Top (eventually 20)
- Susan B. Anthony
- Thomas Edison
- Benjamin Franklin
- Alexander Hamilton
- Thomas Jefferson
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Barack Obama Current president
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- George Washington
My proposed three more tops
- John Marshall
- John D. Rockefeller
- Mark Twain
Debatable as to Top or High
- Walt Disney
- Frederick Douglass
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry Ford
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Andrew Jackson
- Robert E. Lee
- James Madison
- Elvis Presley
- Jackie Robinson
- Wright Brothers
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High-Class (eventually 100)
Presidents are listed first
- John Adams
- John Quincy Adams
- James Buchanan
- George Bush
- George W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter
- Grover Cleveland
- Bill Clinton
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- James Monroe
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- William McKinley
- Richard Nixon
- James K. Polk
- Franklin Pierce
- Ronald Reagan
- William Howard Taft
- Harry Truman
- Samuel Adams
- Jane Addams
- Louis Armstrong
- Neil Armstrong
- P.T. Barnum
- Clara Barton
- Joe Biden Current Vice-President
- William Bradford
- William Jennings Bryan
- John C. Calhoun
- Andrew Carnegie
- George Washington Carver
- Cesar Chavez
- William Clark
- Henry Clay
- John Dewey
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Amelia Earhart
- Philo T. Farnsworth
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Betty Friedan
- Bill Gates
- Samuel Gompers
- Nathan Hale
- William Randolph Hearst
- Ernest Hemingway
- Stonewall Jackson
- Francis Scott Key
- Meriwether Lewis
- George C. Marshall
- Thurgood Marshall
- John Pierpont Morgan
- Gouverneur Morris
- John Muir
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Thomas Paine
- Rosa Parks
- Paul Revere
- Betsy Ross
- Babe Ruth
- William T. Sherman
- John Smith
- Joseph Smith
- Benjamin Spock
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- John Steinbeck
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Harriet Tubman
- Sam Walton
- Earl Warren
- Booker T. Washington
- John Winthrop
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Debatable as to High or Mid
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Benjamin Harrison
- John F. Kennedy
- Martin Van Buren
- Clarence Darrow
- Bob Dylan
- George Gershwin
- Katharine Hepburn
- John Philip Sousa
- Jimmy Stewart
- Gilbert Stuart
- Frederick Jackson Turner
- Daniel Webster
- Walt Whitman
Mid (ideally 100)
- John Boehner current Speaker
- Matthew Brady
- Daniel Burnham
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton
- John Colter
- George Armstrong Custer
- Nathanael Greene
- John Hancock
- William LeBaron Jenney
- George B. McClellan
- George S. Patton
- John Roberts current Chief Justice
- Norman Rockwell
- Winfield Scott
- Samuel Slater
- J.E.B. Stuart
...and probably most of the rest of the Atlantic list that wasn't Top or High
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