Your TIME 100
TIME asked who you thought should be on the list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Over 200 candidates were given a rating of 1 to 100. And your #1 choice? Let it Rain! The Korean R&B phenom had almost half a million votes, over 100,000 more than runner-up Stephen Colbert. At #16, blogger Perez Hilton did better than his namesake Paris — the socialite finished last with a limp score of 19.
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Rank
Name
Avg. Rating
Total Votes
1 Rain 79 470,174 2 Stephen Colbert 76 278,381 3 Sanjaya Malakar 76 182,371 4 Dane Cook 76 98,886 5 Sidney Crosby 76 85,835 6 J. K. Rowling 76 69,351 7 Richard Dawkins 76 51,055 8 Kiefer Sutherland 76 19,942 9 Shigeru Miyamoto 75 129,573 10 Bono 75 46,345 11 Steve Jobs 75 27,484 12 Jon Stewart 75 19,905 13 Amr Khaled 75 6,122 14 Roger Federer 74 7,749 15 Angelina Jolie 73 28,580 16 Perez Hilton 72 118,090 17 Howard Stern 72 30,826 18 Steve Spangler 72 18,950 19 Brad Pitt 72 12,863 20 Barack Obama 72 11,855 21 Beyonce Knowles 72 9,762 22 Matt Groening 72 4,502 23 Michael J. Fox 72 4,390 24 Nelson Mandela 71 4,729 25 Sacha Baron Cohen 70 6,447 26 George Clooney 70 6,254 27 Dean Karnazes 69 8,298 28 Aishwarya Rai 68 12,250 29 Warren Buffett 68 10,238 30 Jonathan Ive 68 7,862 31 Timbaland 68 4,762 32 King Bhumibol Adulyadej 67 324,733 33 Al Gore 67 11,597 34 John Mayer 67 11,311 35 Bill Gates 67 9,812 36 Ricky Gervais 67 5,071 37 Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe 67 3,002 38 Bill Clinton 66 4,122 39 Steve Chen & Chad Hurley 66 3,265 40 Jimmy Wales 65 3,468 41 D Melton, K Eggan & G Daly 64 2,095 42 Justin Timberlake 63 9,904 43 Oprah Winfrey 63 8,728 44 Gen. David Petraeus 63 2,641 45 Markos Moulitsas 62 5,089 46 Leonardo Dicaprio 62 4,154 47 Hu Jintao 62 3,297 48 America Ferrera 61 5,159 49 Keith Olbermann 60 5,301 50 Nancy Pelosi 60 4,555 51 Ban Ki-Moon 60 4,466 52 Elizabeth Edwards 60 3,319 53 Bob Dylan 60 2,752 54 Andy Samberg 60 2,447 55 Mike Feinberg & Dave Levin 60 1,803 56 Anthony Atala 60 1,579 57 Clint Eastwood 59 3,060 58 Sir Richard Branson 59 2,813 59 Tiger Woods 59 2,682 60 Jay-Z 58 3,975 61 Arnold Schwarzenegger 57 3,438 62 Thierry Henry 57 2,989 63 Svante Pääbo 57 2,400 64 Rick Rubin 57 1,984 65 Albert Osterhaus 57 1,879 66 Katsuaki Watanabe 57 1,675 67 Frank Miller 56 2,251 68 Muhammad Yunus 56 2,000 69 Vladimir Putin 56 1,977 70 Daniel Craig 55 3,217 71 Salma Hayek 55 2,886 72 Anne Mulcahy 55 2,061 73 Angela Merkel 55 2,040 74 Robert Langer 55 1,874 75 Manmohan Singh 55 1,843 76 Victoria Hale 55 1,662 77 Hillary Clinton 54 4,655 78 Segolene Royal 54 2,671 79 Shonda Rhimes 54 2,515 80 Tony Dungy 54 2,207 81 Nicholas Negroponte 54 1,967 82 Neil Degrasse Tyson 54 1,647 83 Rosie O'Donnell 53 6,343 84 Hugo Chavez 53 2,248 85 Tzipi Livni 53 2,162 86 Anna Diggs Taylor 53 1,782 87 Zeng Jinyan 53 1,720 88 David Beckham 52 3,082 89 Alfonso Cuaron 52 2,333 90 Eric Shinseki 52 2,230 91 Margaret Chan 52 1,549 92 Rachael Ray 51 3,030 93 Manvendra Singh Gohil 51 1,823 94 Ingvar Kamprad 51 1,809 95 Franz Beckenbauer 51 1,722 96 Indra Nooyi 51 1,585 97 George W. Bush 50 27,056 98 Michael Bloomberg 50 2,322 99 John Murtha 50 1,821 100 Gregory Perelman 49 2,071 101 Hamid Karzai 49 1,953 102 Chris Anderson 49 1,745 103 Cardinal Joseph Zen Zi-Kiun 49 1,589 104 Fatuma Ndangiza 49 1,364 105 John Roberts 48 2,486 106 Damon Albarn 48 1,748 107 Colonel H. R. McMaster 48 1,424 108 Cormac McCarthy 48 1,396 109 Youk Chhang 48 1,328 110 Simon Cowell 47 4,407 111 Benedict XVI 47 3,220 112 Sonia Gandhi 47 2,632 113 John McCain 47 2,499 114 Mark Thompson 47 1,457 115 Mikita Sasim 47 1,417 116 Henry Paulson 47 1,305 117 Ingrid Mattson 46 1,632 118 Jong Il Kim 45 2,771 119 Gen. Pervez Musharraf 45 1,437 120 Crown Prince El Hassan Bin Talal 45 1,426 121 Felipe Calderon 45 1,391 122 Koen Olthuis 45 1,357 123 Toshihiko Fujimoto 45 1,324 124 Thomas Cassidy 45 1,313 125 Sir John Houghton 45 1,304 126 Orhan Pamuk 44 2,024 127 James Barton 44 1,825 128 Peter Gelb 44 1,508 129 Jim Press 44 1,451 130 Gordon Brown 43 2,592 131 Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin 43 2,496 132 King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud 43 2,079 133 Jan Egeland 43 1,644 134 Jimmy Miller 43 1,425 135 Pablo Alvarado 43 1,373 136 Peter Singer 43 1,307 137 Anna Hazare 42 2,616 138 John Fleming 42 1,949 139 Robert Gates 42 1,715 140 Gerry Adams & Ian Paisley 42 1,605 141 Susan Decker 42 1,506 142 Wadah Khanfar 42 1,328 143 Zalmay Khalilzad 42 1,315 144 Katie Couric 41 2,663 145 Carlo Petrini 41 1,473 146 Osama Bin Laden 40 4,077 147 Moqtada Al-Sadr 40 2,215 148 Dikembe Mutombo 40 2,198 149 Lou Dobbs 49 2,019 150 Rick Warren 39 1,967 151 Mikheil Saakashvili 39 1,857 152 Cory Booker 39 1,563 153 Lawrence Wright 39 1,360 154 Sheik Hassan Nasrallah 38 1,714 155 Khaled Hosseini 38 1,661 156 Liu Qi 38 1,582 157 Alan Rusbridger 38 1,582 158 Santiago Calatrava 38 1,572 159 Robin Li 38 1,455 160 Edward Whitacre 38 1,453 161 Benard Arnault 38 1,429 162 Ahmed Aboutaleb 38 1,394 163 Robert Mugabe 38 1,378 164 Michael Chabon 37 2,175 165 Ho Ching 37 2,154 166 Margareta Van Den Bosch 37 1,733 167 Thomas L. Friedman 37 1,641 168 Philip Rosedale 37 1,552 169 Ali Saleem 37 1,403 170 Lakshmi Mittal 37 1,374 171 Galeb Magadla 37 1,339 172 Matthew Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo 37 1,328 173 Jean-Marie Le Pen 36 2,019 174 Norman Francis 36 1,588 175 Rem Koolhaas 36 1,362 176 Nandan Nilekani 36 1,330 177 Mary J. Blige 35 3,057 178 Jean Nouvel 35 2,163 179 Francois Pinault 35 1,590 180 Henry Sy 35 1,300 181 Mullah Omar 34 2,573 182 King Jigme Singye Wangchuck 34 2,327 183 Zaha Hadid 34 2,284 184 Kiran Desai 34 1,735 185 Barry Bonds 33 7,522 186 Tarcisio Bertone 33 1,856 187 Dmitry Medvedev 33 1,852 188 Kenneth Lewis 33 1,431 189 Steven Cohen 33 1,400 190 Joseph Blatter 33 1,334 191 Ferdinand Piëch 32 1,621 192 Michael Lewis 32 1,401 193 Ayman Al-Zawahiri 31 2,420 194 Ferran Adria 31 1,817 195 Ralph Whitworth 31 1,615 196 Susan Maloney 31 1,447 197 Freshlyground 30 1,712 198 Sergio Marchionne 30 1,412 199 Frida Giannini 28 3,436 200 Mullah Dadullah 27 2,259 201 Abu Hamza Al-Muhajer 25 2,786 202 Kate Moss 24 3,992 203 Paris Hilton 19 11,066 |
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