User:Madcoverboy/Important living people

This is a list of living people of significant historical importance and influence. Their deaths should be included on WP:ITN.

Actors and entertainers edit

  1. Woody Allen
  2. Clint Eastwood
  3. Madonna
  4. Jack Nicholson
  5. Barbra Streisand
  6. Jay Leno
  7. David Letterman

Artists edit

Authors and journalists edit

  1. Elie Wiesel
  2. J. K. Rowling
  3. Walter Cronkite
  4. Bob Woodward
  5. Carl Bernstein

Composers and musicians edit

  1. The Beatles
  2. The Clash
  3. Bob Dylan
  4. Aretha Franklin
  5. Michael Jackson
  6. Ennio Morricone
  7. Public Enemy
  8. The Rolling Stones
  9. Run-DMC
  10. John Williams
  11. U2

Directors, playwrights, and screenwriters edit

  1. George Lucas
  2. Martin Scorsese
  3. Francis Ford Coppola
  4. Steven Spielberg
  5. Oliver Stone
  6. Mel Brooks
  7. Andrew Lloyd Webber

Entrepreneurs edit

  1. Bill Gates
  2. Donald Trump
  3. Ted Turner
  4. Muhammad Yunus
  5. Oprah Winfrey
  6. Robert Metcalfe
  7. Warren Buffett
  8. Lakshmi Mittal
  9. Ingvar Kamprad

Explorers edit

  1. Neil Armstrong
  2. Buzz Aldrin
  3. John Glenn
  4. Chuck Yeager

Inventors, scientists and mathematicians edit

  1. Tim Berners-Lee
  2. Donald Knuth
  3. Dennis Ritchie
  4. Richard Stallman
  5. Linus Torvalds

Philosophers and social scientists edit

  1. Jürgen Habermas

Politicians and leaders edit

European edit

  1. Silvio Berlusconi
  2. Tony Blair
  3. Jacques Chirac
  4. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  5. Gerhard Schröder
  6. Mikhail Gorbachev
  7. Margaret Thatcher
  8. Lech Wałęsa

North American edit

  1. George W. Bush
  2. Bill Clinton
  3. George H.W. Bush
  4. Jimmy Carter
  5. Jean Chrétien

Latin American edit

  1. Fidel Castro
  2. Hugo Chavez
  3. Juan Evo Morales Ayma
  4. Alberto Fujimori
  5. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  6. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Asian & Oceanian edit

  1. Akihito
  2. Mahathir bin Mohamad
  3. Jiang Zemin
  4. Hu Jintao
  5. Junichirō Koizumi
  6. John Howard
  7. Bhumibol Adulyadej
  8. Hassanal Bolkiah
  9. Kim Dae-jung

African edit

  1. Nelson Mandela
  2. Robert Mugabe
  3. Hosni Mubarak

Middle East & Subcontinent edit

  1. Benjamin Netanyahu
  2. Ariel Sharon
  3. Shimon Peres
  4. Hamid Karzai
  5. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  6. Dr. Manmohan Singh
  7. King Abdullah II
  8. Bashar al-Assad
  9. Hosni Mubarak

Other edit

  1. Kofi Annan
  2. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  3. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
  4. Pope Benedict XVI
  5. Desmond Tutu
  6. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Revolutionaries and activists edit

  1. Osama bin Laden
  2. Aung San Suu Kyi
  3. Al Gore