Lady Gaga is shocking the art world, Sarah Palin is leading a political movement and Steve Jobs is the talk of the tech town and that’s why they are in the Time Top 100 most influential people of world. Time 100 is an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as assembled by Time. Now due to huge popularity of this list, it has become an annual event. In the list, people are recognized for changing the world, for better or for worse. This year there are four categories: Leaders, Heroes, Artists and Thinkers. Within each category, the 25 most influential people, with a grand total of 100. There are 9 Indians in the list including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chetan Bhagat, Sachin Tendulkar, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Amartya Sen, Rahul Singh, Atul GAwande, Sanjit Roy and P N Samy.
Leaders
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- J.T. Wang
- Admiral Mike Mullen
- Barack Obama
- Ron Bloom
- Yukio Hatoyama
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Nancy Pelosi
- Sarah Palin
- Salam Fayyad
- Jon Kyl
- Glenn Beck
- Annise Parker
- Tidjane Thiam
- Jenny Beth Martin
- Christine Lagarde
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- General Stanley McChrystal
- Manmohan Singh
- Bo Xilai
- Mark Carney
- Sister Carol Keehan
- Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan
- Robin Li
- Scott Brown
Heroes
- Bill Clinton
- Kim Yu-Na
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi
- Ben Stiller
- Temple Grandin
- P. Namperumalsamy
- Nay Phone Latt
- Chen Shu-chu
- Phil Mickelson
- Didier Drogba
- Graça Machel
- Reem Al Numery
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Tristan Lecomte
- Liya Kebede
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
- Zahra Rahnavard
- Jet Li
- Serena Williams
- Chief Master Sergeant Tony Travis
- Karls Paul-Noel
- Rahul Singh
- Valentin Abe
- Malalai Joya
- Will Allen
Artists
- Lady Gaga
- Conan O’Brien
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Oprah Winfrey
- Valery Gergiev
- Robert Pattinson
- Ashton Kutcher
- Suzanne Collins
- Taylor Swift
- Neil Patrick Harris
- Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof
- Prince
- Lea Michele
- Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
- Simon Cowell
- Neill Blomkamp
- Elton John
- Marc Jacobs
- David Chang
- Banksy
- Chetan Bhagat
- Sandra Bullock
- Ricky Gervais
- Han Han
- James Cameron
Thinkers
- Zaha Hadid
- Elizabeth Warren
- Douglas Schwartzentruber and Larry Kwak
- Michael Pollan
- Atul Gawande
- Jaron Lanier
- Victor Pinchuk
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Deborah Gist
- Kathleen Merrigan
- Steve Jobs
- Tim White
- Lisa Jackson
- Elon Musk
- Edna Foa
- Jaime Lerner
- Paul Volcker
- Amy Smith
- Matt Berg
- Amartya Sen
- Michael Sherraden
- Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy
- Tim Westergren
- David Boies and Theodore Olson
- Sonia Sotomayor
Surprising, Chetan Bhagat is also there in the list.