Posted on 11/22/2006 7:51:12 AM PST by Borges
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
So, a Republican president made it as #1 on the list!
#49 Fredrick Law Olmstead? I had to google his name to find out he was a landscaper! I'm sure he did good work but top 100 influential persons.
You forgot Margie Sanger's racist ideas too!
> These lists are always interesting because they are so subjective. <
Should be re-phrased, to say:
"These lists are always worthless because they are so subjective."
[For example, like those "best cities" lists -- which almost always come up with a list topper that has average winter temperatures in the Fahrenheit 'teens!]
but in terms of influence? I guess we should define what influence is. Desegregating a game, compared with basically creating a trillion dollar industry? Along with all the jobs ideas and communication ??/
Paine's 'Common Sense' was the impetus for the American Revolution more then any other text.
I didn't forget them, and neither will God............
Thanks. Bennett and Louis Sullivan were the only names I didn't recognize.
When Abraham Lincoln is listed as more influential than any of the Framers, there's something wrong with the list. Or the author has an agenda.
Word!
Yo, this be bogus. Where 2Pac?? Or my man Biggie?
Well Goodwin did help
Well we got the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Jonathan Edwards, Margaret Sanger and Betty Friedan.
Elvis' rise sped up the Civil rights movemment more then anything else by bringing up 'Black' music into white homes.
Washington should have been 1, no doubt. In general, I think it is a pretty good list. A glaring omission is William F. Buckley. Also, I question Frederic Law Olmstead--yes, Central Park is great, but he could have been in the next 100.
Well, as far as Paine goes, without his pamplets, public opinion could have gone against the Revolution -- and that includes the young (and old) men who were fighting it. So no Paine, no ... (nah, won't say it). No Paine, no America, no most influential Americans list (or most of the Americans on the list, either.)
> Jonathan Edwards, Margaret Sanger and Betty Friedan <
So the Atlantic likes Jno. Edwards, but not Jno. Kerry! How refreshing!
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