Wild Men 2026 Rankings

The Rankings 1 through 100 as this blog sees them as of April 1. Living or (mainly) dead since the beginning of time. Wild Men and Wild Women are people who listen only to the little voice in their head. They get things done. They build things. They don’t care what you think. Uncertainty and turbulence–in the economy, stock markets, governments, the weather, bad odds, you name it–only get their juices flowing.

1. Christopher Columbus

2. Ben Franklin
3. Dr. Johnson
4. Dr. Thompson
5. Theodore Roosevelt
6. Andrew Jackson
7. Michelangelo
8. Ayn Rand
9. Ana Marie Cox
10. Japan
11. Boudica
12. Winston Churchill
12. Benjamin Disraeli
14. Arianna Huffington
15. Bucky Fuller
16. Nino Scalia
17. Bill Buckley
18. Bill Clinton
19. Steve Jobs
20. Ted Turner
21. Nick Nolte
22. Jerry Lee Lewis

Plato (#27) was way Wild. Read the Timaeus.

23. The Welsh
24. Jann Wenner
25. Charlie Sheen
26. Ken Wilbur
27. Plato
28. Catherine the Great
29. Val Kilmer
30. Harry Dean Stanton
31. North Korea
32. Julius Caesar
33. Pete Seeger
34. John Lennon
35. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
36. Peter Sheridan
37. Christopher Hitchens
38. Jerry Brown
39. Warren Beatty
40. Jack Nicholson
41. John the Baptist
42. Rahm Emanuel
43. Robert Mitchum
44. Joan of Arc and Charles Barkley (tie)
45. Dylan Thomas
46. Quentin Crisp
46. “E”
47. Boswell

48. Ben Jonson
49. Mae West
50. Daniel Pinchbeck

Zelda Fitzgerald (#90) was Wild. So was her childhood friend Tallulah Bankhead (#91).

51. Daniel O’Connell
53. Hermann the German
54. Elizabeth Wurtzel
55. St. John of Patmos
56. John Henry “Doc” Holliday
57. Genghis Khan
58. Alexander
59. Charles Bukowski
60. Gordon Liddy
61. Malcolm Lowry
63. Keith Moon
64. Charlie Munger
65. Babe Ruth
66. Chrissie Hynde
67. Colin Farell
68. Warren Zevon
69. Kim Jong-un
70. Billy Martin
71. Joe Namath
72. Guy de Maupassant
73. Grace Slick
74. Edna St. Vincent Millay
75. Mickey Mantle
76. Francois Villon
77. Ernie from Glen Burnie
78. Rep. Bob Eckhardt (Texas-D)
79. Stan Harper
80. Ray Davies
81. Marc Randazza
82. Daniel Sickles
83. Alec Baldwin
84. John Huston
85. Roman Polanski
86. Gertrude Stein
87. Oscar Levant
88. Ava Gardner
89. Frank Sinatra
90. Zelda Fitzgerald
91. Tallulah Bankhead
92. Ted Kennedy
93. Frances Farmer
94. Richard Burton
95. Elizabeth Taylor
96. Marion Barry
97. Racehorse Haynes
98. Ben Bradlee
99. Davey Crockett
100. William Randolph Hearst
101. Steve Bannon
102. Donald Trump
103. Stephen Miller
104. Cernovich

105. Nicolas Kim Coppola
106. Gavin McInnes

Meet Ted (#20). He never cared what you thought.