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Ayn Rand
Newt Gingrich
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Paul Krugman
John Kenneth Galbraith
Barack Fitzgerald Kennedy
Flathead
Sigmund Freud
harry hood
Keynes
Paul Ehrlich
Tony Danza
Edward Said
Paul Krugman
Bono
Sarah Palin
Paul Ryan
Anne Coulter
Cornell West
smallwillybill wrote:
Sarah Palin
Paul Ryan
Anne Coulter
politicians != intellectuals
Kenneth Cooper
Thomas Edison.
-Steven Hawking - has become a celebrity pushing his opinions rather than doing interesting work
-Marilyn von whoever, the lady who writes "Ask Marilyn" in the parade, like she never says anything smart in that column
Concerned Citizen wrote:
Sigmund Freud
Freud was my immediate thought as well. Ayn Rand would deserve mention if anyone other than college freshman rated her highly.
Freud? He's probably THE most influential thinker (for better or worse) of the 20th century. Your Aunt Sally uses Freudian terms when gossiping with Cousin Betty.
Ancel Keyes
John Maynard Keynes
Stephen Jay Gould
I would also like to nominate Martin Heidegger, B.F. Skinner and Leon Trotsky.
Clearly Freud is number one, but OP did say "intellectuals" (plural), so I felt like I should add the aforementioned gentlemen.