This is very old - Time magazines selected Top 100 Persons of the Century
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,991227-1,00.html
The people within the scope as potential canonical authors are:
- Gandhi
- T.S. Eliot
- James Joyce
- Freud
- Keynes
- Wittgenstein
Time selected Albert Einstein as person of the century, and Gandhi and Roosevelt (FDR) as runner-ups.