Top 100 most influential people

These are the 100 most influential people of 2023:

ARTISTS • Michael B. Jordan • Drew Barrymore • Ali Wong • Austin Butler • Aubrey Plaza • Rian Johnson • Salma Hayek Pinault • Zoe Saldaña • Judy Blume • Colin Farrell • Lea Michele • Simone Leigh • Wolfgang Tillmans • Suzan-Lori Parks • Neil Gaiman • Shervin Hajipour • El Anatsui • Colleen Hoover • Steve Lacy

ICONS • Jennifer Coolidge • Ke Huy Quan • Sara Mardini and Yusra Mardini • Shah Rukh Khan • Pedro Pascal • Brittney Griner • King Charles • Salman Rushdie • RowVaughn Wells • Tracie D. Hall • Peng Lifa • Shannon Watts • Haluk Levent • Imara Jones • Yvon Chouinard

PIONEERS • Doja Cat • Mikaela Shiffrin • Bella Hadid • Sam Altman • Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi • Thom Browne • S.S. Rajamouli • MrBeast • Elizabeth Maruma Mrema • Britney Schmidt and Peter Davis • Sam Rivera • Robin Zeng • Edward Reynolds • Margaret Mitchell

LEADERS • Olena Zelenska • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • Hakeem Jeffries • Evan Gershkovich • Janet Yellen • Sherry Rehman • Mitch McConnell • Anthony Albanese • Margrethe Vestager • Joe Biden • Samuel Alito • Gustavo Petro • Gina Raimondo • Oleksandra Matviichuk • Fumio Kishida • Cindy McCain • María Herrera Magdaleno • Olaf Scholz • Bola Ahmed Tinubu • Min Aung Hlaing

TITANS • Angela Bassett • Laurene Powell Jobs • Lionel Messi • Padma Lakshmi • Johan Rockstrom • Beyoncé • Patrick Mahomes II • Elon Musk • Gina Prince-Bythewood • Karen Lynch • Shou Zi Chew • Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin • Deborah Lipstadt

INNOVATORS • Bob Iger • Sarah Kate Ellis • Kylian Mbappé • Natasha Lyonne • Monica Simpson • Nathan Fielder • Wanjira Mathai • Hidetaka Miyazaki • Jerrod Carmichael • Catherine Coleman Flowers • Sean Sherman • Iga Swiatek • Kate Orff • Dimie Ogoina • Andrea Kritcher