The 2005 Global Intel­lec­tu­als Poll, Thinkers 50, and Accenture’s Top 50 Busi­ness Intel­lec­tu­als. Only one per­son has appeared on all three lists: Kenichi Ohmae.

Twenty-four peo­ple (includ­ing Ohmae) appear on two of the lists. These peo­ple are:

  • Bill Gates
  • C. K. Prahalad
  • Charles Handy
  • Chris Argyris
  • Clay­ton Christensen
  • Edward De Bono
  • Gary Hamel
  • Henry Mintzberg
  • Howard Gard­ner
  • Jack Welch
  • Kenichi Ohmae
  • Michael Porter
  • Naomi Klein
  • Nel­son Mandela
  • Paul Krug­man
  • Peter Senge
  • Philip Kotler
  • Richard Bran­son
  • Robert Kaplan
  • Ros­a­beth Moss Kanter
  • Stephen Covey
  • Thomas Fried­man
  • Tom Peters
  • War­ren Bennis