TIME 100 Persons Of The Century

LEADERS & REVOLUTIONARIES APRIL 13, 1998

–David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister –Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister –Mohandas Gandhi, father of modern India –Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet reformer –Adolf Hitler, German dictator –Ho Chi Minh, first President of North Vietnam –Pope John Paul II, religious leader –Ayatullah R. Khomeini, leader of Iran’s revolution –Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader –Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union –Nelson Mandela, South African President –Mao Zedong, leader of communist China –Ronald Reagan, U.S. President –Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady –Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect –Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist –Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader –Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister –Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel –Lech Walesa, Polish union organizer

ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS JUNE 8, 1998

–Louis Armstrong, jazz musician –Lucille Ball, TV star –The Beatles, rock musicians –Marlon Brando, actor –Coco Chanel, designer –Charlie Chaplin, comic genius –Le Corbusier, architect –Bob Dylan, folk musician –T.S. Eliot, poet –Aretha Franklin, soul musician –Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer –Jim Henson, puppeteer and creator of TV’s Muppets –James Joyce, novelist –Pablo Picasso, artist –Rodgers & Hammerstein, Broadway showmen –Bart Simpson, cartoon character –Frank Sinatra, singer –Steven Spielberg, moviemaker –Igor Stravinsky, classical musician –Oprah Winfrey, TV talk-show host

BUILDERS & TITANS DEC. 7, 1998

–Stephen Bechtel, construction magnate –Leo Burnett, advertising genius –Willis Carrier, maker of air-conditioning systems –Walt Disney, creator of animation and multimedia empire –Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co. –Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft –A.P. Giannini, architect of nationwide banking –Ray Kroc, hamburger meister –Estee Lauder, cosmetics tycoon –William Levitt, creator of suburbia –Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind –Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul –Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor –Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony –Walter Reuther, labor leader –Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner –David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting –Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur –Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo –Thomas Watson Jr., IBM president

SCIENTISTS & THINKERS MARCH 29, 1999

–Leo Baekeland, plastics pioneer –Tim Berners-Lee, Internet designer –Rachel Carson, environmentalist –Albert Einstein, physicist –Philo Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television –Enrico Fermi, atomic physicist –Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist –Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst –Robert Goddard, rocket scientist –Kurt Godel, mathematician –Edwin Hubble, astronomer –John Maynard Keynes, economist –The Leakey Family, anthropologists –Jean Piaget, child psychologist –Jonas Salk, virologist –William Shockley, solid-state physicist –Alan Turing, computer scientist –James Watson & Francis Crick, molecular biologists –Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher –The Wright Brothers, visionary aviators

HEROES & ICONS JUNE 14, 1999

–Muhammad Ali, heavyweight boxing champion –The American G.I., a soldier for freedom –Diana, Princess of Wales –Anne Frank, diarist and Holocaust victim –Billy Graham, evangelist –Che Guevara, guerrilla leader –Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay, conquerors of Mount Everest –Helen Keller, champion of the disabled –The Kennedys, dynasty –Bruce Lee, actor and martial-arts star –Charles Lindbergh, transatlantic aviator –Harvey Milk, gay-rights leader –Marilyn Monroe, actress –Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragist –Rosa Parks, civil rights torchbearer –Pele, soccer star –Jackie Robinson, baseball player –Andrei Sakharov, Soviet dissident –Mother Teresa, missionary nun –Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous