The TIME 100

Here's our list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world.

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ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS

  1. Tina Fey
  2. Youssou N'Dour
  3. Anna Netrebko
  4. Justin Timberlake
  5. Sacha Baron Cohen
  6. Leonardo DiCaprio
  7. Nora Roberts
  8. Rick Rubin
  9. Martin Scorsese
  10. Cate Blanchett
  11. Alber Elbaz
  12. America Ferrera
  13. Simon Fuller
  14. Brian Grazer
  15. John Mayer
  16. David Mitchell
  17. Kate Moss
  18. Rosie O'Donnell
  19. Brad Pitt
  20. Shonda Rhimes
  21. Kara Walker
  22. Brian Williams

LEADERS & REVOLUTIONARIES

  1. Queen Elizabeth II
  2. Tzipi Livni
  3. Peter Akinola
  4. Liu Qi
  5. Condoleezza Rice
  6. Omar Hassan al-Bashir
  7. John Roberts
  8. Sonia Gandhi
  9. Raúl Castro
  10. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  11. General David Petraeus
  12. Hillary Clinton
  13. Hu Jintao
  14. King Abdullah
  15. Nancy Pelosi
  16. Barack Obama
  17. Michael Bloomberg
  18. Ayatullah Ali Khamenei
  19. Pope Benedict XVI
  20. Angela Merkel
  21. Osama bin Laden

HEROES & PIONEERS

  1. Oprah Winfrey
  2. Elizabeth Edwards
  3. Warren Buffett
  4. Drew Gilpin Faust
  5. Wesley Autrey
  6. Tony Dungy
  7. Federer: The Artistry of the World's Top Tennis Ace
  8. Tyra Banks
  9. Youk Chhang
  10. George Clooney
  11. Michael J. Fox
  12. Timothy Gittins
  13. Judith Mackay
  14. Chien-Ming Wang
  15. Maher Arar
  16. Thierry Henry
  17. Zeng Jinyan
  18. Garry Kasparov
  19. Amr Khaled

SCIENTISTS & THINKERS

  1. Al Gore
  2. Neil deGrasse Tyson
  3. J. Craig Venter
  4. Lisa Randall
  5. John Mather
  6. Elizabeth Blackburn
  7. Alan Stern
  8. Tullis Onstott
  9. Svante Pääbo
  10. Steven Nissen
  11. Richard Dawkins
  12. Chris Anderson
  13. Paul Allen
  14. Monty Jones
  15. Klaus Schwab
  16. Nora Volkow
  17. Frans de Waal
  18. Douglas Melton
  19. Kari Stefansson

BUILDERS & TITANS

  1. Richard Branson
  2. Cyril Ramaphosa
  3. Erik Lie
  4. Pony Ma
  5. Chad Hurley & Steve Chen
  6. Katsuaki Watanabe
  7. Bernard Arnault
  8. Clara Furse
  9. Ken Lewis
  10. Lakshmi Mittal
  11. Shigeru Miyamoto
  12. Rhonda Byrne
  13. Steven Cohen
  14. Steve Jobs
  15. Philip Rosedale
  16. Ho Ching
  17. Indra Nooyi
  18. Stephen Schwarzman
  19. Michael Moritz

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