Introduction -- Salvador Allende -- Susan B. Anthony -- Corazon Aquino -- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Henry Ward Beecher -- Aneurin Bevan -- Benazir Bhutto -- Lee Bollinger -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- Neville Bonner -- Adrien Brody -- William Jennings Bryan -- George H. W. Bush -- John Chambers -- César Estrada Chávez -- Winston Churchill -- Marcus Tullius Cicero -- Bill Clinton -- George Clooney -- Sebastian Coe -- Colonel Tim Collins -- Emperor Constantine -- Bill Cosby -- Walter Cronkite -- Severn Cullis-Suzuki -- Clarence Darrow -- Demosthenes -- Deng Xiaoping -- Charles Dickens -- Benjamin Disraeli -- Frederick Douglass -- Elizabeth I -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Benjamin Franklin -- Galileo Galilei -- Indira Gandhi -- Mohandas K. Gandhi -- Bill Gates -- Charles de Gaulle -- Rudy Giuliani -- Patrick Henry -- Adolf Hitler -- Ho Chi Minh -- General Sir Mike Jackson -- Thomas Jefferson -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah -- Steve Jobs -- Barbara Jordan -- John F. Kennedy -- Robert F. Kennedy -- Muhtar Kent -- Nikita Khrushchev -- Martin Luther King Jr -- Junichiro Koizumi -- James Lavenson -- Lee Kuan Yew -- Abraham Lincoln -- David Lloyd George -- Huey P. Long -- General Douglas MacArthur -- Malcolm X -- Nelson Mandela -- George Martin -- John McCain -- Robert Menzies -- Jawaharlal Nehru -- Barack Obama -- Conan O'Brien -- Robert Oppenheimer -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Randy Pausch -- Lester Pearson -- Pericles -- William Lyon Phelps -- Colin Powell -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Rania of Jordan -- Ronald Reagan -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Oskar Schindler -- Gerhard Schröder -- Lee Scott -- Ricardo Semler -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Socrates -- Ted Sorensen -- Charles, Earl Spencer -- Sun Yat-sen -- Margaret Thatcher -- Leon Trotsky -- George Washington -- Daniel Webster -- Jack Welch -- Elie Wiesel -- Woodrow Wilson -- Oprah Winfrey.

Virginia Woolf -- Muhammad Yunus -- William Wilberforce -- Sukarno -- Václav Havel -- Harold Macmillan -- Fidel Castro -- Ann Richards -- Daniel Hannan -- Neil Kinnock -- Mary Robinson -- William Pitt the Elder -- Greatness Omitted -- Sources of Further Information and Acknowledgements -- The Authors.