This year's list of Time 100 most influential people is an eclectic mix of entertainers, journalists, scientists, politicians and world leaders. The list also includes Queen Elizabeth II, presidential hopefuls senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley and model Kate Moss. However, US President George W Bush doesn't figure in the list.
The list of 100 most influential, which hit newsstands on Friday, also includes 71 men and 29 women from 27 countries.
Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio and envelope-pushers Rosie O’Donnell and Sacha Baron Cohen are among the entertainment newsmakers, so are director Martin Scorsese and singer/actor Justin Timberlake.
Other entertainers also making the list are Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, America Ferrera, Michael J. Fox, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller.
The complete list
Leaders & Revolutionaries | |
| Leaders & Revolutionaries | |
| King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia | |
| Peter Akinola, archbishiop, Nigeria | |
| Mohamed Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, president, Sudan | |
| Osama bin Laden | |
| Michael Bloomberg, mayor, New York City | |
| Raul Castro, acting president, Cuba | |
| Hillary Clinton, US senator from New York | |
| Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom | |
| Sonia Gandhi, chair, Indian National Congress Party | |
| Hu Jintao, president, China | |
| Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader, Iran | |
| Liu Qi, chief, Beijing Olympic Committee | |
| Tzipi Livni, foreign minister, Israel | |
| Angela Merkel, chancellor, Germany | |
| Barack Obama, US senator from Illinois | |
| Nancy Pelosi, speaker, US House of Representatives | |
| David Petraeus, commanding general, US Army | |
| Pope Benedict XVI | |
| Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state | |
| John Roberts, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court | |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor, California | |
| Builders & Titans | |
| Bernard Arnault, French businessman | |
| Richard Branson, CEO, Virgin | |
| Rhonda Byrne, author, The Secret | |
| Steve Chen & Chad Hurley, founders, YouTube | |
| Steve Cohen, hedge fund manager | |
| Clare Furse, chief executive, London Stock Exchange | |
| Ho Ching, chief executive, Temasek | |
| Steve Jobs, founder and CEO, Apple | |
| Ken Lewis, CEO, Bank of America | |
| Erik Lie, finance professor, University of Iowa | |
| Pony Ma, founder and CEO, Tencent | |
| Lakshmi Mittal, CEO, Arcelor Steel | |
| Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer, Nintendo | |
| Michael Moritz, investor, Sequoia Capital | |
| Indra Nooyi, CEO, PepsiCo | |
| Cyril Ramaphosa, South African union leader | |
| Philip Rosedale, founder, Second Life | |
| Stephen Schwarzman, CEO, Blackstone Group | |
| Katsuaki Watanabe, president and CEO, Toyota | |
| Artists & Entertainers | |
| Cate Blanchett, actress | |
| Sacha Baron Cohen, actor | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio, actor | |
| Alber Elbaz, creative director, Lanvin | |
| America Ferrera, actress | |
| Tina Fey, actress and writer | |
| Simon Fuller, creator, American Idol | |
| Brian Grazer, producer | |
| John Mayer, musician | |
| David Mitchell, author | |
| Kate Moss, fashion model | |
| Yossou N’Dour, musician | |
| Anna Netrebko, opera singer | |
| Rosie O’Donnell, comedian and talk show host | |
| Brad Pitt, actor | |
| Shonda Rhimes, actress and writer | |
| Nora Roberts, romance novelist | |
| Rick Rubin, music producer | |
| Martin Scorsese, director | |
| Justin Timberlake, musician | |
| Kara Walker, artist | |
| Brian Williams, anchor, NBC Nightly News | |
| Scientists & Thinkers | |
| Paul Allen, scientific philanthropist and co-founder, Microsoft | |
| Chris Anderson, author, Long Tail | |
| Elizabeth Blackburn, researcher, UCSF | |
| Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, Oxford University | |
| Frans de Waal, chimpanzee researcher | |
| Al Gore, environmental activist and former U.S. vice president | |
| Monty Jones, agricultural researcher | |
| John Mather, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist | |
| Douglas Melton, stem cell researcher, Harvard University | |
| Steven Nissen, cardiac researcher, The Cleveland Clinic | |
| T.C. Onstatt, geoscientist, Princeton University | |
| Svante Paabo, paleogeneticist, Max Planck Institute | |
| Lisa Randall, string theorist, Harvard University | |
| Klaus Schwab, founder, World Economic Forum | |
| Kari Stefansson, genomics researcher | |
| Alan Stern, planetary scientist, NASA | |
| Neil DeGrasse Tyson, director, Hayden Planetarium | |
| Craig Venter, founder, Institute for Genomic Research | |
| Nora Volkow, director, National Institute on Drug Abuse | |
| Heroes & Pioneers | |
| Maher Arar, rendition survivor | |
| Wesley Autrey, New York City subway hero | |
| Tyra Banks, talk show host and model | |
| Warren Buffett, businessman and philanthropist | |
| Youk Chhang, executive director, Documentation Center of Cambodia | |
| George Clooney, actor, director and activist | |
| Tony Dungy, coach, Indianapolis Colts | |
| Elizabeth Edwards, cancer activist | |
| Drew Gilpin Faust, newly appointed president, Harvard University | |
| Roger Federer, tennis star | |
| Michael J. Fox, actor and stem cell advocate | |
| Timothy Gittins, decorated U.S. soldier | |
| Thiery Henry, French soccer star | |
| Garry Kasparov, Russian chessmaster | |
| Amr Khaled, Egyptian televangelist | |
| Judith McKay, anti-tobacco activist, World Health Organization | |
| Chien-ming Wang, pitcher, New York Yankees | |
| Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and philanthropist | |
| Zeng Jinyan, Chinese blogger | |
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