What is Philosophy?

The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek philosophia, which literally means "love of wisdom". Philosophy can be define as the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.   It is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.

Topics

Our structure follows the different time period of the various Western Philosophers.  Those are divide into the following categories:

The Ancient Philosophers

Ancient philosophy is that of the Greco-Roman world from the 6th century BC to the 6th century AD.  Those Philosophers are usually divided into three time periods including the pre-Socratic period, the Socratic with Plato and Aristotle and finally the post-Aristotelian (or Hellenistic) period.  A fourth period that is sometimes added includes the Neoplatonic and Christian philosophers of late Antiquity.

The most important of the ancient philosophers (in terms of subsequent influence) are Plato and Aristotle.  In this period the crucial features of the philosophical method were established: a critical approach to received or established views, and the appeal to reason and argumentation.

Top Ancient Philosophers

The top ancient philosophers include:

1. Thales of Miletos
2. Pythagoras of Samos
3. Xenophanes of Colophon
4. Parmenides of Elea
5. Heraclites
6. Zeno of Elea
7. Socrates
8. Plato
9. Aristotle
10. Democritus
11. Epicurus
12. Diogenes of Sinope
13. Marcus Tullius Cicero
14. Philo of Alexandria
15. Lucius Anneas Seneca
16. Marcus Aurelius
17. Sextus Empiricus
18. Plotinus

Thales of Miletos

Thales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece and often regarded as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. Thales was one of the first to try to explain natural phenomena without reference to mythology and was tremendously influential in this respect.

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Pythagoras of Samos

Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher and known mathematician.

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Xenophanes of Colophon

Xenophanes of Colophon was a Greek philosopher known for criticizing wide range of ideas, including Homer and Hesiod, the belief in the pantheon of anthropomorphic gods and the Greeks’ veneration of athleticism. He is also the first Greek poet who claims explicitly to be writing for future generations.

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Parmenides of Elea

Parmenides of Elea was an ancient Greek philosopher founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy and is mostly known for his poem, On Nature, which describes two views of reality, ideas which strongly influenced the whole of Western philosophy and especially on Plato.

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Heraclites

Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, who regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom.  He was often referred to as the " Obscure" or the "Weeping Philosopher", mainly because the lonely life he led as well as for his riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general.

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Zeno of Elea

Zeno of  was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic and is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as "immeasurably subtle and profound".

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Socrates

Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher known as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes.

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Plato

Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.  Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.

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Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, covering many topics including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government and ethics. Together with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy, being the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.

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Democritus

Democritus was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Greece who formulated an atomic theory for the cosmos and therefore many consider home to be the "father of modern science".

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Epicurus

Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism which describes the purpose of philosophy was to attain a happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia, peace and freedom from fear, and aponia, the absence of pain, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends.

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Diogenes of Sinope

Diogenes the Cynic was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy who believed that virtue was better revealed in action than in theory. He was a controversial figure, known for living in a tube as he moved to Athens to debunk cultural conventions, after being exiled from his native city for defacing the currency.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist often considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists.

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Philo of Alexandria

Philo of Alexandria was a Hellenistic Jewish Biblical philosopher born in Alexandria who used philosophical allegory to fuse and harmonize Greek philosophy and Jewish traditions. His method followed the practices of both Jewish exegesis and Stoic philosophy.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca often simply known as Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist and in one work humorist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He is also famous for being the tutor and later advisor to the emperor Nero.

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Five Good Emperors  also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.

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Sextus Empiricus

Sextus Empiricus was a physician and philosopher famous for writing the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman scepticism. He is known to have belonged to the "empiric school", as reflected by his name but based on his writings seems to place himself closer to the "methodic school".

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Plotinus

Plotinus was a major philosopher of the ancient world famous for his system of theory from which there are the three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul.  He is known to belong the school of Neo-Platonism philosophy which was influential in Late Antiquity.

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Medieval philosophers

Medieval philosophy is the philosophy of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, roughly extending from the Christianization of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance.  It is defined partly by the rediscovery and further development of classical Greek and Hellenistic philosophy, and partly by the need to address theological problems and to integrate the then widespread sacred doctrines of Abrahamic religion (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity) with secular learning. The western Medieval Philosophers includes some of the top Christians and  scholastic Philosophers.

Top medieval philosophers

The top medieval philosophers include:

1. St. Augustine of Hippo
2. Boethius
3. Anselm
4. St. Thomas of Aquino
5. Johannes Duns Scotus
6. William of Occam
7. Modern Philosophers

St. Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo also known as St. Augustine, Bishop of the Hippo Region was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian, whose writings became a very influential force in the development of Western Christianity.

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Boethius

Boethius was a philosopher of the early 6th century and while in jail composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death and other issues which became one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages.

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Anselm

Anselm of Canterbury was a Benedictine monk and philosopher known as the founder of scholasticism and famous for being the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God.

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St. Thomas of Aquino

Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican priest and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism. His influence on Western thought is considerable as much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.

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Duns Scotus

Duns Scotus was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages with considerable influence on Roman Catholic thought especially through his best known doctrines the "univocity of being".

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William of Occam

William of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and commonly known for Occam’s razor, the methodological principle that bears his name.

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Modern Philosophers

Modern philosophers include those between the 17 century and 19 century, known as the age of reason as a lot of the text published were based on science.  That period is also known as the Renaissance, a French word that can be translated to being born again.

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Top Modern Philosophers

The top modern philosophers can be divided into the following categories:

The scientific area philosophers

The scientific area philosophers believed that philosophy is just one more science and that it should apply the hypothetical-deductive method like any other science.  Its object of study is the reality as a whole: it is all that is relevant to build our vision of the world and our place in it, but it does not want to look at concrete details, which are the object of study of other sciences.

The top scientific area philosophers include:

1. Nicolas Copernicus
2. Niccolo Machiavelli
3. Desiderius Erasmus
4. Thomas More
5. Francis Bacon
6. Galileo Galilei
7. Thomas Hobbes
8. Sir Isaac Newton

Nicolas Copernicus

Nicolas Copernicus was a Polish Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the centre of the universe, best known for his On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres masterpiece.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance and known to be the  main founders of modern political science.

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Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and a theologian, called the crowning glory of the Christian humanists.

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Thomas More

Sir Thomas More was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist known to coined the word "utopia" – a name he gave to the ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in Utopia, published in 1516.

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and famous for being a philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.

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Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei commonly known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution known for improvements to the telescope and support for Copernicanism and ofteh  called the "the Father of Modern Science".

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Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy and his 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer and natural philosopher, mostly known for publishing Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687 considered to be one of the most important scientific books ever written.  He describes universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which will dominate the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries.

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The rationalist philosophers

The rationalists philosophy could be defined as "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification".

The top rationalists philosophers include:

1. René Descartes
2. Antoine Arnauld
3. Nicolas Malebranche
4. Benedict de Spinoza
5. Gottfried von Leibniz

René Descartes

René Descartes was a French philosopher dubbed the “Father of Modern Philosophy” known for publishing his Meditations, for developing the Cartesian coordinate system and being a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.  He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement "Cogito ergo sum", which can be translated into I think, therefore I am.

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Antoine Arnauld

Antoine Arnauld  was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, mathematician and one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristic.

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Nicolas Malebranche

Nicolas Malebranche was a French Oratorian and rationalist philosopher known for synthesizing the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the active role of God in every aspect of the world and famous for his doctrines of Vision in God and Occasionalism.

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Benedict de Spinoza

Benedict de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher who revealed considerable scientific aptitude and laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism.  He came to be considered one of the great rationalists of the 17th-century philosophy and his magnum opus, the posthumous Ethics has also earned him recognition as one of Western philosophy’s most important philosophers.

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Gottfried von Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician who occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy, famous for developing the infinitesimal calculus independently of Isaac Newton

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The  empiricist philosophers

In philosophy, empiricism is a theory of knowledge which opposes other theories of knowledge, such as rationalism, idealism and historicism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes primarily via sensory experience as opposed to rationalism which asserts that knowledge comes from pure thinking.

Top Empiricist Philosophers

The top Empiricist philosophers include:

1. John Locke
2. David Hume
3. Thomas Reid
4. Voltaire
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. Denis Diderot

John Locke

John Locke widely known as the Father of Liberalism was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.  His contributions to liberal theory are reflected in the American Declaration of Independence.

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David Hume

David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and scepticism. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment.

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Thomas Reid

The Reverend Thomas Reid was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment.

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Voltaire

Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade.  Voltaire was one of several Enlightenment figures whose works and ideas influenced important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a major Genevan philosopher known for his political philosophy which heavily influenced the French Revolution. His Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and his On the Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought and make a strong case for democratic government and social empowerment.

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot was a French philosopher,  prominent during the Enlightenment and is best-known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie.

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The idealists philosophers

The idealists philosophers maintain that experience is ultimately based on mental activity. In the philosophy of perception, idealism is contrasted with realism, in which the external world is said to have an apparent absolute existence. Epistemological idealists such as Kant claim that the only things which can be directly known for certain are just ideas (abstraction).

Top idealists philosophers

The top idealists philosophers include:

1. George Berkley
2. Immanuel Kant
3. Johan Schiller
4. Frederick Schelling
5. George Hegel
6. Arthur Schopenhauer

George Berkley

George Berkley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism"  also referred to as "subjective idealism" which denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are only ideas in the minds of perceivers, and as a result cannot exist without being perceived.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel was a German philosopher perhaps best known for his masterpiece the Critique of Pure Reason, which aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics.

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Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright known for his collaboration with Goethe  referred to as the Weimar Classicism.

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Friedrich Schelling

Friedrich Schelling was a German philosopher known for contributing to the development of German idealism.

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Georg Hegel

Georg Hegel was a German philosopher famous for being one of the creators of German Idealism and developing a comprehensive philosophical framework, or "system", of Absolute idealism. He developed the concept that mind or spirit manifested itself in a set of contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately integrated and united, without eliminating either pole or reducing one to the other.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity and with  most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, claimed that the world is fundamentally what humans recognize in themselves as their will.

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The liberal philosophers

At its very root, liberals Philosophers are concern about the meaning of humanity and society.  

The top liberal philosophers include:

1. Adam Smith
2. Mary Wollstonecraft
3. Thomas Paine
4. Jeremy Bentham
5. John Stuart Mill
6. Auguste Comte

Adam Smith

Adam Smith was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy, as well as one of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.  He is mostly known as the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations and widely cited as the father of modern economics and capitalism.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.

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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, famous for his Common Sense (1776) pamphlet, which became the all-time best-selling American book that advocated colonial America’s independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was an English jurist, philosopher and legal and social reformer who became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He is best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism and animal rights.

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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher and an influential contributor to social and political theory as well as political economy.  His conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.

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Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte  was a French philosopher known to be the founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism.  He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.

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The evolutionists Philosophers

The top evolutionists philosophers include:

1. Charles Darwin
2. Henri Louis Bergson
3. A.N. Whitehead

Chalesr Darwin

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist famous for establishing that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry.  He proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, showing compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.

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Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century by convincing many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.

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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician who became a philosopher known for influencing all of analytic philosophy and being the co-author of the classic Principia Mathematica with Russell.

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Contemporary Philosophers

The Contemporary Philosophers are the most recent philosophers, mainly from the

20th century. 

Top Contemporary Philosophers

The top contemporary philosophers can be grouped into the following categories:

The pragmatist philosophers

Pragmatism is an American philosophical tradition centred on the linking of practice and theory.  It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice.

The top pragmatist philosophers include:

1. Ernst Mach
2. Charles Peirce
3. William James
4. John Dewey

Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher of science, who had a major influence on logical positivism and through his criticism of Newton, a forerunner of Einstein’s relativity.

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Charles Peirce

Charles Sanders was an American philosopher who was employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy and semiotics, as well as the founding father of pragmatism.

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William James

William James, brother of novelist Henry James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience, mysticism and on the philosophy of pragmatism.

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John Dewey

John Dewey was an American philosopher who was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology.

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The materialist  philosophers

In philosophy, the theory of materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter, that all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions. In other words, matter is the only substance.

The top materialists philosophers include:

1. Karl Marx
2. Friedrich Engels
3. Vladimir Lenin
4. Sigmund Freud
5. Carl Jung
6. John Maynard Keynes

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich was a German philosopher and revolutionary socialist who developed the socio-political theory of Marxism. His ideas have since played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867–1894), many of which were co-written with his friend, the fellow German revolutionary socialist Friedrich Engels.

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848 he produced with Marx The Communist Manifesto and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary and philosopher, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and founder of the USSR.  His extensive theoretical and philosophical contributions to Marxism produced Leninism.  As the Bolshevik Revolution is considered the most significant political event in the 20th century, then Lenin must for good or ill be regarded as the century’s most significant political leader.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the mechanism of repression.  He was also responsible for creating the clinical method of psychoanalysis for investigating the mind and treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient  and a psychoanalyst.

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Carl Jung

Carl Gustav was a Swiss psychiatrist founder of analytical psychology and often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. He is also known for being a pioneer in the field of dream analysis.

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John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics.

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The existentialist philosophers

Existentialism is a term applied to the work of a number of philosophers since the 19th century who, despite large differences in their positions, generally focused on the condition of human existence with an individual’s emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts as well as the meaning or purpose of life. 

The top existentialist philosophers include:

1. Soren Kierkegaard
2. Friedrich Nietzsche
3. Edmund Husserl
4. Martin Heidegger
5. Jean-Paul Sartre
6. Albert Camus
7. Simone de Beauvoir

Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian, religious author and widely considered, along with Friedrich Nietzsche, to be one of the founders of existentialism.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm was a 19th-century German philosopher who wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, science and famous for displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.

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Edmund Husserl

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosopher founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology.

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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was an influential German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher and one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary and philosophical existentialism. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it.

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French author, journalist and key philosopher of the 20th-century who was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”.

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Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist  best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins.  She is also famous for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women’s oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.

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The linguistic school philosophers

The top linguistic school philosophers include:

1. Gottlob Frege
2. Bertrand Russell
3. Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. Ferdinand de Saussure
5. George Edward Moore
6. Moritz Schlick
7. Lev Vygotsky
8. Rudolph Carnap
9. A.J. Ayer
10. Alfred Tarski
11. J.L. Austin
12. Gilbert Ryle
13. Noam Chomsky

Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege was a German mathematician who became a philosopher and who is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy, through his writings on the philosophy of language and mathematics.

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell, was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian and social critic. At various points in his life he imagined himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things, in any profound sense.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher known for having inspired two of the century’s principal philosophical movements, logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy.  His posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953) was ranked as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy.

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Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century and widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics.

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George Edward Moore

George Edward Moore was an English philosopher known as one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy and along with Russell he led the turn away from idealism in British philosophy and became well known for his advocacy of common sense concepts.

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Moritz Schlick

Moritz Schlick  was a German philosopher, physicist and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

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Lev Vygotsky

Lev Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, the founder of cultural-historical psychology as well as the leader of the Vygotsky Circle.

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Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap was an influential German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter known for being a key member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism.

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A.J. Ayer

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).

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Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski was a Polish logician and mathematician member of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic and the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy.  He emigrated to the USA in 1939, where he taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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J.L. Austin

John Langshaw Austin was a British philosopher of language,  educated at Oxford University and widely associated with the concept of the speech act and the idea that speech is itself a form of action.

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Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher, a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers that shared Wittgenstein’s approach to philosophical problems and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "the ghost in the machine".

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist and activist well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics and a major figure of analytic philosophy.  He is author of more than 150 books and has received worldwide attention for his views

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The postmodernist philosophers

The top postmodernist philosophers include:

1. Claude Levi-Strauss
2. Michel Foucault
3. Jacques Derrida

Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist known to be the father of modern anthropology.  He became famous for arguing that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere  in his famous book Tristes Tropiques.

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Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas who held a chair at the prestigious College de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought" and also taught at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Berkeley.

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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French Pied-noir philosopher, born in French Algeria who developed the critical theory known as deconstruction.  His work has been labelled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy.

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The new scientist philosophers

The top new scientist philosophers include:

1. Emile Durkheim
2. Albert Einstein
3. Karl Popper
4. Kurt Gödel
5. Alan Turing
6. B.F. Skinner
7. Thomas Kuhn
8. Paul Feyerabend
9. W.V.O. Quine

Emile Durkheim

Emile Durkheim was a French sociologist known for establishing sociology as a recognized academic discipline and also became France’s first professor in that field.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history.  He is mostly famous for developing the theory of general relativity for which he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics which later became pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics.

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Karl Popper

Karl Popper was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics  regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and also known for his extensive writing on social and political philosophy.

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Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel was an Austrian logician, mathematician and philosopher who emigrated to the United States to escape the effects of World War II.  He became one of the most significant logicians of all time and had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.

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Alan Turing

Alan Turing was an English mathematician and computer scientist who is often regarded as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, by providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.

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B.F. Skinner

Burrhus Frederic was an American behaviourist and social philosopher known for being the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974 where he performed some of the greatest psychological experiments.

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Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American physicist and philosopher who wrote extensively on the history of science.  His best known book is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).

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Paul Feyerabend

Paul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley

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Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, best known for his continuous affiliation with Harvard University.

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Top 10  Actors at the Box Office

The first section is about the top 10 actors that made the most money with their films for both themselves and the studios.

1. Samuel L Jackson
2. Tom Hanks
3. Harrison Ford
4. Orlando Bloom
5. Tom Cruise
6. Bruce Willis
7. Eddie Murphy
8. Morgan Freeman
9. Will Smith
10. Robin Williams

Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson is consider the most successfol actors at the box office having made the studios over 8 billion dollars worldwide through the years.  His biggest blockbuster hits include Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Incredibles and Iron Man.

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Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks who makes it second on our list have a wide variety of successfol films to his belt, including The Da Vinci Code, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan and Cast Away.

Top 10 Actors at the Box Office

Harrison Ford

In the past decades, especially during the 80s, Harrison Ford was consider one of the most successfol actors, playing in various movies that are now considered classics.  His Most Successfol Films include Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skoll, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and The Fugitive.

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Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom is a young British actor that can make you film a box office success. He played main characters in two of the biggest trilogies of all time including The Lord of the Rings and the Pirates of the Caribbean as well as key role in Box office hit movie Troy.

Top 10 Actors at the Box Office

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise is known all over the world and is consider one of the most successfol actor in the movie business.  His greatest movies hits include The War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible 2, The Last Samurai and Rain Man.

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Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis is considered by many as the top alpha male action hero, playing in over 60 Hollywood productions. Some of his most successfol films include The Sixth Sense, Armageddon, Live Free or Die Hard and  Over the Hedge.

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Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy  has become a comedic legend in Hollywood after starting his careers as a comedians.  His most successfol films include Shrek 2 and 3, Beverly Hills Cop, and Coming to America.

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Morgan Freeman

Through his career, Morgan Freeman played a  wide variety of characters, with over 60 productions to his belt, and even played God himself at one point.  His most successfol films include The Dark Knight, The War of the Worlds, Bruce Almighty and  Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

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Will Smith

Will Smith is considered as one of the most successfol actors of our time being the only actor in history to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in domestic box office sales. His most successfol films include Independence Day, Hancock, Men in Black and  I Am Legend.

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Robin Williams

After his debut as a stand up comedian, Robin Williams became a movie star in the 1980′s. Some of his most successfol films include Night at the Museum, Aladdin, Mrs. Doubtfire and Happy Feet. Through his career he has won six Golden Globes and three Grammy Awards.

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Top 50 Actors of all time

Our second list consists of the best 50 actors as compiled by different user generated lists.  It doesn’t include the actors already in other lists.  Most of the actors are figures known from the 90′s and 2000s decades.

1. Robert De Niro
2. Al Pacino
3. Jack Nicholson
4. Paol Newman
5. Robert Duvall
6. Johnny Depp
7. Gene Hackman
8. Philip Seymour Hoffman
9. Dustin Hoffman
10. Daniel Day-Lewis
11. Russell Crowe
12. Kevin Spacey
13. Anthony Hopkins
14. Sidney Poitier
15. Kirk Douglas
16. Edward Norton
17. Denzel Washington
18. Billy Bob Thornton
19. Ed Harris
20. Clint Eastwood
21. Brad Pitt
22. Ralph Fiennes
23. Ian Holm
24. Leonardo DiCaprio
25. Viggo Mortensen
26. Sean Penn
27. Tommy Lee Jones
28. Jeff Bridges
29. Sean Connery
30. Ben Kingsley
31. Don Cheadle
32. Tim Robbins
33. Jon Voight
34. Benicio Del Toro
35. Harvey Keitel
36. Woody Allen
37. Dennis Hopper
38. Laurence Fishburne
39. Gerard Depardieu
40. Liam Neeson
41. Willem Dafoe
42. Bob Hoskins
43. Orson Welles
44. Fred Astaire
45. Clark Gable
46. Charlie Chaplin
47. Ian McKellen
48. Joe Pesci
49. Christian Bale
50. Daniel Craig
51. Mark Wahlberg

Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro is considered by many as one of the greatest actors of his generation.  His most famous role was perhaps in The Godfather where he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.  He is also famous for his numerous collaboration with director Martin Scorsese including on Taxi Driver, Raging Boll and Goodfellas.

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Al Pacino

Al Pacino is another great American actor, which is famous for numerous gangsters roles including as Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface.  His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations.

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Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson is known for his impersonation of various weird characters, especially in Kubrick’s suspense masterpiece The Shinning.  Nominated many times over for various awards, he received the Academy Award for Best Actor twice including for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and for As Good as It Gets.

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Paul Newman

Paul Newman has won numerous awards in his career, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Colour of Money.

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Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall is mostly known for appearing in To Kill a Mockingbird  in the 60s and later in The Godfather and Apocalypse Now Vietnam war movie in the 70s.

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Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp  is mostly know for his various collaborations with director Tim Burton on many films such as Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow.  More recently he is known for his lead role in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

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Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman is mostly know as the villain character in Superman as well as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection movie which won him an Academy Award.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman is famous for a series of supporting role including in films such as Boogie Nights (1997), Happiness (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Almost Famous (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and Cold Mountain (2003).

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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman became famous with his role as Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967), followed by many successfol hits including Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, All the President’s Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, and Wag the Dog.

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Michael is a British and Irish actor who became famous for his impersonation of Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989).  His Scorsese collaboration on Gangs of New York earned him various awards and his lead role in There Will Be Blood (2007) won him an Academy Awards for Best Actor

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Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe is a New Zealand-born Australian actor who became famous in the states in the 90s, with his role in L.A. Confidential.  He later received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring role in the film Gladiator.

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Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey is a talented American actor and director who became famous in the early 1990s, winning his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty (1999). Since 2003, he has been artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London.

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Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins is a British actor best known for playing the role of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor

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Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier is best known for his roles in To Sir with Love, In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, as well as being the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field.

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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas is a Russian born American actor best known for his roles in Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) Spartacus (1960), and Lonely Are the Brave (1962).

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Edward Norton

Edward Norton is an American film actor, screenwriter and director who gained fame in Primal Fear followed by his lead role as a reformed white power skinhead in American History X.  He also played other successfol films including Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Illusionist (2006), Fight Club (1999), 25th Hour (2002), Red Dragon (2002) and The Incredible Holk (2008).

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Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington came to fame in the 1990s, mainly because of for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas, and Herman Boone.  In 2001 he reveiced an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Training Day.

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Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton is best known for appearing in box office successes such as  Armageddon and A Simple Plan.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Ed Harris

Ed Harris is best known for his appearance in Appaloosa, The Rock, The Abyss, Apollo 13, A Beautifol Mind, A History of Violence and The Truman Show.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt started his movie career with a small role in 1991′s road movie Thelma & Louise. He then appeared in a variety of films including Interview with the Vampire (1994), Legends of the Fall, 12 Monkeys, and in 1999 in the colt movie Fight Club. The XX1 century started with  Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and its sequels, followed by Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

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Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes is a British actor mostly famous for his appearance  in The English Patient, The Constant Gardener, as well as his villains roles in Schindler’s List and the Harry Potter film series.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm is a British actor known for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming, athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire as well as other roles such as Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio started his career with movies such as Basketball Diaries (1996) and Romeo + Joliet (1996), but only became internationally famous with his leading role in James Cameron’s Titanic (1997).  Since then, he played in numerous movies including Catch Me If You Can (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and Inception (2010).

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Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen is a Danish-American actors who is best known for his roles as Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Tom Stall in David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, his Academy Award-nominated role as Nikolai Luzhin in Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, and more recently as the main character of movie The Road.

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Sean Penn

Sean Penn is an American actor who won twice the Academy Award for his roles in Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008).

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Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor best known for his role in the  thriller film The Fugitive, terrorist William Strannix in Under Siege, Agent K in the Men in Black films and Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men.

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Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges won the Academy Award for Best Actor in the 2009 movie Crazy Heart and known for other successfol movies such as Fearless, Iron Man, The Contender, Starman, The Fabolous Baker Boys, The Big Lebowski and more recently in the 2010′s True Grit film.

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Sean Connery

Sir Sean Connery is a Scottish actor best-known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 and other successfol hits such as The Untouchables, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and The Rock.

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Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley is a British actor best known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle is an American actor which rose to prominence in the late 1990s and the early 2000s for his supporting roles in the Steven Soderbergh directed films Out of Sight, Traffic, and Ocean’s Eleven. He later played a key role in the excellent Hotel Rwanda  movie which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

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Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins is an American actor best known for his roles as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption, and as Dave Boyle in Mystic River, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Jon Voight

Jon Voight is an American actor and father of actress Angelina Jolie.  He came to prominence at the end of the 1960s, with a performance as a woold-be gigolo in 1969′s Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy.  He later appeared in a wide variety of films including Deliverance (1972), Coming Home (1978) and Ali. 

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Benicio Del Toro

Benicio Del Toro is a Puerto Rican actor known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects, Javier Rodríguez in Traffic (his Oscar-winning role), Jack ‘Jackie Boy’ Rafferty in Sin City, Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Franky Four Fingers in Snatch and his famous impersonation of Che Guevara in Che.

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Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel is an American actor who collaborated with the top directors including Martin Scorsese Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott’s The Duellists and Thelma and Louise, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Polp Fiction, Jane Campion’s The Piano, Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, James Mangold’s Cop Land and Theo Angelopoolos’s Ulysses’ Gaze.

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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper is an American actor who became known as one of the star and director of the colt 60s films Easy Rider (1969) for which he won an award at Cannes. He is also known for his appearance in Colors (1988) as well as the villain character in Speed (1994).

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Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne is an American actor best known for playing Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy and as a singer-musician in the Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It.

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Gerard Depardieu

Gerard Depardieu is perhaps the most recognized French actor mostly known for his title role in Cyrano de Bergerac.  In addition to a number of American awards, Depardieu is a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor.

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Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson is an Irish actor know for various notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler’s List, Agent Bryan Mills in Taken, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables.

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Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe is an American actor who played in a wide range of films, including To Live and Die in L.A., Platoon, Born on the Fourth of Joly, The English Patient, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mississippi Burning, Wild at Heart, The Boondock Saints, Inside Man, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Spider-Man.

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Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins is a British actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters roles, in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986) as well as much lighter roles such as in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Hook (1991).

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Orson Welles

Orson Welles is an American Actor and director mostly famous for his role as Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941) , a movie often considered as the greatest film ever made.

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Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness was an English actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His most prominent role in his later career was as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy.

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire was an American film dancer and actor famous for making up to 31 musical films including  Flying Down to Rio, Roberta and Daddy Long Legs.

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Clark Gable

Clark Gable was an American film actor, nicknamed The King of Hollywood mostly known for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, and other classics such as It Happened One Night (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Misfits (1961) where he played alongside Marilyn Monroe.

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Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was ranked as the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time. He is best known for his genius in classics such as  The Immigrant (1917), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times(1936), and The Great Dictator (1940)

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Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen
Sir Ian McKellen is a British actor best known for his roles as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and as Magneto in the X-Men films.

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Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci is an American actor mostly known for his roles as a violent mobsters such as Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Boll, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny and Home Alone.

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Christian Bale

Christian Bale is a British actor who started his Hollywood career in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun, followed many years later by his great performance in The Fighter.  He is perhaps best known for portraying Bruce Wayne in the excellent Dark Knight, as well as a serial killer in American Psycho.

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Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig is a British actor and film producer best known for his breakthrough performances in the film Layer Cake and as the secret agent James Bond in Casino Royale and others subsequent bond movies.

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Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg is an American actor and former rapper known as Marky Mark.  He became famous in Hollywood with such movies as Boogie Nights (1997), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), The Italian Job (2003), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Four Brothers (2005), The Departed (2006), Invincible (2006), Shooter (2007), and The Fighter (2010).

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Top 10 Actors of the 80s

1. Sylvester Stallone
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger
3. Michael Douglas
4. Kurt Russell
5. Mel Gibson
6. Chevy Chase
7. Bill Murray
8. Rick Moranis
9. Steve Martin
10. Jim Varney

Sylvester Stallone

Perhaps one of the most known action heroes today, Sylvester Stallone played in various adrenaline pumped movies from the Rambo trilogy to Rocky, passing by Cobra and Tango & Cash.

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Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas is another icon made famous during the 80s that is still popolar today.  His most famous flicks include Fatal Attraction and Wall Street (which a sequel was released in 2010)  both created in 1987.

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Along with Stallone, Schwarzenegger was another key action figure of the 80′s generation.  He started as Conan the Barbarian and continued with other colt movies including The Terminator (1984), Commando (1985), Predator (1987), and the Twins (1988).

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Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell wad made famous at the beginning of the 80s decade starting in Used Cars (1980) and Escape from New York (1981).  He then made a series of movies almost every year including Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Overboard (1987), Tequila Sunrise (1988), Winter People(1989) and Tango & Cash (1989).

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Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson was made into a Hollywood start with two of the most successfol Hollywood sequel, Mad Max and Lethal Weapon.

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase is mostly famous for its Vacation series ideal for kids.  Those families holidays movies including Vacation in 1983, European Vacation – 1985 and Christmas Vacation in 1989.

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Bill Murray

Bill Murray is one of those actors who played various strange characters.  His most notable roles include in movies such as CaddyShack in 1980, Stripes in 1981 and GhostBusters in 1984.

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Rick Moranis

Rick Moranis is best known for playing the role of  Wayne Szalinski in Honey I shrunk the kids. Other key roles include in films such as Ghost Busters, Club Paradise and Space Balls

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Steve Martin

Steve Martin is perhaps one of the funniest actors in Hollywood’s history. Some of his key roles include The Lonely Guy (1984), Three Amigos! (1986), Little Shop Of Horrors (1986), Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) and Parenthood (1989).

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Jim Varney

Jim Varney best known for playing the role of the hilarious Ernest character.

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Top 10 Actors of the 70s

1. Marlon Brando
2. John Travolta
3. Clint Eastwood
4. Robert Redford
5. John Cazale
6. Woody Allen
7. Michael Caine
8. Malcolm McDowell
9. Gene Wilder
10. George C. Scott

Marlon Brando

Brando, nickname Mr. Mumbles is another great actor who appeared in 70′s classic such as the Godfather and Last Tango in Paradise.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

John Travolta

Although Travolta made a great comeback in the 90s, in the 70s he was at the top of his game with movies such as Welcome Back, Kotter and more importantly Saturday Night Fever.

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Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood was the tough guy of the 70′s featuring in classic police movies such as Dirty Harry and The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Robert Redford

Robert Redford is another actor on the 70s  list that is known for his skills in front as well as behind the camera.  His mostly known pictures include The Way We Were and The Sting.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

John Cazale

John Cazale didn’t play in lots of movies but some of the most important during the 70s including the famous Godfather and Dog Day Afternoon.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is best known as a movie director, but also played in most of his films, including such classic as Sleeper and Annie Hall.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Michael Caine

Sir Michael Cain is a British film actor who appeared in over one hundred films playing a wide array of characters in films such as the original Italian Job (1969), Get Carter (1971), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and The Cider House Rules (1999). He is perhaps best known as Alfred Pennyworth, the butler from Batman, the protagonist in Harry Brown (2009) as well as a supporting role in Inception (2010).

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell is an English actor best known for his roles the controversial films such as Caligola, O Lucky Man! and the classic Kubrick’s film a Clockwork Orange.

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Gene Wilder

Wilder is mostly known for his lead role in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and for his four films with Richard Pryor: Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), and Another You (1991).

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

George C. Scott

George C. Scott  was made famous by his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

1. Paul Newman
2. Gregory Peck
3. John Wayne
4. Steve McQueen
5. Burt Lancaster
6. Warren Beatty
7. Peter O’Toole
8. Richard Burton
9. Spencer Tracy
10. Jack Lemmon

Paul Newman

Although he continued in the pictures, Paul Newman played in some of the greatest movies of the 60s including The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke and the classic Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck made a many films during the 60s but perhaps his most know famous role was To Kill A Mockingbird, which won him the Best Actor Academy Award. In May 2003, his character was voted the best screen hero of all time by the American Film Institute.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

John Wayne

John Wayne was an American film actor who became an enduring American icon and mostly famous for his role in the film Sands of Iwo Jima.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen is best known for his roles in movies such The Sand Pebbles, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bollitt, The Getaway, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno..  He was sexy but rugged at the same time and nicknamed The King of Cool.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster was a self-taught actor who is best known for his role in From Here to Eternity, Birdman of Alcatraz and Elmer Gantry for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty made his breakout in 1961 with Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass and later starred in the famous Bonnie and Clyde (1967) which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Peter O’Toole

Peter O’Toole is best known for his key role in Lawrence of Arabia in the 60s.  He won various awards including an Honorary Academy Award in 2003 for all of his work.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Richard Burton

Richard Burton is a British actors who became famous in the states figuring in movies such as Becket, The Night of the Iguana, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy was an American film actor, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967 with his most acclaimed roles in Captains Courageous (1937), Boys Town (1938) and in 1967′s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon was an American actor who starred in more than 60 films including classics such as Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Save the Tiger, Missing, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

1. James Dean
2. Charlton Heston
3. Cary Grant
4. Rock Hudson
5. Jimmy Stewart
6. Henry Fonda
7. Montgomery Clift
8. Robert Mitchum
9. William Holden
10. Humphrey Bogart

James Dean

James Dean was an American film actor who is now considered one of the greatest coltural icon.  He played only in few films before his tragic death including Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in East of Eden (1955) and Giant (1956).

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was an American actor known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Taylor in Planet of the Apes, twice as Andrew Jackson in The President’s Lady and The Buccaneer and Judah Ben Hur in Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Cary Grant

Cary Grant was an English-American actor named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute playing in various films including Notorious (1946), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), To Catch A Thief (1955), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade (1963).

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson was an American actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in several romantic comedies with Doris Day.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Jimmy Stewart

Jimmy Stewart was an American film actor, known for his roles in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, It’s a Wonderfol Life, Shenandoah, Rear Window, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda started as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood debut in 1935.  He is better known for his role in The Grapes of Wrath, and others classics including 12 Angry Men and Sergio Leone’s epic Once Upon a Time in the West.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift was an American film actor often playing outsiders in films such as George Stevens’ A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in Hitchcock’s I Confess as well as the doomed regolar soldier Robert E. Lee Prewitt in Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum was an American film actor mostly known for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

William Holden

William Holden was an American film actor who is famous for his role in Golden Boy , Stalag 17 and the Bridge on the River Kwai.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart was an American film actor who became famous for his role in High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

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Topics

1. Introduction to how to live to be a 100
2. The facts about centenaries
3. The blue zone and where people live the longest
4. What you should know about genetics and longevity
5. Top ways to live a 100
6. Conclusion

The facts about centenaries

Before we will go any further in the top 100 things you should do, let’s go over the current facts about today’s centenaries and what is expected in the future.  First in the US and then worldwide.

Centenaries in the USA

It is said that the US has the most centenarians in the world. The conservative figure shows at least 50,000 people and even some statistics showing more then 72,000.  A number that will keep increasing in the next decade.  Some physicians even predicts that currently, up to 3% of the  girls, and 1.5% of the boys will be lucky enough to live to be 100. It is also important to understand that the benefits and results of science and medicine are usually exponential and that we could discover ways to live even longer and healthier (just as some of the sea tortoises).  It is not science fiction anymore to expect that over a million people can live to be centenarians by 2050 in the United States alone.

Worldwide

In other places of the world, the trend is similar.  Some of the latest data shows that there are between 450,000 and half a million centenaries worldwide.  Japan is the favourite (excluding the US) with 30,000 centenarians, a number that quadrupled in the last 10 years.  The current oldest person(Yone Minigawa) resides in Japan and is 114.
In Europe, Spain tops the list with about 10,000 centenarians.  It is closely followed by the UK with 9000 centenarians , a 90-fold increase since 1911 and 7%increase from 2005.  Those numbers will double or triple in the next decade or two.  In the UK for example, they are expecting to have some 40,000 centenaries by 2031.  France and Italy also have a few people living to be a 100, with numbers between 3,000 and 5,000 centenarians.
China’s case is not that impressive today, with only 7000 centenarians  for a population of over a billion people but these number are expected to grow to over 450,000 by 2050.
Canada is another of the top countries where people live the longest with currently about 5,000 centenarians.

Blue zone countries world map

The blue zone and where people live the longest

The blue zone correspond to 4 specific world regions where people have above average life spans.  They are called blue zones as the demographer who first highlighted those hotspots on a world map did it with a blue marker.   Those regions include Okinawa in Japan, a part of Sardinia in Italy, the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica and Loma Linda in California, home to the 7 day Adventist.
Let’s try to understand how people from those regions manage to have a much longer, healthier and happier life.

Okinawa, Japan

Okinawa is a large group of 161 islands, located in the south of Japan, blessed with warm climate and beautiful beaches.  This community mainly have a plant-based diet (with occasional pork) including lots of tofu (soy foods), sweet potatoes, goya and other vegetables.
They are used to a very active lifestyle, especially with natural exercise such as the need to get up and down from the floor where they sit.  Other activities include daily gardening which is helpful to reduce stress and contributes to their diet.
They also have a strong value system.  Each member know exactly what there “Ikigai” is, a Japanese word describing one’s life purpose.  Indeed having a clear reason to get up in the morning helps them feel needed well into the ages past 100. They are also known to have a very close social circle which provides them with security, emotional and financial support.
Finally they have regular exposure to the sun ,which provides them with Vitamin D which gives them stronger bones.

Sardinia, Italy

Sardinia is one of the biggest island in the Mediterranean Sea located south of Italy. Most centenaries are situated in the mountainous heart of the island.  They have a plant-based diet (only occasionally with meat) including beans, whole grain breads, lots of fruits and garden vegetables.  They also mainly use mastic oil and goat milk, both which was proven to be really beneficial for the heart. Their red wine has a an above average concentration of flavonoids which plays a vital role against cancer. 
Their value system is based around the family unit, which support each other into old age and benefit from the exchange of wisdom and traditions.
This community of long living Sardinians are mostly shepherds in the mountain.  Therefore long walks (at least 5 miles per day) is a normal part of their day.
Finally they are known to laugh a lot which make their day more fun and reduce their stress level.

Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

The Nicoya Peninsula is a beautiful region in South America separated from the Costa Rica mainland by the Gulf of Nicoya. The centenaries community living there have lighter dinner and earlier in the evening, which is better for digestion when going to sleep.  Their water was also proven to have the country’s highest calcium content, which can help to keep healthier bones.

They work hard and are daily expose to the sun , which have a positive effect on both their wellbeing and health.

Finally this community of Costa Rican is family focus, with the elderly living with the family.  They have tight relationship not only with the family but with the people living close by which whom they share stories and laugh a lot.

Loma Linda, California

The last group part of the blue zone are the Seventh Day Adventist community located in Loma Linda on a hilltop near Los Angeles.  They have their own medical canter and university. They claim that they take their diet right from the Bible, with includes lots of nuts, plants, and a minimal intake of meats.  Both their diet and their daily exercise habit are reflected in the above average appropriate BMI of their members.

Their value system is centred around the community with specific time during the day spent with close friends.  They also volunteer and help each other a lot, which gives them meaning and avoids depression.

What you should know about Genetics and longevity

The latest researches shows that only 10% are dependent on your genes and up to 90% on your lifestyle.  Meaning that what you eat, with who you eat and other variables have a profound impact on whether or not you will live a long life or not.  All the things that you have an influence on.  It is not a surprise that the overall growing world’s standard of living have a positive correlation with the numbers of centenaries. 
However, the older you get, the more genes play a factor, some scientist say.  Indeed, you have more chance to live an extremely long life if one of your parent or grandparents managed to live long.  This is because those centenarians are able to easily bounce back from any health related problems (such as cancer and other )and remain relatively healthy until their final days.
So we may advice you to choose your parents wisely but the real tip would be to focus on making change on yourself and the environment you are in.  Things you do have a impact on.

Top ways to live a 100

Before I get into the details of the 100 best ways to live a 100, I want to give you the overall obvious tips.  To stay healthy and live long you will need to live an active life, both mentally and physically, eat well, do regular checkups and be constantly on the lookout for the best ways to achieve your goals. Another fundamental element is to have a real purpose to wake up every morning and feel part of a community.
Those tips are divided into the following categories:

1. Lifestyle tips
2. Physical tips
3. Brain tips
4. Diet tips
5. Medical tips

Some of the tips such as the no smoking advice will seem obvious, but others might not be so straightforward and might not work for everyone.   I always suggest to do make your own test, take whatever works best in your case and leave the rest. 
Here is the top 100 list.  Each item will be described further down.

Relationships and Lifestyle tips

1. Stay married
2. Spend time with close ones
3. Put love ones first
4. Have a mission
5. Find meaningful work
6. Have a simple life
7. Choose who you surrounds with carefully
8. Have a purpose when you retire
9. Be social
10. Be positive
11. Share a hug
12. Minimalise
13. Take it easy
14. Belong to a community
15. Pick the right tribe
16. Laugh a lot
17. Have a dog
18. Live near caring family
19. Don’t over work
20. Be optimistic about your aging
21. Check the air quality
22. Make sure to put your seat belt on
23. Smile
24. Be happy
25. Give some love
26. Enjoy the moment
27. Don’t live with regrets
28. Be yourself
29. Love your kids
30. Be part of cultural events
31. Volunteer
32. Travel
33. Listen to music
34. Read
35. Be close to nature

Physical tips

1. Move naturally
2. Exercise daily
3. Walk
4. Swim
5. Stretch
6. Eat well
7. Maintain your ideal weight
8. Drink moderately
9. Lift weights
10. Don’t smoke
11. Watch for second-hand smoke
12. Reduce stress
13. Avoid too much sun
14. Floss regularly
15. Sleep well
16. Stay away from unprotected sexual behaviour
17. Be sexually active
18. Breath well
19. Have a good posture
20. Turn the volume down
21. Do your warm ups and cool downs
22. Do crunches
23. Wash your hands
24. Get yourself a massage

Brain tips

1. Train your mind
2. Give your brain a workout
3. Always keep learning
4. Stay in school
5. Play an instrument
6. Stay up to date with technology
7. Eat brain food

Diet tips

1. Reduce the calories intake
2. Have a plant based diet
3. Have a low fat diet
4. Eat nuts
5. Eat fish
6. Drink green tea
7. Take vitamins
8. Drink red wine
9. Cut on the coffee
10. Watch for processed meats
11. Watch what you snack
12. Avoid red meat
13. Avoid sweats
14. Reduce carbohydrates
15. Eat breakfast
16. Eat smaller but more frequent meals
17. Add some spice
18. Vary your diet
19. Drink water
20. Drink cranberry juice
21. Eat more in the morning then at night

Medical tips

1. Visit the Doctor Regularly
2. Check your doctor
3. Go to the Dentist
4. Take aspirin
5. Take supplemental calcium
6. Understand your family history
7. Follow the prescriptions
8. Learn to cope with stress
9. Check for skin cancer
10. Check for diastolic blood pressure
11. Check your systolic blood pressure
12. Check blood sugar
13. Check your cholesterol level

Stay married

Numerous studies have indicated that married people lived on average a longer and happier life than single people.   Indeed, overall there is a higher death rate for people who are unmarried.  Therefore it is important to choose your life partner carefully and then stick together if you want to live to a really old age.

Spend time with close ones

It is important to spent time with close friends and loved one as it is a crucial part of your wellbeing.  Make sure you develop those relationship throughout your life and not be left alone once you manage to live longer.

Put love ones first

If you will want to spend quality time with love ones (the tip above), you will need to make some decisions and make sure you have your priority right.  Perhaps establish some family rituals.  For example, you may have a lunch or dinner once a week, or in our case (as we all live in different countries) have family meetups once or twice a year.  Ensure that you make those moments special and make an effort to avoid any conflicts.  Another tip would be to setup a site, dedicated to family reunion, where all the members can add pictures, videos, and other content.

Have a mission

Just as every business should have a mission (a part from just making money), so as every individual should have a mission statement.  If you haven’t done it already, make sure you know exactly what is your life purpose.  You should always have a new challenge.  Will that be finishing a course, learn a language  or visit a specific place.  Have a specific reason to get up in the morning is an essential characteristic of centenaries.

Find Meaningful work

As you end up passing a lot of time at work in your life, it is essential that you find something meaningful, something you are truly passionate about. Ideally work that adds value to this world. Think about your legacy. Having meaningful work (even if it might be less financially rewarding) will make up for a longer and much happier life, then if you just work for work.

Have a simple life

Some people have a very complex life, with many things, rules and objects.  Sometimes however, they lose in the process what is essential.  At the end,  not all things are equal, and family, close friend (as we mentioned earlier), your passion and whatever you setup as essential should come first.  Try to be minimalistic, as it will guarantee focusing more on what is truly important to you and eventually add up to a longer life.  Many of today’s centenaries have understood this and it certainly contributes to their longer life.

Choose who you surrounds with carefully

You can’t choose your family or you genes, but what you can certainly do it is to select the people you surround yourself with.  It might not come as a surprise, that  if you tend to surround yourself with boring or depressing people,  you are more likely to become like them.  Therefore try to surround yourself with fun, funny and interesting people.  People that do stuff, that are creative and have a positive mental attitude.  Make your life as interesting and fun as possible by surrounding yourself with the right crowd.  Perhaps with those of the blue zone, that wish to live to be a 100.

Have a purpose when you retire

It is common to hear people dying not long after they retire.  This is mainly due because of lack of meaning in their life.  Make sure you have a clear purpose when you retire and do things that add value to your life and the life of others.

Be social

The famous classic philosopher Aristotle said about our species that we are social animals, which turns out to be completely true.  Try to meet one person a day and make sure your take the effort of socialising.  It will not only challenge your brain, being in a new social interaction, but you might get a friend for life.

Be positive

You become what you think about most of the day.  It will even become your subconscious after a while.  Therefore make sure that you are as positive as you can be.  Train yourself to eliminate bad thoughts and surround yourself with positive people as well. You can’t control the events that come in your life, but what you can do is determine if those will affect you.  It was proven that positive mental attitude can both lengthen your life and make it more pleasurable.

Share a Hug

Many experiences has proven that a brief hug or even just holding hand can have a huge effect on your health. Indeed it will reduce stress and may lower your heart rates and blood pressure by up to 50 percent.  So make sure to always hug your loved ones.

Minimalise

Having a minimalist lifestyle is getting more and more popular.  You should only have the things the you really need and try to forget about the rest.  When you minimalise, and remove all which is not essential will help you remove stress and focus on the essential.  You don’t have to do everything at once, try one task at a time and enjoy it fully.

Take it easy

Make sure you plan ahead,  take the habit to be 15 minutes earlier.  It will remove a lot of stress and will make you feel more in control and more relax.  Take it easy on all other distractions as well such as TV, radio and the web.

Belong  to a community

Many of today’s centenaries belong to a community and many say that it is one of the reasons they made it that far.  Make sure you belong and participate in a community.  It can be spiritual or otherwise but it will have the benefits of giving you more support.

Pick the right tribe

The people surrounding you have a huge impact on all aspect of your life and especially your on your health.  You should surround yourself with those that share similar values, ideally those of the Blue Zone tribe.  Other people that have a negative influence might need to be push a bit further away from your life.

Laugh a lot

Often you will hear the laughter is the best medicine.  It is very true.  Regions where people laugh a lot, like Montreal where the famous Just for Laugh (Just pour rire) festival is located tend to be much healthier and happier, which at the end of the day will have an enormous impact on their longevity.  There are several reasons for this, including reducing stress and improving your state of relaxation (which helps you sleep well), both caused by the increases of oxygen flow throughout your body. Laughter was also proven to strengthen your immune system and lowers blood sugar levels in diabetics.  Therefore make sure to laugh a lot each day, by making time to watch a funny stand up or a good comedy.  Try to surround yourself with funny people or with the "class clown" that will make your laugh as well.

Have a dog

It was proven numerous time, that having a dog in the household will help its members to reduce the stress level and make everyone happier.  Other medical benefits include decreasing blood pressure and lowering cholesterol.  It is also good for your overall exercise habits, as dog owners tend to exercise much more than the rest.  Just going for the daily morning walk with your pet, is a natural and beneficial exercise.  Finally all the love and affection a dog will give you, can’t be compared to anything.  Like the famous joke goes: try to put your wife in the truck of your car, and then put your dog, and see which one will be happier to see you after an hour.

Live near caring family

Family is important and living close to her or close to very good friends, might add up to half a year of longevity.  Seeing them a couple days a week would be ideal.

Don’t over work

I know some people that work up to 80 hours a week.  It might be productive for a while, but on the long run your health will suffer, not to mention the other aspect of you live such as your family and relationships.  Ideally you shouldn’t work more them 40/50 hours per week, including your commuting time.

Be optimistic about your aging

The way you think and visualize yourself aging have a direct impact on how you will age and how healthy you will be.  So every time you think about the future, make sure to see yourself looking good and sexy with a big smile on your face.

Check the air quality

It is well known that some cities have better and worse air pollution. Try to avoid those industrial areas with  lots of smog if you can and opt for more suburban areas or country sides.

Make sure to put your seat belt on

Putting on your seat belt might save your life, so make sure it becomes a habit each time you enter a car.

Smile

"When you are smiling the whole world is smiling with you" (Louis Armstrong lyrics).  Indeed smiling, will help you see the world in a different light. It has the benefits of lowering your blood pressure and heart rate, and make you feel more relax and contribute to your overall happiness.

Be happy

Happiness plays a crucial role in longevity.  Way more than people are expecting. Make sure you have your close friends nearby so that you can share together your happy times.

Give some love

Giving love is an essential part of life and it will greatly boost you happiness level.  You will always find mean and rude persons, but you should forget about them and make sure you are a nice an loving person.  It doesn’t cost your nothing but it will add to a long and beautiful life.

Enjoy the moment

It is important to plan for the future, and remember some of your past, but most of the time it should be spent in the present.  When you enjoy the moment it is the only time you are fully in control.

Don’t live with regrets

It is said the people mostly regret things they never did as opposed to the things they did.  Therefore make sure you live your life to the fullest , so you won’t have anything to regret later on. Do it now, and don’t be afraid to fail.

Be yourself

Make sure to be yourself and don’t try to be anyone else. You are your own boss, and be yourself will guarantee you a longer and better life.

Love your kids

Lot of people are saying the they are reliving their life a second time through their kids.  This proves to be totally correct and it will help you keep yourself young in the heart. Not to mention all the things you can teach them and the new ideas you can learn from them.

Be part of cultural events

The American Academy of Neurology proved that cognitively active seniors, those that are part of cultural events are much less likely to suffer dementia or develop Alzheimer’s. So make sure you are the first to be part of them.

Volunteer

It was recently proven that volunteering is not only beneficial for your social interaction but it can also be good for you your brain health.  Not to mention that you will have the satisfaction of making the world just a bit better.

Travel

Travel can change your life, and have a great impact on how you perceive the world.  It is a good mental stimulation, which can add up for a long and interesting life. Make sure your travel a lot and discover the other world’s cultures.

Listen to music

It was proven many times over that music can have a powerful impact on your life.  It can have numerous effects on your mood, from boosting your creativity to enhancing your sporting performance.  Make sure you always listen to music as it is one of the best therapy for a long life.

Read

Reading a good book have many benefits but who would expect that it can actually lower your heart-disease risk.  It is also good practice to read out loud to your loved ones for half an hour per day.

Be close to nature

Everyone knows the feeling to be totally immersed in nature.  It makes you feel better by removing the stress.  Therefore try to spent some time, walking in the woods or at least in a park if you live in the city.

Move naturally

The trick is to try to be active without really thinking about it. As the Sicilian do when they take the stairs in their multi levels houses. Make those activities a normal part of your day.  Other ways would be to inconvenience yourself, by for example removing all the remotes to your electronics, selling your car and getting yourself a bike.

Exercise daily

Exercise is the oil lubrificant, as it will help you reduce your waistline but also has the positive effects of increased endorphins. Other benefits include building muscles, making your heart stronger (by pumping more blood with less effort) lowers cholesterol and blood pressure, prevents and controls diabetes.  You need to keep moving will that be by walking, dancing or practicing your favourite sport. As the saying goes a healthy mind in a healthy body. Exercising alone can add between 1 and 4 years to your life.

Walk

Almost all the centenarians alive today have the habit of going for long walks every day.  It is a very natural and enjoyable activity.  You might have the pleasure to socialize along the way as well.

Swim

From all the physical activities you can do, the best one I should recommend is swimming.  It will train your muscles, your cardio, and is not as hard on your bones and joints as other sports.  It will also make your feel more relaxed afterwards.

Stretch

Stretch regularly to maintain your flexibility.  Even 20 minutes a day can make a huge impact.  I suggest to make it a habit and do it in the morning after waking up.

Eat well

Without getting into too much details about your diet (as there is a section reserve to it), you should try to eat properly, go easy on the fast foods and sugars.  This also mean have a diversified diet and at the appropriate time.  Avoid eating before night.

Maintain your ideal weight

Your ideal weight is related to your height, gender and muscle mass.  A good indicator is the BMI index. Please consider that if your train a lot, your BMI might be higher because of muscle and not fat (which is fine).  However, being overweight will definitely limit your chances of having a long life.

Drink moderately

Don’t drink too much and watch what you drink.  Beers, cocktails are fine occasionally, but aren’t the same as a glass of wine over dinner. Indeed a lot of research suggests the drinking wine can be beneficial for your health.  Ideally not more than four drinks per day for men and two for women.  On the other hand too much alcohol will harm both your physical and mental health and will shorten your life.

Lift weights

Lifting weights shouldn’t be only practice by body builders.  It is a good exercise for people of all ages as not only it will build muscle, which will make you feel stronger but also will prevent osteoporosis.

Don’t smoke

Don’t smoke at all. Quite obvious this one. I know everyone know someone that lived quite old and still smoked a couple of cigarettes.  Perhaps, but that person could have lived even longer and healthier.   Some researches reveal that adult male smokers lost approximately 13.2 years of their lives and female smokers lost 14.5 years of their lives because of smoking. Plus, chronic diseases caused by smoking tended to curtail the quality of life of smokers while they were still alive.

Watch for second-hand smoke

If you don’t smoke, make sure you are not affected by second-hand smoke as it will have a huge impact on your health.  Luckily for us, more and more countries in Europe and north America banned smoking in public places such as bars and restaurants.

Reduce stress

Eliminate unnecessary stress as it may have a huge impact on your life span.

Avoid too much sun

It was proven over and over that too much ultraviolet rays , too much exposure to the sun could have a negative impact on your skin, with higher risk of skin cancer and may also increase wrinkles on your body.  If you do love sunbathing make sure you always wear some sunscreen (at least SPF 30) and perhaps limit your exposure during peak hours.

Floss regularly

Flossing should become one of those habit that you will implement as it will add a year in your life if you do it on a daily basis.  Indeed physician now understand the relation between inflammation of gum disease and heart disease.

Sleep well

Sleeping is a big part of your life and contribute to your health and longevity. Therefore you should make sure that you sleep well and sleep enough, ideally between six and nine hours per night.  There are many techniques you can use to make sure you have a perfect night sleep and feel rested and ready to attack the new day.

Stay away from unprotected sexual behaviour

This one is quite obvious.  Always make sure to protect yourself when engaging in an risky sexual liaison.

Be sexually active

Being sexually active with not only be beneficial in your relationships but it has also proven to have quite positive effects on your heart.  Not to mention the psychological benefits of well being and removing pain and stress.

Breath well

Breathing is such an essential part of our life, but so many of us seem to forget this.  The more conscious you can be about breathing, the better it will be for your body.  Make sure to take deep breaths every once in a while.

Have a good posture

Being conscious of your posture is essential.  Always make sure you are walking and sitting straight.  Try to avoid  sitting cross-legged as it can put excessive stress on your knees, hips and low back.

Turn the volume down

Try not to overexpose your ears to high volume as it can build up to further hearing difficulties.  Always have your radio, TV and PC put to a normal volume level.

Do your warm ups and cool downs

Make sure you always do you warming up and cooling down activities regardless of the sport you practice. It will better prepare you for that activity, help you get back to your normal state and will help you avoid any injuries.

Do crunches

Crunches should be an essential part of your workout.  It will help you build strong abs, reduce your belly fat, and reduce the risk of any heart diseases. No to mention that well built abs will make you look good and healthy.

Wash your hands

Always wash your hands.  Try to use liquid soap as germs can live on bars.

Get yourself a massage

Many researches seem to indicate that regular massage is good for your muscles  but it is also the perfect way to lower your heart rate, blood pressure and anxiety levels.  It will make you feel like a new person after each session.

Train your mind

Keep your brain active all the time.  There are plenty of ways to do that.  Will that be by reading, writing, finishing a crossword puzzle, playing games such as chess and bridge (both Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are big bridge fans).  It is important to understand that exercising your brain will be very beneficial for your cognitive abilities, especially as you age.  It will lower you risk of cognitive issues such of Alzheimer’s.

Give Your Brain a Workout

The same way you workout your body with various exercises and sports, you should work out your brain as well.  Indeed latest researches proved that people who regularly train mentally have a much lower risk of any cognitive impairment.

Always keep learning

As we mentioned earlier, all activities that somehow challenge your mind are beneficial for your brain and for your longevity.  Another way to put it is to make sure you always keep learning. Will that be from home, books , film or from all the content available online. Another suggestions, is to get involved in your children learning process if you have kids.

Stay in school

Researchers found out that there is a positive correlation between the years spent in school and the number of years you will live.  Indeed the more education you have the more chances you will have to live to a 100.  If you quit school at an early age, don’t worry but make sure to go back to it or study on your own.  Knowledge is power and it is also a sign of longevity.

Play an instrument

It was proven that kids that learn to play an instrument have on average better learning capacities and tend to be more focused.  Indeed to learn and play a musical instruments can be beneficial for your brain, by improving your memory, focus and also gives you more joy in your life.  All those elements can contribute to a longer life.

Stay up to date with technology

I always remind myself how grateful I am to be living in the 21st century, will all this amazing technology.  Not only it is very pleasurable to learn about the latest gadget, but it is a perfect way to keep your neuron going.

Eat brain food

Doing different exercise to train your mind is good to keep you brain from aging but some aliments can help boost it even more.  Thos includes beans, dark skinned fruits, olive oil, soy, oatmeal and nuts,

Reduce the calories intake

As the Japanese saying goes : "Hara hachi bi"; which can be translated to stop eating once the stomach is 80 percent full.  It takes about half an hour for your stomach to tell your brain that it is full, therefore eating only to 80% make sure you will never overeat. Some practical tips include to use smaller plates or focus only on eating while eating (instead of being distracted by any other things such as TV).  Another interesting technique, it to serve yourself, put the food away, and then eat (as opposed to leaving the rest of the food on the table).

Have a Plant-based diet

As the saying goes, "an apple a day, keeps the doctors away".  No, you don’t need to become a vegetarian, but you should boost up your intake of fruits and veggies. Use beans, rice or tofu as the anchor of your meals. 

Have a Low-fat Diet

This one is quite obvious as well.  All that fast food and fuzzy drinks aren’t good for your heath.  It is ok once in a while, and that means once or twice a month, but on a daily basis you should have a low fat diet and cut those calories if you want to live to be a 100.

Eat nuts

Have a 2-ounce handful of nuts daily.  They are not only very healthy, but they are also good for the brain.  No to mention it will prevent you from digging in the chip bag.

Eat Fish

Eating fish a couple of times a week can be very beneficial for you r health.  Indeed those omega-3′s fatty acids are really good for your blood stream and will cut the risk of heart disease.

Drink green Tea

Drinking tea can be really beneficial for you health as it will reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease.  Try to reduce you coffee and soda intake and replace with green tea.

Take Vitamins

Taking vitamin on a daily basis will help you live longer as it will make sure you have all the elements your body require such as minerals, amino acids, herbal extracts, and other specialty nutrients.

Drink red wine

It is know that in the Mediterranean countries, such as Italy, they serve wine at the table to teens.  It not only make the meal more savoury but it is also recommend for better digestion and better blood flow.  Therefore we recommend to keep a bottle of red wine near your dinner table, keeping the daily intake to two servings or less.

Cut on the coffee

As we mentioned earlier drinking green tea have a positive impact on your health, however with coffee it might be the other way away and reduce your chance to live a 100.  Try to replace it with tea or just water, and if you are a big coffee lover try to limit your use and avoid drinking it on an empty stomach (ideally after lunch).

Watch for processed meats

processed meats such as hot dogs, chicken nuggets and bologna should be reduced to a minimum.  Ideally it should be limited to only one or two servings per week.

Watch what you snack

It is recommended not to snack between meals but if you really can’t wait some items are better than other.  Obviously fruit , veggies and nuts are better than any sort of sweets, chips or popcorn.  Other healthy items include yogurt and fruit based shakes.

Avoid red meat

I know there is a lot of red meat lover out there.  But if you are looking to live to a 100 eating red meat occasionally could really help you out. Ideally not more than twice per week.

Avoid sweats

As we mentioned earlier, it is good practice to avoid sweets when snacking, but it could be a healthy decision to remove it all together from your diet.  If you really can’t succumb to ice cream or a nice piece of cake or homemade pie try to treat it as a luxury once or twice a week.

Reduce carbohydrates

A carbohydrates is anything that is white like bread, French fries, potatoes, and even pasta.  Those might taste good, but aren’t adding up to a healthy diet.  You should use their brown or whole grain cousin instead.

Eat breakfast

As you might of heard already, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Therefore try at least to eat something small if you aren’t that hungry in the morning.

Eat smaller but more frequent meals

It is never recommend to eat too much at once.  What is good proactive and especially popular in Asia is to have smaller portions more frequently during the day . Ideally a healthy snack every three hours will keep your metabolism high and your blood sugar and insulin levels steady.

Add some spice

Spicing up your cuisine will not only make it taste better but will add to a healthy diet.  Ideally high-antioxidant spices and herbs including red pepper, cinnamon, curry, ginger, thyme, oregano and rosemary.

Vary your diet

Make sure you aren’t always eating the same thing.  Varying your diet can be beneficial to your heath as it will make sure your body get all the various  nutrients it needs.

Drink water

Water is source of life.  Make sure you drink enough water throughout the day so you don’t dehydrated.  It will also help you reduce the snaking between meals. As with varying your diet, you should also vary you waters, so as to make sure you have an intake of various minerals.

Drink cranberry juice

It was proven that drinking cranberry juice on a daily basis, even is small quantities can have a huge positive impact on heart-disease risks.

Eat more in the morning then at night

Many physicians will recommend to eat more at breakfast then at dinner, however most of the people do exactly the opposite. 

Visit the Doctor Regularly

Going to the general practitioner at least once a year, is the best way to stay on track with your health.  It is always better to be preventive rather then reactive.  Spotting any issue sooner rather than later will help your lengthen your life

Check your doctor

I’m not saying not to trust you doctor,  because you should, but make sure you are in control of your own health.  There are so many resources about any medical issues, so that you can always double check any information given to you.  Sometimes it is good to have a second opinion from another specialist as well.

Go to the Dentist

Regularly visiting the dentist will not only make your teeth look better, but it might also help prevent diseases like gingivitis, which can in turn lead to more serious illness such as heart and respiratory diseases.

Take aspirin

Some doctors say that regularly taking aspirin  may have an impact on your long term health.  Indeed it will improve your brain health as well as you heart and perhaps avoid you a heart attack.

Take supplemental calcium

Supplemental calcium can be very beneficial and will help your bones stay stronger and healthier .

Understand your family history

The more you will know about your family medical history , the more you will be able to avoid and prevent any specific illness that may occur.  Make sure your learn from the mistakes of your elders, and make the right lifestyle adjustment.

Follow the prescriptions

Make sure to take medications as they are prescribed, as it will avoid any misuse or overdose.  You should always check with your doctor making sure you clearly know when and how to take your prescribed medicine.

Learn to cope with stress

Living in today’s world, especially in big cities, stress is inevitable. Therefore you should learn to cope with it.  Stress should either work as a motivator agent or you should have some techniques such as exercising, deep breathing or meditation to helps reduce it.  If stress have a negative impact on your life it won’t be beneficial for your long term health.

Check for skin cancer

Make sure to regularly screen for skin cancer by doing self-examinations and have regular screenings by your health care provider. Same should be done with breast or testicular cancer.

Check for diastolic blood pressure

Regularly check your diastolic blood pressure. It should be below 80.  Maintaining it at that level or even lower could add a full year to your life expectancy

Check your systolic blood pressure

Regularly check your systolic blood pressure. It should be below 120 as if yours is higher you will have a higher risk of developing heart disease. 

Check blood sugar

Same goes for you blood sugar. It should regularly be  checked to make sure everything is at the right level, especially if you are a diabetes.

Check your cholesterol level

Check your cholesterol regularly as it is important to keep the levels within healthy limits, especially if you have other risk factors for developing heart disease.  Your total cholesterol should be ideally be below 200 mg/dl.  As for your LDL or "bad" cholesterol level it should be below 129 and your HDL cholesterol or "good" cholesterol should be above 50 mg/dl.  Having your cholesterol level under control will improve your chance to live a longer life.

Conclusion

There is no one formula that will guarantee a long and healthful life.  There are however, many different tricks and habits that you can implement now to make sure you don’t shorten your life. Indeed your value system, diet, and exercise habits, each play a vital role.

So make sure you have a well-balanced lifestyle, have a plant based diet, including goat’s milk, goya, beans, and walnuts, exercise naturally by  walking, gardening, or swimming, spent time with family and loved ones and make sure you know exactly why you are waking up in the morning.  Hope to see you in the 22nd Century.

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Topics

1. Top 100 Billionaires Interactive Application
2. Introduction to the Top 100 Billionaires
3. Top 10 Billionaires Winners by category
4. Top 100 billionaires list

Top 10 Winners by category

Top 10 billionaires per country includes:

1. Top billionaire USA: William Gates III, founder Microsoft
2. Top billionaire India: Mukesh Ambani
3. Top billionaire France: Bernard Arnault
4. Top billionaire Brazil: Eike Batista
5. Top billionaire Spain: Amancio Ortega,
6. Top billionaire Germany: Karl Albrecht
7. Top billionaire Sweden: Ingvar Kamprad & family
8. Top billionaire Hong Kong: Li Ka-shing
9. Top billionaire Saudi Arabia: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
10. Top billionaire Canada: David Thomson & family

Top 100 billionaires list

1. Carlos Slim Helu & family, Mexico
2. William Gates III, United States
3. Warren Buffett, United States
4. Mukesh Ambani, India
5. Lakshmi Mittal, India
6. Lawrence Ellison, United States
7. Bernard Arnault, France
8. Eike Batista, Brazil
9. Amancio Ortega, Spain
10. Karl Albrecht, Germany
11. Ingvar Kamprad & family, Sweden
12. Christy Walton & family, United States
13. Stefan Persson, Sweden
14. Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong
15. Jim Walton, United States
16. Alice Walton, United States
17. Liliane Bettencourt, France
18. S. Robson Walton, United States
19. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, Saudi Arabia
20. David Thomson & family, Canada
21. Michael Otto & family, Germany
22. Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong
23. Michael Bloomberg, United States
24. Sergey Brin, United States
25. Charles Koch, United States
26. David Koch, United States
27. Larry Page, United States
28. Michele Ferrero & family, Italy
29. Kwok family, Hong Kong
30. Azim Premji, India
31. Theo Albrecht, Germany
32. Vladimir Lisin, Russia
33. Steven Ballmer, United States
34. Robert Kuok, Malaysia
35. George Soros, United States
36. Anil Ambani, India
37. Paul Allen, United States
38. Michael Dell, United States
39. Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia
40. Birgit Rausing & family, Sweden
41. Shashi & Ravi Ruia, India
42. Mikhail Fridman, Russia
43. Jeffrey Bezos, United States
44. Savitri Jindal, India
45. Donald Bren, United States
46. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family, United Kingdom
47. John Paulson, United States
48. Abigail Johnson, United States
49. Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazil
50. Roman Abramovich, Russia
51. Susanne Klatten, Germany
52. Iris Fontbona & family, Chile
53. Forrest Mars Jr, United States
54. Jacqueline Mars, United States
55. John Mars, United States
56. Ronald Perelman, United States
57. Oleg Deripaska, Russia
58. Vagit Alekperov, Russia
59. Leonardo Del Vecchio, Italy
60. Carl Icahn, United States
61. Vladimir Potanin, Russia
62. Philip Knight, United States
63. Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family, Mexico
64. Mohammed Al Amoudi, Saudi Arabia
65. Ernesto Bertarelli & family, Switzerland
66. Anne Cox Chambers, United States
67. George Kaiser, United States
68. Hans Rausing, Sweden
69. Joseph Safra, Brazil
70. Alexei Mordashov, Russia
71. Viktor Rashnikov, Russia
72. German Larrea Mota Velasco & family, Mexico
73. Sheldon Adelson, United States
74. Silvio Berlusconi & family, Italy
75. Dan Duncan, United States
76. Kushal Pal Singh, India, 78, 9.0, India
77. Nasser Al-Kharafi & family, Kuwait
78. Francois Pinault & family, France
79. Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russia
80. Iskander Makhmudov, Russia
81. James Simons, United States
82. Alberto Bailleres & family, Mexico
83. German Khan, Russia
84. Eliodoro, Bernardo & Patricia Matte
85. Edward Johnson III, United States
86. Kumar Birla, India
87. Sunil Mittal, India
88. John Fredriksen, Cyprus
89. Serge Dassault & family, France
90. Petr Kellner, Czech Republic
91. Ananda Krishnan, Malaysia
92. Tadashi Yanai & family, Japan
93. Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber, Saudi Arabia
94. Len Blavatnik, United States
95. David & Simon Reuben, United Kingdom
96. Nobutada Saji & family, Japan
97. Alain & Gerard Wertheimer, France
98. Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russia
99. August von Finck, Germany
100. Lee Kun-Hee, South Korea

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Top 100 Celebrities 2010

Every year, the business magazine Forbes releases their Top 100 Celebrity List which includes the world’s most powerful celebrities. Those Celebrities are ranked based on a multitude of ranking including their salaries, web rank, press rank, TV/radio rank and social rank.

This year’s best selection was dominated by women, with 6 women in the top 10 including this year’s number 1, Oprah Winfrey, world know signers Beyonce ($87 million), Britney Spears ($64 million), Lady Gaga ($62 million and a list debut at an impressive 4^th position), Madonna ($58 million) and  actress Sandra Bullock ($56 million).

Winners by category

An overview of the winners in each category includes:

Oprah Winfrey, one of the World's Top Celebrities

1. Top Overall Celebrity: Oprah Winfrey
2. Top Musician: Beyonce
3. Top Athlete: Tiger Woods
4. Top Teen Star: Taylor Swift
5. Top Actor: Johnny Depp
6. Top Actress: Sandra Bullock

The Top 100 Celebrities 100 list

1. Oprah Winfrey, Personalities
2. Beyonce Knowles, Musicians
3. James Cameron, Directors/Producers
4. Lady Gaga, Musicians
5. Tiger Woods, Athletes
6. Britney Spears, Musicians
7. U2, Musicians
8. Sandra Bullock, Actresses
9. Johnny Depp, Actors
10. Madonna, Musicians
11. Simon Cowell, Personalities
12. Taylor Swift, Teen stars
13. Miley Cyrus, Teen stars
14. Kobe Bryant, Athletes
15. Jay-Z, Hip-hop impresario
16. Black Eyed Peas, Musicians
17. Bruce Springsteen, Musicians
18. Angelina Jolie, Actresses
19. Rush Limbaugh, Personalities
20. Michael Jordan, Athletes
21. Dr. Phil McGraw, Personalities
22. Steven Spielberg, Directors/Producers
23. Ellen DeGeneres, Personalities
24. David Letterman, Personalities
25. Tyler Perry, Directors/Producers
26. Jennifer Aniston, Actresses
27. Pink, Musicians
28. LeBron James, Athletes
29. Roger Federer, Athletes


Beyonce Knowles, one of the World's Top Celebrities

30. Brad Pitt, Actors
31. Floyd Mayweather, Athletes
32. Michael Bay, Directors/Producers
33. Donald Trump, Personalities
34. Jay Leno, Personalities
35. Coldplay, Musicians
36. David Beckham, Athletes
37. Jerry Seinfeld, Comedians
38. AC/DC, Musicians
39. Howard Stern, Personalities
40. Jonas Brothers, Teen stars
41. Tom Hanks, Actors
42. George Lucas, Directors/Producers
43. Glenn Beck, Personalities
44. Ryan Seacrest, Personalities


James Cameron, one of the World's Top Celebrities

45. Phil Mickelson, Athletes
46. Ben Stiller, Actors
47. Jerry Bruckheimer, Directors/Producers
48. Cristiano Ronaldo, Athletes
49. Alex Rodriguez, Athletes
50. Robert Pattinson, Actors
51. Conan O’Brien, Personalities
52. Shaquille O’Neal, Athletes
53. James Patterson, Authors
54. Kenny Chesney, Musicians
55. Manny Pacquiao, Athletes
56. Tom Cruise, Actors
57. Adam Sandler, Actors
58. George Clooney, Actors
59. Stephenie Meyer, Authors
60. Cameron Diaz, Actresses
61. Serena Williams, Athletes
62. Rascal Flatts, Musicians
63. Charlie Sheen, Television actors
64. Derek Jeter, Athletes


Lady Gaga, one of the World's Top Celebrities

65. Lance Armstrong, Athletes
66. Kristen Stewart, Teen stars
67. Toby Keith, Musicians
68. Sean (Diddy) Combs, Hip-hop impresario
69. Stephen King, Authors
70. Sarah Jessica Parker, Actresses
71. Leonardo DiCaprio, Actors
72. Judge Judy Sheindlin, Personalities
73. Robert Downey Jr, Actors
74. Lil Wayne, Hip-hop impresario
75. Reese Witherspoon, Actresses
76. Keith Urban, Musicians
77. Julia Roberts, Actresses
78. Steve Carell, Television actors


Tiger Woods, one of the World's Top Celebrities

79. Meryl Streep, Actresses
80. Akon, Hip-hop impresario
81. Maria Sharapova, Athletes
82. Daniel Radcliffe, Teen star
83. Venus Williams, Athletes
84. Ray Romano, Television actors
85. Gisele Bundchen, Models
86. Heidi Klum, Models
87. Drew Barrymore, Actresses
88. Alec Baldwin, Television actors
89. Kiefer Sutherland, Television actors
90. Tina Fey, Television actresses
91. Kate Moss, Models
92. Eva Longoria Parker, Television actresses
93. Jeff Dunham, Comedians
94. George Lopez, Comedians
95. Katherine Heigl, Television actresses
96. Danica Patrick, Athletes
97. Kate Hudson, Actresses
98. Chelsea Handler, Comedians
99. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Television actresses
100. Mariska Hargitay, Television actresses

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Top 100 influential people 2010

Each year Times magazine compiles a list of the most influential people in America and in the World.  They divide their list in the following topics:

1. Leaders
2. Heroes
3. Artists
4. Thinkers

Top 25 Leaders

1. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
2. J.T. Wang
3. Admiral Mike Mullen
4. Barack Obama
5. Ron Bloom
6. Yukio Hatoyama
7. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
8. Nancy Pelosi
9. Sarah Palin
10. Salam Fayyad
11. Jon Kyl
12. Glenn Beck
13. Annise Parker
14. Tidjane Thiam
15. Jenny Beth Martin
16. Christine Lagarde
17. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
18. General Stanley McChrystal
19. Manmohan Singh
20. Bo Xilai
21. Mark Carney
22. Sister Carol Keehan
23. Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan
24. Robin Li
25. Scott Brown

Top 25 Heroes

1. Bill Clinton
2. Kim Yu-Na
3. Mir-Hossein Mousavi
4. Ben Stiller
5. Temple Grandin
6. P. Namperumalsamy
7. Nay Phone Latt
8. Chen Shu-chu
9. Phil Mickelson
10. Didier Drogba
11. Graça Machel
12. Reem Al Numery
13. Sachin Tendulkar
14. Tristan Lecomte
15. Liya Kebede
16. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
17. Zahra Rahnavard
18. Jet Li
19. Serena Williams
20. Chief Master Sergeant Tony Travis
21. Karls Paul-Noel
22. Rahul Singh
23. Valentin Abe
24. Malalai Joya
25. Will Allen

Top 25 Artists

1. Lady Gaga
2. Conan O’Brien
3. Kathryn Bigelow
4. Oprah Winfrey
5. Valery Gergiev
6. Robert Pattinson
7. Ashton Kutcher
8. Suzanne Collins
9. Taylor Swift
10. Neil Patrick Harris
11. Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof
12. Prince
13. Lea Michele
14. Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
15. Simon Cowell
16. Neill Blomkamp
17. Elton John
18. Marc Jacobs
19. David Chang
20. Banksy
21. Chetan Bhagat
22. Sandra Bullock
23. Ricky Gervais
24. Han Han
25. James Cameron

Top 25 Thinkers

1. Zaha Hadid
2. Elizabeth Warren
3. Douglas Schwartzentruber and Larry Kwak
4. Michael Pollan
5. Atul Gawande
6. Jaron Lanier
7. Victor Pinchuk
8. Lee Kuan Yew
9. Deborah Gist
10. Kathleen Merrigan
11. Steve Jobs
12. Tim White
13. Lisa Jackson
14. Elon Musk
15. Edna Foa
16. Jaime Lerner
17. Paul Volcker
18. Amy Smith
19. Matt Berg
20. Amartya Sen
21. Michael Sherraden
22. Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy
23. Tim Westergren
24. David Boies and Theodore Olson
25. Sonia Sotomayor

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List of the 2009 Most influential People

Want to know who are the 2009 Most influential People?

Below is the Time Magazine list of the people who made it to the World’s 100 Most influential People. Your opinion matter so please let us know in your feedback what you think of the list.
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• Your Best 100 Most Famous – Click here to view the top list
• Your Best 100 Richest – Click here to view the top list

Full List of the 2009 Most influential People

This top list will be divided into the following categories:

• Leaders & Revolutionaries
• Builders & Titans
• Artists & Entertainers
• Heroes & Icons
• Scientists & Thinkers

Leaders & Revolutionaries

1. Edward Kennedy, Lion of the Senate
2. Gordon Brown, Britain Prime Minister
3. Christine Lagarde, France Finance Minister
4. Thomas Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois
5. Avigdor Lieberman, Soviet-born Israeli politician
6. Joaquín Guzmán, Mexican druglord of the Sinaloa Cartel
7. Nouri al-Maliki, first Iraqi Prime Minister
8. Hillary Clinton, US politician
9. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia politician
10. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
11. Norah al-Faiz, Deputy Minister for Women’s Education
12. Elizabeth Warren, Professor of Law at Harvard
13. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s President
14. Nicolas Sarkozy, French President
15. Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor
16. Wang Qishan, Chinese politician
17. Xi Jinping, Vice President of China
18. David McKiernan, retired US Army four-star genera
19. Ashfaq Kayani, Pakistan army’s Chief of Staff
20. Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.

Builders & Titans

1. The Twitter Guys, micro bloging inventors
2. T. Boone Pickens, environmental crusader
3. Ted Turner, American media mogul and philanthropist
4. Tessa Ross
5. Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman and philanthropist
6. Brad Pitt, American actor and film producer
7. Meredith Whitney, prominent banking analyst
8. Suze Orman, Best Seller
9. Lauren Zalaznick
10. Timothy Geithner, United States Secretary of the Treasury
11. Nandan Nilekani, Indian entrepreneur and businessman
12. Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
13. Jamie Dimon, CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co
14. Sheila Bair, Chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
15. moot
16. Alexander Medvedev, former KGB agent and the current Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Russian energy company Gazprom
17. Alan Mulally,American engineer and businessman
18. Robin Chase, co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, an innovative car sharing service
19. Jack Ma, lead founder of Alibaba Group
20. Bernie Madoff, the guy who stoled $65 Billions

Artists & Entertainers

1. Rush Limbaugh, American radio host and conservative political commentator
2. M.I.A., music artists
3. Sam and Dan Houser, English video game producers for Rockstar Games
4. Kate Winslet, English actress and occasional singer
5. Werner Herzog, German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director
6. William Kentridge, South African artist
7. Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
8. Lang Lang, Chinese pianist from China
9. John Legend, American Grammy winning R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist
10. Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, New York City based architects
11. Gustavo Dudamel, conducter of the Gothenburg Symphony at the BBC Proms
12. Jeff Kinney, American game designer and author of children’s books
13. Tavis Smiley, African American journalist, author, political commentator, talk show host, and businessman
14. The View, American talk show broadcast on American Broadcasting Company as part of ABC Daytime
15. Zac Efron, American actor and singer
16. Tina Fey, American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer
17. Tom Hanks, American actor, producer, writer and director
18. Jay Leno, American stand-up comedian and television host
19. A.R. Rahman, two time Academy Award winning Indian film music composer
20. Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer

Heroes & Icons

1. Michelle Obama
2. Chesley B. Sullenberger, the pilot that landed in NYC’s Hudson River
3. Richard Phillips
4. Seth Berkley
5. Michael Eavis
6. Leonard Abess
7. Hadizatou Mani
8. Rick Warren
9. Van Jones
10. Somaly Mam
11. Rafael Nadal
12. Suraya Pakzad
13. Jeff Bezos
14. Tiger Woods
15. George Clooney
16. Brady Gustafson
17. Sister Mary Scullion
18. Oprah Winfrey
19. Sarah Palin
20. Manny Pacquiao

Scientists & Thinkers

1. Nouriel Roubini
2. Amory Lovins
3. Jon Favreau
4. Dambisa Moyo
5. Dan Barber
6. Yoichiro Nambu
7. Roland Fryer
8. Martin Lindstrom
9. Barbara Hogan
10. David Sheff
11. Steven Chu
12. Paul Krugman
13. Connie Hedegaard
14. Daniel Nocera
15. Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller
16. Nicholas Christakis
17. Doug Melton
18. Paul Ekman
19. Shai Agassi
20. Nate Silver

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