What people from modern times will be talked about in 1000 years?

This is inspired by a thread I saw on another forum, a really interesting thing to consider.

It's completely impossible to know what the world of 3020 AD will look like - even assuming that there will be human beings as we recognise them today around at that stage is presumptious. We may well have gone extinct by then, or we might have genetically engineered ourselves into a completely different form (see transhumanism, and all that comes with that). So let's assume for the purposes of this question, there are still homo sapiens around that basically resemble us. Whether they still live here on Earth or elsewhere is another question altogether as well.

What people from the last century or so (since the end of the First World War or thereabouts) will still be remembered? What figures will stand out from 1000 years ago?

I think a lot of this will have to do with what this future civilisation values in historical figures. Obviously when we look back at our own history, we recognise powerful political and military leaders, but depending on the point in time, we remember people for other reasons. Renaissance Europe is known mostly for outstanding cultural figures rather than military ones - people remember Michelangelo and Donatello much better than the individual Medici rulers who sponsored them. When we look back on Ancient Greece, philosophers like Plato, Aristotle and Socrates are probably even better known than Pericles or Leonidas or any of the political figures of that time (apart from maybe Alexander the Great). Religions and spiritual philosophies/movements are also sometimes better known than individual rulers, such as with Confucius or the Buddha.

You could imagine a future society might value scientific people above all others, in which case those involved in the development of computing - Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing etc would be celebrated the most. Or biologists, Darwin, Wallace, Watson, Crick, Rosalind Franklin etc. Political figures would still stand out too, but they may be different to the ones we might consider noteworthy. People who foresaw things that we aren't generally aware of yet perhaps? We might consider Barack Obama significant in being the first non-white leader of the United States, but a future society might have moved past race altogether to the extent that they don't value it as much as we do today (in the same way that we have completely forgotten about distinctions like aristocrat/commoner, or barbarian vs civilised people etc.)

I certainly think the following have the best bet at being at least standing out from this time:

- Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin, first on another world, whether mankind lives beyond Earth at that stage or not, it is still a remarkable and unprecedented achievement in human history.
- Same goes for Gagarin, maybe Amundsen, Hillary/Tenzing etc.
- People responsible for major political movements, in particular Lenin (for modern communism), Gandhi (non-violent resistance), perhaps even someone obscure today who advocated environmentalism, something they value much more highly.
- Notoriously bloody political leaders, Hitler, Stalin, Mao etc. We tend to remember the tyrants from history, more than the ones who ruled over relative calm (Caligula, vs say Tiberius or Claudius).
- Iconic cultural figures? Elvis? The Beatles? Queen? Hitchcock? Or phenomenon like Star Trek/Star Wars, pioneering science fiction? Maybe cultural appetites might have shifted completely?
- Ryan Tubridy? (just messing )

Anyone you think might stand out to our descendants in a thousand years time?