| 1 | AAnonymous | — | — | — | 1299 | 4.0 |
| 2 |  Ralph Waldo EmersonAmerican poet, essayist and lecturer | Poet | American | 19th century | 468 | 3.4 |
| 3 |  William ShakespeareBritish poet and playwright | Writer | British | 16th century | 267 | 3.2 |
| 4 |  Oscar WildeIrish poet and dramatist | Poet | Irish | 19th century | 259 | 3.6 |
| 5 |  Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheGerman poet, novelist and dramatist | Poet | German | 18th century | 239 | 4.5 |
| 6 |  Proverb | — | Anonymous | — | 230 | 4.9 |
| 7 |  Samuel JohnsonBritish author | Author | British | 18th century | 230 | 3.0 |
| 8 |  Hillary ClintonAmerican Politician | Politician | American | 20th century | 204 | 4.5 |
| 9 |  Mark TwainAmerican humorist, writer, and lecturer | Writer | American | 19th century | 203 | 3.7 |
| 10 |  Henry David ThoreauAmerican naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist | Poet | American | 19th century | 191 | 3.9 |
| 11 |  Stephen HawkingEnglish Physicist | Physicist | English | 20th century | 191 | 3.5 |
| 12 |  George Bernard ShawIrish playwright, critic, political activist | Writer | Irish | 19th century | 185 | 4.7 |
| 13 |  Benjamin FranklinAmerican statesman, scientist, print-publisher and philosopher | Politician | American | 18th century | 184 | 3.0 |
| 14 |  SenecaRoman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, known as Seneca the Younger, son of Seneca the Elder and tutor of Nero | Philosopher | Roman | 1st century BC | 166 | 5.0 |
| 15 |  Oliver Wendell HolmesAmerican physician and poet, | Author | American | 19th century | 161 | 4.9 |
| 16 |  Thomas CarlyleBritish historian and essayist | Writer | British | 18th century | 154 | 3.5 |
| 17 |  Lord ByronBritish poet and politician | Poet | British | 18th century | 142 | 4.7 |
| 18 |  Bill GatesAmerican Businessman | Businessman | American | 20th century | 140 | 4.3 |
| 19 |  Barack ObamaAmerican Politician | Politician | American | 20th century | 131 | 4.3 |
| 20 |  François de La RochefoucauldFrench Writerand philosopher | Writer | French | 17th century | 130 | 3.0 |
| 21 |  Friedrich NietzscheGerman philosopher and writer | Writer | German | 19th century | 125 | 4.8 |
| 22 |  Albert EinsteinGerman-Statless-Swiss-Austrian -American scientist | Physicist | German | 19th century | 116 | 3.3 |
| 23 |  Marcus Tulius CiceroWriter,lawyer, politician and great roman orator | Politician | Roman | 2nd century BC | 114 | 4.6 |
| 24 |  George EliotBritish novelist ['Middlemarch'] | Writer | British | 19th century | 109 | 3.8 |
| 25 |  Winston ChurchillBritish politician | Politician | British | 19th century | 107 | 4.7 |
| 26 |  Abraham LincolnLawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth] | Politician | American | 19th century | 106 | 4.4 |
| 27 |  Benjamin DisraeliBritish politician and author [Prime Minister of the UK from February 20, 1874 to April 21, 1880] | Politician | British | 19th century | 105 | 3.7 |
| 28 |  Francis BaconBritish statesman and philosopher | Philosopher | British | 16th century | 104 | 4.8 |
| 29 |  Steve JobsAmerican Businessman | Businessman | American | 20th century | 100 | 3.6 |
| 30 | MMontaigneFrench statesman, philosopher and essayist | Philosopher | French | 16th century | 97 | 3.3 |
| 31 |  Henry Louis MenckenAmerican journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic | Journalist | American | 19th century | 96 | 3.9 |
| 32 |  Walt DisneyAmerican Cartoonist | Cartoonist | American | 20th century | 95 | 4.3 |
| 33 |  Vladimir PutinRussian Politician | Politician | Russian | 20th century | 93 | 4.6 |
| 34 |  Virginia WoolfBritish novelist and essayist ['To the lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Orlando'] | Writer | British | 19th century | 92 | 4.5 |
| 35 |  AristotleGreek philosopher and scientist [Tutor of Alexander the Great] | Philosopher | Greek | 4th century BC | 91 | 4.2 |
| 36 |  Gilbert Keith ChestertonBritish journalist, novelist and poet ['Father Brown', 'Orthodoxy', 'The Everlasting Man'] | Poet | British | 19th century | 91 | 3.0 |
| 37 |  Henry Ward BeecherAmerican politician, social reformer | Politician | American | 19th century | 90 | 3.4 |
| 38 |  Matt GroeningAmerican Cartoonist | Cartoonist | American | 20th century | 90 | 5.0 |
| 39 |  George W. BushAmerican Politician | Politician | American | 20th century | 89 | 3.2 |
| 40 |  William FaulknerAmerican novelist and short-story Writer['As I Lay Dying', 'Absalom, Absalom!' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949] | Writer | American | 19th century | 86 | 4.9 |
| 41 |  Charles Caleb ColtonBritish clergyman, sportsman and author [well known for his eccentrities] | Author | British | 18th century | 84 | 4.6 |
| 42 |  HoraceRoman lyric poet ['Odes', 'Satires', 'Ars Poetica'] | Poet | Roman | 1st century BC | 84 | 3.7 |
| 43 |  Samuel BeckettIrish writer, dramatist and poet, ['¨Waiting for Godot' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969] | Writer | Irish | 20th century | 84 | 3.6 |
| 44 |  John RuskinEnglish weiter and art critic | Writer | English | 19th century | 83 | 4.0 |
| 45 |  Napoleon HillAmerican speaker and motivational Writer['Think and Grow Rich', 'The Law of Success'] | Writer | American | 19th century | 83 | 3.6 |
| 46 |  Thomas HobbesBritish philosopher | Philosopher | British | 16th century | 82 | 3.8 |
| 47 |  Mahatma GandhiPreeminent leader of Indian nationalism[Assassination by shooting] | Leader | Indian | 19th century | 81 | 3.9 |
| 48 |  Thomas de QuinceyBritish author and intellectual | Author | British | 18th century | 81 | 4.1 |
| 49 |  Eric HofferAmerican moral and social philosopher and author | Author | American | 20th century | 80 | 4.1 |
| 50 |  Chinese proverb | — | Chinese | — | 79 | 4.0 |
| 51 |  John D. RockefellerAmerican business magnate and philanthropist | Businessman | American | 19th century | 79 | 3.7 |
| 52 |  Bertrand RussellBritish logician and philosopher [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950] | Philosopher | British | 19th century | 78 | 4.6 |
| 53 |  William HazlittBritish essayist and literary critic | Essayist | British | 18th century | 78 | 3.4 |
| 54 |  Alan GreenspanAmerican Economist | Economist | American | 20th century | 77 | 3.3 |
| 55 |  Alexander PopeEnglish poet and satirist | Poet | English | 17th century | 77 | 3.1 |
| 56 |  Ambrose BierceAmerican newspaperman and short-story writer | Writer | American | 19th century | 75 | 3.2 |
| 57 |  ConfuciusChinese philosopher | Philosopher | Chinese | 6th century BC | 72 | 4.7 |
| 58 | GGeorg C. LichtenbergGerman scientist, satirist and anglophile | Scientist | German | 18th century | 72 | 4.6 |
| 59 |  Nelson MandelaSouth African Politician | Politician | South African | 20th century | 71 | 3.8 |
| 60 |  Albert CamusFrench novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957] | Novelist | French | 20th century | 70 | 3.6 |
| 61 |  Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAmerican poet and educator | Poet | American | 19th century | 70 | 4.0 |
| 62 |  Pierre BeaumarchaisFrench dramatist | Playwright | French | 18th century | 69 | 4.5 |
| 63 |  Aldous HuxleyBritish author ['Brave New World'] | Author | British | 19th century | 67 | 4.4 |
| 64 |  John F. Kennedy35th President of the USA [ Assassinated in Dallas] | Politician | American | 20th century | 66 | 4.4 |
| 65 |  Henry MillerAmerican author | Author | American | 19th century | 65 | 3.6 |
| 66 |  Josh BillingsAmerican humorist and lecturer | Comedian | American | 19th century | 65 | 4.7 |
| 67 |  Margaret ThatcherBritish statewoman | Politician | British | 20th century | 65 | 3.0 |
| 68 |  Tony BlairEnglish Politician | Politician | English | 20th century | 65 | 4.8 |
| 69 |  Robin WilliamsAmerican Comedian | Comedian | American | 20th century | 63 | 4.1 |
| 70 |  Simone de BeauvoirFrench novelist and essayist | Novelist | French | 20th century | 63 | 3.3 |
| 71 |  Blaise PascalFrench mathematician, physicist and philosopher | Philosopher | French | 17th century | 62 | 4.9 |
| 72 |  Edmund BurkeBritish political writer | Politician | Irish-British | 18th century | 61 | 4.0 |
| 73 |  George SantayanaAmerican philosopher and poet Born in Madrid] | Poet | Spanish- American | 19th century | 61 | 3.0 |
| 74 |  Lord ChesterfieldBritish statesman and man of letters | Politician | British | 17th century | 61 | 3.4 |
| 75 |  Vincent van GoghDutch painter | Painter | Dutch | 19th century | 61 | 4.5 |
| 76 |  Arthur SchopenhauerGerman philosopher['Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung'] | Philosopher | German | 18th century | 60 | 4.1 |
| 77 |  Mark ZuckerbergAmerican Businessman | Businessman | American | 20th century | 59 | 3.1 |
| 78 |  Umberto EcoItalian novelist, semiotician, essayist, philosopher and critic | Novelist | Italy | 20th century | 59 | 4.0 |
| 79 |  Warren BuffettAmerican Businessman | Businessman | American | 20th century | 59 | 3.5 |
| 80 |  Miguel de CervantesSpanish novelist, poet, and playwright | Poet | Spanish | 16th century | 58 | 4.0 |
| 81 |  Norman Vincent PealeAmerican protestant preacher and author | Author | American | 19th century | 58 | 3.0 |
| 82 |  Will RogersAmerican humorist and actor | Comedian | American | 19th century | 58 | 4.0 |
| 83 | OOvidRoman poet | Poet | Roman | 1st century BC | 57 | 4.6 |
| 84 | PPublilius SyrusFormer syrian slave who became a roman Writerand poet | Writer | Roman | 1st century BC | 57 | 4.2 |
| 85 |  Robert BurtonEnglish scholar | Educator | English | 16th century | 57 | 4.8 |
| 86 |  Sir Thomas BrowneEnglish author And polymath | Author | English | 17th century | 57 | 3.1 |
| 87 |  Ted TurnerAmerican Businessman | Businessman | American | 20th century | 57 | 4.2 |
| 88 |  Wentworth DillonEnglish poet and scholar | Poet | English | 17th century | 57 | 3.2 |
| 89 |  Ernest HemingwayAmerican Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954] | Writer | American | 19th century | 56 | 4.1 |
| 90 |  Jean de la BruyèreFrench satiric moralist | — | French | 17th century | 56 | 3.6 |
| 91 |  William J. ClintonAmerican Politician | Politician | American | 20th century | 56 | 4.4 |
| 92 |  Friedrich SchillerGerman poet, playwright, writer, historian and philosopher. | Poet | German | 18th century | 55 | 4.4 |
| 93 |  Donald TrumpAmerican Businessman | Businessman | American | 20th century | 54 | 4.0 |
| 94 |  Jean Jacques RousseauFrench-Swiss political philosopher and essayist | Politician | Swiss | 18th century | 54 | 3.7 |
| 95 |  D. H. LawrenceEnglish writer. 'Women in Love', 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' | Writer | English | 19th century | 53 | 4.4 |
| 96 |  David CameronBritish Politician | Politician | British | 20th century | 53 | 4.3 |
| 97 |  Michelle BacheletChilean Politician | Politician | Chilean | 20th century | 53 | 3.6 |
| 98 |  W. H. AudenEnglish-born poet and man of letters | Poet | English | 20th century | 53 | 4.1 |
| 99 | WWalter BenjaminGerman philosopher and cultural critic, associated with the 'Frankfurt School' | Philosopher | German | 19th century | 53 | 4.8 |
| 100 |  John MiltonEnglish poet, polemicist, man of letters | Poet | English | 17th century | 52 | 3.1 |
