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 |