| Rank | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Hanks Actor |
| 2 | Sandra Bullock Actress |
| 3 | Denzel Washington Actor |
| 4 | Meryl Streep Actress |
| 5 | Maya Angelou An acclaimed American poet and autobiographer, Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri in 1928. |
| 6 | Steven Spielberg Director/Producer | Hollywood's Dreamworks SKG |
| 7 | Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft |
| 8 | Alex Trebek Host of Jeopardy |
| 9 | Melinda French Gates Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| 10 | Julia Roberts Actress |
| 11 | Robert J Lefkowitz Nobel prize winning chemist |
| 12 | Robin Roberts TV host - Good Morning America |
| 13 | Clint Eastwood Actor |
| 14 | Brian K Kobilka Nobel prize winning chemist |
| 15 | Lloyd Shapley Nobel prize winning economist |
| 16 | Mehmet Oz Republican nominee for US Senate in 2022; Cardiac Surgeon and Talk Show Host |
| 17 | Sanjay Gupta CNN Medical Corespondent |
| 18 | Ellen DeGeneres Comedian and talk show host; Crazy Monkey Inc. |
| 19 | Michelle Obama Former First Lady |
| 20 | Noam Chomsky MIT linguistics professor and political activist |
| 21 | Tony Dungy Former NFL coach, TV football commentator |
| 22 | Regina Benjamin Rural Family Physician; Surgeon General of the US |
| 23 | Madeleine Albright former Secretary of State; political consultant |
| 24 | Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States |
| 25 | Diane Sawyer Broadcast Journalist |
| 26 | Travis Stork MD co-host of "The Doctors" |
| 27 | Peyton Manning Former NFL QB with the Denver Broncos and Indianapolis Colts |
| 28 | Judith Sheindlin Judge Judy |
| 29 | Brian Williams NBC anchor |
| 30 | Nancy Snyderman MD, Today Show medical correspondent |
| 31 | Rachael Ray TV host |
| 32 | Colin L Powell Secretary of State under George W Bush; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H W Bush |
| 33 | Nancy Goodman Brinker founder, Susan G Komen for the Cure |
| 34 | Barbara Walters ABC News |
| 35 | Johnny Depp Actor |
| 36 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
| 37 | Katie Couric Global Anchor, Yahoo News |
| 38 | Alvin E Roth Economist at Department of Economics, Harvard University |
| 39 | Joe Brown Judge Joe Brown of TV |
| 40 | Tim Tebow Former NFL football player; conservative Christian |
| 41 | Muhammad Ali World championship boxer |
| 42 | George Lucas Billionaire film producer |
| 43 | Stephen Breyer Associate Justice of the Supreme Court |
| 44 | John G. Roberts, Jr. Current Chief Justice of the United States |
| 45 | Ben Affleck Actor, Director |
| 46 | Whoopi Goldberg Actress, TV host |
| 47 | Richard Besser President Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
| 48 | Arthur Schneier Rabbi |
| 49 | Anthony M Kennedy Former Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court |
| 50 | Anderson Cooper CNN Anchor |
| 51 | Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State & NY Senator; 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate |
| 52 | Henry Louis Gates Jr literary critic and Harvard professor |
| 53 | Sonia Sotomayor Associate Justice of the SCOTUS |
| 54 | Dwayne Johnson American actor and former professional wrestler; known as "The Rock" |
| 55 | Phil Mickelson Professional Golfer |
| 56 | Christiane Amanpour CNN International program host |
| 57 | George Stephanopoulos ABC News This Week host; former senior adviser to President Clinton |
| 58 | Eli Manning Former NFL/New York Giants—QB; partner, Brand Velocity Partners |
| 59 | Oprah Winfrey Talk show host; billionaire |
| 60 | Samuel Alito Associate Justice of the Supreme Court |
| 61 | Drew G Faust Historian, 28th president of Harvard University |
| 62 | Elena Kagan Solicitor General: former Harvard Law Dean; US Supreme Court Justice 2010 - |
| 63 | Scott Pelley Anchor, CBS Evening News |
| 64 | Adam Sandler Comedian; former "Saturday Night Live" cast member |
| 65 | Barack Obama 44th President of the United States |
| 66 | Antonin Scalia Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court |
| 67 | Billy Graham Evangelist |
| 68 | Condoleezza Rice National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under George W Bush |
| 69 | Patrick L Sajak Longtime host of "Wheel of Fortune" |
| 70 | Christiane Northrup MD, author, The Wisdom of Menopause |
| 71 | Warren Buffett CEO at Berkshire Hathaway, Investor |
| 72 | Steve Harvey TV talk show host; Wonder Love, Inc. |
| 73 | Kelly Ripa TV talk show host |
| 74 | Halle Berry Actress |
| 75 | Andrew Weil MD, author, Spontaneous Healing; Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine of the College of Medicine, University of Arizona |
| 76 | Francis Ford Coppola Film Director |
| 77 | Ben Stiller Actor, comedian |
| 78 | Jeff Bezos Founder and CEO, Amazon.com | Owner, Washington Post |
| 79 | Tim Burton Film Director |
| 80 | Leonardo DiCaprio Actor; Environmentalist |
| 81 | Ron Clark Founder, Ron Clark Academy |
| 82 | Susan Love MD, author, Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book |
| 83 | Michael Pollan Contributing writer to the New York Times, author, and Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism, University of California, Berkeley |
| 84 | Cameron Diaz Actress |
| 85 | Savannah Guthrie NBC Today Show co-host |
| 86 | Alex Gorsky Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson |
| 87 | Matt Lauer Former Today Show co-host |
| 88 | Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice |
| 89 | Tina Fey Comic writer and actress |
| 90 | David Drew Pinsky MD, host, Dr. Drew on Call |
| 91 | Michael Strahan Former NFL player, TV host |
| 92 | Deepak Chopra |
| 93 | Kendall J Powell chairman and CEO of General Mills |
| 94 | Steven A Ballmer Former Microsoft CEO |
| 95 | Walter Mossberg Tech columnist, Wall Street Journal |
| 96 | Phil McGraw Dr. Phil - TV show host; Main Street Media |
| 97 | Steve Forbes Forbes president/CEO |
| 98 | Maureen Dowd Columnist, New York Times |
| 99 | Paul Krugman Influential liberal economist; retired as NY Times columnist in December 2024 |
| 100 | Shepard Smith Fox News anchor |