TIME magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world, naming a few includes:
Leaders
Leaders
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil)- President of Brazil
J.T. Wang (Taiwan)-CEO Acer Group/Chairman of Acer Inc.
Admiral Mike Mullen (USA) - CCS of US Armed Forces
Barack Obama (USA) - President of the US
Yukio Hatoyama (Japan) - Prime Minister of Japan Dominique Strauss-Kahn (France) Managing Director (IMF)Nancy Pelosi (USA) - Speaker of the US House of Reps Sarah Palin (USA) - former nominee for Vice Pres of the US
Heroes
Bill Clinton Former US Pres UN Special envoy to Haiti
Kim Yu-Na (South Korea) - Figure skater, Olympian
Mir-Hossein Mousavi (Iran) - Iranian opposition leader
Ben Stiller (USA) - Actor, founder of StillerStrong.org charity for Haiti
Temple Grandin (USA) - Animal scientist, noted for work in autism advocacy
P. Namperumalsamy (India) - Indian ophthalmologist, known for development of quick eye-surgery
Artist
Lady Gaga (USA) - Pop iconConan O'Brien (USA) - American talk-show host
Kathryn Bigelow (USA) - Film director, first woman to win an Oscar for direction
Oprah Winfrey (USA) - American TV personality
Valery Gergiev (Russia) - Conductor, head of St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre
Robert Pattinson (UK) - Actor, star of Twilight vampire saga movies
Thinkers
Zaha Hadid (Iraq) - Deconstructivist architect
Elizabeth Warren (USA) - Leads $700bn bailout of the US financial industry
Douglas Schwartzentruber+Larry Kwak (USA) Researchers for a vaccine against cancer
Michael Pollan (USA) - Food activist
Atul Gawande (USA) - for research on surgical procedures and health costs
Jaron Lanier (USA) - Computer scientist who pioneered Virtual Reality
It seems so many Americans on the list, yet TIME is an American magazine. Nevertheless, it's very interesting to read about so many amazing individuals.
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