1. Andrew Carnegie, U.S. industrialist and philanthropist

2. Charles Chaplin, British actor and film director

3. William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, American scout and showman

4. Noel Coward, British actor, playwright, and composer

5. Charles Dickens, British novelist

6. Isadora Duncan, U.S. dancer

7. Thomas Edison, U.S. inventor

8. Samuel Gompers, U.S. labor leader

9. Maxim Gorky, Russian writer

10. Claude Monet, French painter

11. Sean O’Casey, Irish playwright

12. Alfred E. Smith, U.S. politician

13. John Philip Sousa, U.S. bandleader and composer

14. Henry M. Stanley, British explorer

15. Mark Twain, U.S. humorist and writer

From the Book of Lists