The Prospect/FP Global public intellectuals
pollresults
Over
20,000 people voted for their top names from our original longlist of 100. The
final results are below; click
here
for David Herman's analysis, and
here
for brief biographies of the top names
Position |
Name |
Total
votes |
1 |
Noam Chomsky |
4827 |
2 |
Umberto Eco |
2464 |
3 |
Richard
Dawkins |
2188 |
4 |
Václav Havel |
1990 |
5 |
Christopher Hitchens |
1844 |
6 |
Paul Krugman |
1746 |
7 |
Jürgen Habermas |
1639 |
8 |
Amartya Sen |
1590 |
9 |
Jared
Diamond |
1499 |
10 |
Salman Rushdie |
1468 |
11 |
Naomi
Klein |
1378 |
12 |
Shirin Ebadi |
1309 |
13 |
Hernando De Soto |
1202 |
14 |
Bjørn Lomborg |
1141 |
15 |
Abdolkarim Soroush |
1114 |
16 |
Thomas Friedman |
1049 |
17 |
Pope
Benedict XVI |
1046 |
18 |
Eric Hobsbawm |
1037 |
19 |
Paul
Wolfowitz |
1028 |
20 |
Camille Paglia |
1013 |
21 |
Francis
Fukuyama |
883 |
22 |
Jean Baudrillard |
858 |
23 |
Slavoj
Zizek |
840 |
24 |
Daniel Dennett |
832 |
25 |
Freeman
Dyson |
823 |
26 |
Steven Pinker |
812 |
27 |
Jeffrey
Sachs |
810 |
28 |
Samuel Huntington |
805 |
29 |
Mario
Vargas Llosa |
771 |
30 |
Ali al-Sistani |
768 |
31 |
EO
Wilson |
742 |
32 |
Richard Posner |
740 |
33 |
Peter
Singer |
703 |
34 |
Bernard Lewis |
660 |
35 |
Fareed
Zakaria |
634 |
36 |
Gary Becker |
630 |
37 |
Michael
Ignatieff |
610 |
38 |
Chinua Achebe |
585 |
39 |
Anthony
Giddens |
582 |
40 |
Lawrence Lessig |
565 |
41 |
Richard
Rorty |
562 |
42 |
Jagdish Bhagwati |
561 |
43 |
Fernando Cardoso |
556 |
44= |
JM Coetzee |
548 |
44= |
Niall
Ferguson |
548 |
46 |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
546 |
47 |
Steven
Weinberg |
507 |
48 |
Julia Kristeva |
487 |
49 |
Germaine Greer |
471 |
50 |
Antonio Negri |
452 |
51 |
Rem
Koolhaas |
429 |
52 |
Timothy Garton Ash |
428 |
53 |
Martha
Nussbaum |
422 |
54 |
Orhan Pamuk |
393 |
55 |
Clifford Geertz |
388 |
56 |
Yusuf al-Qaradawi |
382 |
57 |
Henry
Louis Gates Jr. |
379 |
58 |
Tariq Ramadan |
372 |
59 |
Amos
Oz |
358 |
60 |
Larry Summers |
351 |
61 |
Hans
Küng |
344 |
62 |
Robert Kagan |
339 |
63 |
Paul
Kennedy |
334 |
64 |
Daniel Kahnemann |
312 |
65 |
Sari
Nusseibeh |
297 |
66 |
Wole Soyinka |
296 |
67 |
Kemal
Dervis |
295 |
68 |
Michael Walzer |
279 |
69 |
Gao
Xingjian |
277 |
70 |
Howard Gardner |
273 |
71 |
James
Lovelock |
268 |
72 |
Robert Hughes |
259 |
73 |
Ali
Mazrui |
251 |
74 |
Craig Venter |
244 |
75 |
Martin
Rees |
242 |
76 |
James Q Wilson |
229 |
77 |
Robert
Putnam |
221 |
78 |
Peter Sloterdijk |
217 |
79 |
Sergei
Karaganov |
194 |
80 |
Sunita Narain |
186 |
81 |
Alain
Finkielkraut |
185 |
82 |
Fan Gang |
180 |
83 |
Florence Wambugu |
159 |
84 |
Gilles Kepel |
156 |
85 |
Enrique
Krauze |
144 |
86 |
Ha Jin |
129 |
87 |
Neil
Gershenfeld |
120 |
88 |
Paul Ekman |
118 |
89 |
Jaron
Lanier |
117 |
90 |
Gordon Conway |
90 |
91 |
Pavol
Demes |
88 |
92 |
Elaine Scarry |
87 |
93 |
Robert
Cooper |
86 |
94 |
Harold Varmus |
85 |
95 |
Pramoedya Ananta Toer |
84 |
96 |
Zheng Bijian |
76 |
97 |
Kenichi
Ohmae |
68 |
98= |
Wang Jisi |
59 |
98= |
Kishore
Mahbubani |
59 |
100 |
Shintaro Ishihara |
57 |
We
asked voters to select a "bonus ball" nominationa name they believe we
should have included on our original longlist. Hundreds of people were
chosenfrom Bob Dylan to Kofi Annan. Here are the top 20
names
Position |
Name |
Total
votes |
1 |
Milton Friedman |
98 |
2 |
Stephen Hawking |
81 |
3 |
Arundhati Roy |
78 |
4 |
Howard Zinn |
72 |
5 |
Bill
Clinton |
67 |
6 |
Joseph Stiglitz |
57 |
7 |
Johan
Norberg |
48 |
8= |
Dalai Lama |
45 |
8= |
Thomas
Sowell |
45 |
10= |
Cornell West |
39 |
10= |
Nelson
Mandela |
39 |
12 |
Gore Vidal |
37 |
13 |
Mohammad Khatami |
35 |
14 |
John Ralston Saul |
33 |
15= |
George
Monbiot |
26 |
15= |
Judith Butler |
26 |
17 |
Victor
Davis Hanson |
25 |
18 |
Gabriel García Márquez |
24 |
19= |
Bono |
23 |
19= |
Harold Bloom |
23 |