Oh good, we can make it a competition.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the $100.
Neil Armstrong on the $50.
Cosmo Kramer on the hundo
My nominees would include John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie.
Cayman Islands here. Our currency now features Queen Elizabeth II on all denominations.
Coming up with candidates who are already dead is a bit hard. My proposals would be:
$1 - Gladwyn K. Bush aka ‘Miss Lassie’, Caymanian folk artist
$5 - Capt. Rayal Bodden, Caymanian shipwright and architect
$10 - William Warren Conolly, Caymanian politician
$25 - Sybil Joyce Hylton, Caymanian social development pioneer
$50 - Capt. Charles Gerald Kirkconnell, Caymanian sea captain and entrepreneur
$100 - Jim Manoah Bodden, Caymanian politician
No Mitt Romney?
(sorry…carry on…)
I agree with the wait-until-they’re-dead-ten-years rule for putting famous people on stamps and currency, so it’s a bit too soon for Neil Armstrong yet, and Obama is, of course, still in the White House.
I think I’d drop Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and U.S. Grant from the $50 for Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt, respectively. That honors two better Presidents, and maintains partisan balance, too.
Obama has a cool face for money, I want him on the $5 coin.
Tesla for the twenty, of course.
Susan B. Anthony. MLK. And Teddy Roosevelt for sure. He’s the most badass president in history – put him on the $20.
They have to be dead for 10 years? I didn’t catch that.
Derek Zoolander on every note. Ferrari on the $1 bill, Tigra on the $5 bill, Blue Steel on the $10 and Magnum on the $100.
Love the idea of Jane Austen on the notes.
Kiwi here. I’m pretty happy with all the people on our notes except for the $20. I don’t see why we have to have the Queen when she appears as a watermark on all our notes. My choice would be historian & author Michael King. Michael King - Wikipedia
He will have been dead for 10 years next year, but it’s worth noting that Sir Edmund Hilary started appearing our notes when he was still alive.
Whoops, I meant Michael King will have been dead for 10 years next year.
But yes, the late Sir Edmund Hilary started appearing on our $5 note when he was still alive.
The whole periodic table of elements on an American paper currency?!
It would have to be printed so small that nobody could read a particular entry without a microscope!
On the other hand, I kind of like the basic idea. That’s why I’d put the First Amendment of the US Constitution on the $1 bill.
That would make it a bill of Bill of Rights and remind people that we are supposed to be free to worship, express, or congregate – OR NOT – as we wish.
I think I’d re-emphasize that by listing all 10 of the Rights in the Bill of Rights (or just their ‘titles’) on the $10 bill.
For the $2, I think I’d put a little piece of mylar in that oval, partly just to say, “Hey, you may be no less important than anyone else.” and partly to be able to joke, “Hey! There’s $2 of you!” 
For the $5 I’d put Henry Ford, proponent of mass production, consumerism, and Fordism.
For the $20 I’d put Alfred Nobel. Yeah, I know he wasn’t American and he invented Dynamite as a safer (than nitroglycerin) form of industrial explosive, but he also founded the Nobel prizes.
For the $50 I’d put Albert Einstein, to remind holders that one’s financial status is relative
For the $100 I’d put Siddhartha Gautama, to emphasize to people that wealth is an ephemeral illusion which, in the end, we all must release from our grasp.
–G!
And you can’t take it with you
No matter what you do
No you can’t take it with you
Not the place you’re going to
…–Alan Parsons (Alan Parson’s Project)
…Can’t Take it With You
…Pyramid
Al Capone
Redesign the currency, eh? We just did ours in Canada, but if we were doing it again, I’d boot all the politicians and replace them with artists and writers and sports people and scientists. How about… Terry Fox on the $5. Alex Colville on the $10. (The Queen remains on the $20, unless we decide to abolish the Canadian monarchy, which would imply new money anyway, in which case she’s replaced by Geddy Lee.) Stephen Leacock on the $50. Maurice Richard on the $100. Banting and Best on the new $200. And Pat and Chuck Potter on the revived $500.
Topless woman riding a shark.
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
James Dean
Marilyn Monroe
Putting those people on money would make US currency quite the collectors’ item, pretty much world-wide.
Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
Black Kettle
John Brown
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
William Bradford
William Brewster
Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd - one of the bravest, most intelligent, responsible, least self-interested men in history, (If the sea dies, we die)
and Rachel Carson who made such a sea change in the environmental paradigm and is so little recognized for it.