List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century

The List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century (called the "TIME 100" for short) is a list of the 20th century's most influential politicians, artists, innovators, scientists and icons, compiled by TIME Magazine. It consists of a total of 100 people, 20 each in five different groups.

The list

Leaders and revolutionaries

• David Ben-Gurion
• Ho Chi Minh
• Sir Winston Churchill
• Mohandas Gandhi ("Person of the Century" #3)
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Adolf Hitler
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
• Vladimir Lenin
• Nelson Mandela
• Pope John Paul II
• Ronald Reagan
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt ("Person of the Century" #2)
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Margaret Thatcher
• The Unknown Rebel of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
• Margaret Sanger
• Lech Wa??sa
• Mao Zedong

Artists and entertainers

• Louis Armstrong
• Lucille Ball
• The Beatles
• Marlon Brando
• Coco Chanel
• Charlie Chaplin
• Le Corbusier
• Bob Dylan
• T.S. Eliot
• Aretha Franklin
• Martha Graham
• Jim Henson
• James Joyce
• Pablo Picasso
• Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
• Bart Simpson (The only fictional character on the list.)
• Frank Sinatra
• Steven Spielberg
• Igor Stravinsky
• Oprah Winfrey

Builders and titans

• Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr.
• Leo Burnett
• Willis Carrier
• Walt Disney
• Henry Ford
• Bill Gates
• Amadeo Giannini
• Ray Kroc
• Estee Lauder
• William Levitt
• Lucky Luciano
• Louis B. Mayer
• Charles E. Merrill
• Akio Morita
• Walter Reuther
• Pete Rozelle
• David Sarnoff
• Juan Trippe
• Sam Walton
• Thomas J. Watson

Scientists and thinkers

• Leo Baekeland
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Rachel Carson
• Francis Crick and James Watson
• Albert Einstein ("Person of the Century" #1)
• Philo Farnsworth
• Enrico Fermi
• Alexander Fleming
• Sigmund Freud
• Robert Goddard
• Kurt Gödel
• Edwin Hubble
• John Maynard Keynes
• Louis Leakey, Mary Leakey and Richard Leakey
• Jean Piaget
• Jonas Salk
• William Shockley
• Alan Turing
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright

Heroes and icons

• Muhammad Ali
• The American G.I.
• Princess Diana
• Anne Frank
• Billy Graham
• Che Guevara
• Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
• Helen Keller
• The Kennedy political family
• Bruce Lee
• Charles Lindbergh
• Harvey Milk
• Marilyn Monroe
• Mother Teresa
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Rosa Parks
• Pelé
• Andrei Sakharov
• Jackie Robinson
• Bill Wilson