Britain's top 100 public intellectuals, as selected by Prospect's readership—ranked in descending order of votes received. Each reader was allowed to nominate up to five intellectuals.
| Richard Dawkins 261 Germaine Greer 136 Amartya Sen 126 Eric Hobsbawm 122 Jonathan Miller 116 Timothy Garton Ash 108 Simon Schama 106 Michael Ignatieff 104 Melvyn Bragg 103 Niall Ferguson 95 George Monbiot 94 Mary Warnock 92 Michael Frayn 92 Tom Stoppard 90 Roger Scruton 89 Rowan Williams 89 Christopher Hitchens 88 George Steiner 82 Will Hutton 78 AC Grayling 73 Susan Greenfield 68 John Gray 67 Seamus Heaney 63 Anthony Giddens 62 Gordon Brown 62 Tariq Ali 62 Karen Armstrong 60 Salman Rushdie 59 Jonathan Sacks 56 VS Naipaul 54 James Lovelock 53 Robert Winston 53 AS Byatt 48 |
Brian Eno 44 Frank Kermode 42 Philip Pullman 42 Matt Ridley 41 Terry Eagleton 40 Mary Midgeley 37 Melanie Phillips 37 Anatole Kaletsky 36 Colin Blakemore 32 Martin Amis 32 David Willetts 30 Martin Rees 30 Neil MacGregor 28 Peter Hennessey 28 Onora O'Neill 27 Robert Skidelsky 26 David Hare 25 James Wood 25 Perry Anderson 25 Ziauddin Sardar 25 Fred Halliday 24 Lisa Jardine 24 Quentin Skinner 24 Gitta Sereny 23 Martin Wolf 23 Richard Rogers 23 Jeanette Winterson 22 Robert Cooper 22 Steven Rose 22 Ian Buruma 21 John Carey 21 Bernard Crick 20 David Starkey 20 Linda Colley 20 |
Adam Phillips 19 Ian McEwan 19 Lewis Wolpert 19 Samuel Brittan 19 Lawrence Freedman 18 Philip Bobbitt 18 Richard Layard 18 Noel Malcolm 17 Bhikhu Parekh 16 Mervyn King 16 David Cannadine 15 David Marquand 14 John Kay 14 WG Runciman 14 Michael Howard 13 Paul Gilroy 13 Richard Holmes 13 Robert May 13 Julian Le Grand 12 Peter Maxwell-Davies 12 Charles Jencks 10 Geoff Mulgan 10 Charles Grant 9 David Pannick 9 Thomas Kirkwood 8 Matthew D'Ancona 6 Raymond Tallis 6 Adair Turner 5 David Green 5 Michael Craig-Martin 4 David Elstein 3 Tom Nairn 3 Malise Ruthven 2 |
