Time's 100 Most Influential - The List

[jefferson_dem]

Time 100: World's most influential

Leaders & Revolutionaries
Norah al-Faiz, deputy minister for women's education, Saudi Arabia
Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister, Iraq
Gordon Brown, prime minister, Great Britain
Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, United States
Thomas Dart, sheriff, Cook County, Illinois
Joaquin Guzman, Mexican druglord
Xi Jinping, vice president, China
Boris Johnson, mayor, London
Paul Kagame, president, Rwanda
Edward Kennedy, US Senator
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of army staff, Pakistan
Christine Lagarde, minister of finance, France
Avigdor Lieberman, deputy prime minister, Israel
David McKiernan, commander, US Forces, Afghanistan
Angela Merkel, chancellor, Germany
Barack Obama, president, United States
Wang Qishan, vice premier, China
Nicolas Sarkozy, president, France
Elizabeth Warren, chair, TARP Congressional Oversight
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president, Indonesia

Builders & Titans
Sheila Bair, chair, US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Robin Chase, founder, Zipcar
Jamie Dimon, CEO, JP Morgan Chase & Company
Timothy Geithner, treasury secretary, United States
Jack Ma, founder and COO, Alibaba Group
Bernie Madoff, Ponzi scheme operator
Stella McCartney, fashion designer
Alexander Medvedev, deputy CEO, Gazprom
Moot, founder, 4chan.org
Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and chair Infosys Technologies
Suze Orman, financial advisor
T.Boone Pickens, chairman, BP Capital Management
Brad Pitt, actor and producer
Tessa Ross, producer, Slumdog Millionaire
Carlos Slim, businessman and philanthropist
Ted Turner, philanthropist and founder, CNN
Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, founders, Twitter
Meredith Whitney, founder, Meredith Whitney LLC
Lauren Zalaznick, president, NBC Universal Women and Lifestyle Entertainment Networks

Scientists & Thinkers
Shai Agassi, founder and CEO, Better Place
Dan Barber, chef and creative director, Blue Hill
Nicholas Christakis, physician and sociologist, Harvard
Steven Chu, secretary of energy, United States
Paul Ekman, psychologist
Jon Favreau, chief speechwriter, President Obama
Roland Fryer, professor of economics, Harvard University
Barbara Hogan, minister of health, South Africa
Connie Hedegaard, climate and energy minister, Denmark
Paul Krugman, economist and author
Martin Lindstrom, CEO and chairman, LINDSTROM
Amory Lovins, founder, Rocky Mountain Institute
Douglas Melton, co-director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Dambisa Moyo, economist and author
Yoichiro Nambu, Nobel-prize winning physicist
Daniel Nocera, director, Solar Revolution Project at MIT
Nouriel Roubini, economist and chairman, RGE Monitor
Stephan Schuster & Webb Miller, Woolly Mammoth DNA,
biologists, Penn State University
David Sheff, author, Beautiful Boy
Nate Silver, statistician and journalist

Artists & Entertainers
Penelope Cruz, actress
Elizabeth Diller & Ricardo Scofidio, founders, Diller, Scofidio & Renfro architecture studio
Gustavo Dudamel, violinist and conductor
Zac Efron, actor and singer
Tina Fey, actress, writer and producer
Tom Hanks, actor, director and producer
Werner Herzog, film director and screen writer
Dan & Sam Houser, co-founders, Rockstar Games
Judith Jamison, artistic director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
William Kentridge, artist
Jeff Kinney, author, Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Lang Lang, concert pianist
John Legend, singer-songwriter
Jay Leno, television host
Rush Limbaugh, radio host
M.I.A., rapper, singer and producer
A.R. Rahman, film composer, Slumdog Millionaire
Tavis Smiley, television host
Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck,
Sherri Shepherd, and Joy Behar, co-hosts, The View
Kate Winslet, actress

Heroes & Icons
Leonard Abess, CEO, City National Bank of Florida
Seth Berkley, founder and CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Jeff Bezos, founder, president and CEO, Amazon.com
George Clooney, actor, director, producer and activist
Michael Eavis, founder, Glastonbury Festival
Van Jones, founder, Green for All
Marine Lance Cpl. Brady A. Gustafson, soldier
Somaly Mam, author and human rights activist
Hadizatou Mani, anti-slavery activist
Rafael Nadal, tennis player
Michelle Obama, First Lady
Manny Pacquiao, boxer
Suraya Pakzad, founder, Voice of Women Organization
Sarah Palin, governor, Alaska
Captain Richard Phillips, rescued hostage of Somali pirates
Sister Mary Scullion, founder, Project H.O.M.E.
Chelsey B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, pilot
Rick Warren, pastor
Oprah Winfrey, talk-show host and philanthropist
Tiger Woods, golfer

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[lamp_shade]

1. WHEW!! They're in alphabetical order. n/t

[cali]

2. pretty arbitrary

and Zac Efron? really?

[GoCubsGo]

3. He's more deserving of that list than...

...Sarah Palin, for sure. The list is about "influential people", and he has the tween/teen market pretty much wrapped up there. I'm kind of surprised Miley Cyrus wasn't on it, too. Even she is more worthy of that list than Caribou Barbie.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Some 12 year old must had put the list together.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. He influences thousands of tweens. So I guess...

But so does KidsBop.

[PBS Poll-435]

6. Appropriate that Bair and Madoff are on the list

Birds of a feather, imho.

[RockaFowler]

7. WTF Sarah Palin??

She is neither an Icon or Hero:wtf:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

9. I think she is an fact an Iconic Right Wing Republican figure and I think that's great!

Just think of all the things she stands for:

Intolerance, Hypocrisy, Pandering, Inaneness, Inflamatory rhetoric, Environmental plunder and on and on.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

8. Sarah Palin didn't make it into the Leaders and Revolutionaries w/ the other world political figures

She got shuffled off into Heros and Icons.