TIME MAGAZINE - 100 Persons Of The Century
Our selection of the most influential people of the 20th century
LEADERS & REVOLUTIONARIES (APRIL 13, 1998)
- David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister
- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
- Mohandas Gandhi, father of modern India
- Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet reformer
- Adolf Hitler, German dictator
- Ho Chi Minh, first President of North Vietnam
- Pope John Paul II, religious leader
- Ayatullah R. Khomeini, leader of Iran's revolution
- Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union
- Nelson Mandela, South African President
- Mao Zedong, leader of communist China
- Ronald Reagan, U.S. President
- Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect
- Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist
- Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader
- Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
- Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel
- Lech Walesa, Polish union organizer
ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS (JUNE 8, 1998)
- Louis Armstrong, jazz musician
- Lucille Ball, TV star
- The Beatles, rock musicians
- Marlon Brando, actor
- Coco Chanel, designer
- Charlie Chaplin, comic genius
- Le Corbusier, architect
- Bob Dylan, folk musician
- T.S. Eliot, poet
- Aretha Franklin, soul musician
- Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer
- Jim Henson, puppeteer and creator of TV's Muppets
- James Joyce, novelist
- Pablo Picasso, artist
- Rodgers & Hammerstein, Broadway showmen
- Bart Simpson, cartoon character
- Frank Sinatra, singer
- Steven Spielberg, moviemaker
- Igor Stravinsky, classical musician
- Oprah Winfrey, TV talk-show host
BUILDERS & TITANS (DEC. 7, 1998)
- Stephen Bechtel, construction magnate
- Leo Burnett, advertising genius
- Willis Carrier, maker of air-conditioning systems
- Walt Disney, creator of animation and multimedia empire
- Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co.
- Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
- A.P. Giannini, architect of nationwide banking
- Ray Kroc, hamburger meister
- Estee Lauder, cosmetics tycoon
- William Levitt, creator of suburbia
- Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind
- Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul
- Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor
- Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony
- Walter Reuther, labor leader
- Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner
- David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting
- Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur
- Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo
- Thomas Watson Jr., IBM president
SCIENTISTS & THINKERS (MARCH 29, 1999)
- Leo Baekeland, plastics pioneer
- Tim Berners-Lee, Internet designer
- Rachel Carson, environmentalist
- Albert Einstein, physicist
- Philo Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television
- Enrico Fermi, atomic physicist
- Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist
- Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst
- Robert Goddard, rocket scientist
- Kurt Godel, mathematician
- Edwin Hubble, astronomer
- John Maynard Keynes, economist
- The Leakey Family, anthropologists
- Jean Piaget, child psychologist
- Jonas Salk, virologist
- William Shockley, solid-state physicist
- Alan Turing, computer scientist
- James Watson & Francis Crick, molecular biologists
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
- The Wright Brothers, visionary aviators
HEROES & ICONS (JUNE 14, 1999)
- Muhammad Ali, heavyweight boxing champion
- The American G.I.,
a soldier for freedom
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Anne Frank, diarist and Holocaust victim
- Billy Graham, evangelist
- Che Guevara, guerrilla leader
- Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay, conquerors of Mount Everest
- Helen Keller, champion of the disabled
- The Kennedys, dynasty
- Bruce Lee, actor and martial-arts star
- Charles Lindbergh, transatlantic aviator
- Harvey Milk, gay-rights leader
- Marilyn Monroe, actress
- Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragist
- Rosa Parks, civil rights torchbearer
- Pele, soccer star
- Jackie Robinson, baseball player
- Andrei Sakharov, Soviet dissident
- Mother Teresa, missionary nun
- Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous