Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century [1998]

Historical Accolades

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Vote Ranking  

1

Walter Reuther

Advocate

100% (1 of 1 votes)

2

Watson and Crick

Scientist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

3

Oscar Hammerstein II

Playwright

100% (1 of 1 votes)

4

Lucky Luciano

Outlaw

100% (3 of 3 votes)

5

Emmeline Pankhurst

Advocate

100% (1 of 1 votes)

6

Adolf Hitler

World Leader

69.55% (1124 of 1616 votes)

7

Theodore Roosevelt

U.S. President

58.31% (207 of 355 votes)

8

David Ben-Gurion

World Leader

58.06% (54 of 93 votes)

9

Margaret Sanger

Sex Researcher

57.89% (77 of 133 votes)

10

Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Religious Figure

57.52% (88 of 153 votes)

11

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

World Leader

52.65% (149 of 283 votes)

12

Jackie Robinson

Baseball Player

52.61% (121 of 230 votes)

13

Princess Diana Spencer

Royalty

52.22% (200 of 383 votes)

14

Pele

Soccer Player

52.00% (13 of 25 votes)

15

Mahatma Gandhi

Diplomat

51.43% (18 of 35 votes)

16

Sigmund Freud

Doctor

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

17

Rachel Carson

Advocate

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

18

Mary Leakey

Scientist

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

19

Philo T. Farnsworth

Inventor

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

20

Ronald Reagan

U.S. President

49.41% (251 of 508 votes)

21

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

U.S. President

48.53% (346 of 713 votes)

22

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

23

Margaret Thatcher

World Leader

46.81% (44 of 94 votes)

24

Steven Spielberg

Filmmaker

45.83% (44 of 96 votes)

25

Che Guevara

Military Personnel

44.44% (4 of 9 votes)

26

Marilyn Monroe

Actress

43.50% (321 of 738 votes)

27

Winston Churchill

World Leader

43.24% (16 of 37 votes)

28

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

U.S. President

42.17% (132 of 313 votes)

29

Beatles

Musicians

41.86% (72 of 172 votes)

30

Aretha Franklin

Vocalist

37.21% (16 of 43 votes)

31

Albert Einstein

Scientist

35.63% (31 of 87 votes)

32

Anne Frank

Student

34.59% (64 of 185 votes)

33

Nelson Mandela

World Leader

34.50% (59 of 171 votes)

34

Billy Graham

Religious Figure

34.00% (17 of 50 votes)

35

Alan Turing

Mathematician

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

36

Lucille Ball

Comedienne

32.53% (27 of 83 votes)

37

The Simpsons

TV Series

32.19% (47 of 146 votes)

38

Bob Dylan

Vocalist

32.14% (18 of 56 votes)

39

Vladimir Illyich Lenin

World Leader

32.00% (112 of 350 votes)

40

Muhammad Ali

Boxer

31.93% (53 of 166 votes)

41

Frank Sinatra

Vocalist

31.71% (26 of 82 votes)

42

Helen Keller

Advocate

31.71% (26 of 82 votes)

43

Louis Armstrong

Vocalist

31.43% (11 of 35 votes)

44

Rosa Parks

Advocate

30.08% (40 of 133 votes)

45

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Advocate

29.61% (106 of 358 votes)

46

Mao ZeDong

World Leader

28.57% (4 of 14 votes)

47

Oprah Winfrey

TV Personality

28.00% (217 of 775 votes)

48

Charlie Chaplin

Actor

26.32% (10 of 38 votes)

49

Pope John Paul II

Religious Figure

26.32% (10 of 38 votes)

50

Ho Chi Minh

Military Personnel

25.00% (1 of 4 votes)

51

Bruce Lee

Actor

24.00% (6 of 25 votes)

52

Igor Stravinsky

Composer

20.0% (1 of 5 votes)

53

Marlon Brando

Actor

18.18% (2 of 11 votes)

54

Harvey Milk

Politician

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

55

Louis B. Mayer

Entrepreneur

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

56

Mikhail Gorbachev

World Leader

8.33% (3 of 36 votes)

57

Walt Disney

Animator

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

58

Estee Lauder

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

59

Pete Rozelle

Sports Executive

0% (0 of 0 votes)

60

Jim Henson

Puppeteer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

61

T.S. Eliot

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

62

Enrico Fermi

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

63

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Inventor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

64

Henry Ford

Automaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

65

Ray Kroc

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 3 votes)

66

Unknown Rebel

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

67

John Maynard Keynes

Economist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

68

Richard Leakey

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

69

Le Corbusier

Architect

0% (0 of 0 votes)

70

Richard Rodgers

Songwriter

0% (0 of 0 votes)

71

Jean Piaget

Scientist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

72

Edwin Hubble

Astronomer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

73

Louis Leakey

Scientist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

74

Robert H. Goddard

Scientist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

75

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 1 votes)

76

Juan Trippe

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 2 votes)

77

William Shockley

Inventor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

78

Tim Berners-Lee

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

79

Bill Gates

Computer Tech

0% (0 of 7 votes)

80

Coco Chanel

Designer

0% (0 of 2 votes)

81

Andrei Sakharov

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

82

Pablo Picasso

Artist

0% (0 of 2 votes)

83

James Joyce

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

84

Jonas Salk

Scientist

0% (0 of 2 votes)

85

Charles Lindbergh

Aviator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

86

Tenzing Norgay

Adventurer

0% (0 of 0 votes)

87

Kurt Godel

Mathematician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

88

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

89

David Sarnoff

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

90

Lech Walesa

Politician

0% (0 of 4 votes)

91

Alexander Fleming

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

92

Martha Graham

Choreographer

0% (0 of 0 votes)

93

Leo Hendrik Baekeland

Inventor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

94

Willis Haviland Carrier

Inventor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

95

Akio Morita

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

96

Edmund Hillary

Explorer

0% (0 of 6 votes)

97

Bill Wilson

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

98

Amadeo P. Giannini

Financier

0% (0 of 0 votes)

99

Leo Burnett

Promoter

0% (0 of 0 votes)

100

Charles E. Merrill

Financier

0% (0 of 1 votes)

101

Sam Walton

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

102

William Levitt

Architect

0% (0 of 0 votes)