman
Garth Brooks
Rosanne Cash
George Clinton
Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Jerry Lee Lewis
Dolly Parton
Simon & Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel
Paul Simon
Enya
Meredith Monk
Asha Bhosle
Lata Mangeshkar
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
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
Steven 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
Jacques Chirac
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Nicolas Sarkozy
Helmut Kohl
Angela Merkel
Helmut Schmidt
Gerhard Schröder
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Bertie Ahern
Giuliano Amato
Giulio Andreotti
Silvio Berlusconi
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Francesco Cossiga
Romano Prodi
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Mikhail Gorbachev
Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
José María Aznar
Juan Carlos I of Spain
Felipe González
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Donald Tusk
Lech Wałęsa
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
John Major
Margaret Thatcher
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Prince Charles
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
Kim Campbell
Jean Chrétien
Joe Clark
Stephen Harper
Paul Martin
Brian Mulroney
John Turner
Felipe Calderón
Luis Echeverría
Miguel de la Madrid
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Ernesto Zedillo
Vicente Fox
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
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
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Juan Evo Morales Ayma
Fidel Castro
Raul Castro
Alberto Fujimori
Hugo Chavez
Malcolm Fraser
Bob Hawke
John Howard
Paul Keating
Kevin Rudd
Gough Whitlam
Jim Bolger
Helen Clark
Mike Moore
Geoffrey Palmer
Jenny Shipley
Hamid Karzai
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Dr. Manmohan Singh
Benjamin Netanyahu
Ariel Sharon
Shimon Peres
King Abdullah II
Bashar al-Assad
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
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
Ban Ki-moon
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
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
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.