1 Albert Hoffman (Swiss) Chemist
1 Tim Berners-Lee (British) Computer Scientist
3 George Soros (American) Investor & Philanthropist
4 Matt Groening (American) Satirist & Animator
5 Nelson Mandela (South African) Politician & Diplomat
5 Frederick Sanger (British) Chemist
7 Dario Fo (Italian) Writer & Dramatist
7 Steven Hawking (British) Physicist
9 Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian) Architect
9 Philip Glass (American) Composer
9 Grigory Perelman (Russian) Mathematician
12 Andrew Wiles (British) Mathematician
12 Li Hongzhi (Chinese) Spiritual Leader
12 Ali Javan (Iranian) Engineer
15 Brian Eno (British) Composer
15 Damian Hirst (British) Artist
15 Daniel Tammet (British) Savant & Linguist
18 Nicholson Baker (American Writer
19 Daniel Barenboim (N/A) Musician
20 Robert Crumb (American) Artist
20 Richard Dawkins (British) Biologist and philosopher
20 Larry Page & Sergey Brin (American) Publishers
20 Rupert Murdoch (American) Publisher
20 Geoffrey Hill (British) Poet
25 Garry Kasparov (Russian) Chess Player
26 The Dalai Lama (Tibetan) Spiritual Leader
26 Steven Spielberg (American) Film maker
26 Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japanese) Roboticist
26 Robert Edwards (British) Pioneer of IVF treatment
26 Seamus Heaney (Irish) Poet
31 Harold Pinter (British) Writer & Dramatist
32 Flossie Wong-Staal (Chinese) Bio-technologist
32 Bobby Fischer (American) Chess Player
32 Prince (American) Musician
32 Henrik Gorecki (Polish) Composer
32 Avram Noam Chomski (American) Philosopher & linguist
32 Sebastian Thrun (German) Probabilistic roboticist
32 Nima Arkani Hamed (Canadian) Physicist
32 Margaret Turnbull (American) Astrobiologist
40 Elaine Pagels (American) Historian
40 Enrique Ostrea (Philippino) Pediatrics & neonatology
40 Gary Becker (American) Economist
43 Mohammed Ali (American) Boxer
43 Osama Bin Laden (Saudi) Islamicist
43 Bill Gates (American) Businessman
43 Philip Roth (American) Writer
43 James West (American) Invented the foil electrical microphone
43 Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnamese) Bio-Medical Scientist
49 Brian Wilson (American) Musician
49 Stevie Wonder (American) Singer songwriter
49 Vint Cerf (American) Computer scientist
49 Henry Kissinger (American) Diplomat and politician
49 Richard Branson (British) Publicist
49 Pardis Sabeti (Iranian) Biological anthropologist
49 Jon de Mol (Dutch) Television producer
49 Meryl Streep (American) Actress
49 Margaret Attwood (Canadian) Writer
58 Placido Domingo (Spanish) Singer
58 John Lasseter (American) Digital Animator
58 Shunpei Yamazaki (Japanese) Computer scientist & physicist
58 Jane Goodall (British) Ethologist & Anthropologist
58 Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (Indian) Historian
58 John Goto (British) Photographer
58 Paul McCartney (British) Musician
58 Stephen King (American) Writer
58 Leonard Cohen (American) Poet & musician
67 Aretha Franklin (American) Musician
67 David Bowie (British) Musician
67 Emily Oster (American) Economist
67 Steve Wozniak (American) Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers
67 Martin Cooper (American) Inventor of the cell phone
72 George Lucas (American) Film maker
72 Niles Rogers (American) Musician
72 Hans Zimmer (German) Composer
72 John Williams (American) Composer
72 Annette Baier (New Zealander) Philosopher
72 Dorothy Rowe (British) Psychologist
72 Ivan Marchuk (Ukrainian) Artist & sculptor
72 Robin Escovado (American) Composer
72 Mark Dean (American) Inventor & computer scientist
72 Rick Rubin (American) Musician & producer
72 Stan Lee (American) Publisher
83 David Warren (Australian) Engineer
83 Jon Fosse (Norwegian) Writer & dramatist
83 Gjertrud Schnackenberg (American) Poet
83 Graham Linehan (Irish) Writer & dramatist
83 JK Rowling (British) Writer
83 Ken Russell (British) Film maker
83 Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian) Small arms designer
83 Erich Jarvis (American) Neurobiologist
91 Chad Varah (British) Founder of Samaritans
91 Nicolas Hayek (Swiss) Businessman and founder of Swatch
91 Alastair Hannay (British) Philosopher
94 Patricia Bath (American) Ophthalmologist
94 Thomas A. Jackson (American) Aerospace engineer
94 Dolly Parton (American) Singer
94 Morissey (British) Singer
94 Michael Eavis (British) Organiser of Glastonbury
94 Ranulph Fiennes (British) Adventurer
100 Quentin Tarantino (American) Filmmaker
The Telegraph, 29.10.07.
