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# 51

#157 overall influence

Terry Pratchett

1948 - 2015 (67 years)

English fantasy author

# 52

#99 overall influence

Marie Curie

1867 - 1934 (67 years)

Polish-French physicist and chemist

# 53

#164 overall influence

John Steinbeck

1902 - 1968 (66 years)

American writer

# 54

#161 overall influence

Osama bin Laden

1957 - 2011 (54 years)

Saudi Arabian founder of al-Qaeda

# 55

#140 overall influence

Erwin Schrödinger

1887 - 1961 (74 years)

Austrian physicist

# 56

#169 overall influence

Enrico Fermi

1901 - 1954 (53 years)

Italian physicist

# 57

#156 overall influence

Martin Luther King Jr.

1929 - 1968 (39 years)

American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

# 58

#177 overall influence

Pierre Bourdieu

1930 - 2002 (72 years)

French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher

# 59

#179 overall influence

Robert A. Heinlein

1907 - 1988 (81 years)

American science fiction author

# 60

#178 overall influence

Margaret Mead

1901 - 1978 (77 years)

American anthropologist

# 61

#172 overall influence

Carl Sagan

1934 - 1996 (62 years)

American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

# 62

#183 overall influence

Margaret Atwood

1939 - Present (81 years)

Canadian writer

# 63

#181 overall influence

Ayn Rand

1905 - 1982 (77 years)

Russian-American novelist and philosopher

# 64

#191 overall influence

Mircea Eliade

1907 - 1986 (79 years)

Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher

# 65

#193 overall influence

Marshall McLuhan

1911 - 1980 (69 years)

Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist

# 66

#192 overall influence

Stephen King

1947 - Present (73 years)

American author

# 67

#194 overall influence

Gabriel García Márquez

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Colombian writer, journalist and Nobel laureate in literature

# 68

#72 overall influence

Edmund Husserl

1859 - 1938 (79 years)

German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology

# 69

#153 overall influence

Ezra Pound

1885 - 1972 (87 years)

American poet and critic

# 70

#190 overall influence

Rosalind Franklin

1920 - 1958 (38 years)

British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer

# 71

#197 overall influence

Paul Dirac

1902 - 1984 (82 years)

Theoretical physicist

# 72

#196 overall influence

Steven Spielberg

1946 - Present (74 years)

American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur

# 73

#101 overall influence

Franz Kafka

1883 - 1924 (41 years)

Bohemian novelist and short story writer

# 74

#201 overall influence

Ursula K. Le Guin

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

American writer

# 75

#204 overall influence

Saul Bellow

1915 - 2005 (90 years)

Canadian-American writer

# 76

#205 overall influence

Toni Morrison

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Afro-American writer

# 77

#203 overall influence

Roger Ebert

1942 - 2013 (71 years)

American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

# 78

#206 overall influence

Graham Greene

1904 - 1991 (87 years)

English writer, playwright and literary critic

# 79

#210 overall influence

Maurice Wilkins

1916 - 2004 (88 years)

New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist

# 80

#58 overall influence

Franz Boas

1858 - 1942 (84 years)

German-American anthropologist

# 81

#213 overall influence

Talcott Parsons

1902 - 1979 (77 years)

American sociologist

# 82

#188 overall influence

Douglas MacArthur

1880 - 1964 (84 years)

U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of the Philippines

# 83

#149 overall influence

Thomas Mann

1875 - 1955 (80 years)

German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate

# 84

#195 overall influence

Ronald Fisher

1890 - 1962 (72 years)

British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist.

# 85

#222 overall influence

Sydney Brenner

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

# 86

#225 overall influence

Daniel Dennett

1942 - Present (78 years)

American philosopher

# 87

#226 overall influence

Steven Pinker

1954 - Present (66 years)

Psychologist, linguist, author

# 88

#233 overall influence

Max Delbrück

1906 - 1981 (75 years)

Biophysicist

# 89

#239 overall influence

Kurt Vonnegut

1922 - 2007 (85 years)

American writer

# 90

#240 overall influence

John Bardeen

1908 - 1991 (83 years)

American physicist and engineer

# 91

#243 overall influence

Paul Samuelson

1915 - 2009 (94 years)

American economist

# 92

#221 overall influence

Theodosius Dobzhansky

1900 - 1975 (75 years)

Geneticist and evolutionary biologist

# 93

#251 overall influence

Eugene Wigner

1902 - 1995 (93 years)

Hungarian-American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning physicist

# 94

#237 overall influence

Steve Jobs

1955 - 2011 (56 years)

American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

# 95

#246 overall influence

Thomas Kuhn

1922 - 1996 (74 years)

American historian, physicist and philosopher

# 96

#253 overall influence

Rush Limbaugh

1951 - Present (69 years)

American radio talk show host, commentator, author, and television personality

# 97

#248 overall influence

Ajit Pai

1973 - Present (47 years)

American attorney and FCC chairman in the United States

# 98

#200 overall influence

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973 (92 years)

Spanish artist

# 99

#174 overall influence

D. H. Lawrence

1885 - 1930 (45 years)

English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

# 100

#270 overall influence

Thomas Pynchon

1937 - Present (83 years)

American novelist