Taken from the template at the bottom of Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century
Leaders & revolutionaries
edit- David Ben-Gurion – Level 4, B-Class
- Winston Churchill – Level 4, GA-Class
- Mahatma Gandhi – Level 3, GA-Class
- Mikhail Gorbachev – Level 4, GA-Class
- Adolf Hitler – Level 3, GA-Class
- Ho Chi Minh – Level 4, B-Class
- Pope John Paul II – Level 4, B-Class
- Ruhollah Khomeini – Level 4, B-Class
- Martin Luther King Jr. – Level 4, GA-Class
- Vladimir Lenin – Level 4, Featured
- Nelson Mandela – Level 3, Featured
- Mao Zedong – Level 3, B-Class
- Ronald Reagan – Level 4, Featured
- Eleanor Roosevelt – Level 4, C-class
- Franklin D. Roosevelt – Level 4, GA-Class
- Theodore Roosevelt – Level 4, C-class
- Margaret Sanger – Level 4, C-class
- Margaret Thatcher – Level 4, GA-Class
- Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel – Level 5, C-class
- Lech Wałęsa – Level 4, GA-Class
Artists & entertainers
edit- Louis Armstrong – Level 3, B-Class
- Lucille Ball – Level 4, B-Class
- The Beatles – Level 3, Featured
- Marlon Brando – Level 4, B-Class
- Coco Chanel – Level 4, B-Class
- Charlie Chaplin – Level 3, Featured
- Le Corbusier – Level 4, C-Class
- Bob Dylan – Level 4, Featured
- T. S. Eliot – Level 4, B-Class
- Aretha Franklin – Level 4, B-Class
- Martha Graham – Level 4, C-Class
- Jim Henson – Level 4, C-Class
- James Joyce – Level 4, Featured
- Pablo Picasso – Level 3, B-Class
- Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein – Level 4, C-class (Rodgers is also Level 5)
- Bart Simpson – Not directly a vital article, Featured
- Frank Sinatra – Level 4, GA-Class
- Steven Spielberg – Level 4, B-Class
- Igor Stravinsky – Level 4, Featured
- Oprah Winfrey – Level 4, B-Class
Builders & titans
edit- Stephen Bechtel Sr. – Not a vital article, Start-class
- Leo Burnett – Level 5, Start-class
- Willis Carrier – Level 5, C-class
- Walt Disney – Level 3, Featured
- Henry Ford – Level 3, C-class
- Bill Gates – Level 4, GA-class
- Amadeo Giannini – Level 5, Start-class
- Ray Kroc – Level 5, C-class
- Estée Lauder – Level 4, C-class
- William Levitt – Level 5, Start-class
- Lucky Luciano – Level 5, B-class
- Louis B. Mayer – Level 4, C-class
- Charles E. Merrill – Not a vital article, Start-class
- Akio Morita – Level 5, C-class
- Walter Reuther – Level 5, Start-class
- Pete Rozelle – Level 5, C-class
- David Sarnoff – Level 4, C-class
- Juan Trippe – Level 5, Start-class
- Sam Walton – Level 4, B-class
- Thomas J. Watson Jr. – Not a vital article, C-class
Scientists & thinkers
edit- Leo Baekeland – Level 4, C-class
- Tim Berners-Lee – Level 4, C-class
- Rachel Carson – Level 4, Featured
- Albert Einstein – Level 3, GA-class
- Philo Farnsworth – Level 4, C-class
- Enrico Fermi – Level 4, Featured
- Alexander Fleming – Level 4, B-class
- Sigmund Freud – Level 3, B-class
- Robert H. Goddard – Level 4, B-class
- Kurt Gödel – Level 3, C-class
- Edwin Hubble – Level 4, B-class
- John Maynard Keynes – Level 4, GA-class
- Leakey family – Louis is Level 5, C-class, Mary is Level 5, B-class, Richard is Level 5, C-class
- Jean Piaget – Level 4, B-class
- Jonas Salk – Level 4, B-class
- William Shockley – Level 4, B-class
- Alan Turing – Level 3, GA-class
- Francis Crick & James Watson – both Level 4, B-class
- Ludwig Wittgenstein – Level 4, B-class
- Wright brothers – Level 4, C-class
Heroes & icons
edit- Muhammad Ali – Level 4, B-class
- The American G.I. – N/A, no individual in particular
- Lady Diana Spencer – Level 5, GA-class
- Anne Frank – Level 4, Featured
- Billy Graham – Level 4, B-class
- Che Guevara – Level 4, GA-class
- Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay – Level 4, GA-class and Level 4, B-class respectively
- Helen Keller – Level 4, C-class
- Kennedy family – JFK is Level 4, C-class, RFK is Level 5, B-class
- Bruce Lee – Level 4, B-class
- Charles Lindbergh – Level 4, B-class
- Harvey Milk – Level 4, Featured
- Marilyn Monroe – Level 4, Featured
- Emmeline Pankhurst – Level 4, Featured
- Rosa Parks – Level 4, B-class
- Pelé – Level 4, GA-class
- Jackie Robinson – Level 4, Featured
- Andrei Sakharov – Level 4, B-class
- Mother Teresa – Level 4, B-class
- Bill W. – Level 5, C-class