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This is a list of living people of significant historical importance and influence. Their deaths should be included on WP:ITN.

Actors and entertainers

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  1. Woody Allen
  2. Clint Eastwood
  3. Madonna
  4. Jack Nicholson
  5. Barbra Streisand
  6. Jay Leno
  7. David Letterman

Artists

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Authors and journalists

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  1. Elie Wiesel
  2. J. K. Rowling
  3. Walter Cronkite
  4. Bob Woodward
  5. Carl Bernstein

Composers and musicians

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  1. The Beatles
  2. The Clash
  3. Bob Dylan
  4. Aretha Franklin
  5. Michael Jackson
  6. Ennio Morricone
  7. Public Enemy
  8. The Rolling Stones
  9. Run-DMC
  10. John Williams
  11. U2

Directors, playwrights, and screenwriters

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  1. George Lucas
  2. Martin Scorsese
  3. Francis Ford Coppola
  4. Steven Spielberg
  5. Oliver Stone
  6. Mel Brooks
  7. Andrew Lloyd Webber

Entrepreneurs

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  1. Bill Gates
  2. Donald Trump
  3. Ted Turner
  4. Muhammad Yunus
  5. Oprah Winfrey
  6. Robert Metcalfe
  7. Warren Buffett
  8. Lakshmi Mittal
  9. Ingvar Kamprad

Explorers

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  1. Neil Armstrong
  2. Buzz Aldrin
  3. John Glenn
  4. Chuck Yeager

Inventors, scientists and mathematicians

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  1. Tim Berners-Lee
  2. Donald Knuth
  3. Dennis Ritchie
  4. Richard Stallman
  5. Linus Torvalds

Philosophers and social scientists

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  1. Jürgen Habermas

Politicians and leaders

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European

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  1. Silvio Berlusconi
  2. Tony Blair
  3. Jacques Chirac
  4. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  5. Gerhard Schröder
  6. Mikhail Gorbachev
  7. Margaret Thatcher
  8. Lech Wałęsa

North American

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  1. George W. Bush
  2. Bill Clinton
  3. George H.W. Bush
  4. Jimmy Carter
  5. Jean Chrétien

Latin American

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  1. Fidel Castro
  2. Hugo Chavez
  3. Juan Evo Morales Ayma
  4. Alberto Fujimori
  5. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  6. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Asian & Oceanian

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  1. Akihito
  2. Mahathir bin Mohamad
  3. Jiang Zemin
  4. Hu Jintao
  5. Junichirō Koizumi
  6. John Howard
  7. Bhumibol Adulyadej
  8. Hassanal Bolkiah
  9. Kim Dae-jung

African

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  1. Nelson Mandela
  2. Robert Mugabe
  3. Hosni Mubarak

Middle East & Subcontinent

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  1. Benjamin Netanyahu
  2. Ariel Sharon
  3. Shimon Peres
  4. Hamid Karzai
  5. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  6. Dr. Manmohan Singh
  7. King Abdullah II
  8. Bashar al-Assad
  9. Hosni Mubarak

Other

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  1. Kofi Annan
  2. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  3. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
  4. Pope Benedict XVI
  5. Desmond Tutu
  6. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Revolutionaries and activists

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  1. Osama bin Laden
  2. Aung San Suu Kyi
  3. Al Gore