The 2008 TIME 100
Our fifth annual list of the world's most influential people: leaders, thinkers, heroes, artists, scientists and more
Full List
Leaders & Revolutionaries
- Dalai Lama
- Vladimir Putin
- Barack Obama
- Hillary Clinton
- John McCain
- Hu Jintao
- George W. Bush
- Jacob Zuma
- Anwar Ibrahim
- Kevin Rudd
- Bartholomew I
- Ben Bernanke
- Muqtada al-Sadr
- Robert Gates
- Michelle Bachelet
- Sonia Gandhi
- Baitullah Mehsud
- Evo Morales
- Ma Ying-jeou
- Ashfaq Kayani
Heroes & Pioneers
- Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie
- Oprah Winfrey
- Oscar Pistorius
- Mia Farrow
- Andre Agassi
- Lance Armstrong
- Bob and Suzanne Wright
- Peter Gabriel
- Kaká
- Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum
- Yoani Sánchez
- Madeeha Hasan Odhaib
- Randy Pausch
- Lorena Ochoa
- Tony Blair
- Alexis Sinduhije
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- George Mitchell
Scientists & Thinkers
- Michael Bloomberg
- Craig Venter
- Jill Bolte Taylor
- Larry Brilliant
- Jeff Han
- Mehmet Oz
- Nancy Brinker
- Harold McGee
- Peter Pronovost
- Eric Chivian & Richard Cizik
- Mary Lou Jepsen
- Paul Allen
- Nicholas Schiff
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Wendy Kopp
- Shinya Yamanaka & James Thomson
- Michael Griffin
- Susan Solomon
- Isaac Berzin
Artists & Entertainers
- Lorne Michaels
- Miley Cyrus
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Herbie Hancock
- Joel & Ethan Coen
- Bruce Springsteen
- Peter Gelb
- Mariah Carey
- Khaled Hosseini
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Rem Koolhaas
- Judd Apatow
- Alex Rigopulos & Eran Egozy
- George Clooney
- Tim Russert
- Suze Orman
- Stephenie Meyer
- Tyler Perry
- Tom Stoppard
- Chris Rock
- Takashi Murakami
Builders & Titans
- Indra Nooyi
- Ali al-Naimi
- Rupert Murdoch
- Steve Jobs
- Radiohead
- John Chambers
- Jeff Bezos
- Jay Adelson
- Steve Ballmer
- Jamie Dimon
- Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
- Lou Jiwei
- Neelie Kroes
- Jeffrey Immelt
- Karl Lagerfeld
- Lloyd Blankfein
- Carlos Slim
- Mo Ibrahim
- Ratan Tata
- Cynthia Carroll
- Carine Roitfeld
- Michael Arrington
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