OK, here's my entry for that poll - not to influence your choices, merely to remind you to send in your own entry if you haven't already.
1. Poet: W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot
2. Playwright: Shakespeare
3. Novelist: Jane Austen
4. Composer: Beethoven
5. Jazz musician: Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk
6. Rock or pop star/group: Bob Dylan
7. Country music ditto: Emmylou Harris
8. Movie director: Hitchcock, Peckinpah
9. Painter: Rembrandt
10. Photographer: transfer to 1
11. Sculptor: transfer to 5
12. Architect: transfer to 8
Your turn?