The Top 100 Influential Figures in American History - Statistics

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

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