| LATA | ___ Mangeshkar, one of the greatest and most influential singers in India |
| BOB | Influential singer-songwriter, _ Dylan (3) |
| MURASAKISHIKIBU | Japanese novelist, poet, and lady-in-waiting from the Heian period who penned one of the most influential and widely read Japanese classical works: The Tale of Genji. |
| SIA | Singer with the hits The Greatest and Cheap Thrills |
| POWER | Artist with the albums You Are Free, The Greatest, and Sun |
| WILLS | Playing in the first half of the twentieth century, she is still considered to be one of the greatest all-time tennis stars of the US and the world; Helen ... Moody |
| NEWTON | Scientist whose magnum opus Principia was published by the Royal Society with the help of Edmond Halley in 1687 and remains one of the world's most influential works |
| ALI | He said he was the greatest, and many agree |
| ARGALI | Irish love coming back with the greatest and largest wild sheep (6) |
| JIANGQING | As a member of the Gang of Four, she was the most influential woman in the People's Republic of China (5,4) |
| THEODORA | Wife of Emperor Justinian I considered the most influential and powerful woman in the history of the Byzantine Empire |
| UTTERMOST | The greatest and biggest distributors do (9) |
| NEDKELLY | Who was the subject of Sidney Nolan's series of paintings from 1946-47. considered to be one of the greatest sequences of Australian paintings of the 20th century? (3,5) |
| TENZINGNORGAY | Born Namgyal Wangdi in 1914, he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th Century (7,6) |
| TIME | Magazine that in 1997 named Tiger Woods one of the 25 most influential people in America |
| MAGIC | ___ Johnson one of the greatest players of the LA Lakers who has the highest assists per game in NBA history and introduced Showtime |
| ABDUL | Kareem ___-Jabbar one of the greatest players of the LA Lakers who has scored the most points in NBA history with 38387 points |
| PELE | One of the greatest football players of all time and labelled "the greatest" by FIFA |
| TETRIS | 'The most-played, most-imitated, most influential puzzler of all time,' per the video game website IGN |
| ELLINGTON | Duke ---, American composer, pianist and bandleader known as one of the most influential figures in jazz music (9) |
