Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll

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Some of the public intellectuals ranked in the 2005 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll. From left to right, top to bottom: Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Václav Havel, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Paul Krugman.

The Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll was conducted in November 2005 and June 2008 by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (US) on the basis of responding readers' ballot. The objective was to determine the 100 most important public intellectuals that are still alive and active in public life. As with many similar polls, little or no effort was expended to prevent people voting more than once.

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The 2005 List

  1. Noam Chomsky
  2. Umberto Eco
  3. Richard Dawkins
  4. Václav Havel
  5. Christopher Hitchens
  6. Paul Krugman
  7. Jürgen Habermas
  8. Amartya Sen
  9. Jared Diamond
  10. Salman Rushdie
  11. Naomi Klein
  12. Shirin Ebadi
  13. Hernando de Soto
  14. Bjørn Lomborg
  15. Abdolkarim Soroush
  16. Thomas Friedman
  17. Pope Benedict XVI
  18. Eric Hobsbawm
  19. Paul Wolfowitz
  20. Camille Paglia
  21. Francis Fukuyama
  22. Jean Baudrillard
  23. Slavoj Zizek
  24. Daniel Dennett
  25. Freeman Dyson
  26. Steven Pinker
  27. Jeffrey Sachs
  28. Samuel Huntington
  29. Mario Vargas Llosa
  30. Ali al-Sistani
  31. Edward O. Wilson
  32. Richard Posner
  33. Peter Singer
  34. Bernard Lewis
  35. Fareed Zakaria
  36. Gary Becker
  37. Michael Ignatieff
  38. Chinua Achebe
  39. Anthony Giddens
  40. Lawrence Lessig
  41. Richard Rorty
  42. Jagdish Bhagwati
  43. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  44. JM Coetzee
  45. Niall Ferguson
  46. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  47. Steven Weinberg
  48. Julia Kristeva
  49. Germaine Greer
  50. Antonio Negri
  51. Rem Koolhaas
  52. Timothy Garton Ash
  53. Martha Nussbaum
  54. Orhan Pamuk
  55. Clifford Geertz
  56. Yusuf al-Qaradawi
  57. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  58. Tariq Ramadan
  59. Amos Oz
  60. Larry Summers
  61. Hans Küng
  62. Robert Kagan
  63. Paul Kennedy
  64. Daniel Kahneman
  65. Sari Nusseibeh
  66. Wole Soyinka
  67. Kemal Derviş
  68. Michael Walzer
  69. Gao Xingjian
  70. Howard Gardner
  71. James Lovelock
  72. Robert Hughes
  73. Ali Mazrui
  74. Craig Venter
  75. Martin Rees
  76. James Q. Wilson
  77. Robert Putnam
  78. Peter Sloterdijk
  79. Sergei Karaganov
  80. Sunita Narain
  81. Alain Finkielkraut
  82. Gang Fan
  83. Florence Wambugu
  84. Gilles Kepel
  85. Enrique Krauze
  86. Ha Jin
  87. Neil Gershenfeld
  88. Paul Ekman
  89. Jaron Lanier
  90. Gordon Conway
  91. Pavol Demeš
  92. Elaine Scarry
  93. Robert Cooper
  94. Harold Varmus
  95. Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  96. Zheng Bijian
  97. Kenichi Ohmae
  98. Wang Jisi
  99. Kishore Mahbubani
  100. Shintaro Ishihara

Demographics

According to location of birth, roughly 40% came from USA and Canada, 25% from Europe (including Russia), 22% from Middle and Far East. The other locations received less than 5% -Latin America with 4 and Africa and Australia with 3. Only 8% are women.

Criticisms

As it happens with many free votes over the Internet, the poll may be a victim of organized voting campaigns and biases introduced by the nationality and language of the organizer. Nigeria has almost the totality of votes in the entire Africa and France is underrepresented.[1]

The 2008 List

  1. Fethullah Gülen
  2. Muhammad Yunus
  3. Yusuf al-Qaradawi
  4. Orhan Pamuk
  5. Aitzaz Ahsan
  6. Amr Khaled
  7. Abdolkarim Soroush
  8. Tariq Ramadan
  9. Mahmood Mamdani
  10. Shirin Ebadi
  11. Noam Chomsky
  12. Al Gore
  13. Bernard Lewis
  14. Umberto Eco
  15. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  16. Amartya Sen
  17. Fareed Zakaria
  18. Garry Kasparov
  19. Richard Dawkins
  20. Mario Vargas Llosa
  21. Lee Smolin
  22. Jürgen Habermas
  23. Salman Rushdie
  24. Sari Nusseibeh
  25. Slavoj Zizek
  26. Václav Havel
  27. Christopher Hitchens
  28. Samuel Huntington
  29. Peter Singer
  30. Paul Krugman
  31. Jared Diamond
  32. Pope Benedict XVI
  33. Fan Gang
  34. Michael Ignatieff
  35. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  36. Lilia Shevtsova
  37. Charles Taylor
  38. Martin Wolf
  39. E.O. Wilson
  40. Thomas Friedman
  41. Bjørn Lomborg
  42. Daniel Dennett
  43. Francis Fukuyama
  44. Ramachandra Guha
  45. Tony Judt
  46. Steven Levitt
  47. Nouriel Roubini
  48. Jeffrey Sachs
  49. Wang Hui
  50. V.S. Ramachandran
  51. Drew Gilpin Faust
  52. Lawrence Lessig
  53. J.M. Coetzee
  54. Fernando Savater
  55. Wole Soyinka
  56. Yan Xuetong
  57. Steven Pinker
  58. Alma Guillermoprieto
  59. Sunita Narain
  60. Anies Baswedan
  61. Michael Walzer
  62. Niall Ferguson
  63. George Ayittey
  64. Ashis Nandy
  65. David Petraeus
  66. Olivier Roy
  67. Lawrence Summers
  68. Martha Nussbaum
  69. Robert Kagan
  70. James Lovelock
  71. J. Craig Venter
  72. Amos Oz
  73. Samantha Power
  74. Lee Kuan Yew
  75. Hu Shuli
  76. Kwame Anthony Appiah
  77. Malcolm Gladwell
  78. Alexander de Waal
  79. Gianni Riotta
  80. Daniel Barenboim
  81. Therese Delpech
  82. William Easterly
  83. Minxin Pei
  84. Richard Posner
  85. Ivan Krastev
  86. Enrique Krauze
  87. Anne Applebaum
  88. Rem Koolhaas
  89. Jacques Attali
  90. Paul Collier
  91. Esther Duflo
  92. Michael Spence
  93. Robert Putnam
  94. Harold Varmus
  95. Howard Gardner
  96. Daniel Kahneman
  97. Yegor Gaidar
  98. Neil Gershenfeld
  99. Alain Finkielkraut
  100. Ian Buruma

References

  1. ^ Global public intellectuals poll November 2005, Prospect Magazine, No. 116

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