The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists

Read about the leaders, artists, enterpreneurs and thinkers who, in your opinion, deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100 —Scott Brown and Michelle Kung

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  1. BARACK OBAMA
  2. VLADIMIR PUTIN
  3. BRAD PITT
  4. ROBERT GATES
  5. GEORGE W. BUSH
  6. MILEY CYRUS
  7. JACOB ZUMA
  8. BAITULLAH MEHSUD
  9. MUQTADA AL-SADR
  10. JUDD APATOW
  11. BEN BERNANKE
  12. TIGER WOODS
  13. GENERAL ASHFAQ PERVEZ KIYANI
  14. JOHN McCAIN
  15. MIA FARROW
  16. RADIOHEAD
  17. OPRAH WINFREY
  18. OSCAR PISTORIUS
  19. GEORGE MITCHELL
  20. LORENA OCHOA
  21. HEIDI KLUM
  22. CRAIG VENTER
  23. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CAST
  24. SHINYA YAMANAKA
  25. PAUL ALLEN
  26. ELLEN PAGE
  27. MEHMET OZ
  28. HAROLD McGEE
  29. STEVE BALLMER
  30. MO IBRAHIM
  31. NATALIE PORTMAN
  32. LOU JIWEI
  33. CARLOS SLIM
  34. RATAN TATA
  35. ALI AL-NAIMI
  36. MARK ZUCKERBERG
  37. RUPERT MURDOCH
  38. KHALED HOSSEINI
  39. PETER GELB
  40. CHRIS ROCK
  41. GEORGE CLOONEY
  42. ELIZABETH GILBERT
  43. COEN BROTHERS
  44. REM KOOLHAUS
  45. SUZE ORMAN
  46. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
  47. TYLER PERRY
  48. ALEX RIGOPULOS and ERAN EGOZY
  49. PETER GABRIEL
  50. HU JINTAO
  51. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
  52. STELLA McCARTNEY
  53. MATT DRUDGE
  54. DIABLO CODY
  55. CONN AND HAL IGGULDEN
  56. CECILY VON ZIEGESAR
  57. WILL SMITH
  58. JON STEWART
  59. STEPHENIE MEYER
  60. JOYCE CAROL OATES
  61. JEFF BEZOS
  62. STEVE JOBS
  63. LEWIS HAMILTON
  64. MARK RONSON
  65. JEAN-CLAUDE TRICHET
  66. JAMES CRAMER
  67. TOM STOPPARD
  68. HASSAN NASRALLAH
  69. MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
  70. WEN JIABAO
  71. CHIP KIDD
  72. MIKE HUCKABEE
  73. HILLARY CLINTON
  74. MICHAEL CERA
  75. LLOYD BLANKFEIN
  76. NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE
  77. PATRIC VERRONE
  78. WENDY KOPP
  79. KLAUS SCHWAB
  80. ISABEL CARO
  81. PEREZ HILTON
  82. NICK DENTON
  83. TIM PIPER
  84. NICHOLAS SARKOZY
  85. BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI
  86. JOHN KUFUOR
  87. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
  88. DAVID BECKHAM
  89. MICHAEL PHELPS
  90. TINA FEY
  91. DAVID SIMON
  92. LIU QI
  93. CRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER
  94. IAN McEWAN
  95. JOAN BLADES
  96. CAROLINE KENNEDY
  97. DAVID PETRAEUS
  98. KEN BURNS
  99. SONIA GANDHI
  100. AUNG SAN SUU KYI
  101. NELSON MANDELA
  102. GORDON BROWN
  103. ANGELA MERKEL
  104. BONO
  105. BILL GATES
  106. WARREN BUFFETT
  107. BRITNEY SPEARS
  108. THE GOOGLE GUYS: LARRY PAGE and SERGEY BRIN
  109. J.J. ABRAMS
  110. STEPHEN COLBERT
  111. AI WEIWEI
  112. TONY BLAIR
  113. RICHARD BRANSON
  114. RAY ODIERNO
  115. ADAM MOSS
  116. NOAM CHOMSKY
  117. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
  118. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
  119. ANWAR IBRAHIM
  120. LIU XIANG
  121. AMY WINEHOUSE
  122. MADONNA
  123. AL GORE
  124. KEVIN RUDD
  125. ELI MANNING
  126. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF
  127. DAVID SEDARIS
  128. ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
  129. LANCE ARMSTRONG
  130. KING ABDULLAH
  131. POPE BENEDICT XVI
  132. KIM JONG IL
  133. HAMID KARZAI
  134. ALEX RODRIGUEZ
  135. MANNY RAMIREZ
  136. DALAI LAMA
  137. AMY POEHLER
  138. NOVAK DJOKOVIC
  139. ANG LEE
  140. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
  141. M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)
  142. HUGO CHAVEZ
  143. REX TILLERSON
  144. PRINCE AL-WALEED BIN TALAL AL-SAUD
  145. SARAH SILVERMAN
  146. VINOD KHOSLA
  147. KRISTIN HALVORSEN
  148. H. LEE SCOTT JR.
  149. DAVID FROST
  150. JOSEPH STIGLITZ
  151. ROBERT POLET
  152. WANG JIANZHOU
  153. DAVID BROOKS
  154. ALEXIS SINDUHIJE
  155. CONDOLEEZZA RICE
  156. JOHN ROBERTS
  157. AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI
  158. CARINE ROITFELD
  159. TOMAS MAIER
  160. RAIN
  161. THE MYSPACE MEN: CHRIS DeWOLFE and TOM ANDERSON
  162. CHARLES GIBSON
  163. RAUL CASTRO
  164. PRINCE CHARLES
  165. TZIPI LIVNI
  166. NANCY PELOSI
  167. TYRA BANKS
  168. ROGER FEDERER
  169. DMITRY MEDVEDEV
  170. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON
  171. SIMON COWELL
  172. MATT DAMON
  173. JULIA ROBERTS
  174. RHONDA BYRNE
  175. PHILIP ROSEDALE
  176. KATSUAKI WATANABE
  177. MADEEHA HASAN ODHAIB
  178. ANDREA JUNG
  179. SHELLY LAZARUS
  180. WU YI
  181. JAY ADELSON
  182. MICHAEL DELL
  183. FRANK RICH
  184. TOM FRIEDMAN
  185. JAMIE DIMON
  186. JULIE GERBERDING
  187. AYAAN HIRSI ALI
  188. HO CHING
  189. CHAD HURLEY and STEVE CHEN
  190. JAY-Z
  191. GARRY KASPAROV
  192. GUY LALIBERTÉ
  193. CRAIG NEWMARK
  194. JIMMY WALES
  195. JEFFREY SACHS
  196. ICHIRO SUZUKI
  197. DAVID AXELROD
  198. MARK PENN
  199. JEREMIAH WRIGHT
  200. SHLOMO BEN-AMI
  201. MA YING-JEOU
  202. WILL.I.AM
  203. YOUSAF RAZA GILANI
  204. SIDNEY CROSBY
  205. SHIGERU MIYAMOTO
  206. ELIOT SPITZER
  207. NIKKI FINKE

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