| Rank | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States |
| 2 | George Washington First President of the United States of America |
| 3 | Thomas Jefferson Third president of the United States of America, and the most conspicuous apostle of democracy in America. |
| 4 | Franklin D Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States 1933-45 |
| 5 | Alexander Hamilton The first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher. |
| 6 | Benjamin Franklin Signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| 7 | John Marshall US Chief Justice, 1801-35 Military service: Continental Army (lieutenant, then captain) |
| 8 | Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Leader |
| 9 | Thomas Edison American inventor |
| 10 | Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 |
| 11 | John D Rockefeller Founder of the Standard Oil Company |
| 12 | Ulysses S Grant 18th U.S. President |
| 13 | James Madison 4th US President, 1809-17 Military service: Continental Army |
| 14 | Henry Ford Founder of the Ford Motor Company in 1903 |
| 15 | Theodore Roosevelt 26th president of the United States |
| 16 | Mark Twain American humorist, novelist |
| 17 | Ronald Reagan 40th US president |
| 18 | Andrew Jackson 7th President of the United States 1829-1837 |
| 19 | Thomas Paine Voice of the American Revolution |
| 20 | Andrew Carnegie Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist 1835-1919 |
| 21 | Harry S Truman 33rd President of the Unitd States |
| 22 | Walt Whitman Philosopher and writer |
| 23 | Wilbur Wright The Wright Brothers |
| 23 | Orville Wright With his brother, Wilbur, built the world's first power-driven heavier-than-air machine |
| 24 | Alexander Graham Bell Inventor and speech teacher |
| 25 | John Adams 2nd President of the United States |
| 26 | Walt Disney Founder of the Walt Disney Corporation |
| 27 | Eli Whitney Invented the cotton gin |
| 28 | Dwight D Eisenhower Five-star general commanded Allied Forces in Europe in World War II. Elected in 1952, Eisenhower served two terms as the 34th U.S. president. |
| 29 | Earl Warren U.S. Chief Justice |
| 30 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton Early American feminist activist |
| 31 | Henry Clay US Secretary of State (1825-29, under John Quincy Adams) |
| 33 | Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher |
| 34 | Jonas Salk Medical researcher and virologist, developed the first successful polio vaccine |
| 35 | Jackie Robinson Hall of Fame Baseball player |
| 36 | William Jennings Bryan Prosecutor of the Scopes Monkey Trial Military service: US Army (Colonel, Spanish-American War) Three-time U.S. Presidential candidate. |
| 37 | J. P. Morgan American Gilded Age financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913) |
| 38 | Susan B Anthony Social reformer, Women's Rights Activist |
| 39 | Rachel Carson Author of Silent Spring |
| 40 | John Dewey Philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer |
| 41 | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 42 | Eleanor Roosevelt First lady of the United States |
| 43 | W. E. B. Du Bois American intellectual |
| 44 | Lyndon B Johnson 36th President of the United States |
| 45 | Samuel F B Morse Morse code |
| 46 | William Lloyd Garrison Journalist and abolishionist |
| 47 | Frederick Douglass Escaped slave became public intellectual |
| 48 | J Robert Oppenheimer A founding father of the American school of theoretical physics |
| 49 | Frederick Law Olmsted Architect, designed NYC Central Park |
| 50 | James K. Polk 11th President of the United States |
| 51 | Margaret Sanger Early advocate of birth control |
| 52 | Joseph Smith Mormon leader |
| 53 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1902-1932) |
| 54 | Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft |
| 55 | John Quincy Adams 6th President of the United States; Secretary of State |
| 56 | Horace Mann American educator |
| 57 | Robert E Lee Confederate general |
| 58 | John C Calhoun US Vice President, champion of the South |
| 59 | Louis Sullivan Chicago architect |
| 60 | William Faulkner Writer, won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 |
| 61 | Samuel Gompers Founded American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as president (1886 -1894 and 1895-1924) |
| 62 | William James American philosopher and writer |
| 63 | George C Marshall US Army Chief of Staff, 1939-45; US Secretary of State (1947-49); American Red Cross President (1949-50); US Secretary of Defense (1951-52) |
| 64 | Jane Addams Social reformer and peace activist who created Hull House in Chicago |
| 65 | Henry David Thoreau American philosopher and writer |
| 66 | Elvis Presley The king of rock and roll |
| 67 | P T Barnum Circus impresario |
| 68 | James Dewey Watson Discovered of DNA's double-helix structure in 1953; from 1988 to 1994, he ran the Human Genome Project. |
| 69 | James Gordon Bennett, Sr. Founding publisher of The New York Herald |
| 70 | Meriwether Lewis Lewis and Clark |
| 70 | William Clark Lewis and Clark |
| 71 | Noah Webster Jr Lexacographer |
| 72 | Sam Walton Founder of Wal Mart, died in 1992 at the age of 74 |
| 73 | Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr. Inventor of the reaper |
| 74 | Brigham Young |
| 75 | George Herman Ruth The Babe - legendary baseball player |
| 76 | Frank Lloyd Wright Architect and designer |
| 77 | Betty Friedan Influential feminist leader; co founder of NOW |
| 78 | John Brown American Civil war figure |
| 79 | Louis Armstrong Jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 80 | William Randolph Hearst Publishing legend |
| 81 | Margaret Mead American cultural anthropologist |
| 82 | George Gallup Pioneer pollster |
| 83 | James Fenimore Cooper American novelist |
| 84 | Thurgood Marshall US Supreme Court justice (1967-1991) |
| 85 | Ernest Hemingway Novelist and journalist |
| 86 | Mary Baker Eddy |
| 87 | Benjamin Spock Author of Baby and Child Care |
| 88 | Enrico Fermi Physics; developed quantum theory |
| 89 | Walter Lippmann Writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War |
| 90 | Jonathan Edwards Early American theologian |
| 91 | Lyman Beecher Abolitionist and evangelist |
| 92 | John Steinbeck Writer, won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 93 | Nat Turner America's most successful rebel slave |
| 94 | George Eastman Founded the Eastman Kodak Company |
| 95 | Samuel Goldwyn Hollywood film producer |
| 96 | Ralph Nader Longtime consumer advocate, lawyer, activist, progressive radio show host |
| 97 | Stephen Foster American songwriter |
| 98 | Booker T Washington African American educator |
| 99 | Richard M. Nixon 37th US president |