The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll

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Some of the public intellectuals ranked in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll. From left to right, top to bottom: Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Václav Havel, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Paul Krugman.

The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll is a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals in the world which has been compiled in November 2005 by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (US) on the basis of a reader's ballot comprising more than 20,000 votes.

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[edit] Demographics

According to location of birth, roughly 40% came from USA and Canada, 25% from Europe and Russia, 22% from Middle and Far East. The other locations received less than 5% -Latin America with 4 and Africa and Australia with 3. Only 8% are women.

[edit] Criticisms

As it happens with many free votes over the Internet, the poll may be a victim of organized voting campaigns and biases introduced by the nationality and language of the organizer. This may be true in the present case, since the number of Iranian intellectuals represented in the list is above that of entire Latin America, Nigeria has almost the totality of votes in the entire Africa and France is underrepresented.[1]

[edit] The list

The following are the names of the top 100 according to its classification:

  1. Noam Chomsky
  2. Umberto Eco
  3. Richard Dawkins
  4. Václav Havel
  5. Christopher Hitchens
  6. Paul Krugman
  7. Jürgen Habermas
  8. Amartya Sen
  9. Jared Diamond
  10. Salman Rushdie
  11. Naomi Klein
  12. Shirin Ebadi
  13. Hernando de Soto
  14. Bjørn Lomborg
  15. Abdolkarim Soroush
  16. Thomas Friedman
  17. Pope Benedict XVI
  18. Eric Hobsbawm
  19. Paul Wolfowitz
  20. Camille Paglia
  21. Francis Fukuyama
  22. Jean Baudrillard
  23. Slavoj Zizek
  24. Daniel Dennett
  25. Freeman Dyson
  26. Steven Pinker
  27. Jeffrey Sachs
  28. Samuel Huntington
  29. Mario Vargas Llosa
  30. Ali al-Sistani
  31. Edward O. Wilson
  32. Richard Posner
  33. Peter Singer
  34. Bernard Lewis
  35. Fareed Zakaria
  36. Gary Becker
  37. Michael Ignatieff
  38. Chinua Achebe
  39. Anthony Giddens
  40. Lawrence Lessig
  41. Richard Rorty
  42. Jagdish Bhagwati
  43. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  44. JM Coetzee
  45. Niall Ferguson
  46. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  47. Steven Weinberg
  48. Julia Kristeva
  49. Germaine Greer
  50. Antonio Negri
  51. Rem Koolhaas
  52. Timothy Garton Ash
  53. Martha Nussbaum
  54. Orhan Pamuk
  55. Clifford Geertz
  56. Yusuf al-Qaradawi
  57. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  58. Tariq Ramadan
  59. Amos Oz
  60. Larry Summers
  61. Hans Küng
  62. Robert Kagan
  63. Paul Kennedy
  64. Daniel Kahneman
  65. Sari Nusseibeh
  66. Wole Soyinka
  67. Kemal Derviş
  68. Michael Walzer
  69. Gao Xingjian
  70. Howard Gardner
  71. James Lovelock
  72. Robert Hughes
  73. Ali Mazrui
  74. Craig Venter
  75. Martin Rees
  76. James Q. Wilson
  77. Robert Putnam
  78. Peter Sloterdijk
  79. Sergei Karaganov
  80. Sunita Narain
  81. Alain Finkielkraut
  82. Fan Gang
  83. Florence Wambugu
  84. Gilles Kepel
  85. Enrique Krauze
  86. Ha Jin
  87. Neil Gershenfeld
  88. Paul Ekman
  89. Jaron Lanier
  90. Gordon Conway
  91. Pavol Demes
  92. Elaine Scarry
  93. Robert Cooper
  94. Harold Varmus
  95. Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  96. Zheng Bijian
  97. Kenichi Ohmae
  98. Wang Jisi
  99. Kishore Mahbubani
  100. Shintaro Ishihara


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Global public intellectuals poll November 2005, Prospect Magazine, No. 116

[edit] External links

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