Right Wing News emailed more than a hundred right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of who they considered to be the "greatest figures of the 20th century". Representatives from the following 31 blogs responded...

Catholic Samurai, Josh Claybourn, Common Sense & Wonder, Conservative Commentary, Colby Cosh, DANEgerus Weblog, Dissecting Leftism, Drumwaster's Rants, Kim Du Toit, The Edge Of England's Sword, Fraters Libertas, Ghost of a Flea, Gut Rumbles, Jessica's Well, Lead And Gold, IMAO, The Mind Of Man, Moxie, Damian Penny, Powerline, Rantburg, Relapsed Catholic, Right Wing News, Scrappleface, Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing, Sine Qua Non, Unqualified Offerings, Up Yours & Other Helpful Tips, The Ville, The Yale Diva, Zogby Blog

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-20 selections. Rank was determined simply by the number of votes received. Without further adieu, the "greatest figures of the 20th century" according to the right side of the blogosphere are as follows (with the number of votes following each selection)...

20) Alan Turing (4)
20) Vaclav Havel (4)
20) Friedrich von Hayek (4)
20) Reverend Billy Graham (4)
20) The Beatles (4)
15) Admiral Chester Nimitz (5)
15) Milton Friedman (5)
15) Alexander Fleming (5)
15) Thomas Edison (5)
15) Francis Crick & James Watson (5)
14) General Douglas MacArthur (6)
13) Dwight D. Eisenhower (8)
11) Jonas Salk (9)
11) Franklin D. Roosevelt (9)
9) George Patton (10)
9) Mahatma Ghandi (10)
7) Theodore Roosevelt (11)
7) Bill Gates (11)
6) Martin Luther King (12)
5) Henry Ford (13)
3) Margaret Thatcher (16)
3) Albert Einstein (16)
2) Ronald Reagan (21)
1) Winston Churchill (26)

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