Quote from Scientist:
1. Leonardo da Vinci. - Full stop. The Largest Genius ever lived and one of the very very few fully accepted rolemodels of mine - I cannot remember having ever denied or non-accepted any of his theories. He was an exceptional man, and with an immeasurable IQ (220+) beyond my personal scope and capacity of equal conceptualization.
2. Stephen Hawking - The only man to challenge the Einsteinian view of relativity and the master of quantum physics today
3. Albert Einstein - As an artist who discovered relativity by imagination and proved it with science
4. Jaques Lacan - The "opponent" or extension of Freudian Psychoanalysis
5. Sigmund Freud - The most important milestone in human psychoanalysis before Lacan
6. Carl G. Jung
7. Napoleon Bonaparte
8. Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10.Sir Isaac Newton
11.Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
12.Emanuel Swedenborg
13.Kim Ung-Yong
14.Blaise Pascal
15.Edward O.Wilson
While it looks like there is a strong bias on Germans (6 in the list)...