It has pained my wife and I to see the Discovery Channel's 100 Greatest Americans list with people like Oprah and such on there. Kindred spirit John Hawkins has put up a list of his own that I largely agree with. Here's my list:
Top 25:
1) George Washington
2) Thomas Edison
3) John Adams
4) Alexander Hamilton
5) Abraham Lincoln
6) Theodore Roosevelt
7) Andrew Jackson
8) Thomas Jefferson
9) Henry Ford
10) Benjamin Franklin
11) The Wright Brothers
12) Albert Einstein (not born here but..)
13)Alexander Graham Bell
14) Tom Paine
15) Ulyssses S Grant
16) Martin Luther King Jr.
17) Bill Gates
18) Steve Jobs
19) Walt Disney
20) James Madison
21) James Monroe
22) Harry S. Truman
23) Ronald Reagan
24) John Paul Jones
25) Ray Kroc
26) Charles lindbergh
27) Stephen King
28) Samuel Morse
29) Sam Walton
30) Dwight Eisenhower
31) Sam Houston
32) Will Sherman
33) George Lucas
34) Steven Spielberg
35) John F. Kennedy
36) George Patton
37) Sam Colt
38) John Hancock
39) Woodrow Wilson
40) Mark Twain
So that's my 2 cents.