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The Top 100 Public Intellectuals—the Final Rankings
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Posted June 2008
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.


“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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  1. Fethullah Gülen
  2. Muhammad Yunus
  3. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
  4. Orhan Pamuk
  5. Aitzaz Ahsan
  6. Amr Khaled
  7. Abdolkarim Soroush
  8. Tariq Ramadan
  9. Mahmood Mamdani
  10. Shirin Ebadi
  11. Noam Chomsky
  12. Al Gore
  13. Bernard Lewis
  14. Umberto Eco
  15. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  16. Amartya Sen
  17. Fareed Zakaria
  18. Garry Kasparov
  19. Richard Dawkins
  20. Mario Vargas Llosa
  21. Lee Smolin
  22. Jürgen Habermas
  23. Salman Rushdie
  24. Sari Nusseibeh
  25. Slavoj Zizek
  26. Vaclav Havel
  27. Christopher Hitchens
  28. Samuel Huntington
  29. Peter Singer
  30. Paul Krugman
  31. Jared Diamond
  32. Pope Benedict XVI
  33. Fan Gang
  34. Michael Ignatieff
  35. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  36. Lilia Shevtsova
  37. Charles Taylor
  38. Martin Wolf
  39. E.O. Wilson
  40. Thomas Friedman
  41. Bjørn Lomborg
  42. Daniel Dennett
  43. Francis Fukuyama
  44. Ramachandra Guha
  45. Tony Judt
  46. Steven Levitt
  47. Nouriel Roubini
  48. Jeffrey Sachs
  49. Wang Hui
  50. V.S. Ramachandran
  51. Drew Gilpin Faust
  52. Lawrence Lessig
  53. J.M. Coetzee
  54. Fernando Savater
  55. Wole Soyinka
  56. Yan Xuetong
  57. Steven Pinker
  58. Alma Guillermoprieto
  59. Sunita Narain
  60. Anies Baswedan
  61. Michael Walzer
  62. Niall Ferguson
  63. George Ayittey
  64. Ashis Nandy
  65. David Petraeus
  66. Olivier Roy
  67. Lawrence Summers
  68. Martha Nussbaum
  69. Robert Kagan
  70. James Lovelock
  71. J. Craig Venter
  72. Amos Oz
  73. Samantha Power
  74. Lee Kuan Yew
  75. Hu Shuli
  76. Kwame Anthony Appiah
  77. Malcolm Gladwell
  78. Alexander De Waal
  79. Gianni Riotta
  80. Daniel Barenboim
  81. Thérèse Delpech
  82. William Easterly
  83. Minxin Pei
  84. Richard Posner
  85. Ivan Krastev
  86. Enrique Krauze
  87. Anne Applebaum
  88. Rem Koolhaas
  89. Jacques Attali
  90. Paul Collier
  91. Esther Duflo
  92. Michael Spence
  93. Robert Putnam
  94. Harold Varmus
  95. Howard Gardner
  96. Daniel Kahneman
  97. Yegor Gaidar
  98. Neil Gershenfeld
  99. Alain Finkielkraut
  100. Ian Buruma

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