Famous Creative Thinkers Presentation

Creative Genius list

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• Banksy (graffiti artist)

• Joseph Campbell (mythologist)

• Hal Cone (theologian, Black liberation theology)

• Limor Fried (electrical engineer, aka Lady Ada, open-source hardware)

• Jane Goodall (primatologist)

• Stephen Hawking (theoretical physicist, cosmologist)

• Dalma Heyn (women’s advocate, cultural critic)

• Gary Larson (cartoonist, The Far Side)

• Gene Roddenberry (television screen writer)

• Peter Singer (moral philosopher, animal rights/liberation theory)

• Steven Spielberg (film director)

• Bjarne Stroustrup (computer scientist, C++)

• Quentin Tarantino (film director)

• Linus Torvalds (software engineer, Linux)

• Steve Wozniak (computer engineer, Apple)

• Philip Glass (composer, minimalism)

• Carl Sagan (astrophysicist, cosmologist)

• Richard Feynman (physicist, quantum electrodynamics)

• Jerry Fodor (philosopher, cognitive science)

• Buckminster Fuller (systems theorist and futurist)

• Marija Gimbutas (archeologist, matriarchy studies)

• Saul Kripke (philosopher)

• Bertrand Russell (philosopher, historian, social critic)

• Nicholas Taleb (randomness statistician, The Black Swan)

• Ai Weiwei (artist, cultural critic)

• Cornel West (philosopher, cultural critic)

• Ken Wilber (developmental psychologist, Integral Theory)

• Grace Hopper (computer scientist)

• Pina Bausch (choreographer)

• Shiego Shingo (industrial engineer, Toyota)