|      | |
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
| 
09-05-2007, 11:02 PM
| | |  J.K.Rowling on influential people list
USA Today has ranked J.K.Rowling as the 20th most influential person of the last 25 years. The piece, which marks 25 years of publication for the newspaper, features many well known names. Quote: 20) J.K. Rowling, author
The first Harry Potter book, completed in 1995 and initially rejected by several publishing houses, launched a seven-volume series that absorbed children and adults in complicated fantasies spanning thousands of pages.
The entire list is as thus; Quote:
1) Bill Gates, software entrepreneur
2) Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president
3) Oprah Winfrey, talk show host
4 & 5) Francis Collins & J. Craig Venter, mappers of the human genome
6) Osama bin Laden, terrorist
7) Stephen Hawking, physicist
8) Lance Armstrong, cyclist and cancer activist
9) Pope John Paul II, pontiff
10) Bono, rock musician and activist for Africa
11) Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader
12 & 13) Sergey Brin & Larry Page, co-founders of Google
14) George W. Bush, 43rd president
15) Sam Walton, retailing pioneer
16) Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader
17) Michael Jordan, basketball star
18) Howard Schultz, Starbucks entrepreneur
19) Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid leader
20) J.K. Rowling, author
21 & 22) Bill & Hillary Clinton, 42nd president & N.Y. senator
23) Russell Simmons, hip-hop pioneer
24) Ryan White, the face of AIDS
25) Homer Simpson, Everyman
 | |
09-05-2007, 11:47 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
|  Official -()- SeekerFwooper
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Brazil
Posts: 9,898
|
JK Rowling has earned her place in that list! And... Homer SImpson? That's... wel.. interesting.
| 
| | |
09-05-2007, 11:57 PM
|
#3 (permalink)
|  Portuguese ModeratorThestral
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Neverland
Posts: 39,664
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Margaret Jacqueline Atkinson Morris
Fifth Year | Potter’s Princess A+ FangGirl
Homer's in the list? 
Go JK! 
__________________ I gotta go back to the muggle world,
they're gonna try and tell me this wasn't, that none of this happened,
but you know what? It was real. It did happen.
We spent time here. We made friends here. That's a part of us.
Cause Hogwarts is bigger than any of us, of any of it's founders,
and it's going to be around long after we're gone.
Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day.
That's the thing about Hogwarts.
No matter how long you're away from it, there's always a way back. | |
| | |
09-06-2007, 12:24 AM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Doxy
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Blacksburg *I wish*
Posts: 405
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Amy
Third |
Yeah!! She came in before Bill and Hilary Clinton, and that is quite an accomplishment (sp?)
__________________
This signature block is NOT long enough.
| |
| | |
09-06-2007, 12:26 AM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Vampire
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Maryland
Posts: 11,238
Ministry RPG Name:
Jermey Jackston
| Book Club Babe
Wow, I know 11 out 0f 25. not bad for me  | |
| | |
09-06-2007, 01:09 AM
|
#6 (permalink)
| !!!!Awesome!!!! Faerie
Join Date: May 2004 Location: in Howarts offcourse
Posts: 4,128
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Mari Elizabeth Allen
Fourth Year |
Well jk is definatly one of the most influencial people in the last 25 years but Homer..... *frowns* Im not that sure
| |
| | |
09-06-2007, 01:10 AM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Fwooper
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: USA
Posts: 9,542
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Alex Eagleson
First Year  x1
| Heart of a Claw
yah J.K.
its funny (but true) that osama is up there
| |
| | |
09-06-2007, 01:33 AM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | Hinkypunk
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: in my own little world...
Posts: 862
|
Im glad that she is on the list, she deserves it, but come on only #20??? she should be much higher than that...I mean, GEORGE BUSH beat her??? HOW????
| |
| | |
09-06-2007, 06:03 AM
|
#9 (permalink)
| | Troll
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Hogwarts School of W
Posts: 4,667
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Mindy Song
|
Quite pleased with it.  Awestruck I am.
__________________ †Luna Lovegood,Evanna Lynch,J.K. Rowling, Sirius Black,Gred & Forge,Dumbledore's Army,Harry Potter,Draco Malfoy,Sibyll Trelawney†
†{Mindy Song, First Year Ravenclaw} {Emma's Twinnie Forever!} Luna and Nargles {Thanks to Tink for the siggy!} {Believe in yourself.}†
 A true friend | You're here 'til the end
†Hermione Granger,Ronald Weasley,Albus Dumbledore,Severus Snape,Neville Longbottom,Minerva McGonagall,Extra Characters,Ginny Weasley,Fleur Delacour† | |
| | |
09-06-2007, 07:24 AM
|
#10 (permalink)
|  LPFC PressieRunespoor
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wangdoodleland.
Posts: 31,265
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Jude Alexander Maxwell
Graduated
Ministry RPG Name:
Aricca Jade "AJ" Silverstone
Magical Creatures | Russian Dancing Snake-Twin | Jam Pony Rider | Has Snuffed It!
Quote:
25) Homer Simpson, Everyman
LMFAO.
GO JK!!!! ranked higher than the Clintons!!!
| |
| | |
09-06-2007, 07:31 AM
|
#11 (permalink)
| Missed lil sister Doxy
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Pakistan
Posts: 411
None |
well,she deserved it.She sure is an influential figure for me.She brought out the creativeness in me n a dream to write.Congrats JO!
|
|
| |
| | |
09-06-2007, 07:32 AM
|
#12 (permalink)
|  Head WWW Mod
Madame Malkin's Moderator
Social Groups Moderator
NTFC ModCentaur
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: BUE - Left Coast
Posts: 24,867
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Dustin Ashby
First Year | Jules says I'm RAD | Booger | Team Men | Chris's SS!BFAM | Big Tuna | Captain Stacked | #Superman
That is quite the honor. She is placed among such wonderful (and some not-so-wonderful) names. But still, this is an amazing feat. Now all that remains to be acheived is to be considered the author of novels that are considered of "literary merit" so my literature teacher will let me write about them. | |
| | |
09-06-2007, 10:43 AM
|
#13 (permalink)
| | Erumpent
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 13,474
| Ultimate Potterite Original original
Congratulations to Jo! It's a fantastic accomplishment to be honored such! | |
| | |
09-06-2007, 11:06 AM
|
#14 (permalink)
| | Poltergeist
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK
Posts: 17,097
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Marcella Riddle
Graduated | Kaplinski Rival Sorting Hat Machine
Quote:
I mean, GEORGE BUSH beat her??? HOW????
I'm guessing because he's the president and that's a fairly influential position to hold | |
| | |
09-06-2007, 02:26 PM
|
#15 (permalink)
| | Fwooper
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: in my little box
Posts: 9,962
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Molly Woodrow
Graduated
Ministry RPG Name:
Jordan Woodrow
Magical Games & Sports |
Good for her. Ummm, Homer??
| |
| | |
09-06-2007, 03:51 PM
|
#16 (permalink)
| | Phoenix
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: In the TARDIS
Posts: 15,350
|
LOL - Go Homer!! It's fantastic that Jo made the list, that's a big achievement. | |
| | |
09-06-2007, 10:13 PM
|
#17 (permalink)
| | Thestral
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In a fairytale
Posts: 37,006
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Jillian McGuffin
Sixth Year | Gryffindor Goddess
bravo JK!!! *applauds*
woah! Deng Xiaoping??? O______O well, he did influence a lot of people but...I can't believe he got a higher rank than JK!!! | |
| | |
09-08-2007, 12:45 AM
|
#18 (permalink)
| Keeper of Ginny's AttitudeBatty Bella Griffin
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Dancing in the rain.
Posts: 9,262
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Tara Elizabeth Kensington
Ministry RPG Name:
Tessa Maria Kensington
|
Thats really a great list!
| |
| | |
09-18-2007, 12:49 AM
|
#19 (permalink)
|  DD's Sorting HatCrup
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: USA, Utah
Posts: 2,312
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Hallie
Second |
Great list | |
| | |
09-18-2007, 08:34 AM
|
#20 (permalink)
| | Jarvey
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Forks..
Posts: 131
Hogwarts RPG Name:
don't know?
|
She's in the 11th place..Not bad..Congratulations to her!!
| |
| | |
09-26-2007, 09:36 AM
|
#21 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In a pineapple. <3
Posts: 18,277
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Emerson Gray.
Fourth Year | G1GGL3R! *giggles* My GarBear
Go Jo! But she should be higher up the list. | |
| | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is On
| | | All times are GMT. The time now is 06:02 AM. |
x
x
x
