New York: Two Indians now settled in the US - Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen and acclaimed journalist Fareed Zakaria - are among the top 20 intellectuals in the world today, according to a poll conducted by a US magazine.

Sen and Zakaria, Newsweek International's editor, are at No. 16 and No. 17 respectively in the list published by Foreign Policy magazine in its July/August issue.

The top 20 names were picked by about 500,000 online votes cast by the magazine's readers from among an initial list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals published by the bimonthly in its last issue.

Fethullah Gullen, an Islamic scholar from Turkey with a global network of millions of followers, is at No.1 on the list and Nobel Prize-winning microfinancier Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh is at No 2.

Aitzaz Ahsan, president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association and a vocal opponent of President Pervez Musharraf's rule, is at No 5., while Mahmood Mamdani, a cultural anthropologist born in Uganda to South Asian parents and familiar to Indians as filmmaker Mira Nair's husband, is also on the list at No 9.

Other well-known names are former US vice president Al Gore (No 12), Noam Chomsky (11), and chess grandmaster and Russian democracy activist Garry Kasparov (18).