| 100% | YORICK | 6 | About whom Hamlet said 1-Down |
| 48% | OPHELIA | 7 | To whom Hamlet says "Get thee to a nunnery" |
| 44% | KEROUAC | 7 | About whom Capote said, ''That's not writing, it's typing'' |
| 44% | YORICK | 6 | Of whom Hamlet said "He hath borne me on his back a thousand times" |
| 43% | KANYEWEST | 9 | About whom Obama said "He is a jackass. But he's talented" |
| 43% | ONO | 3 | About whom Lennon said, “She’s the teacher and I’m the pupil” |
| 42% | OLSON | 5 | Announcer Johnny who said "Come on down!" |
| 41% | DIANEARBUS | 10 | Who said "A photograph is a secret about a secret" |
| 41% | ATTLEE | 6 | About whom Churchill purportedly said "A modest man who has much to be modest about" |
| 41% | ALGER | 5 | Horatio who wrote about down-and-out boys |
| 41% | SNOOT | 5 | Uppity sort who looks down on others, say |
| 41% | GARBO | 5 | About whom Bette Davis said "Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft" |
| 41% | ASLAN | 5 | About whom Mr. Beaver says "He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion." |
| 40% | REAGAN | 6 | President who said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" |
| 40% | ESME | 4 | Salinger character who says, "I prefer stories about squalor" |
| 40% | ESME | 4 | Salinger teen who says, "I prefer stories about squalor" |
| 40% | DYLAN | 5 | About whom Obama said "There is not a bigger giant in the history of American music" |
| 40% | SUSANN | 6 | Best-selling novelist about whom Gore Vidal said "She doesn't write, she types!" |
| 39% | ESME | 4 | Salinger title girl who says, "I prefer stories about squalor" |
| 39% | ASTAIRE | 7 | About whom an early critic said "Can't act, can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little" |
| 39% | DIOR | 4 | Who said "A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting" |
| 39% | PELE | 4 | Who said "Football is not about one or two or three star players" |
| 39% | MISTERHYDE | 10 | Title character about whom another says: "The man seems hardly human" |
| 38% | IKEA | 4 | Company said to use about 1% of the world's wood supply |
| 38% | ESME | 4 | J.D. Salinger title character who says, "I prefer stories about squalor" |
| 38% | EMMA | 4 | About whom Mr. Knightley says, "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more" |
| 37% | BORE | 4 | One who talks only about himself, say |
| 37% | MADEA | 5 | Film character about whom Tyler Perry said "I just don't want to be her age playing her" |
| 36% | DOES | 4 | With 1-Down, commits a crime, say |
| 36% | REGAN | 5 | Character who said about her father, "Yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself" |