People

Jackie Robinson

Broke baseball color barrier

Modern influential

96

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady, human rights

Modern influential

96

Chiang Kai-shek

Chinese Nationalist leader

Modern influential

95

Rabindranath Tagore

Indian poet, Nobel laureate

Modern influential

95

Emmeline Pankhurst

Suffragette leader

Modern influential

94

Alexander Graham Bell

Telephone inventor

Modern influential

93

Dmitri Mendeleev

Periodic table of elements

Modern influential

93

Robert Koch

Germ theory, tuberculosis

Modern influential

93

Hannah Arendt

Banality of evil, political theory

Modern influential

93

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot, absurdist theater

Modern influential

93

Bob Marley

Reggae legend

Modern influential

93

Jackson Pollock

Abstract expressionism

Modern influential

93

Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page)

Rock innovators

Modern influential

93

Francis Crick

Co-discoverer of DNA structure

Modern influential

92

William S. Burroughs

Naked Lunch, Beat writer

Modern influential

92

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Modern influential

92

Ray Kroc

McDonald's franchise builder

Modern influential

92

Nina Simone

Musician, civil rights activist

Modern influential

91

Elvis Presley

King of Rock and Roll

Modern influential

90

Charles Darwin

Theory of evolution

Modern influential

89