The Top 100 Public Intellectuals—the Final Rankings

During nearly four weeks of voting, more than 500,000 people came to ForeignPolicy.com to cast their ballots for the world’s top 100 intellectuals. Here are the final results.

JUNE 27, 2008

How Could You Not Include...

Members of the Top 100 name the intellectuals they believe should have made the list.

Illustrations by Lara Tomlin for FP

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For brief bios of the top 100 honorees, click here.

Fethullah Glen

Muhammad Yunus

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Orhan Pamuk

Aitzaz Ahsan

Amr Khaled

Abdolkarim Soroush

Tariq Ramadan

Mahmood Mamdani

Shirin Ebadi

Noam Chomsky

Al Gore

Bernard Lewis

Umberto Eco

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Amartya Sen

Fareed Zakaria

Garry Kasparov

Richard Dawkins

Mario Vargas Llosa

Lee Smolin

Jrgen Habermas

Salman Rushdie

Sari Nusseibeh

Slavoj Zizek

Vaclav Havel

Christopher Hitchens

Samuel Huntington

Peter Singer

Paul Krugman

Jared Diamond

Pope Benedict XVI

Fan Gang

Michael Ignatieff

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Lilia Shevtsova

Charles Taylor

Martin Wolf

E.O. Wilson

Thomas Friedman

Bjrn Lomborg

Daniel Dennett

Francis Fukuyama

Ramachandra Guha

Tony Judt

Steven Levitt

Nouriel Roubini

Jeffrey Sachs

Wang Hui

V.S. Ramachandran

Drew Gilpin Faust

Lawrence Lessig

J.M. Coetzee

Fernando Savater

Wole Soyinka

Yan Xuetong

Steven Pinker

Alma Guillermoprieto

Sunita Narain

Anies Baswedan

Michael Walzer

Niall Ferguson

George Ayittey

Ashis Nandy

David Petraeus

Olivier Roy

Lawrence Summers

Martha Nussbaum

Robert Kagan

James Lovelock

J. Craig Venter

Amos Oz

Samantha Power

Lee Kuan Yew

Hu Shuli

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Malcolm Gladwell

Alexander De Waal

Gianni Riotta

Daniel Barenboim

Thrse Delpech

William Easterly

Minxin Pei

Richard Posner

Ivan Krastev

Enrique Krauze

Anne Applebaum

Rem Koolhaas

Jacques Attali

Paul Collier

Esther Duflo

Michael Spence

Robert Putnam

Harold Varmus

Howard Gardner

Daniel Kahneman

Yegor Gaidar

Neil Gershenfeld

Alain Finkielkraut

Ian Buruma

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