A friend of mine and I were having a debate on this topic. I focused more on American Revolution time period and he was all over the various time periods. Of our five we each agreed on two. Wondering who would be you guys top 3 or so

good:
Hamilton

Bad:
Saul Alinsky
Greenspan

Oops, that's what I get for posting part my bed time. I meant Hamilton.

Each of these names is here for a different reason. Some because of how they impacted our national self-image and discourse, others for building the systems and structures that underpin our system of government or economy (for better or worse). It's too many names, I have to think about it.

Hamilton
Franklin
Sinclair
Webster/Clay/Calhoun
Louis Brandeis
James Landis
Davy Crockett
Patton
Lee and Grant
Milton Friedman
Rockefeller
JP Morgan
Carnegie
Henry Ford
Frederick Taylor/Peter Drucker
Merton/Black/Scholes/Malkiel

Love them or hate them, these three men will be very quickly added to the list

- Steve Jobs
- Jeff Bezos
- Elon Musk (I know he's from South Africa)

Henry Clay
Jeff Davis
Stephen Douglas
Roger Taney

Sam Houston

I'll give you three groups of people

Supreme Court Justices for 3 cases:

Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Roe v Wade

Three not mentioned yet:

Winfield Scott
Edward House
Thomas Edison

Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Eli Whitley

George C. Marshall
William H . Seward
Thomas Edison

Benjamin Franklin
Henry Ford
Albert Einstein

J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Wright Brothers
Willis Carrier

Henry Clay
John C Calhoun
Eli Whitney

BQ78 said:

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Three not mentioned yet:

Winfield Scott
Edward House
Thomas Edison

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House's house 1/2 block from Austin High - more of a mansion.

I'd still include Obama. He wasn't really the president, Valerie was, after all.