This list has been compiled by Claus D. Volko. It is a subjective list, listing the thinkers and intellectuals that have influenced Claus' own way of thinking the most.
| # | Name | Country of Birth | Profession | Known for |
| 1 | Carl Gustav Jung | Switzerland | Psychiatrist | Jungian Personality Theory |
| 2 | Karl Raimund Popper | Austria | Philosopher | Critical Rationalism, Open Society |
| 3 | Immanuel Kant | Germany | Philosopher | Categorial Imperative |
| 4 | John von Neumann | Hungary | Mathematician | Von Neumann Architecture |
| 5 | Alan Turing | United Kingdom | Mathematician | Turing Machines |
| 6 | Kurt Gödel | Austria | Mathematician | Incompleteness Theorems |
| 7 | Charles Darwin | United Kingdom | Biologist | Theory of Evolution |
| 8 | Isaac Newton | United Kingdom | Physicist | Theory of Gravity, Calculus |
| 9 | Niels Bohr | Denmark | Physicist | Bohr Model |
| 10 | Albert Einstein | Germany | Physicist | General Theory of Relativity |
| 11 | Nicolaus Copernicus | Poland | Astronomer | Heliocentrism |
| 12 | Johannes Kepler | Austria | Astronomer | Laws of Planetary Motion |
| 13 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Germany | Philosopher | Mathesis universalis |
| 14 | Rudolf Virchow | Germany | Pathologist | Cellular Pathology |
| 15 | Sigmund Freud | Austria | Neurologist | Psychoanalysis |
| 16 | Ludwig Boltzmann | Austria | Physicist | Statistical Mechanics |
| 17 | Erwin Schrödinger | Austria | Physicist | Wave Equation |
| 18 | Werner Heisenberg | Germany | Physicist | Uncertainty Principle |
| 19 | Gregor Mendel | Austria | Biologist | Mendelian Inheritance |
| 20 | Carl Menger | Austria | Economist | Austrian School |
| 21 | Ludwig von Mises | Austria | Economist | Praxeology |
| 22 | Leonardo da Vinci | Italy | Polymath | Mechanical Engineering |
| 23 | Galileo Galilei | Italy | Polymath | Modern Physics |
| 24 | Aristotle | Greece | Philosopher | Empiricism, Logic |
| 25 | Plato | Greece | Philosopher | Epistemology, Political Philosophy |
| 26 | Socrates | Greece | Philosopher | Foundation of Philosophy |
| 27 | Marie Curie Sklodowska | Poland | Physicist | Discovery of Radium |
| 28 | Tycho Brahe | Denmark | Astronomer | Astronomical Discoveries |
| 29 | Robert Koch | Germany | Microbiologist | Koch's Postulates |
| 30 | Paul Ehrlich | Germany | Physician | Contributions to Immunology |
| 31 | Edward Jenner | United Kingdom | Physician | Vaccination |
| 32 | Ralph Merkle * | United States | Computer Scientist | Public-key Cryptography |
| 33 | Abraham Lempel * | Poland | Computer Scientist | Lossless Data Compression |
| 34 | Geoffrey Hinton * | United Kingdom | Computer Scientist | Deep Learning |
| 35 | Tony Hoare * | United Kingdom | Computer Scientist | Quicksort Algorithm |
| 36 | Edsger Dijkstra | Netherlands | Computer Scientist | Various Algorithms |
| 37 | Archimedes of Syracuse | Greece | Inventor | Various Inventions |
| 38 | Thomas Alva Edison | United States | Inventor | Various Inventions |
| 39 | Nikola Tesla | Austria | Inventor | Alternating Current |
| 40 | Oswald T. Avery Jr. | Canada | Physician | Molecular Genetics |
| 41 | Wilhelm C. Röntgen | Germany | Physicist | X-rays |
| 42 | Ray Kurzweil * | United States | Inventor | Speech Recognition |
| 43 | Hamilton Smith * | United States | Microbiologist | Shotgun Sequencing |
| 44 | John Craig Venter * | United States | Biochemist | Shotgun Sequencing |
| 45 | Emmanuelle Charpentier * | France | Microbiologist | CRISPR/Cas9 |
| 46 | Jennifer Doudna * | United States | Biochemist | CRISPR/Cas9 |
| 47 | Noam Chomsky * | United States | Linguist | Chomsky Hierarchy |
| 48 | Euclid | Greece | Mathematician | Euclidean Geometry |
| 49 | Leonhard Euler | Switzerland | Mathematician | Various Contributions |
| 50 | Thales of Miletius | Greece | Mathematician | Various Contributions |
| 51 | Pythagoras of Samos | Greece | Mathematician | Pythagorean Theorem |
| 52 | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Germany | Mathematician | Various Contributions |
| 53 | Daniel Bernoulli | Switzerland | Mathematician | Bernoulli's Principle |
| 54 | Jacob Bernoulli | Switzerland | Mathematician | Various Contributions |
| 55 | George Boole | United Kingdom | Mathematician | Boolean Algebra |
| 56 | Gottlob Frege | Germany | Mathematician | Begriffsschrift |
| 57 | Konrad Zuse | Germany | Inventor | Z3 |
| 58 | Ignaz Semmelweis | Hungary | Physician | Saviour of Mothers |
| 59 | Richard Dawkins * | British Kenya | Biologist | Selfish Gene |
| 60 | Tim Berners-Lee * | United Kingdom | Computer Scientist | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| 61 | Mark Zuckerberg * | United States | Computer Scientist | |
| 62 | Shigeru Miyamoto * | Japan | Game Designer | Nintendo Games |
| 63 | Sid Meier * | Canada | Game Designer | Civilization |
| 64 | Francis Galton | United Kingdom | Polymath | Heredity of Intelligence |
| 65 | Niccolo Machiavelli | Italy | Strategist | Political Theory |
* Living people at the time this list was assembled (2018)