Time 100 - 20th century

This is very old - Time magazines selected Top 100 Persons of the Century

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,991227-1,00.html

 

The people within the scope as potential canonical authors are:

- Gandhi

- T.S. Eliot

- James Joyce

- Freud

- Keynes

- Wittgenstein

 

Time selected Albert Einstein as person of the century, and Gandhi and Roosevelt (FDR) as runner-ups.