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Time magazine developed this list of the most influential people of the 21st Century. You can use some of

these famous people as an observation on your essays. Highlight all of the names that you recognize. Then, in the blank spaces, add any additional names that you can think of that will fit into that category.

|LEADERS AND REVOULTIONARIES |

|Twenty people who helped define the political and social fabric of our time |

|David Ben-Gurion |Pope John Paul II |

|Ho Chi Minh |Ronal Reagan |

|Winston Churchill |Eleanor Roosevelt |

|Mohandas Gandhi |Franklin Delano Roosevelt |

|Mikhail Gorbachev |Teddy Roosevelt |

|Adolf Hilter |Margaret Thatcher |

|Martin Luther King |Unknown Rebel |

|Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |Margaret Sanger |

|V.I. Lenin |Lech Walesa |

|Nelson Mandella |Mao Zedong |

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|ARTISTS AND ENTERTAINERS |

|Twenty pioneers of human expression who enlightened and enlivened us |

|Louis Armstrong |Martha Graham |

|Lucille Ball |Jim Henson |

|The Beatles |James Joyce |

|Marlon Brando |Pablo Picasso |

|Coco Chanel |Rodgers & Hammerstein |

|Charlie Chaplin |Bart Simpson |

|Le Corbusier |Frank Sinatra |

|Bob Dylan |Steven Spielberg |

|T. S. Eliot |Igor Stravinsky |

|Aretha Franklin |Oprah Winfrey |

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|BUILDERS AND TITANS |

|Twenty innovators who changed how the world works |

|Stephen Bechtel |Lucky Luciano |

|Leo Burnett |Louis B. Mayer |

|Willis Carrier |Charles Merrill |

|Walt Disney |Akio Morita |

|Henry Ford |Walter Reuther |

|Bill Gates |Pete Rozelle |

|Amadeo Giannini |David Sarnoff |

|Ray Kroc |Juan Trippe |

|Estee Lauder |Sam Walton |

|William Levitt |Thomas Watson, Jr. |

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|SCIENTISTS AND THINKERS |

|Twenty people who overthrew our inherited ideas about logic, language, learning, mathematics, economics, and even space and time |

|Leo Baekeland |Kurt Gödel |

|Tim Berners-Lee |Edwin Hubble |

|Rachel Carson |John Maynard Keynes |

|Francis Crick & James Watson |Louis, Mary, & Richard Leakey |

|Albert Einstein |Jean Piaget |

|Philo Farnsworth |Jonas Salk |

|Enrico Fermi |William Shockley |

|Alexander Fleming |Alan Turing |

|Sigmund Freud |Ludwig Wittgenstein |

|Robert Goddard |Wilbur & Orville Wright |

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|HEROES AND ICONS |

|Twenty people who articulate the longings of the last 100 years, exemplifying courage, selflessness, exuberance, superhuman ability, and amazing grace. |

|Muhammed Ali |Charles Lindbergh |

|The American G.I. |Harvey Milk |

|Diana, Princess of Wales |Marilyn Monroe |

|Anne Frank |Mother Teresa |

|Billy Graham |Emmeline Pankhurst |

|Che Guevara |Rosa Parks |

|E. Hillary & T. Norgay |Pelé |

|Helen Keller |Andrei Sakharov |

|The Kennedys |Jackie Robinson |

|Bruce Lee |Bill Wilson |

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Person of the Century: Albert Einstein

He was the pre-eminent scientist in a century dominated by science. The touchstones of the era — the Bomb, the Big Bang, quantum physics and electronics — all bear his imprint

By FREDERIC GOLDEN

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