From Smithsonian Magazine‘s 35th Anniversary issue:
Wynton Marsalis — By Tom Piazza
Margaret Burbidge — By Marcia Bartusiak
Bill Gates — By Jimmy Carter
Mark Plotkin — By Elizabeth Royte
Richard Leakey — By Virginia Morell
Annie Leibovitz — By Sarah Boxer
Clyde Roper — By Richard Ellis
Jane Mt. Pleasant — By Gary Paul Nabhan
Andy Goldsworthy — By Arthur Lubow
Robert Langridge — By Terence Monmaney
Daphne Sheldrick — By Douglas Chadwick
Julie Taymor — By Edward Rothstein
Wendell Berry — By Paul Trachtman
Edward O. Wilson — By Robert Wright
John Dobson — By Don Moser
Mark Lehner — By Alexander Stille
Sally Ride — By K.C. Cole
Gordon Parks — By Roy Rowan
D.A. Henderson — By Robin Marantz Henig
Renée Fleming — By Stephen Hastings
David Attenborough — By Frans Lanting
Tim Berners-Lee — By Tom Standage
James Watson — By Horace Freeland Judson
Wes Jackson — By Craig Canine
Maya Angelou — By Richard Long
Yo-Yo Ma — By Joshua Kosman
Daniel H. Janzen — By Jerry Adler
Ed Bearss — By Adam Goodheart
Frank Gehry — By Robert Duffy
Janis Carter — By Douglas Foster
Robert Moses — By Neil Henry
Maya Lin — By Michael Parfit
Douglas Owsley — By Aaron Elkins
Chuck Close — By Arthur C. Danto
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Steven Spielberg — By Kenneth Turan