20 greatest Americans

To follow up on my original post, here is my version of the 20 greatest figures in American history. I selected the candidates according to their virtues as Americans – and to do that, I had to derive the essence of Americanism. I selected three characteristics: love of freedom, individual rights, and the creation of wealth. Several vocations met these traits: statesmen, soldiers, philosophers, inventors and entrepreneurs.
Here goes:

22-15.) Ronald Reagan, Ludwig von Mises, Martin Luther King Jr, Abraham Lincoln, Bill Gates, Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, Douglas MacArthur

Speakers and Writers:
14.) Frederick Douglass
13.) Thomas Paine
Generals:
11.) Ulysses S. Grant
10.) George S. Patton
Inventors & Businessmen:
9.) Thomas Edison
8.) Henry Ford
7.) Orville & Wilbur Wright
Philosophers and Statesmen:
6.) Ayn Rand
12.) Alexander Hamilton
5.) John Adams
4.) James Madison
3.) Benjamin Franklin
2.) Thomas Jefferson
1.) George Washington