100 TIME |
List of the most influential people in the world today |
Presidents and prelates, soldiers and terrorists, lawyers and philanthropists—these are the men and women who give hope and direction to the world or who try to turn it upside down
| George W. Bush Hu Jintao Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Ali Sistani Toshihiko Fukui Abu al-Zarqawi Kofi Annan Condoleezza Rice Recep Tayyip Erdogan John Abizaid |
Kim Jong Il Bill Gates Pope John Paul II Atal Behari Vajpayee John Kerry Luisa Diogo Vladmir Putin Wu Yi Osama bin Laden The Clintons |
In music and movies, fashion and food, television and
architecture, they have explored new territory, set new standards—and made the world
an immeasurably richer place for all of us
| Mark Burnett Frank Gehry John Galliano Peter Jackson Nicholas Hytner Simon Cowell OutKast Norah Jones Jerry Bruckheimer J.K. Rowling |
Ken Kutagari Bruce Nauman Katie Couric Charlie Kaufman Hideo Nakata Aishwarya Rai Ferran Adrià Nicole Kidman Sean Penn Guy Laliberté |
From technology in Texas to perfumes in Paris and satellite TV in Qatar, the men and women who lead businesses the world over
| Lee Scott Carly Fiorina Abigail Johnson David Neeleman Rupert Murdoch Lindsay Owen-Jones Howard Schultz Azim Premji Warren Buffett Michael Dell |
Al-Jazeera Lord John Browne Hiroshi Okuda / Fujio Cho Sergey Brin / Larry Page Bernard Arnault Sepp Blatter Belinda Stronach Meg Whitman Daniel Vasella Steve Jobs |
From their laboratories and university chairs—and sometimes seats of power—they have shaped how we see the world, and ourselves
| Edward Witten Steven Pinker Eric Lander Korean Cloners Paul Ridker Hernando de Soto Jeff Sachs Linus Torvalds Niall Ferguson Bernard Lewis |
Tariq Ramadan Jürgen Habermas Samantha Power Sandra Day O'Connor Jill Tarter Julie Gerberding Joschka Fischer Bjorn Lomborg Jong-Wook Lee Louise Arbour |
With some, it is their bravery that inspires; for others, their physical skills. And then there are those—a Tibetan monk, an elderly South African man—whose heroism shines from the way they live their life.
| Nelson Mandela Aung San Suu Kyi Queen Rania of Jordan Shirin Ebadi Bono Bernard Kouchner Bill Belichick David Beckham Lance Armstrong Yao Ming |
John Bogle Mel Gibson Arthur Agatston Dalai Lama Tiger Woods Paula Radcliffe Oprah Winfrey Arnold Schwarzenegger Evan Wolfson BKS Iyengar |