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All-time leader83.5Salvador Dalí
1930s×Canon×

Jorge Luis Borges

Writers

2nd74.5 · mom 11

Salvador Dalí

Artists

1st83.5 · mom 20

George Orwell

Writers

3rd74.4 · mom 3
Salvador Dalí leads this board.

All-time score 83.5, ahead of Jorge Luis Borges by 9.0.

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  1. 4thErnest HemingwayWriters74.2
  2. 5thPablo NerudaWriters70.2
  3. 6thEnrico FermiScientists70.0
  4. 7thAntoine de Saint-ExupéryWriters67.3
  5. 8thBertolt BrechtWriters65.1
  6. 9thWerner HeisenbergScientists64.5
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PlaceNameCountryCategoryAll-time
10th, stableWilliam FaulknerWriters · 1897-1962United StatesUnited StatesWriters64.3mom 1211th, fallingJohn SteinbeckWriters · 1902-1968United StatesUnited StatesWriters64.0mom 412th, stableFederico García LorcaWriters · 1898-1936SpainSpainWriters63.5mom 1013th, fallingC. S. LewisWriters · 1898-1963United KingdomUnited KingdomWriters60.6mom 014th, stableAmelia EarhartWriters · 1897-1939United StatesUnited StatesWriters60.0mom 215th, stableErich Maria RemarqueWriters · 1898-1970GermanyGermanyWriters59.8mom 216th, stableF. Scott FitzgeraldWriters · 1896-1940United StatesUnited StatesWriters59.6mom 417th, stableWolfgang PauliScientists · 1900-1958United StatesUnited StatesScientists59.2mom 1418th, stableMargaret MitchellWriters · 1900-1949United StatesUnited StatesWriters58.0mom 1019th, risingMargaret MeadAcademics · 1901-1978United StatesUnited StatesAcademics57.4mom 1320th, fallingJ. Robert OppenheimerScientists · 1904-1967United StatesUnited StatesScientists57.2mom 021st, stableLinus PaulingScientists · 1901-1994United StatesUnited StatesScientists57.2mom 3

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Irène Joliot-Curie holds 56th among scientists

French scientist (1897-1956)

Theodor W. Adorno holds 162nd among academics

German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903-1969)

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