| The 100 Most Influential Americans of All Time (Atlantic, December 2006) |
| Rank |
Person |
| 1 |
Abraham Lincoln |
| 2 |
George Washington |
| 3 |
Thomas Jefferson |
| 4 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 5 |
Alexander Hamilton |
| 6 |
Benjamin Franklin |
| 7 |
John Marshall |
| 8 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 9 |
Thomas Edison |
| 10 |
Woodrow Wilson |
| 11 |
John D. Rockefeller |
| 12 |
Ulysses S. Grant |
| 13 |
James Madison |
| 14 |
Henry Ford |
| 15 |
Theodore Roosevelt |
| 16 |
Mark Twain |
| 17 |
Ronald Reagan |
| 18 |
Andrew Jackson |
| 19 |
Thomas Paine |
| 20 |
Andrew Carnegie |
| 21 |
Harry Truman |
| 22 |
Walt Whitman |
| 23 |
Wright Brothers |
| 24 |
Alexander Graham Bell |
| 25 |
John Adams |
| 26 |
Walt Disney |
| 27 |
Eli Whitney |
| 28 |
Dwight Eisenhower |
| 29 |
Earl Warren |
| 30 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| 31 |
Henry Clay |
| 32 |
Albert Einstein |
| 33 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 34 |
Jonas Salk |
| 35 |
Jackie Robinson |
| 36 |
William Jennings Bryan |
| 37 |
J.P. Morgan |
| 38 |
Susan B. Anthony |
| 39 |
Rachel Carson |
| 40 |
John Dewey |
| 41 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 42 |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 43 |
W.E.B. DuBois |
| 44 |
Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| 45 |
Samuel F.B. Morse |
| 46 |
William Lloyd Garrison |
| 47 |
Frederick Douglass |
| 48 |
Robert Oppenheimer |
| 49 |
Frederick Law Olmstead |
| 50 |
James K. Polk |
| 51 |
Margaret Sanger |
| 52 |
Joseph Smith |
| 53 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| 54 |
Bill Gates |
| 55 |
John Quincy Adams |
| 56 |
Horace Mann |
| 57 |
Robert E. Lee |
| 58 |
John C. Calhoun |
| 59 |
Louis Sullivan |
| 60 |
William Faulkner |
| 61 |
Samuel Gompers |
| 62 |
William James |
| 63 |
George Marshall |
| 64 |
Jane Addams |
| 65 |
Henry David Thoreau |
| 66 |
Elvis Presley |
| 67 |
P.T. Barnum |
| 68 |
James D. Watson |
| 69 |
James Gordon Bennett |
| 70 |
Lewis and Clark |
| 71 |
Noah Webster |
| 72 |
Sam Walton |
| 73 |
Cyrus McCormick |
| 74 |
Brigham Young |
| 75 |
George Herman "Babe" Ruth |
| 76 |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 77 |
Betty Friedan |
| 78 |
John Brown |
| 79 |
Louis Armstong |
| 80 |
William Randolph Hearst |
| 81 |
Margaret Mead |
| 82 |
George Gallup |
| 83 |
James Fenimore Cooper |
| 84 |
Thurgood Marshall |
| 85 |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 86 |
Mary Baker Eddy |
| 87 |
Benjamin Spock |
| 88 |
Enrico Fermi |
| 89 |
Walter Lippmann |
| 90 |
Jonathan Edwards |
| 91 |
Lyman Beecher |
| 92 |
John Steinbeck |
| 93 |
Nat Turner |
| 94 |
George Eastman |
| 95 |
Sam Goldwyn |
| 96 |
Ralph Nader |
| 97 |
Stephen Foster |
| 98 |
Booker T. Washington |
| 99 |
Richard Nixon |
| 100 |
Herman Melville |
