| 100% | BUDPOWELL | 9 | Miles Davis said he was "the best there was of all the bebop piano players" |
| 39% | NIGEL | 5 | Richards who is generally regarded as the best Scrabble player of all time |
| 39% | KOBE | 4 | LeBron said he was "definitely the best player in the NBA" |
| 38% | YEATS | 5 | He wrote, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity" |
| 34% | JETT | 4 | Rocker Joan who was named the best female guitar player of all time by the Gibson guitar company |
| 34% | THECFL | 6 | In 2006, Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie was named the best player of all time in this league |
| 34% | LITTLEONE | 9 | He said "Roll over" when there were 10 in the bed |
| 34% | ALI | 3 | He was bested in the "Fight of the Century" |
| 33% | STALIN | 6 | He allegedly said, “Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union” |
| 33% | KINDOFBLUE | 10 | Miles Davis classic that's the all-time best-selling jazz album |
| 33% | BAGPIPEDREAMS | 13 | Fantasies about being the best player of a Scottish instrument? |
| 33% | ANDYWARHOL | 10 | Who said "Sex is the biggest nothing of all time" |
| 33% | NERD | 4 | Type of person Lewis was when he said "We have news for the beautiful people. There's a lot more of us then there are of you." ('84) |
| 32% | STMARK | 6 | He is said to have founded the Church of Alexandria |
| 32% | ROBERTALTMAN | 12 | Five-time Best Director nominee who said "All of the best things in my films are mistakes" |
| 31% | SEATS | 5 | All of the ___ at the movie were taken, there was no where to sit |
| 31% | GUNSNROSES | 10 | Band whose "Appetite for Destruction" was the best-selling debut album of all time |
| 31% | WCFIELDS | 8 | He said "I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally" |
| 31% | BRAD | 4 | ___ Davis, NBA player who had one of the best free agent signings with the Dallas Mavericks |
| 31% | ROD | 3 | ___ Stewart, "Baby Jane" singer who is one of the best-selling artists of all time |
| 31% | YERTLE | 6 | Kid-lit title character who says "I am the ruler of all that I see!" |
| 31% | ONE | 3 | He is the best ___ |
| 31% | MICHAEL | 7 | ___ Jackson, American singer dubbed the "King of Pop" whose 1982 album "Thriller" is the best-selling album of all time |
| 30% | GOD | 3 | "And ___ said, Let there be light" (line from the Book of Genesis) |
| 30% | DANIELLESTEEL | 13 | Novelist who is the fourth best-selling fiction writer of all time |
| 30% | CANDIDE | 7 | Source of the line "If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?" |
| 30% | CHRISTIE | 8 | English author Agatha who created Hercule Poirot, and is the best-selling novelist of all time, according to the Guinness World Records |
| 30% | END | 3 | At the ___ of the day (when all is said and done) |
| 30% | SALT | 4 | "People like him are the ___ of the earth." (good and honest) |
| 30% | NEWS | 4 | None of it is good, as the saying goes |