List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century

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The List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century (called the "TIME 100" for short) is a list of the 20th century's most influential politicians, artists, innovators, scientists and icons, compiled by TIME Magazine. It consists of a total of 100 people, 20 each in five different groups.

The list was started with a debate at a symposium at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center on February 1 1998 (participants: CBS news anchor Dan Rather, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, former New York governor Mario Cuomo, Condoleezza Rice, neoconservative publisher Irving Kristol and TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson) and ultimately published on June 14 1999 in a special TIME magazine issue titled "TIME 100: Heroes & Icons of the 20th Century".

Contents

1 The list 1.1 Leaders and revolutionaries 1.2 Artists and entertainers 1.3 Builders and titans 1.4 Scientists and thinkers 1.5 Heroes and icons 2 See also 3 External links

The list

Leaders and revolutionaries

• David Ben-Gurion
• Ho Chi Minh
• Winston Churchill
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Adolf Hitler
• Martin Luther King
• Ruhollah Khomeini
• Vladimir Lenin
• Nelson Mandela
• Pope John Paul II
• Ronald Reagan
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Margaret Thatcher
• Wang Weilin, Tank Man Of Tianammen
• Margaret Sanger
• Lech Walesa
• Mao Zedong
• Joseph Stalin

Artists and entertainers

• Louis Armstrong
• Lucille Ball
• The Beatles
• Marlon Brando
• Coco Chanel
• Charlie Chaplin
• Le Corbusier
• Bob Dylan
• T.S. Eliot
• Aretha Franklin
• Martha Graham
• Jim Henson
• James Joyce
• Pablo Picasso
• Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
• Bart Simpson (The only fictional character on the list.)
• Frank Sinatra
• Steven Spielberg
• Igor Stravinsky
• Oprah Winfrey

Builders and titans

• Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr.
• Leo Burnett
• Willis Carrier
• Walt Disney
• Henry Ford
• Bill Gates
• Amadeo Giannini
• Ray Kroc
• Estee Lauder
• William Levitt
• Lucky Luciano
• Louis B. Mayer
• Charles E. Merrill
• Akio Morita
• Walter Reuther
• Pete Rozelle
• David Sarnoff
• Juan Trippe
• Sam Walton
• Thomas J. Watson

Scientists and thinkers

• Leo Baekeland
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Rachel Carson
• Francis Crick and James Watson
• Albert Einstein (person of the century)
• Philo Farnsworth
• Enrico Fermi
• Alexander Fleming
• Sigmund Freud
• Robert Goddard
• Kurt Gödel
• Edwin Hubble
• John Maynard Keynes
• Louis Leakey, Mary Leakey and Richard Leakey
• Jean Piaget
• Jonas Salk
• William Shockley
• Alan Turing
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright

Heroes and icons

• Muhammad Ali
• "The American G.I."
• Diana, Princess of Wales
• Anne Frank
• Billy Graham
• Che Guevara
• Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
• Helen Keller
• The Kennedy political family
• Bruce Lee
• Charles Lindbergh
• Harvey Milk
• Marilyn Monroe
• Mother Teresa
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Rosa Parks
• Pelé
• Andrei Sakharov
• Jackie Robinson
• Bill Wilson

See also

• List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004
• List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2005

External links

• TIME magazine: TIME 100 - the people of the century (http://www.time.com/time/time100/)

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