Top 100 de genii in viata

1.Albert Hoffman (Elvetia) – Chimist

2.Tim Berners-Lee (Marea Britanie) – Inventatorul retelei virtuale

3.George Soros (Statele Unite) – Specialist in finante si investitii

4.Matt Groening (Statele Unite) – Producator, scenarist, satirist

5.Nelson Mandela (Africa de Sus) – Politician

6.Frederick Sanger (Marea Britanie) – Chimist

7.Dario Fo (Italia) – Scriitor si dramaturg

8.Steven Hawking (Marea Britanie) – Fizicean

9.Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilia) – Arhitect

10.Philip Glass (Statele Unite) – Compozitor

11.Grigory Perelman (Rusia) – Matematician

12.Andrew Wiles (Marea Britanie) – Matematician

13.Li Hongzhi (China) – Lider spiritual

14.Ali Javan (Iran) – Inginer

15.Brian Eno(Marea Britanie) – Copozitor

16.Damian Hirst (Marea Britanie) – Pictor avangardist

17.Daniel Tammet (Marea Britanie) – Savant si lingvist

18.Nicholson Baker (Statele Unite) – Scriitor

19.Daniel Barenboim – Muzician

20.Robert Crumb (Statele Unite) – Artist

21.Richard Dawkins (Marea Britanie) – Biolog si filozof

22.Larry Page si Sergey Brin (Statele Unite) – Publicisti

23.Rupert Murdoch (Statele Unite) – Poet

24.Geoffrey Hill (Marea Britanie) – Poet

25.Garry Kasparov (Rusia) – Campion la sah

26.Dalai Lama (Tibet) – Lider spiritual

27.Steven Spielberg (Statele Unite) – Regizor

28.Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japonia) – Creatorul primului robot clona

29.Robert Edwards (Marea Britanie) – Politician

30.Seamus Heaney (Irlanda) – Poet

31.Harold Pinter (Marea Britanie) – Scriitor si dramaturg

32.Flossie Wong-Staal (China) – Bio-tehnologist

33.Bobby Fischer (Statele Unite) – Jucator de sah

34.Prince (Statele Unite) – Muzician

35.Henrik Gorecki (Polonia) – Compozitor

36.Avram Noam Chomski (Statele Unite) – Filozof si lingvist

37.Sebastian Thrun (Germania) – Constructor de masini robotizate

38.Nima Arkani Hamed (Canada) – Fizicean

39.Margaret Turnbull (Statele Unite) – Astrobiolog

40.Elaine Pagels (Statele Unite) – Istoric

41.Enrique Ostrea (Filipine) – Pediatru

42.Gary Becker (Statele Unite) – Economist

43.Mohammed Ali (Statele Unite) – Pugilist

44.Osama Bin Laden (Arabia Saudita) – Terorist

45.Bill Gates (Statele Unite) – Afacerist, fondatorul Microsoft

46.Philip Roth (Statele Unite) – Scriitor

47.James West (Statele Unite) – Inventatorul microfonului cu folie electrica

48.Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnam) – Cercetator biomedical

49.Brian Wilson (Statele Unite) – Muzician

50.Stevie Wonder (Statele Unite) – Cantaret, compozitor

51.Vint Cerf (Statele Unite) – Programator PC

52.Henry Kissinger (Statele Unite)- Diplomat si politician

53.Richard Branson (Marea Britanie) – Publicist

54.Pardis Sabeti (Iran) – Antropolog

55.Jon de Mol (Dutch) – Producator TV

56.Meryl Streep (Statele Unite) – Actrita

57.Margaret Attwood (Canada) – Scriitor

58.Placido Domingo(Spania) – Tenor

59.John Lasseter (Statele Unite) – Animator

60.Shunpei Yamazaki (Japonia) – Fizicean si programator PC

61.Jane Goodall (Marea Britanie) – Antropolog

62.Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (India) – Istoric

63.John Goto (Marea Britanie) – Fotograf

64.Paul McCartney (Marea Britanie) – Musician

65.Stephen King (Statele Unite) – Scriitor

66.Leonard Cohen (Statele Unite) – Poet si muzician

67.Aretha Franklin (Statele Unite) – Musician

68.David Bowie (Marea) – Musician

69.Emily Oster (Statele Unite) – Economist

70.Steve Wozniak (Statele Unite) – Inginer si co-fondator la Apple Computers

71.Martin Cooper (Statele Unite) – Inventorul telefonului mobil

72.George Lucas (Statele Unite) – Regizor

73.Niles Rogers (Statele Unite) – Muzician

74.Hans Zimmer (Germania) – Compozitor

75.John Williams (Statele Unite) – Compozitor

76.Annette Baier ( Noua Zeelanda) – Filozof

77.Dorothy Rowe (Marea Britanie) – Psiholog

78.Ivan Marchuk (Ucraina) – Artist si sculptor

79.Robin Escovado (Statele Unite) – Compozitor

80.Mark Dean (Statele Unite) – Inventator si programator PC

81.Rick Rubin (Statele Unite) – Muzician si producator

82.Stan Lee (Statele Unite) – Publicist

83.David Warren (Australia) – Inginer

84.Jon Fosse (Norvegia) – Scriitor si dramaturg

85.Gjertrud Schnackenberg (Statele Unite) – Poet

86.Graham Linehan (Irlanda) – Scriitor si dramaturg

87.JK Rowling (Marea Britanie) – Scriitoare

88.Ken Russell (Marea Britanie) – Regizor

89.Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Rusia) – Inventatorul Kalashnikovului

90.Erich Jarvis (Statele Unite) – Neurobiologist

91.Chad Varah (Marea Britanie) – Fondatorul organizatiei Samaritenii

92.Nicolas Hayek (Elvetia) – Fondatorul grupului elvetian Swatch

93.Alastair Hannay (Marea Britanie) – Filozof

94.Patricia Bath (Statele Unite) – Oftalmolog

95.Thomas A. Jackson (Statele Unite) – Inginer

96.Dolly Parton (Statele Unite) – Cantareata

97.Morissey (Marea Britanie) – Cantaret

98.Michael Eavis (Marea Britanie) – Organizatorul festivalului Glastonbury

99.Ranulph Fiennes (Marea Britanie) – Aventurier

100. Quentin Tarantino (Statele Unite) – Regizor