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To: Zoltan! who wrote (283)10/18/1999 9:34:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 3246
 
To recap the suggestions so far:#1 Reagan#2 Thatcher#3 Churchill#4 Mother Theresa#5 FDR#6 De Gaulle#7 Pope John
Paul II#8 Billy Graham#9 Salk#10 Sabin#11 Gandhi#12 Martin Luther King#13 Kissinger
#14 Henry Ford#15 Bill Gates#16 Edison#17 Einstein#18 Wright Bros.#19
Rockefeller#20 Carnegie#21 Golda Meir#22 Watson & Crick [considered one]#23 Von
Braun#24 Lindberg#25 Neil Armstrong#26 Marconi#27 Goddard#28 Nixon
#29 Eisenhower#30 Patton#32 Montgomery#33 Nimitz#34 Marshall#35 Powell#36
Truman#37 Frank Lloyd Wright#38 Pablo Picasso#39 Matisse#40 Duke Ellington
#41 George Gershwin#42 Louis Armstrong#43 Elvis#44 The Beatles {considered one}
#45 Frank Sinatra#46 Nureyev#47 Disney#48 Steinbeck#49 Frost#50 Hemmingway
#51 F. Scott Fitzgerald#52 T.S. Elliot#53 Andy Warhol#54 Ethel Merman#55 Julie
Andrews#56 Tom Hanks#57 Fairbanks#58 Bob Hope#59 Jackie Robinson#60 Babe Ruth
#61 Ted Williams#62 Arnold Palmer#63 Ben Hogan#64 Dylan {that's for you Neo, I
disagree though}#65 Charles Chaplin#66 Ingmar Bergman#67 Alfred Hitchkok#68 Jean
Renoir#69 Fritz Lang#70 Orson Welles#71 John Huston#72 John Ford#73 Francois
Truffaut#74 Federico Fellini#75 Akira Kurosawa#76 Walter Cronkite#77 G. W. Bush Sr.
#78 Teddy Roosevelt#79 Sigmund Freud#80 Martha Graham#81 Carl Jung#82
DeMille#83 Baryshnikov#84 Jackie Gleason#85 Sid Caesar#86 Imogene Coca#87 Ernie
Kovac#88 Steve Allen#89 Johnny Carson#90 Michael Jordan
#91 Neils Bohr#92 Oppenheimer#93 John Von Neuman#94 Enrico Ferni#95 Helen Keller
#96 Georgia O'Keeffe#97 Edward R. Murrow#98 Salvador Dali#99 Robert Mundell
#100 THE THREE STOOGES
Earl Warren
Bobby Jones (Golf), Pele (Soccer), Mohammed Ali (Boxing) and Jesse Owens (Track) are
some I'd put ahead of Ben Hogan, who is on the list;William O. Douglas,Luther Burbank
Eisenhower,Arthur C. Clark, Ray Bradbury, Asimov, or Frank Herbert.
Of the 4 guess I'd pick Clark who anticipated communication satelites some years before
Sputnik.Frank Herbert and Robert Heinlein,Ansel Adams ,Walt Disne,General Douglas
MacArthur,Marion Michael Morrison. aka John Wayne,Betty Friedan and Hugh Hefner

Sony and Honda Clarence Birdseye Willis Haviland Carrier, who invented air conditioning

Ray Kroc,Walter Gropius (Director of the Bauhaus) and Le Corbusier
Medecine, Banting and Best insulin Running,Rodger Bannister sub 4 miler Inspirational
People,James Fix and George Sheehan got a lot of people off their duffs.

Marilyn Chambers, Linda Lovelace or Traci Lords

Sir Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain, independent inventors of the gas turbine ("jet")
engine. THAT one changed the face of war and peace...The guys that started IBM, the
guys at Xerox Parc in Palo Alto in the 70-80's, Jobs & Wozniak, Gates, but he gets a B
because he was an implementer of the Jobs and Wozniak platform.
Charlie Chaplin ,Alfred Hitchcock.,Miles Davis .....Hemingway. Stravinsky,Branch Rickey
Albert Schweitzer James Joyce.....Rosa Parks, Margaret Mead,Marie Curie ,Muhammad
Ali----Raymond Rife-Invented the dark-field microscope, capable of seeing live cancer
cells at a magnification of 17,000x, (best contemporary microscopes 2000x-2500x)
inventor of revolutionary light staining technique, which did not kill the viruses he
observed and finally, using a frequency generating device, also his invention, cured 14 of
16 cases of cancer in a study overseen by a Special Medical Research Committee of the
Univ. of Southern California at Scripps "ranch", under a Dr. Milbank Johnson M.D in
1934. ..Thomas Crapper...the Sex Pistols
Stephen Hawking,Carl Sagan,Jackson Pollack,The Sex Pistols (treated as one) - Made
Rock and Roll Dangerous Again,Ayn Rand,Clint Eastwood,Lance Armstrong,Bill
Gates,Andy Grove,John Chambers,Gordon Moore,Sandra Lerner,Len Bosack
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsy,Emiliano Zapata
Einstein, Jung, Edison, Ford, Gandhi, Ed Sullivan, Mae West



To: Zoltan! who wrote (283)10/18/1999 9:35:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3246
 
And these:

-Anwar Sadat
2-Kelly Johnson
3-F. Roosevelt
4-Churchill
5-Freud
6-Rutherford
7-Hawking
8-Edison
9-Einstien
10-Hubble
11-James Carter
12-Fleming
13-Wright Bros.
14-Marshall
15-Jung
16-Carl Sagan
17-Goddard
18-Chou En Lai
19-Gorbechev
20-Martin Luther King
21-Frank Lloyd Wright
22-Buckminster Fuller
23-Henry Ford
24-Henry Kaiser
25-Shockley
26-Stephen Jay Gould
27-Robert Johnson
28-Rachel Carson
29-Walt Disney
30-Tesla
31-Ghandi
32-Salk
33-Sabin
34-Chaplin
35-Orson Welles
36-Von Braun
37-John Browning
38-Nelson Mandela
39-T. Roosevelt
40-Alexander Graham Bell
41-Heisenberg
42-Noyce
43-Marie Curie
44-Elvis
45-Beatles
46-Boeing
47-George Washington Carver
48-Douglas (of Douglas Aircraft)
49-Walter Reed
50-Mustafa Kamal
51-Woodrow Wilson
52-Ibn Saud
53-Sartre
53-Joyce
54-Stienbeck
55-Zapata
56-Keynes
57-Friedman
58-Richard Nixon
59-Sikorsky (Originator of the helicopter for those who can't decipher my rendition of his
name.)
60-Unknown (Russian who first proposed the ending of smallpox, Russia was to initiate
the ending of the disease in the United Nations)

Nikos Kzantzakis....Herman Hesse

Tim Berners-Lee

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe? Phillip Johnson? Louis Kahn?

Mario Vargas Llosa? Jose Ortega y Gasset? Jorge Borges? Miguel de Unamuno? Pablo
Neruda?