Perhaps this list should just be called "Top 20 public figures" Most of these people couldn't qualify as an intellectual in even the broadest sense of the term,

Perhaps this list should just be called "Top 20 public figures" Most of these people couldn't qualify as an intellectual in even the broadest sense of the term, they would be more concisely described as politicians. AlGore is NOT an intellectual he goes around talking about the work of intellectuals. That makes in a public speaker, aka a politician.