One percenter asks: "Have you ever heard of anybody great that's come out of the 99 percent?"

Abraham Lincoln
Jesus of Nazareth (son of a carpenter)
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
Linus Torvalds


The above is not comprehensive, just a quick list to answer the question raised in the title.

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