TIME Magazine’s 20 Most Influential Americans of All Time:
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Sacagawea, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
• Abraham Lincoln
• Sitting Bull
• Alexander G. Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Henry Ford
• Wright Brothers
• Margaret Sanger
• Albert Einstein
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Louis Armstrong
• James Watson
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Muhammad Ali
• Steve Jobs: Jobs was a visionary whose great genius was for design: he pushed and pushed to make the interface between computers and people elegant, simple and delightful. He always claimed his goal was to create products that were “insanely great.” Mission accomplished.
Read more about Steve Jobs and the other influential Americans on TIME’s list here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Brian Allen” and “goddess” for the heads up.]
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Finally getting credit for all his hard work and vision!
Rest in Peace Steve.
The list seems to be sane. It is not often with Time magazine.
Mostly.
Sacajawea? I’m a fan, but “most influential?” Not sure I see that. Sounds more like a committee choice was made.
How about the suffragette movement players, if you wanted a bigger historical effect?
It’s great that the late great Mr Jobs is being seen as a most influential American but when did Alexander Bell born in Scotland become an American???
Albert Einstein is actually initially not American physicist, too. But he spent considerable time in USA so the country also has the right to claim him.
Albert Einstein didn’t just spend time here, he became a U.S. citizen. . . by choice.
That means a lot more to me than just being born here.
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland, then the whole family moved to Brantford, Ontario, Canada, where he made his home. Later while developing his sound related inventions, he continuously moved forth and back between Brantford and Boston, before finally moving to USA. Bell is considered a native son of 3 countries. So, he is not american only, but also a canadian and scottish.
What, no Obama?
No Republican politician since Lincoln. I always thought Eisenhower did pretty well. Marginal tax rate on the equivalent of $6M income was 90%+. He well knew allowing rich guys to keep too much money would not be a good thing.
I’d say Ben Franklin beats a few people on that list.
+1
Right under Thomas Jefferson.
Agreed.
+2
Who the f*ck is Margaret Sanger???
someone we all wish your mom had listened to, BLN.
Who the f*ck is Botvinnik? Bobby Fischer beat the crap out of that retard. BTW your mom served me breakfast in bed.
uh, BLN, Bovinnik never played Fischer…but yes, my mother was once a cook at a mental institution, so the latter may have happened.
Uh, for a chess player, you have a leaky memory. No wonder you thought your mom was working in a mental institution. She was – you were the only inmate.
Varna Chess Olympiad, 1962. Fischer vs. Botvinnik
http://www.echecs-photos.be/BobbyFischer-photos/slides/1962%20Mikhail%20Botvinnik%20vs%20Bobby%20Fischer%20Varna%20Olympiad%20.html
lol…jeez, BLN, I didn’t realize you were such a delicate flower, even after all the posts calling you “delusional” and “full of shit”, I thought you would have developed a sense of humor by now.
Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, all I hear is white noise from you.
besides, if you would have actually read my post, I noted “Bovinnik” not Botvinnik, never played Bobby Fischer. You have a nice day and try to get some rest.
incidentally, Botvinnk had only one game vs Bobby Fischer, and it ended in a draw. That hardly qualifies as “Who the f*ck is Botvinnik? Bobby Fischer beat the crap out of that retard.”
You two win the award for making me laugh out loud that hardest. I call it a draw.
Nice one 🙂
Inventor of the abortion clinic chain Planned Parenthood
Sanger founded Planned Parenthood in 1946 and proudly championed reproductive rights for the rest of her days, but did not support abortion. As time passed, her political views moderated and she became a registered Republican. Believing that generational poverty could be remedied via providing the impoverished with birth control, she pressured legislators to include this in public assistance programs. – Joseph Cotto, Washington Times, 7/24/12
lol, Sacajawea….no Jonas Salk, no Mark Twain, no George Gershwin, no Babe Ruth, no Benjamin Franklin… but there’s ol Saca-effin-jawea, GET REAL. I think I just threw-up a little, thanks Time Magazine.
money talks, “time” is not what it used to be. Printed magazines life is near the end. These bastards with their filthy lies created every imaginable conflict and crisis, from economical to military to lies about deceases, flu, vaccines….
Time and others don’t “create” on their own anymore, but are instructed by those who control them – gov., mafias, criminal corp. like Monsanto, Pfizer, Merck….
Reading that, I got choked up missing Steve for the first time in a while. The world’s loss.
I feel you brother, we miss him very much ……
RIP Steve, RIP
Thomas Edison?!? Really? No love for the astronauts?
Astronauts are just brave people who were hired to implement other people’s space program in terms of manned exploration.
Funny how many countries lay claim to Alexander Graham Bell.
Where is Barack?
MDN: You inadvertently omitted Martin Luther King Jr. from your list, which only has 19 names.
Oops. My bad. MLK is there after all. We know why I didn’t make the list.
Alex Bell is an American…go figure. I suspect that comment will piss of the Scots.
Time probably thinks that Neil Young, Howie Mandel, Alex Trebek and Michael J. Fox are also American
YES Einstein and Bell now there’s thinking different, no doubt Jonny Ives will be claimed next.
yeah, i dont get the Einstein inclusion. hadnt he done all his important work before leaving europe?
Other than his famous theories, one of the most influential things Einstein ever did was to write a letter to President Roosevelt urging him to start work on an atomic bomb before the Nazis completed work on theirs. If it hadn’t been Einstein’s name on the letter, the Manhattan Project might have been started much later, or maybe not at all.
Of all the great sports figures TIME picked a boxer and not an Olympian? Athlete of the Century Jim Thorpe and many others from all sports come to mind …
Ali (Clay) was an Olympian. Won gold in 1960.
Thank you. Yes indeed, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. won a Gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics. Senior moment … 🙂
Ronald Reagan absolutely should have been high on that list. Do I really need to go into the multitude of reasons? Okay, just a few…
He was the biggest reason the USSR and it’s satellite countries fell.
His policies caused the longest sustained economic boom is the history of the USA.
Rebuilt the military after the Jimmy Carter’s damaging time in office.
Made the world respect us again.
Massively cut government programs.
He was one of the greatest president’s that ever lived and it is obvious that history is agreeing with that statement.
I agree with you. Ronald Reagan should absolutely agree he should be high on that list. Ali??? Are you kidding. He was a draft-dodging, loudmouth boxer. Ya, he was a GREAT boxer, but made this list??? Louis Armstrong? Great musician and singer, yes. FDR? Hell, he was nearly as bad as Obama. What an omission leaving Reagan off the list. Time is showing their liberal stripes.