The 2009 TIME 100 Finalists

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2009 Candidates

  1. Barack Obama
  2. The Twitter Guys, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone
  3. Jim Cramer
  4. The Charter 08 authors
  5. Tzipi Livni
  6. Bernie Madoff
  7. Arianna Huffington
  8. Pope Benedict XVI
  9. Rain
  10. George W. Bush
  11. Katie Stam
  12. Alex Rodriguez
  13. M.I.A.
  14. Prince
  15. Bill O'Reilly
  16. Joaquin Phoenix
  17. David Plouffe
  18. Rahm Emanuel
  19. Dov Charney
  20. Mark Cuban
  21. Eric Holder
  22. Odell Barnes
  23. Rod Blagojevich
  24. The Pregnant Man: Thomas Beatie
  25. Roland Burris
  26. Stephen Colbert
  27. Sarah Palin
  28. The Jonas Brothers
  29. Britney Spears
  30. Miley Cyrus
  31. Angelina Jolie
  32. John McCain
  33. Hillary Clinton
  34. Ron Paul
  35. Mike Huckabee
  36. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  37. Ratan Tata
  38. Oprah Winfrey
  39. Tina Fey
  40. Michelle Obama
  41. Katie Couric
  42. Michael Phelps
  43. Kobe Bryant
  44. Lil' Wayne
  45. Mukesh Ambani
  46. Ron Bloom
  47. Bill Gross
  48. Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
  49. Warren Buffett
  50. Carlos Slim
  51. T. Boone Pickens
  52. Ram Charan
  53. Neel Kashkari
  54. James Lockhart
  55. Jamie Dimon
  56. Michael Duke
  57. Ken Lewis
  58. Dick Kovacevich
  59. Sheila Bair
  60. Charlie Gasparino
  61. Tim Geithner
  62. Meredith Whitney
  63. General Petraeus
  64. Abdul Rahman al-Rashed
  65. Michelle Rhee
  66. Nancy Pelosi
  67. Elizabeth Warren
  68. Gordon Brown
  69. Boris Johnson
  70. Benjamin Netanyahu
  71. Asif Ali Zardari
  72. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani
  73. Morgan Tsvangirai
  74. Robert Mugabe
  75. Paul Kagame
  76. Richard Kelly
  77. Alexander Lebedev
  78. Ronnie Screwvala
  79. Steve Jobs
  80. Jeff Kindler
  81. Nouriel Roubini
  82. Yochiro Nambu
  83. Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller
  84. Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki
  85. Douglas Melton
  86. Nicholas Christakis
  87. Nate Silver
  88. Rowan Williams
  89. Paul Krugman
  90. Dr. Alain Carpentier
  91. Doris A. Taylor
  92. Roland Fryer
  93. Steven Chu
  94. Connie Hedegaard
  95. Jon Favreau
  96. Rachel Maddow
  97. Rush Limbaugh
  98. Kate Winslet
  99. Seth MacFarlane
  100. Damien Hirst
  101. William Kentridge
  102. Danny Boyle
  103. Gustavo Dudamel
  104. Renzo Piano
  105. Ricky Gervais
  106. Dan Barber
  107. Will Wright
  108. Hugh Jackman
  109. Clint Eastwood
  110. Roberto Saviano
  111. Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III
  112. Jeff Bezos
  113. Rick Warren
  114. Patrick Swayze
  115. Tiger Woods
  116. Danica Patrick
  117. Manny Pacquiao
  118. Jessica Jackley
  119. Rafael Nadal
  120. Dalai Lama
  121. Vladimir Putin
  122. Hu Jintao
  123. Jacob Zuma
  124. Anwar Ibrahim
  125. Ben Bernanke
  126. Muqtada al-Sadr
  127. Robert Gates
  128. Sonia Gandhi
  129. Baitullah Mehsud
  130. Evo Morales
  131. Ma Ying-jeou
  132. Brad Pitt
  133. Lance Armstrong
  134. Kaká
  135. Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum
  136. Yoani Sénchez
  137. Madeeha Hasan Odhaib
  138. Tony Blair
  139. Aung San Suu Kyi
  140. George Mitchell
  141. Craig Venter
  142. Larry Brilliant
  143. Jeff Han
  144. Nancy Brinker
  145. Peter Pronovost
  146. Eric Chivian and Richard Cizik
  147. Mary Lou Jepsen
  148. Mark Zuckerberg
  149. Tyler Perry
  150. Khaled Hosseini
  151. Rem Koolhaas
  152. Judd Apatow
  153. George Clooney
  154. Suze Orman
  155. Sister Mary Scullion
  156. Stephenie Meyer
  157. Takashi Murakami
  158. Indra Nooyi
  159. Ali al-Naimi
  160. Rupert Murdoch
  161. John Chambers
  162. Jay Adelson
  163. Steve Ballmer
  164. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
  165. Jeffrey Immelt
  166. Tom Ford
  167. Lloyd Blankfein
  168. Mo Ibrahim
  169. Ted Kennedy
  170. Nadya (Octomom) Suleman
  171. Tom Hanks
  172. Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
  173. The View
  174. Jay Leno
  175. Dan Houser
  176. Angela Merkel
  177. Shigeru Miyamoto
  178. Leonard Abess
  179. Kevin Rudd
  180. Stella McCartney
  181. Zac Efron
  182. Eric Cantor
  183. Newt Gingrich
  184. Jeff Kinney
  185. Tom Dart
  186. Sam Zell
  187. David McKiernan
  188. Ryan Schreiber
  189. Michael Rapino
  190. Jonathan Krohn
  191. T-Pain
  192. Tucker Max
  193. Jon Stewart
  194. Taylor Swift
  195. moot
  196. Gamal Mubarak
  197. Kanye West
  198. Matthew Weiner
  199. Malcolm Gladwell
  200. Cory Booker
  201. John Boehner
  202. Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
  203. Michael Bloomberg

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