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Gallup has constructed a yearly Gallup's most admired man and woman poll list since 1948 [2] but this poll covers the most notable figures of the entire century. They combined the results from the previous polls with a new preliminary poll to determine the 18 most admired people. [ 1 ]
Of the 100 chosen, Albert Einstein was chosen as the Person of the Century, on the grounds that he was the preeminent scientist in a century dominated by science. The editors of Time believed the 20th century "will be remembered foremost for its science and technology", and Einstein "serves as a symbol of all the scientists—such as Fermi, Heisenberg, Bohr, Richard Feynman, ...who built upon ...
In the 20th century people could become world-famous in less than no time and without doing anything, thanks to the arrival of mass media. Movie stars like Charlie Chaplin, for instance, became global stars due to the nearly universal reach of film. James cites Chaplin as the first truly world-famous 20th century celebrity.
Time 100 is a list of the top 100 most influential people, assembled by the American news magazine Time.First published in 1999 as the result of a debate among American academics, politicians, and journalists, the list is now a highly publicized annual event.
(born 20 September 1934) Buster Keaton (4 October 1895 – 1 February 1966) 22 Jean Harlow (3 March 1911 – 7 June 1937) Sidney Poitier (20 February 1927 – 6 January 2022) 23 Carole Lombard (6 October 1908 – 16 January 1942) Robert Mitchum (6 August 1917 – 1 July 1997) 24 Mary Pickford (8 April 1892 – 29 May 1979) Edward G. Robinson
Pages in category "20th-century American male actors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 9,685 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
However, Armand Hammer's biographer, Neil Lyndon, referred to him as "the most satanic man of the second half of the 20th Century" and the "embodiment of sin [and] ruthless ego" in a 2022 ...
List of state leaders in the 20th century (1951–2000) U. List of unusual deaths in the 20th century; W. List of 20th-century writers