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Time 100 - 2011
Time lists what they consider "the most influential people in the world. They are artists and activists, reformers and researchers, heads of state and captains of industry. Their ideas spark dialogue and dissent and sometimes even revolution."
The range from Wael Ghonim, who's plaintive posts on Facebook helped spark the Egyptian revolution, Katsunobu Sakurai who denounced the lethargy of Japanese authorities in helping earthquake victims and Hu Shuli who shook up China's media landscape with courageous investigative pieces on corruption and fraud to world leaders like Barack Obama and China's Xi Jinping.
From musician Sting to neuroscientist, V.S. Ramachandran.
From Taiwan's Buddhist Dharma Master Cheng Yen, head of the Tzu Chi Foundation (tzu chi means compassionate relief), which is known for the astonishing speed and efficiency with which it brings aid to victims of natural disasters, to Christian pastor, Rob Bell, who's book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, was on the best seller list.

See "The Democratization of Influence" at Time Specials.

Wael Ghonim
Joseph Stiglitz
Reed Hastings
Amy Poehler
Geoffrey Canada
Mark Zuckerberg
Peter Vesterbacka
Angela Merkel
Julian Assange
Ron Bruder
Lamido Sanusi
Colin Firth
Amy Chua
Joe Biden
Jennifer Egan
Kim Clijsters
Ahmed Shuja Pasha
Aung San Suu Kyi
Cory Booker
Gabrielle Giffords
Katsunobu Sakurai
Michelle Obama
Paul Ryan
Ai Weiwei
Rob Bell
Fathi Terbil
Dilma Rousseff
Tom Ford
Liang Guanglie
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Takeshi Kanno
Nicolas Sarkozy
Michele Bachmann
Saad Mohseni
Chris Christie
Matthew Weiner
Lisa Jackson
Jean-Claude Trichet
Justin Bieber
Prince William and Kate Middleton
Joe Scarborough
Blake Lively
Hillary Clinton
Muqtada al-Sadr
Anwar al-Awlaki
Kim Jong Un
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Hassan Nasrallah
Nathan Wolfe
Oprah Winfrey
Sergio Marchionne
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Felisa Wolfe-Simon
Esther Duflo
Larry Page
Mia Wasikowska
David Cameron
John Lasseter
Maria Bashir
Mukesh Ambani
Chris Colfer
Major General Margaret Woodward
Bruno Mars
David Koch and Charles Koch
Hung Huang
General David Petraeus
Matt Damon and Gary White
Cecile Richards
George R.R. Martin
Marine Le Pen
Grant Achatz
Feisal Abdul Rauf
El Général
Jamie Dimon
Heidi Murkoff
Jonathan Franzen
Sting
V.S. Ramachandran
Michelle Rhee
Mark Wahlberg
Rebecca Eaton
Xi Jinping
Kathy Giusti
Arianna Huffington
Barack Obama
Lionel Messi
Azim Premji
Aruna Roy
Ray Chambers
Scott Rudin
John Boehner
Derrick Rossi
Hu Shuli
Benjamin Netanyahu
Ayman Mohyeldin
Charles Chao
Bineta Diop
Dharma Master Cheng Yen
Patti Smith

Links:
Full List - The 2011 TIME 100 - TIME
TIME 100 - People of the Century


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last updated 11 Jan 2012