1

Albert Hoffman

(Swiss)

Chemist

2

Tim Berners-Lee

(British)

Computer Scientist

3

George Soros

(American)

Investor & Philanthropist

4

Matt Groening

(American)

Satirist & Animator

5

Nelson Mandela

(South African)

Politician & Diplomat

6

Frederick Sanger

(British)

Chemist

7

Dario Fo

(Italian)

Writer & Dramatist

8

Steven Hawking

(British)

Physicist

9

Oscar Niemeyer

(Brazilian)

Architect

10

Philip Glass

(American)

Composer

11

Grigory Perelman

(Russian)

Mathematician

12

Andrew Wiles

(British)

Mathematician

13

Li Hongzhi

(Chinese)

Spiritual Leader

14

Ali Javan

(Iranian)

Engineer

15

Brian Eno

(British)

Composer

16

Damian Hirst

(British)

Artist

17

Daniel Tammet

(British)

Savant & Linguist

18

Nicholson Baker

(American

Writer

19

Daniel Barenboim

(N/A)

Musician

20

Robert Crumb

(American)

Artist

21

Richard Dawkins

(British)

Biologist and philosopher

22

Larry Page & Sergey Brin

(American)

Publishers

23

Rupert Murdoch

(American)

Publisher

24

Geoffrey Hill

(British)

Poet

25

Garry Kasparov

(Russian)

Chess Player

26

The Dalai Lama

(Tibetan)

Spiritual Leader

27

Steven Spielberg

(American)

Film maker

28

Hiroshi Ishiguro

(Japanese)

Roboticist

29

Robert Edwards

(British)

Pioneer of IVF treatment

30

Seamus Heaney

(Irish)

Poet

31

Harold Pinter

(British)

Writer & Dramatist

32

Flossie Wong-Staal

(Chinese)

Bio-technologist

32

Bobby Fischer

(American)

Chess Player

34

Prince

(American)

Musician

35

Henrik Gorecki

(Polish)

Composer

36

Avram Noam Chomski

(American)

Philosopher & linguist

37

Sebastian Thrun

(German)

Probabilistic roboticist

38

Nima Arkani Hamed

(Canadian)

Physicist

39

Margaret Turnbull

(American)

Astrobiologist

40

Elaine Pagels

(American)

Historian

41

Enrique Ostrea

(Philippino)

Pediatrics & neonatology

42

Gary Becker

(American)

Economist

43

Mohammed Ali

(American)

Boxer

44

Osama Bin Laden

(Saudi)

Islamicist

45

Bill Gates

(American)

Businessman

46

Philip Roth

(American)

Writer

47

James West

(American)

Invented the foil electrical microphone

48

Tuan Vo-Dinh

(Vietnamese)

Bio-Medical Scientist

49

Brian Wilson

(American)

Musician

50

Stevie Wonder

(American)

Singer songwriter

51

Vint Cerf

(American)

Computer scientist

52

Henry Kissinger

(American)

Diplomat and politician

53

Richard Branson

(British)

Publicist

54

Pardis Sabeti

(Iranian)

Biological anthropologist

55

Jon de Mol

(Dutch)

Television producer

56

Meryl Streep

(American)

Actress

57

Margaret Attwood

(Canadian)

Writer

58

Placido Domingo

(Spanish)

Singer

59

John Lasseter

(American)

Digital Animator

60

Shunpei Yamazaki

(Japanese)

Computer scientist & physicist

61

Jane Goodall

(British)

Ethologist & Anthropologist

62

Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri

(Indian)

Historian

63

John Goto

(British)

Photographer

64

Paul McCartney

(British)

Musician

65

Stephen King

(American)

Writer

66

Leonard Cohen

(American)

Poet & musician

67

Aretha Franklin

(American)

Musician

68

David Bowie

(British)

Musician

69

Emily Oster

(American)

Economist

70

Steve Wozniak

(American)

Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers

71

Martin Cooper

(American)

Inventor of the cell phone

72

George Lucas

(American)

Film maker

73

Niles Rogers

(American)

Musician

74

Hans Zimmer

(German)

Composer

75

John Williams

(American)

Composer

76

Annette Baier

(New Zealander)

Philosopher

77

Dorothy Rowe

(British)

Psychologist

78

Ivan Marchuk

(Ukrainian)

Artist & sculptor

79

Robin Escovado

(American)

Composer

80

Mark Dean

(American)

Inventor & computer scientist

81

Rick Rubin

(American)

Musician & producer

82

Stan Lee

(American)

Publisher

83

David Warren

(Australian)

Engineer

84

Jon Fosse

(Norwegian)

Writer & dramatist

85

Gjertrud Schnackenberg

(American)

Poet

86

Graham Linehan

(Irish)

Writer & dramatist

87

JK Rowling

(British)

Writer

88

Ken Russell

(British)

Film maker

89

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov

(Russian)

Small arms designer

90

Erich Jarvis

(American)

Neurobiologist

91.

Chad Varah

(British)

Founder of Samaritans

92

Nicolas Hayek

(Swiss)

Businessman and founder of Swatch

93

Alastair Hannay

(British)

Philosopher

94

Patricia Bath

(American)

Ophthalmologist

95

Thomas A. Jackson

(American)

Aerospace engineer

96

Dolly Parton

(American)

Singer

97

Morissey

(British)

Singer

98

Michael Eavis

(British)

Organiser of Glastonbury

99

Ranulph Fiennes

(British)

Adventurer

100.

Quentin Tarantino

(American)

Filmmaker