2009 World’s Most influential people

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by Mat Siems in People

List of the 2009 Most influential People

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Below is the Time Magazine list of the people who made it to the World’s 100 Most influential People. Your opinion matter so please let us know in your feedback what you think of the list.
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Full List of the 2009 Most influential People

This top list will be divided into the following categories:

Leaders & Revolutionaries
Builders & Titans
Artists & Entertainers
Heroes & Icons
Scientists & Thinkers

Leaders & Revolutionaries

Edward Kennedy, Lion of the Senate
Gordon Brown, Britain Prime Minister
Christine Lagarde, France Finance Minister
Thomas Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois
Avigdor Lieberman, Soviet-born Israeli politician
Joaquín Guzmán, Mexican druglord of the Sinaloa Cartel
Nouri al-Maliki, first Iraqi Prime Minister
Hillary Clinton, US politician
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia politician
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
Norah al-Faiz, Deputy Minister for Women’s Education
Elizabeth Warren, Professor of Law at Harvard
Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s President
Nicolas Sarkozy, French President
Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor
Wang Qishan, Chinese politician
Xi Jinping, Vice President of China
David McKiernan, retired US Army four-star genera
Ashfaq Kayani, Pakistan army’s Chief of Staff
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.

Builders & Titans

The Twitter Guys, micro bloging inventors
T. Boone Pickens, environmental crusader
Ted Turner, American media mogul and philanthropist
Tessa Ross
Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman and philanthropist
Brad Pitt, American actor and film producer
Meredith Whitney, prominent banking analyst
Suze Orman, Best Seller
Lauren Zalaznick
Timothy Geithner, United States Secretary of the Treasury
Nandan Nilekani, Indian entrepreneur and businessman
Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
Jamie Dimon, CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co
Sheila Bair, Chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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Alexander Medvedev, former KGB agent and the current Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Russian energy company Gazprom
Alan Mulally,American engineer and businessman
Robin Chase, co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, an innovative car sharing service
Jack Ma, lead founder of Alibaba Group
Bernie Madoff, the guy who stoled $65 Billions

Artists & Entertainers

Rush Limbaugh, American radio host and conservative political commentator
M.I.A., music artists
Sam and Dan Houser, English video game producers for Rockstar Games
Kate Winslet, English actress and occasional singer
Werner Herzog, German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director
William Kentridge, South African artist
Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
Lang Lang, Chinese pianist from China
John Legend, American Grammy winning R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, New York City based architects
Gustavo Dudamel, conducter of the Gothenburg Symphony at the BBC Proms
Jeff Kinney, American game designer and author of children’s books
Tavis Smiley, African American journalist, author, political commentator, talk show host, and businessman
The View, American talk show broadcast on American Broadcasting Company as part of ABC Daytime
Zac Efron, American actor and singer
Tina Fey, American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer
Tom Hanks, American actor, producer, writer and director
Jay Leno, American stand-up comedian and television host
A.R. Rahman, two time Academy Award winning Indian film music composer
Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer