November 22, 2005

The Prospect/FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals

Who are the world's leading public intellectuals? FP and Britain’s Prospect magazine would like to know who you think makes the cut. We’ve selected our top 100, and want you to vote for your top five. If you don’t see a name that you think deserves top honors, include them as a write-in candidate. Voting closes October 10, and the results will be posted the following month.


NameOccupationCountry
Chinua AchebeNovelistNigeria
Jean BaudrillardSociologist, cultural criticFrance
Gary BeckerEconomistUnited States
Pope Benedict XVIReligious leaderGermany, Vatican
Jagdish BhagwatiEconomistIndia, United States
Fernando Henrique CardosoSociologist, former presidentBrazil
Noam ChomskyLinguist, author, activistUnited States
J.M. CoetzeeNovelistSouth Africa
Gordon ConwayAgricultural ecologistBritain
Robert CooperDiplomat, writerBritain
Richard DawkinsBiologist, polemicist Britain
Hernando de SotoEconomistPeru
Pavol DemesPolitical analystSlovakia
Daniel DennettPhilosopherUnited States
Kemal DervisEconomistTurkey
Jared DiamondBiologist, physiologist, historianUnited States
Freeman DysonPhysicistUnited States
Shirin EbadiLawyer, human rights activistIran
Umberto EcoMedievalist, novelistItaly
Paul EkmanPsychologistUnited States
Fan GangEconomistChina
Niall FergusonHistorianBritain
Alain FinkielkrautEssayist, philosopherFrance
Thomas FriedmanJournalist, authorUnited States
Francis FukuyamaPolitical scientist, authorUnited States
Gao XingjianNovelist, playwrightChina
Howard GardnerPsychologistUnited States
Timothy Garton AshHistorianBritain
Henry Louis Gates Jr.Scholar, cultural criticUnited States
Clifford GeertzAnthropologistUnited States
Neil GershenfeldPhysicist, computer scientistUnited States
Anthony GiddensSociologistBritain
Germaine GreerWriter, academicAustralia, Britain
Jürgen HabermasPhilosopherGermany
Ha JinNovelistChina
Václav HavelPlaywright, statesmanCzech Republic
Ayaan Hirsi AliPoliticianSomalia, Netherlands
Christopher HitchensPolemicistUnited States, Britain
Eric HobsbawmHistorianBritain
Robert HughesArt criticAustralia
Samuel HuntingtonPolitical scientist United States
Michael IgnatieffWriter, human rights theoristCanada
Shintaro IshiharaPolitician, authorJapan
Robert KaganAuthor, political commentatorUnited States
Daniel KahnemanPsychologistIsrael, United States
Sergei KaraganovForeign-policy analystRussia
Paul KennedyHistorianBritain, United States
Gilles KepelScholar of IslamFrance
Naomi KleinJournalist, authorCanada
Rem KoolhaasArchitectNetherlands
Enrique KrauzeHistorian Mexico
Julia KristevaPhilosopherFrance
Paul KrugmanEconomist, columnistUnited States
Hans KüngTheologianSwitzerland
Jaron LanierVirtual reality pioneerUnited States
Lawrence LessigLegal scholarUnited States
Bernard LewisHistorianBritain, United States
Bjørn LomborgEnvironmentalistDenmark
James LovelockScientistBritain
Kishore MahbubaniAuthor, diplomatSingapore
Ali MazruiPolitical scientistKenya
Sunita NarainEnvironmentalistIndia
Antonio NegriPhilosopher, activistItaly
Martha NussbaumPhilosopherUnited States
Sari NusseibehDiplomat, philosopherPalestine
Kenichi OhmaeManagement theoristJapan
Amos OzNovelistIsrael
Camille PagliaSocial critic, authorUnited States
Orhan PamukNovelistTurkey
Steven PinkerExperimental psychologistCanada, United States
Richard PosnerJudge, scholar, authorUnited States
Pramoedya Ananta ToerWriter, dissidentIndonesia
Yusuf al-QaradawiClericEgypt, Qatar
Robert PutnamPolitical scientistUnited States
Tariq RamadanScholar of Islam Switzerland
Martin ReesAstrophysicistBritain
Richard RortyPhilosopherUnited States
Salman RushdieNovelist, political commentatorBritain, India
Jeffrey SachsEconomistUnited States
Elaine ScarryLiterary theoristUnited States
Amartya SenEconomistIndia
Peter SingerPhilosopherAustralia
Ali al-SistaniClericIran, Iraq
Peter SloterdijkPhilosopherGermany
Abdolkarim SoroushReligious theoristIran
Wole SoyinkaPlaywright, activistNigeria
Lawrence SummersEconomist, academicUnited States
Mario Vargas LlosaNovelist, politician Peru
Harold VarmusMedical scientistUnited States
Craig VenterBiologist, businessmanUnited States
Michael WalzerPolitical theoristUnited States
Florence WambuguPlant PathologistKenya
Wang JisiForeign-policy analystChina
Steven WeinbergPhysicistUnited States
E.O. WilsonBiologistUnited States
James Q. WilsonCriminologistUnited States
Paul WolfowitzPolicymaker, academicUnited States
Fareed ZakariaJournalist, authorUnited States
Zheng BijianPolitical scientistChina
Slavoj ZizekSociologist, philosopherSlovenia

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