TIME's most influential people

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Here is the Complete 2008 TIME 100 List , I wasn't bother to google this until I heard "anwar ibrahim" and saw my favourite host; martha stewart on the tv.

Leaders and Revolutionaries
Michelle Bachelet, president, Chile (Hillary Clinton)
Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury)
Ben Bernanke, chairman, Federal Reserve (Justin Fox)
George W. Bush, president, United States (Silvio Berlusconi)
Hillary Clinton, U.S. senator and presidential candidate (Rob Reiner)
Dalai Lama, spiritual leader (Deepak Chopra)
Sonia Gandhi, president, Indian National Congress (Shashi Tharoor)
Robert Gates, secretary of defense, U.S. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
Anwar Ibrahim, former deputy prime minister, Malaysia (Paul Wolfowitz) --->can't believe he is listed the top 100
Hu Jintao, president, China (Henry Kissinger)
Ashfaq Kayani, chief of army staff, Pakistan (Aryn Baker)
John McCain, U.S. senator and presidential candidate (Joe Lieberman)
Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistani militant leader (Peter Bergen)
Evo Morales, president, Bolivia (Joe Stiglitz)
Barack Obama, senator and presidential candidate (Deval Patrick)
Vladimir Putin, prime minister and former president, Russia (Madeleine Albright)
Kevin Rudd, prime minister, Australia (Cate Blanchett)
Muqtada al-Sadr, politician and militia commander, Iraq (Ricardo Sanchez)
Ma Ying-Jeou, president-elect, Taiwan (Michael Schuman)
Jacob Zuma, president, African National Congress (Rian Malan)


Heroes and Pioneers
Andre Agassi, founder, Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation (Andy Roddick)
Lance Armstrong, cyclist and cancer activist (Elizabeth Edwards)
Aung San Suu Kyi, leader, National League of Democracy, Burma (Anjelica Huston)
Tony Blair, former prime minister, Great Britain (Bill Clinton)
Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador (Paul Rusesabagina)
Peter Gabriel, performer and co-founder, the Elders (Archbishop Desmond Tutu)
Kaka, Brazilian soccer player (Kasey Keller)
Mohammed al-Maktoum, leader of Dubai (Scott MacLeod)
George Mitchell, former U.S. Senate majority leader (Samantha Power)
Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer (Nancy Lopez)
Madeeha Hasan Odhaib, Baghdad council councilwoman (Queen Rania)
Randy Pausch, professor, Carnegie-Mellon, and motivational speaker (Katie Couric)
Oscar Pistorius, disabled sprinter (Erik Weihenmayer)
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, actors and activists (George Clooney)
Yoani Sánchez, Cuban blogger (Oscar Hijuelos)
Alexis Sindihije, founder, Radio Publique Africaine (Christiane Amanpour)
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and philanthropist (Michelle Obama)
Bob and Suzanne Wright, founders, Autism Speaks (Tom Brokaw)


Scientists and Thinkers
Paul Allen, scientific philanthropist and co-founder, Microsoft (Story Landis and Thomas Insel)
Isaac Berzin, founder, GreenFuel Technologies Corp. (Fred Krupp)
Michael Bloomberg, mayor, New York City (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.)
Larry Brilliant, director, Google.org (Jimmy Carter)
Nancy Brinker, founder, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and U.S. chief of protocol (Cokie Roberts)
Eric Chivian and Richard Cizik, environmental activists (Leith Anderson)
Michael Griffin, administrator, NASA (Marsha Ivins)
Jeff Han, research scientist (John King)
Mary Lou Jepsen, founding CTO, One Laptop Per Child (Brewster Kahle)
Wendy Kopp, founder and president, Teach For America (Jeffrey Kluger)
Harold McGee, food science writer (Alton Brown)
Mehmet Oz, cardiothoracic surgeon, author, commentator (Eric Ripert)
Peter Pronovost, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, Johns Hopkins (Kathleen Kingsbury)
Nicholas Schiff, neurology pioneer (Michael Kinsley)
Susan Solomon, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Rajendra Pachauri)
Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomist, Indiana University (Dick Clark)
Craig Venter, founder, Institute for Genomic Research (Robin Cook)
Shinya Yamanaka and James Thomson, stem-cell researchers (Ian Wilmut)
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO, Facebook (Craig Newmark)


Artists and Entertainers
Judd Apatow, writer and director (Garry Shandling)
Mariah Carey, singer (Stevie Wonder)
George Clooney, actor, writer and director (Roseanne Barr)
Joel and Ethan Coen, writers and directors (Richard Corliss)
Miley Cyrus, actress and singer (Donny Osmond)
Robert Downey Jr., actor (Ben Stiller)
Peter Gelb, general manager, Metropolitan Opera (Anna Netrebko)
Elizabeth Gilbert, novelist, essayist and short-story writer (John Hodgman)
Herbie Hancock, jazz pianist and composer (Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter)
Khaled Hosseini, author (Laura Bush)
Rem Koolhaas, architect, professor, Harvard School of Design (Richard Lacayo)
Stephanie Meyer, author, Twilight series (Orson Scott Card)
Lorne Michaels, creator and producer, Saturday Night Live (Tina Fey)
Takahashi Murakami, artist and designer (Marc Jacobs)
Suze Orman, personal-finance adviser (Donny Deutsch)
Tyler Perry, playwright, actor and director (T.D. Jakes)
Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, video game designers (Steven Van Zandt)
Chris Rock, comedian (Jerry Seinfeld)
Tim Russert, journalist and moderator, Meet the Press (Mario Cuomo)
Bruce Springsteen, songwriter and performer (Sean Penn)
Tom Stoppard, playwright (Ethan Hawke)


Builders and Titans
Jay Adelson, founder and CTO, Equinix, Inc. (Lev Grossman)
Michael Arrington, founder, TechCrunch (Arianna Huffington)
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft (Guy Kawasaki)
Jeff Bezos, founder, chairman and CEO, Amazon (Josh Quittner)
Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs (Robert Reich)
Cynthia Carroll, CEO, Anglo American (Nicky Oppenheimer)
John Chambers, chairman and CEO, Cisco (John Doerr)
Jamie Dimon, president, JPMorgan Chase (Michael Bloomberg)
Mo Ibrahim, philanthropist and founder, Celtel (William Easterly)
Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO, General Electric (Conan O'Brien)
Lou Jiwei, chairman, China Investment Corp. (Stephen Roach)
Steve Jobs, chairman, ceo and co-founder, Apple (Barbara Kiviat)
Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for competition (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer (Zaha Hadid)
Rupert Murdoch, CEO, News Corp (Paul Steiger)
Ali al-Naimi, oil minister, Saudi Arabia (Lynn Westfall)
Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO, Pepsico (Howard Schultz)
Radiohead, songwriters and performers (Edgar Bronfman Jr.)
Carine Roitfeld, editor-in-chief, French Vogue (Hedi Slimane)
Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman (Alvin Toffler)
Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Group (Simon Robinson)
Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, entrepreneur (Riz Khan)

Talk-Show Hosts

Tyra Banks, Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, Suze Orman, Rachael Ray, Martha Stewart and Oprah Winfrey



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