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

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

Authors and journalists

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

Composers and musicians

 * 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

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

Entrepreneurs

 * 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

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

Inventors, scientists and mathematicians

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

Philosophers and social scientists

 * 1) Jürgen Habermas

European

 * 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

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

Latin American

 * 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

 * 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

 * 1) Nelson Mandela
 * 2) Robert Mugabe
 * 3) Hosni Mubarak

Middle East & Subcontinent

 * 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

 * 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

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