Richard Dawkins, J. Craig Venter, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso (our former president). I don't know the majority of the others anyways
Hah Pope Benedict XVI in the list? Is that some sort of joke? If there was any list he should be in, it should be in some sort of the most retrograde and limited minds of our time, 2nd only to the dear president Mr. Bush and some other neo-cons out there...