Who are the most respected people in machine learning?

Some of the names that come to mind: - Yann Lecun - Andrew Ng - Ray Kurzweil - Geoffrey Hinton - Olshausen - Jürgen Schmidhuber - Demis Hassabis

Here's my short list: Peter Norvig, Yann Lecun, Andrew Ng, Demis Hassabis, Michael I. Jordan, Ben Medlock, Jeff Dean, Jeff Hawkin, Steve Gould, Geoffery Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Simon Osindero and Fei-Fei Li

Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman, and Michael Jordan are the biggest names that come to mind not already mentioned. Also, I follow the work of Sridhar Mahadevan in reinforcement learning.

Yoshua Bengio: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/yoshua_en/index.html

Anyone who has written at least 2 seminal papers deserves a mention. Collins. Blei. Vapnick. Tibshrani. Many more.