TIME Magazine continues to be most reliable source when it comes to world’s most influential people. Here’s the full list.
Each year TIME announces a list of a 100 most influential people worldwide. The honorees are a variety of professionals ranging from actors, entrepreneurs, musicians, executives, sportsmen, designers, politicians and more.
The list is accompanied by the print edition of TIME, presenting six covers featuring some of the list members: Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicki Minaj, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christine Lagarde and Priyanka Chopra.
TIME often creates unconventional pairings of people writing profiles about the TIME 100 members. In 2016 edition we will read Jennifer Lawrence on Adele, Bill and Melinda Gates on Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, John Kerry on Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Bloomberg on Eli Broad, Lena Dunham on Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Diane von Furstenberg on Karlie Kloss, Misty Copeland on Stephen Curry, J.J. Abrams on Lin-Manuel Miranda, Scott Kelly on Lester Holt, Samantha Power on Angela Merkel, Bob Iger on Tim Cook, Lorne Michaels on Justin Trudeau, Ta-Nehisi Coates onRyan Coogler, Rita Moreno on Gina Rodriguez, President Barack Obama on Aung San Suu Kyi, Joe Biden on Pope Francis, Ridley Scott on Palmer Luckey, Alfonso Cuarón on Gael García Bernal, Bono on John Kerry, Janet Yellen onChristine Lagarde, Tina Fey on Ronda Rousey, Mitt Romney on Paul Ryan, Donatella Versace on Riccardo Tisci, Elton Johnon Darren Walker and many more.
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THE COMPLETE 2016 TIME 100 LIST
- Adele, singer, songwriter
- Aziz Ansari, comedian
- Binny Bansal & Sachin Bansal, co-founders, Flipkart
- Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist
- Gael García Bernal, actor, activist
- Mohammed bin Nayef, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
- Usain Bolt, champion sprinter
- Eli Broad, entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Dan Carder, engineer
- Roy Choi, chef, entrepreneur
- Priyanka Chopra, actor
- Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State, presidential candidate
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer
- James Comey, director, FBI
- Ryan Coogler, director
- Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
- Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator, Texas, presidential candidate
- Stephen Curry, basketball player, Golden State Warriors
- Leonardo DiCaprio, actor, environmentalist
- Jaha Dukureh, founder, Safe Hands for Girls, advocate
- Idris Elba, actor
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey
- Dr. Laura Esserman & Dr. Shelley Hwang, surgical oncologists
- Elena Ferrante, author
- Christiana Figueres, executive secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Pope Francis, Pontifex
- Ariana Grande, singer
- Guo Pei, designer
- Nikki Haley, Governor, South Carolina
- Lewis Hamilton, driver, Formula One
- Mona Hanna-Attisha & Marc Edwards, pediatrician, researcher
- Taraji P. Henson, actor
- François Hollande, President of France
- Lester Holt, anchor, NBC Nightly News
- Alejandro González Iñárritu, director
- Bjarke Ingels, architect
- Oscar Isaac, actor
- Hope Jahren, geobiologist, author
- Caitlyn Jenner, activist, reality star
- Jin Liqun, president, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
- Dwayne Johnson, actor, producer, entertainer
- Kathleen Kennedy, president, Lucasfilm
- John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State
- Kim Jong Un, Supreme Leader of North Korea
- Felix Kjellberg (a.k.a. PewDiePie), entertainer, YouTube star
- Karlie Kloss, model, entrepreneur
- Yayoi Kusama, artist
- Christine Lagarde, director, International Monetary Fund
- Kendrick Lamar, rapper
- Katie Ledecky, swimmer
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actor
- Palmer Luckey, inventor, founder, Oculus Rift
- Sean MacFarland, General, United States Army
- Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina
- Melissa McCarthy, actor, designer
- Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
- Yuri Milner, venture capitalist
- Nicki Minaj, singer, rapper
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, actor, creator, Hamilton
- Sania Mirza, tennis player
- Sergio Moro, federal judge, Brazil
- Denis Mukwege, gynecologist, Panzi Hospital, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ibtihaj Muhammad, fencer
- Nadia Murad, advocate
- Sunita Narain, environmentalist
- Diana Natalicio, president, University of Texas at El Paso
- Kathy Niakan, developmental biologist
- Barack Obama, President of the United States
- Raj Panjabi, co-founder and CEO, Last Mile Health
- Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google
- Reince Priebus, chairman, Republican National Committee
- Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
- Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, activist
- Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India
- Gina Rodriguez, actor
- Lori Robinson, General,United States Air Force
- Marilynne Robinson, novelist
- Ronda Rousey, ultimate fighter
- Paul Ryan, Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
- Mark Rylance, actor
- Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator, Vermont, presidential candidate
- Jordan Spieth, golfer
- Alan Stern, astrophysicist
- Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician
- Charlize Theron, actor, activist
- Kip Thorne, astrophysicist
- Riccardo Tisci, designer, Givenchy
