Oh man can somoene format that for me! Sorry!
Howard Hughes?
Reagan is a bit low, but at least no meantion of our first black president.
Is my name still on the list?
96 is pretty disturbing.
Why?
Dang! I didn't make the list!...........again..........
Can't believe we don't see Bill and hillary as number 2 and 3 let alone at all on the list. Although not sure you can put jackie robbinson before bill gates in terms of influence.
As the first disagreement (as of writing) among many I'm sure, I would say that Eisenhower should be higher on the list than 28.
Dwight was responsible the the Interstate Highway program which has had as large an effect on daily lives as almost anyone else on the list (some exceptions of course).
He was also responsible for "Atoms For Peace". While he had admirable intentions, this program no doubt led to nuclear proliferation.
This list, overall, looks pretty random.
THE ATLANTIC'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL LIST
1 Abraham Lincoln
2 George Washington
3 Thomas Jefferson
4 Franklin D. Roosevelt
5 Alexander Hamilton
6 Benjamin Franklin
7 John Marshall
8 Martin Luther King Jr.
9 Thomas Edison
10 Woodrow Wilson
11 John D. Rockefeller
12 Ulysses Grant
13 James Madison
14 Henry Ford
15 Theodore Roosevelt
16 Mark Twain
17 Ronald Reagan
18 Andrew Jackson
19 Thomas Paine
20 Andrew Carnegie
21 Harry Truman
22 Walt Whitman
23 Wright Brothers
24 Alexander Graham Bell
25 John Adams
26 Walt Disney
27 Eli Whitney
28 Dwight D. Eisenhower
29 Earl Warren
30 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
31 Henry Clay
32 Albert Einstein
33 Ralph Waldo Emerson
34 Jonas Salk
35 Jackie Robinson
36 William Jennings Bryan
37 J.P. Morgan
38 Susan B. Anthony
39 Rachel Carson
40 John Dewey
41 Harriet Beecher Stowe
42 Eleanor Roosevelt
43 W.E.B. DuBois
44 Lyndon Baines Johnson
45 Samuel F.B. Morse
46 William Lloyd Garrison
47 Frederick Douglass
48 Robert Oppenheimer
49 Frederick Law Olmsted
50 James K. Polk
51 Margaret Sanger
52 Joseph Smith
53 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
54 Bill Gates
55 John Quincy Adams
56 Horace Mann
57 Robert E. Lee
58 John C. Calhoun
59 Louis Sullivan
60 William Faulkner
61 Samuel Gompers
62 William James
63 George Marshall
64 Jane Addams
65 Henry David Thoreau
66 Elvis Presley
67 P.T. Barnum
68 James D. Watson
69 James Gordon Bennett
70 Lewis and Clark
71 Noah Webster
72 Sam Walton
73 Cyrus McCormick
74 Brigham Young
75 George Herman "Babe" Ruth
76 Frank Lloyd Wright
77 Betty Friedan
78 John Brown
79 Louis Armstrong
80 William Randolph Hearst
81 Margaret Mead
82 George Gallup
83 James Fenimore Cooper
84 Thurgood Marshall
85 Ernest Hemingway
86 Mary Baker Eddy
87 Benjamin Spock
88 Enrico Fermi
89 Walter Lippmann
90 Jonathan Edwards
91 Lyman Beecher
92 John Steinbeck
93 Nat Turner
94 George Eastman
95 Sam Goldwyn
96 Ralph Nader
97 Stephen Foster
98 Booker T. Washington
99 Richard Nixon
100 Herman Melville
IMHO, "Most Influential" is way too broad a category.
Where's Paris Hilton?
What? Where's Oprah? Dan Rather? Bill and Hil?
The overlords will not be pleased with this list.
I'm sorry, but it's completely ASSENINE to put ANYONE ahead of GEORGE WASHINGTON. Sorry I'm ranting, but for crying out loud, without George Washington there would be ZERO influential Americans because there would be NO AMERICA. Sorry, it just peeves me that GW doesn't get the respect he's due. Fine, he came in second, and I am OK with Lincoln being up there; He presided over the second most challenging time in American history, for good or ill. But he should be second at best. To this patriotic American, George Washington is and will forever be Numero Uno, the greatest American EVER.
"66 Elvis Presley 67 P.T. Barnum "
Is it a joke? The only way to define "influential" is "influential on how the society lives", preferably after the person in question has died. The Founders are at the top, as they by right ought to be, but beyond them it is an absurd joke.
This is obviously a right-wing rag. How else can you explain the exclusion of that Wonder Woman, the smartest woman in the world, Hillery Clinton!
Who voted on this?
Ralph Nader needn't be on that list. Neither should Babe Ruth. Someone needs to defend W.E.B. Dubois' and Thomas Paines' high ranking, too.
MLK Jr. isn't #8, either. He might belong on the top 100, but not that high.
Walt Whitman more influential than the WRIGHT brothers??? Give me a break.
OTOH, nice to see James Polk on the list; a forgotten but important President.
No list of influential Americans is complete without that "Hey Vern" guy.