The Greatest American

The Greatest American was a ranking show that the Discovery Channel broadcast in association with AOL on June 5, 2005. The audience from the United States of America should choose their most important compatriots. Before that, on April 18, 2005, after a survey of the audience, the 100 nominees were announced as Greatest American by AOL and the Discovery Channel.

A similar concept pursued in 2002 the program 100 Greatest Britons of the BBC . Similar programs followed, such as in Germany with Our Best , in Canada the program The Greatest Canadian , in the Netherlands De Grootste Nederlander , in South Africa Great South Africans and in Finland Suuret Suomalaiset .

Results: The Greatest American

TOP 25

Here is the list of the TOP 25 Greatest Americans in the order chosen by the viewers:

The Greatest American:
Ronald Reagan

1. Ronald Reagan - 24.0% - voted "Greatest American"
2. Abraham Lincoln - 23.5%
3. Martin Luther King - 19.7% - voted "Greatest African American"
4. George Washington - 17.7%
5. Benjamin Franklin - 14.9%
6. George W. Bush - voted "Greatest Living American"
7. Bill Clinton
8. Elvis Presley - elected "America's Greatest Entertainer"
9. Oprah Winfrey - Elected "Greatest Woman in American History"
10. Franklin D. Roosevelt
11. Billy Graham
12. Thomas Jefferson
13. Walt Disney - voted "Greatest American Filmmaker"
14. Albert Einstein - elected "Greatest American Scientist" and "Greatest Jewish American"
15. Thomas Alva Edison
16. John F. Kennedy
17. Bob Hope
18. Bill Gates
19. Eleanor Roosevelt - elected "America's Greatest First Lady"
20. Lance Armstrong - elected "America's Greatest Athlete"
21. Muhammad Ali
22. Rosa Parks
23. Wright Brothers
24. Henry Ford
25. Neil Armstrong

Alphabetical list of the following 75 Greatest Americans

The remaining 75 of the 100 Greatest American nominees were:

• Maya Angelou
• Susan B. Anthony
• Lucille Ball
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Barbara Bush
• George Bush
• Laura Bush
• Andrew Carnegie
• Johnny Carson
• Jimmy Carter
• George Washington Carver
• Ray Charles
• César Chavez
• Hillary Clinton
• Bill Cosby
• Tom Cruise
• Ellen DeGeneres
• Frederick Douglass
• Amelia Earhart
• Clint Eastwood
• John Edwards
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Brett Favre
• Mel Gibson
• Rudolph Giuliani
• John Glenn
• Alexander Hamilton
• Tom Hanks
• Hugh Hefner
• Katharine Hepburn
• Howard Hughes
• Michael Jackson
• Steve Jobs
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Michael Jordan
• Helen Keller
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Robert F. Kennedy
• Rush Limbaugh
• Charles Lindbergh
• George Lucas
• Madonna
• Malcolm X
• Phil McGraw
• Marilyn Monroe
• Michael Moore
• Audie Murphy
• Richard Nixon
• Barack Obama
• Jesse Owens
• George S. Patton
• Colin Powell
• Christopher Reeve
• Condoleezza Rice
• Jackie Robinson
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Babe Ruth
• Carl Sagan
• Jonas Salk
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Frank Sinatra
• Joseph Smith
• Steven Spielberg
• James Stewart
• Martha Stewart
• Nikola Tesla
• Pat Tillman
• Harry S. Truman
• Donald Trump
• Harriet Tubman
• Mark Twain
• Sam Walton
• John Wayne
• Tiger Woods
• Chuck Yeager

Similar shipments from other countries

• 100 Greatest Britons (Great Britain)
• Our best (Germany)
• De Grootste Nederlander (Netherlands)
• The Greatest Canadian (Canada)
• Suuret Suomalaiset (Finland)