Apolyton list: 25 greatest Americans

[MichaeltheGreat]

Robert E. Lee
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
James Longstreet
Joseph Johnston
J. E. B. Stuart

Oh, you mean those other Americans?

[Whoha]

Alexander Hamilton
Abraham Lincoln
Nikola Tesla
Andrew Jackson
Ronald Reagan

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
Benjamin Franklin
Enrico Fermi
Richard P. Feynman
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Albert Einstein

Jon Miller
(yeah, so what if they are all physicists)
(yeah, I know that two (three if you count Franklin) weren't born in this country)

3 jews, 1 dude who married a jew and 1 WASP

Matt (who will eventually be in the middle category, sort of)

[Dis]

I forgot to vote for admiral Rickover . No biggie, I'm no longer in the nuclear navy, so I'm under no obligation to vote for him.

[Boris Godunov]

Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Frederick Douglass
William Faulkner
Leonard Bernstein

[KrazyHorse]

You can count Fermi as American

Counting Einstein as American is disingenuous. None of his great work was done after moving to the US in 1933. He was already 54 years old at that time, which is ancient in theoretical physicist terms.

[Ned]

Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Edison
Wright Brothers

[Dis]

unless the brothers were conjoined twins, you can't nominate both of them.

[Ramo]

Richard Feynman
Emma Goldman
Cesar Chavez
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mark Twain

[Locutus]

Homer Simpson
James T. Kirk
Walker Texas Ranger
Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith
MacGyver

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Counting Einstein as American is disingenuous. None of his great work was done after moving to the US in 1933. He was already 54 years old at that time, which is ancient in theoretical physicist terms.

We're Americans, ergo we can take whatever we want. Deal with it.

[Dis]

Kirk wasn't an american.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Whoha
Alexander Hamilton
Abraham Lincoln
Nikola Tesla
Andrew Jackson
Ronald Reagan

It is good to see the great racist Indian killer on the list, the man who told the Supreme Court to stuff it, the man who marched the Cherokee off their land, the man who routinely exceeded his orders as a commanding officer and who so alienated most Americans by his imperial style that he fractured the Democrat-Republican Party.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Dissident
Kirk wasn't an american.

Kirk was born March 22, 2233 in the town of Riverside, Iowa on planet Earth. (TOS: "The Deadly Years", Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/James_T._Kirk

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
You can count Fermi as American

Counting Einstein as American is disingenuous. None of his great work was done after moving to the US in 1933. He was already 54 years old at that time, which is ancient in theoretical physicist terms.

I agree

but him (and Ben Franklin) are the two that I think others might vote for

Jon Miller