The Prospect/FP Global public intellectuals poll—results
Over 20,000 people voted for their top names from our original longlist of 100.
| Position | Name | Total votes |
| 1 | Noam Chomsky | 4827 |
| 2 | Umberto Eco | 2464 |
| 3 | Richard Dawkins | 2188 |
| 4 | Václav Havel | 1990 |
| 5 | Christopher Hitchens | 1844 |
| 6 | Paul Krugman | 1746 |
| 7 | Jürgen Habermas | 1639 |
| 8 | Amartya Sen | 1590 |
| 9 | Jared Diamond | 1499 |
| 10 | Salman Rushdie | 1468 |
| 11 | Naomi Klein | 1378 |
| 12 | Shirin Ebadi | 1309 |
| 13 | Hernando De Soto | 1202 |
| 14 | Bjørn Lomborg | 1141 |
| 15 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 1114 |
| 16 | Thomas Friedman | 1049 |
| 17 | Pope Benedict XVI | 1046 |
| 18 | Eric Hobsbawm | 1037 |
| 19 | Paul Wolfowitz | 1028 |
| 20 | Camille Paglia | 1013 |
| 21 | Francis Fukuyama | 883 |
| 22 | Jean Baudrillard | 858 |
| 23 | Slavoj Zizek | 840 |
| 24 | Daniel Dennett | 832 |
| 25 | Freeman Dyson | 823 |
| 26 | Steven Pinker | 812 |
| 27 | Jeffrey Sachs | 810 |
| 28 | Samuel Huntington | 805 |
| 29 | Mario Vargas Llosa | 771 |
| 30 | Ali al-Sistani | 768 |
| 31 | EO Wilson | 742 |
| 32 | Richard Posner | 740 |
| 33 | Peter Singer | 703 |
| 34 | Bernard Lewis | 660 |
| 35 | Fareed Zakaria | 634 |
| 36 | Gary Becker | 630 |
| 37 | Michael Ignatieff | 610 |
| 38 | Chinua Achebe | 585 |
| 39 | Anthony Giddens | 582 |
| 40 | Lawrence Lessig | 565 |
| 41 | Richard Rorty | 562 |
| 42 | Jagdish Bhagwati | 561 |
| 43 | Fernando Cardoso | 556 |
| 44= | JM Coetzee | 548 |
| 44= | Niall Ferguson | 548 |
| 46 | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | 546 |
| 47 | Steven Weinberg | 507 |
| 48 | Julia Kristeva | 487 |
| 49 | Germaine Greer | 471 |
| 50 | Antonio Negri | 452 |
| 51 | Rem Koolhaas | 429 |
| 52 | Timothy Garton Ash | 428 |
| 53 | Martha Nussbaum | 422 |
| 54 | Orhan Pamuk | 393 |
| 55 | Clifford Geertz | 388 |
| 56 | Yusuf al-Qaradawi | 382 |
| 57 | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | 379 |
| 58 | Tariq Ramadan | 372 |
| 59 | Amos Oz | 358 |
| 60 | Larry Summers | 351 |
| 61 | Hans Küng | 344 |
| 62 | Robert Kagan | 339 |
| 63 | Paul Kennedy | 334 |
| 64 | Daniel Kahnemann | 312 |
| 65 | Sari Nusseibeh | 297 |
| 66 | Wole Soyinka | 296 |
| 67 | Kemal Dervis | 295 |
| 68 | Michael Walzer | 279 |
| 69 | Gao Xingjian | 277 |
| 70 | Howard Gardner | 273 |
| 71 | James Lovelock | 268 |
| 72 | Robert Hughes | 259 |
| 73 | Ali Mazrui | 251 |
| 74 | Craig Venter | 244 |
| 75 | Martin Rees | 242 |
| 76 | James Q Wilson | 229 |
| 77 | Robert Putnam | 221 |
| 78 | Peter Sloterdijk | 217 |
| 79 | Sergei Karaganov | 194 |
| 80 | Sunita Narain | 186 |
| 81 | Alain Finkielkraut | 185 |
| 82 | Fan Gang | 180 |
| 83 | Florence Wambugu | 159 |
| 84 | Gilles Kepel | 156 |
| 85 | Enrique Krauze | 144 |
| 86 | Ha Jin | 129 |
| 87 | Neil Gershenfeld | 120 |
| 88 | Paul Ekman | 118 |
| 89 | Jaron Lanier | 117 |
| 90 | Gordon Conway | 90 |
| 91 | Pavol Demes | 88 |
| 92 | Elaine Scarry | 87 |
| 93 | Robert Cooper | 86 |
| 94 | Harold Varmus | 85 |
| 95 | Pramoedya Ananta Toer | 84 |
| 96 | Zheng Bijian | 76 |
| 97 | Kenichi Ohmae | 68 |
| 98= | Wang Jisi | 59 |
| 98= | Kishore Mahbubani | 59 |
| 100 | Shintaro Ishihara | 57 |
We asked voters to select a "bonus ball" nomination—a name they believe we should have included on our original longlist. Hundreds of people were chosen—from Bob Dylan to Kofi Annan. Here are the top 20 names
| Position | Name | Total votes |
| 1 | Milton Friedman | 98 |
| 2 | Stephen Hawking | 81 |
| 3 | Arundhati Roy | 78 |
| 4 | Howard Zinn | 72 |
| 5 | Bill Clinton | 67 |
| 6 | Joseph Stiglitz | 57 |
| 7 | Johan Norberg | 48 |
| 8= | Dalai Lama | 45 |
| 8= | Thomas Sowell | 45 |
| 10= | Cornell West | 39 |
| 10= | Nelson Mandela | 39 |
| 12 | Gore Vidal | 37 |
| 13 | Mohammad Khatami | 35 |
| 14 | John Ralston Saul | 33 |
| 15= | George Monbiot | 26 |
| 15= | Judith Butler | 26 |
| 17 | Victor Davis Hanson | 25 |
| 18 | Gabriel García Márquez | 24 |
| 19= | Bono | 23 |
| 19= | Harold Bloom | 23 |
