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This is a list of living people of significant historical importance, influence within their discipline, and popular notability. In connection with an on-going debate about the criteria for inclusion on the ITN main-page portal, it is proposed that the death of a member of this list would warrant inclusion.
Criteria for inclusion include several of the following:
- Popular notability beyond the boundaries of their field or discipline
- Enduring notability beyond a generation or popular era
- Noted for a body of work that singularly altered their field or discipline
- Holding a prominent and powerful office for an unusual length of time
- Winning major awards in their field or discipline (Nobel, Oscar, Grammy, Pulitzer, Olympic medal, MVP (Most Valuable Player), etc.)
- Holding several records in their field or discipline
- Induction into a professional Hall of Fame, inclusion on a major Top n List
Actors and entertainers
[edit]- Woody Allen
- Julie Andrews
- Richard Attenborough
- Lauren Bacall
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Jeff Bridges
- Gay Byrne
- Michael Caine
- Jim Carrey
- Jackie Chan
- Julie Christie
- Tom Cruise
- Billy Connolly
- Sean Connery
- Stephen Colbert
- Michael Crawford
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Olivia de Havilland
- Robert De Niro
- Kirk Douglas
- Clint Eastwood
- Harrison Ford
- Jodie Foster
- Morgan Freeman
- Stephen Fry
- Gene Hackman
- Tom Hanks
- Dustin Hoffman
- Anthony Hopkins
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Jenna Jameson
- Ron Jeremy
- Pat Kenny
- Nicole Kidman
- Dilip Kumar
- Jet Li
- Christopher Lee
- Jay Leno
- David Letterman
- Sophia Loren
- Steve Martin
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Roger Moore
- Jack Nicholson
- Chuck Norris
- Peter O'Toole
- Al Pacino
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Sean Penn
- Sidney Poitier
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Julia Roberts
- Susan Sarandon
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Jerry Sienfeld
- Will Smith
- Sissy Spacek
- Howard Stern
- Jon Stewart
- Meryl Streep
- Hilary Swank
- Shirley Temple
- John Travolta
- Ryan Tubridy
- Dick Van Dyke
- Christopher Walken
- Denzel Washington
- Sigourney Weaver
- Betty White
- Robin Williams
Artists
[edit]Animators and cartoonists
[edit]Architects
[edit]Dancers and choreographers
[edit]Fashion
[edit]- Giorgio Armani
- John Galliano
- Valentino Garavani
- Hubert de Givenchy
- Marc Jacobs
- Karl Lagerfeld
- Ralph Lauren
- Calvin Klein
- Vivienne Westwood
- Yohji Yamamoto
Graphics and type designers
[edit]Interactive arts and games
[edit]- John D. Carmack
- Richard Garriott
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Sid Meyer
- Peter Molyneux
- John Romero
- Alexey Pajitnov
- Will Wright
Painters and sculptors
[edit]- Christo
- Chuck Close
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Damien Hirst
- David Hockney
- Jenny Holzer
- Jasper Johns
- Frank Stella
- Eva Zeisel
Photographers
[edit]Other
[edit]Athletes
[edit]Football/soccer
[edit]- Michelle Akers
- Gordon Banks
- Franz Beckenbauer
- David Beckham
- Bobby Charlton
- Johan Cruijff
- Eusébio
- Alex Ferguson
- Mia Hamm
- Thierry Henry
- Kevin Keegan
- Marcello Lippi
- Diego Maradona
- Jose Mourinho
- Pelé
- Michel Platini
- Ronaldinho
- Ronaldo
- Alfredo di Stéfano
- Zinedine Zidane
- Dino Zoff
Baseball
[edit]- Hank Aaron
- Ernie Banks
- Yogi Berra
- Barry Bonds
- Steve Carlton
- Roger Clemens
- Rickey Henderson
- Reggie Jackson
- Sandy Koufax
- Greg Maddux
- Willie Mays
- Stan Musial
- Cal Ripken Jr.
- Nolan Ryan
- Tom Seaver
- Joe Torre
American football
[edit]- Bobby Bowden
- Tom Brady
- Jim Brown
- Dick Butkus
- John Elway
- Brett Favre
- Peyton Manning
- Dan Marino
- Joe Montana
- Joe Paterno
- Jerry Rice
- Barry Sanders
- O. J. Simpson
- Emmitt Smith
- Lawrence Taylor
Basketball
[edit]- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Larry Bird
- Kobe Bryant
- Julius Erving
- Magic Johnson
- Michael Jordan
- Shaquille O'Neal
- Oscar Robertson
- John Stockton
Ice hockey
[edit]- Scotty Bowman
- Martin Brodeur
- Don Cherry
- Ken Dryden
- Phil Esposito
- Wayne Gretzky
- Gordie Howe
- Bobby Hull
- Mario Lemieux
- Mark Messier
- Mike Modano
- Bobby Orr
- Patrick Roy
- Joe Sakic
- Vladislav Tretiak
- Steve Yzerman
Rugby
[edit]Cricket
[edit]- Ricky Ponting
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Viv Richards
- Glenn McGrath
- Brian Lara
- Muttiah Muralitharan
- Sir Garfield Sobers
Tennis
[edit]- Andre Agassi
- Björn Borg
- Margaret Court
- Roger Federer
- Steffi Graf
- Billie Jean King
- Rod Laver
- John McEnroe
- Martina Navratilova
- Pete Sampras
- Serena Williams
Golf
[edit]- Pádraig Harrington
- Jack Nicklaus
- Greg Norman
- Arnold Palmer
- Gary Player
- Annika Sörenstam
- Tom Watson
- Kathy Whitworth
- Tiger Woods
- Mickey Wright
Gaelic Games
[edit]Olympians
[edit]- Evelyn Ashford
- Roger Bannister
- Bonnie Blair
- Usain Bolt
- Nadia Comăneci
- Peggy Fleming
- Haile Gebrselassie
- Hicham El Guerrouj
- Janet Evans
- Michael Johnson
- Marion Jones
- Olga Korbut
- Michelle Kwan
- Pat McCormick
- Shannon Miller
- Michael Phelps
- Paula Radcliffe
- Steve Redgrave
- Mary Lou Retton
- Michelle Smith
- Mark Spitz
- Ian Thorpe
Professional wrestling
[edit]Boxing
[edit]Other
[edit]Writers
[edit]- Chinua Achebe
- Cecelia Ahern
- Edward Albee
- Mitch Albom
- Maya Angelou
- Margaret Atwood
- David Attenborough
- Maeve Binchy
- Ray Bradbury
- Peter Carey (novelist)
- Tom Clancy
- Bryce Courtenay
- John Maxwell Coetzee
- Joan Didion
- Jules Feiffer
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Günter Grass
- John Grisham
- Seamus Heaney
- Thomas Keneally
- Marian Keyes
- Stephen King
- Doris Lessing
- Colleen McCullough
- David McCullough
- John Montague (poet)
- Toni Morrison
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Thomas Pynchon
- Philip Roth
- J. K. Rowling
- Salman Rushdie
- Danielle Steel
- Gore Vidal
- Elie Wiesel
Journalists
[edit]- Christiane Amanpour
- Carl Bernstein
- Charlie Bird
- Tom Brokaw
- Bob Costas
- Robert Fisk
- Jason O'Toole (journalist)
- Dan Rather
- Bob Woodward
Composers and musicians
[edit]Rock, punk, alternative
[edit]- AC/DC
- Aerosmith
- The Beatles
- Jeff Beck
- Chuck Berry
- Ian Brown
- Chris de Burgh
- Eric Clapton
- The Clash
- Alice Cooper
- Elvis Costello
- Pink Floyd
- Glen Hansard
- Chrissie Hynde
- John Lydon
- Morrissey
- Sinéad O'Connor
- The Rolling Stones
- Grace Slick
- Patti Smith
- Bruce Springsteen
- Michael Stipe
- U2
- Van Morrison
- Velvet Underground
- Paul Weller
- The Who
- Neil Young
Rap, Hip-hop
[edit]Pop
[edit]- The Beach Boys
- David Byrne
- Cher
- Petula Clark
- The Everly Brothers
- Boy George
- Elton John
- Bette Midler
- Joni Mitchell
- Moby
- Cliff Richard
- Little Richard
- Britney Spears
- Ronnie Spector
- Barbra Streisand
- Jimmy Webb
- Stevie Wonder
- Robbie Williams
Classical & opera
[edit]- Milton Babbitt
- John Barry
- Pierre Boulez
- Philip Glass
- James Levine
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Lorin Maazel
- Kurt Masur
- Ennio Morricone
- Itzhak Perlman
- André Previn
- Leontyne Price
- Steve Reich
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- John Williams
Jazz, soul, blues, R&B
[edit]- B. B. King
- The Supremes
- Tina Turner
- The Four Tops
- Martha Reeves
- Etta James
- Booker T. Jones
- Smokey Robinson
- Ornette Coleman
Folk, country, funk
[edit]- Garth Brooks
- Rosanne Cash
- George Clinton
- Leonard Cohen
- Bob Dylan
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Dolly Parton
- Simon & Garfunkel
Other
[edit]Directors, playwrights, and screenwriters
[edit]- Mel Brooks
- Mark Burnett
- Ken Burns
- James Cameron
- John Carpenter
- Ethan Coen
- Joel Coen
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Peter Jackson
- George Lucas
- Sam Mendes
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Martin Scorsese
- Ridley Scott
- Steven Spielberg
- Oliver Stone
- Wachowski Brothers
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Shyam Benegal
Entrepreneurs and businesspeople
[edit]- Anil Ambani
- Mukesh Ambani
- Jeff Bezos
- Richard Branson
- Sergey Brin
- Michael Bloomberg
- Warren Buffett
- Michael Dell
- Bernard Ebbers
- Lawrence Ellison
- Larry Flynt
- Bill Gates
- Andy Grove
- Carlos Slim Helú
- Stan Lee
- Ingvar Kamprad
- Hugh Hefner
- Carl Icahn
- Robert Metcalfe
- Michael Milken
- Lakshmi Mittal
- Gordon Moore
- Rupert Murdoch
- Denis O'Brien
- Michael O'Leary
- Larry Page
- T. Boone Pickens, Jr.
- Sumner Redstone
- Charles Schwab
- Jeffrey Skilling
- Martha Stewart
- Donald Trump
- Ted Turner
- Jack Welch
- Oprah Winfrey
- Meg Whitman
- Steve Wynn
- Hiroshi Yamauchi
- Muhammad Yunus
Explorers
[edit]- Buzz Aldrin
- Neil Armstrong
- John Glenn
- Chuck Yeager
- Ranulph Fiennes
- Andy Green
- Joseph Kittinger
- Reinhold Messner
- Mark Pollock
- E. Lee Spence
- Robert Ballard
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
[edit]- Ralph H. Baer
- Jacque Fresco
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Vint Cerf
- Richard Dawkins
- Freeman Dyson
- Douglas Engelbart
- Charles Geschke
- Jane Goodall
- Brian Greene
- Stephen Hawking
- David Ho
- Bob Kahn
- Dean Kamen
- C. Everett Koop
- Raymond Kurzweil
- Richard Leakey
- Benoît Mandelbrot
- Marvin Minsky
- John Forbes Nash
- Jakob Nielsen
- Richard Stallman
- Linus Torvalds
- Steven Pinker
- Grigori Perelman
- Gene Spafford
- Ivan Sutherland
- Dennis Ritchie
- Ken Thompson
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Craig Venter
- John Warnock
- James D. Watson
- Andrew Wiles
- Niklaus Wirth
Philosophers, jurists, social scientists
[edit]- Kenneth Arrow
- Gary Becker
- Judith Butler
- Ronald Coase
- Noam Chomsky
- Alan Dershowitz
- René Girard
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Jürgen Habermas
- Paul Krugman
- Ernesto Laclau
- Lawrence Lessig
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Charles Murray
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Seymour Papert
- Richard Posner
- Robert D. Putnam
- Paul Samuelson
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Amartya Sen
- Robert Solow
- Laurence Tribe
- Slavoj Žižek
Politicians and leaders
[edit]European
[edit]France
[edit]Germany
[edit]Iceland
[edit]Ireland
[edit]Italy
[edit]- Giuliano Amato
- Giulio Andreotti
- Silvio Berlusconi
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
- Francesco Cossiga
- Romano Prodi
- Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Russia
[edit]Spain
[edit]Poland
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]- Tony Blair
- Gordon Brown
- John Major
- Margaret Thatcher
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- Prince Charles
Heads of state
[edit]- Eddie Fenech Adami
- Valdas Adamkus
- Albert II of Belgium
- Traian Băsescu
- Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Carl XVI Gustaf
- Dimitris Christofias
- Heinz Fischer
- Ivan Gašparovič
- Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- Tarja Halonen
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves
- Lech Kaczyński
- Václav Klaus
- Horst Köhler
- Margrethe II of Denmark
- Mary McAleese
- Giorgio Napolitano
- Karolos Papoulias
- Georgi Parvanov
- Mary Robinson
- Aníbal Cavaco Silva
- László Sólyom
- Danilo Türk
- Valdis Zatlers
North American
[edit]Canada
[edit]Mexico
[edit]- Felipe Calderón
- Luis Echeverría
- Miguel de la Madrid
- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
- Ernesto Zedillo
- Vicente Fox
United States
[edit]Latin American
[edit]Argentina
[edit]- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
- Néstor Kirchner
- Eduardo Duhalde
- Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
- Fernando De La Rua
- Carlos Saul Menem
- Jorge Rafael Videla
- Isabel Martínez de Perón
Brazil
[edit]Bolivia
[edit]Cuba
[edit]Peru
[edit]Venezuela
[edit]Asian & Oceanian
[edit]Australia
[edit]New Zealand
[edit]Indian subcontinent
[edit]Middle East
[edit]Other
[edit]- Akihito
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
- Hassanal Bolkiah
- Hu Jintao
- Wen Jiabao
- Kim Jong-il
- Junichirō Koizumi
- Mahathir bin Mohamad
- Lee Myung-bak
- Jiang Zemin
- Lee Kuan Yew
African
[edit]- Muammar al-Gaddafi
- Omar Hassan al-Bashir
- Joseph Kabila
- Nelson Mandela
- Thabo Mbeki
- Mohammed VI of Morocco
- Hosni Mubarak
- Robert Mugabe
- Hailemariam Desalegn
- Umaru Yar'Adua
Other
[edit]Religious leaders
[edit]- Pope Benedict XVI
- Billy Graham
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
- Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow
- Desmond Tutu
- Rowan Williams
Revolutionaries and activists
[edit]- Joan Baez
- Jim Bakker
- Matt Drudge
- Betty Ford
- Bob Geldof
- Al Gore
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Rush Limbaugh
- Markos Moulitsas
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Pat Robertson
- Jack Thompson (attorney)
- George Soros
Other
[edit]- The last surviving veteran of World War I.
- The last surviving veteran of World War II.
- The last surviving veteran of the Korean War.
- The last surviving veteran of the Spanish Civil War.