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Jim Clark | In 2009, The Times placed Clark at the top of a list of the greatest Formula One drivers ever. |
Marvin Panch | Panch was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998. |
Bill Cosby | In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included him in his book The 100 Greatest African Americans. |
Sid McMath | In a 1999 opinion poll of political science professors, McMath placed fourth on a list of top Arkansas governors of the 20th century. |
Jennifer Capriati | In 2005, Tennis magazine ranked her 26th in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS era. |
John Logie Baird | In 2002, Baird was ranked number 44 in the BBC's list of the'' 100 Greatest Britons'' following a UK-wide vote. |
Michael Angelo Batio | Batio has been listed as one of the'' Top 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists of All Time'' by Guitar World Magazine, for which he wrote the column Time to Burn, and one of the'' 20 Greatest Shredders of All Time'' by Total Guitar Magazine, both in April 2008. |
Ernest Everett Just | In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Just on his list of the 100 Greatest African Americans. |
Ian Wright | On 15 July 2008, he finished 4th in 50 Greatest Gunners listed on the Arsenal website. |
Peter Green (musician) | Green was The Black Crowes' Rich Robinson's pick in Guitar World's'' 30 on 30 : The Greatest Guitarists Picked by the Greatest Guitarists'' (2010). |
Haim Bar-Lev | In 2005, he was voted the 142nd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. |
Thomas Edison | Edison was ranked thirty-fifth on Michael H. Hart's 1978 book The 100 : A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, a list of the most influential figures in history. |
Naomi Shemer | In 2005, she was ranked 6th among the'' 200 Greatest Israelis'', in a public poll by the Israeli news website Ynet. |
Freddie Mercury | In 2002, Mercury was placed at number 58 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, he continues to be voted one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music. |
Hank Aaron | In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Hank Aaron on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. |
Henning Jensen | In 2006, Henning Jensen was named among the nominees for DBU's'' Denmark's All-Time Best Footballer'' award, alongside Preben Elkjær Larsen, Brian Laudrup, Michael Laudrup, Morten Olsen, Peter Schmeichel, Allan Simonsen and Jon Dahl Tomasson. |
Glenn Kotche | He was named the 40th greatest drummer of all time by Gigwise in 2008. |
Jimmy Carr | In 2007, a poll on the Channel 4 website for 100 Greatest Stand Ups, Jimmy Carr was the 12th. |
Fausto Coppi | In 1999, Coppi placed second in balloting for greatest Italian athlete of the 20th century. |
Paul Rodriguez | In 2004 Comedy Central ranked him at # 74 on its list of the'' 100 Greatest Standups of all Time.'' |
Tom Morello | Morello's unique technique and talent led to him being voted the fifth greatest guitarist of the past 30 years in a 2010 BBC poll. |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | In 2002, Brunel was placed second in a BBC public poll to determine the'' 100 Greatest Britons''. |
Frank Zappa | In 1994, jazz magazine Down Beat s critics poll placed Zappa in its Hall of Fame. |
Bill Clinton | From a poll conducted of the American people in December 1999, Clinton was among eighteen included in Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th century. |
Adele | In February 2012, Adele was listed at number five on VH1 ′ s 100 Greatest Women In Music. |
Greg Wilson (DJ) | Nominated in 2008 by DJ Magazine for outstanding contribution, and also named amongst their top twenty remixers of all-time, Wilson's edits and mixes continue to feature on the playlists of DJ's in every continent. |
Matti Caspi | In 2005, he was voted the 91st-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. |
Ronn Owens | In 2002, Talkers magazine named Owens one of its 25 Greatest Radio Talk Show Hosts of All Time. |
John Hume | On 22 October 2010 John Hume was announced as Ireland's greatest person. |
Bhagat Singh | He was voted the'' Greatest Indian'' in a poll by the Indian magazine India Today in 2008, ahead of Bose and Gandhi. |
Hartland MacDougall | According to Andy O'Brien of the Montréal Star, in 1957 he was regarded as the second only to Lionel Conacher national all time, all-round athlete. |
Larrie Londin | In 1994, Londin was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of Modern Drummer magazine, in response to the magazine's annual readers poll. |
Telly Savalas | In 1996 TV Guide ranked him number 33 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. |
Sheryl Crow | Also in 2012, VH1 ranked Crow at # 25 as one of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. |
Sridevi | On the occasion of the Centenary of Indian Cinema in 2013, Sridevi was voted' India's Greatest Actress in 100 Years' in a CNN-IBN national poll while Times of India described her as'' one of the longest reigning successful leading ladies and one of the most influential actresses of Bollywood.'' |
William Le Baron Jenney | In 1998, Jenney was ranked number 89 in the book 1,000 Years, 1,000 People : Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium. |
Gordon Sinclair | The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)'' went to # 24 on the Billboard Hot 100, making the 73-year-old Sinclair the 2nd-oldest living person ever to have a Billboard U. S. Top 40 hit (75-year-old Moms Mabley had a Top 40 hit in 1969 with'' Abraham, Martin & John''). |
Zora Neale Hurston | In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Zora Neale Hurston on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. |
Tay Ping Hui | Tay has been voted Media's Top 5 Popular ward in 2009 and was also in the list of Lianhe Zaobao's'' Top 50 Most Popular Asian Idol'' for five consecutive years. |
Chris Claremont | In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Claremont and Byrne's run on The X-Men second on its list of the'' Top 10 1970s Marvels''. |
Guru Dutt | In the 2002 Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll, two of his films, Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool, were among the top 160 greatest films of all time. |
Scott Hamilton (figure skater) | In 1993, the Associated Press released results of a national sports study in which Hamilton ranked as one of the top eight most popular athletes in America, ranking far ahead of big-name sports stars such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Troy Aikman, Dan Marino, Wayne Gretzky, Joe Montana, and Nolan Ryan. |
Emile Habibi | Habibi's work, harshly critical of Israel, has nonetheless been coopted into Israeli cultural streams and, in 2005, he was voted the 143rd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. |
Graham Coxon | He was voted the 15th greatest guitarist of the last 30 years in a national 2010 BBC poll. |
Armando Iannucci | In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. |
Mackenzie Bowell | In their 1999 study of the Canadian Prime Ministers up through Jean Chrétien, J. L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer found that a survey of Canadian historians ranked Bowell # 19 out of the 20 Prime Ministers up until then. |
Wilmer Allison | George Lott, who himself won five U. S. doubles titles as well as two at Wimbledon, wrote an article in the May, 1973, issue of Tennis Magazine in which he ranked the great doubles teams and the great players. |
Clive Mantle | A 2001 poll by the Scottish Sunday Mail voted him 7th on a list of Top'' 10 heart-throb docs on the box'' in a list which included the likes of George Clooney and Goran Visnjic. |
Dolly Parton | In 2002, Parton ranked number four in CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music. |
Dean Ayass | Ayass was voted the best British wrestling manager of all time by readers of The Wrestling Press magazine in August 2011, and number 13 in the world. |
Ricky Nelson | In 1996, he was ranked # 49 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. |
Federico Bahamontes | In 2013, during his 85th birthday that coincided with the 100th edition of Le Tour de France, he was named the best climber in the history of the race (ahead of French rider Richard Virenque) by a prestigious jury selected by L' Équipe Magazine -LSB- 6 -RSB- -LSB- 7 -RSB- -LSB- 8 -RSB- -LSB- 9 -RSB- -LSB- 10 -RSB-. |
Fred Perry | In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, called Perry one of the six greatest players of all time. |
Guido Knopp | In 2003 Guido Knopp pled for Konrad Adenauer to be featured in the Unsere Besten list of greatest Germans, compiled by ZDF TV. |
George Strait | In 2010, Billboard ranked Strait No. 1 in the top 25 country artists of the past 25 years. |
Kid Leo | In 2013 CNN named Kid Leo one of the ten All-Time Great DJs. |
Bob Monkhouse | In a 2005 poll of fellow comedians and comedy insiders to find the Comedians' Comedian, Monkhouse was voted among the best 50 comedy acts. |
Marianne Faithfull | In 1999, Faithfull ranked 25th on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll. |
Michael Denison | In 1949 exhibitors voted him the eighth most popular British film star in the country. |
Marlon Brando | Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth greatest screen legend among male movie stars whose screen debuts occurred in or before 1950. |
George Eads | In March, 2009, Eads was voted as one of TV Guide's Sexiest Male Actors in the TV Guide's Sexiest Stars issue. |
Adolf Ehrnrooth | He was voted as the 4th greatest Finn of all time by the Finnish public during the Suuret suomalaiset (Great Finns) competition in 2004. |
John Petrucci | In 2012, Petrucci was ranked the 17th greatest guitarist of all time by a Guitar World magazine readers poll. |
Rehavam Ze'evi | In 2005, he was voted the 7th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. |
Syed Ameer Ali | In 2005 he was listed in the list of the top 100 great Muslim leaders of the twentieth century under the category of ulema and jurists. |
Barry Gray (radio) | In 2002, industry publication Talkers magazine selected Barry Gray as the 8th greatest radio talk show host of all time. |
Helen Glover (rower) | In December 2013 Glover and Swann were voted as Team of the Year by the SportsSister organisation, additionally Glover won the' Readers Choice' vote. |
Gene Krupa | Rhythm, the UK's best selling drum magazine voted Gene Krupa the third most influential drummer ever, in a poll conducted for its February 2009 issue. |
Stefan Bellof | In 2009, a poll of 217 Formula One drivers chose Bellof as their 35th greatest Formula One driver, in a survey conducted by British magazine Autosport. |
Eli Ohana | Beitar Jerusalem Individual In 2005, he was voted the 40th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. |
Yanina Wickmayer | In June 2011, Time Magazine named her one of the'' 30 Legends of Women's Tennis : Past, Present and Future''. |
Eminem | In December 2010, in Billboard s'' The Top 25 Music Moments of 2010'', The'' Great Eminem Recovery'' was named the number one music moment of 2010. |
David Attenborough | He has also been named among the 100 Greatest Britons in a 2002 BBC poll and is one of the top ten'' Heroes of Our Time'' according to New Statesman magazine. |
Phil Collins | In 2008, Collins was ranked the 22nd most successful artist on the'' The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists''. |
Keith Moon | The New Book of Rock Lists ranked Moon No. 1 on its list of'' 50 Greatest Rock'n' Roll Drummers'', and he was ranked No. 2 on the 2011 Rolling Stone'' Best Drummers of All Time'' readers' poll. |
Zeus (musician) | In 2010, he was ranked seventh in a list of the Top 15 South African Rappers and 4th on MNET's Top 10 African Rappers for 2010 compilation. |
Yigal Allon | In 2005, he was voted the 65th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. |
Rich Buckler | In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Buckler's collaboration with Don McGregor on Jungle Action third on its list of the'' Top 10 1970s Marvels''. |
Mohammad Ali (actor) | He was included among 25 greatest actors of Asia (all time) by CNN survey (On 4 March 2010). |
Lorde | Time placed Lorde on their list of' The 16 Most Influential Teens of 2013'. |
Harold Johnson (boxer) | In 2002, Harold was ranked # 80 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years. |
Ray Houghton | This fact was underlined in the summer of 2006 when he finished in 52nd place in the poll 100 Players Who Shook The Kop. |
Yaron London | In 2005, he was voted the 76th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. |
Bill Davis | In a 2012 edition, the Institute for Research on Public Policy's magazine, Policy Options, named Davis the second-best Canadian premier of the last forty years, beaten only by Peter Lougheed. |
Alexander Penn | In 2005, Penn was voted the 171st-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. |
Thomas S. Monson | In 2011, Gallup listed Monson as one of'' Americans' 10 Most Admired Men''. |
Anne Francis | In 2005, TV Guide ranked Francis # 18 on its'' 50 Sexiest Stars of All Time'' list. |
Bruce Springsteen | Springsteen finished second only to Madonna as the top money maker of 2012 with $ 33. |
Andr? Franquin | In 2005, a Walloon survey elected him as the'' 16th greatest Belgian ever''. |
Jack Johnson (boxer) | In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Jack Johnson on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. |
Geulah Cohen | In 2005, she was voted the 64th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. |
Clement Attlee | In 2004 he was voted the greatest British Prime Minister of the 20th Century by a poll of 139 academics organised by Ipsos MORI. |
Gisele B?ndchen | In 2009 Harper's Bazaar magazine rated her among the top 26 greatest models of all time. |
Morgan Rose | In 2004, Morgan Rose voted no. 1 metal drummer by Modern Drummer magazine. |
Dick Savitt | In his 2007 book The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes : An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars, author Peter S. Horvitz ranked Savitt the 9th-greatest Jewish athlete of all time. |
Elvis Presley | The Discovery Channel placed him No. 8 on its'' Greatest American'' list in 2005. |
Rosie Jones (model) | In 2010 Jones was voted the No. 1 Sexiest Babe by visitors to Nuts website, with over 1 million votes. |
Victoria Wood | In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 Funniest Acts in British Comedy. |
Al Green | Also in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 65 on their list of the rollingstone. |
Mihail Sadoveanu | In 2001, a poll carried among literati by Observator Cultural magazine listed six of his works as some of the best 150 Romanian novels. |