Leaders & Revolutionaries (Warriors and peacemakers, dictators and democrats, terrorists and holy men—these are the men and women with the clout and power to change our world)
George Bush
Condoleezza Rice
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Bill Frist
Donald Rumsfeld
Mark Malloch Brown
Gordon Brown
Ali Husaini Sistani
Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi
Hu Jintao
Kim Jong Il
Manmohan Singh
Thabo Mbeki
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Mahmoud Abbas
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ariel Sharon
Javier Solana
John Howard
Chen Shui-bian
Hugo Chavez

Artists & Entertainers (Whether inspired by boxing or Bush, comedy or kung fu, this diverse group of stars has won fans and spawned imitators around the world)
Clint Eastwood
Michael Moore
Hilary Swank
Quentin Tarantino
Dan Brown
Dave Eggers
Marc Cherry
John Elderfield
Kanye West
Jon Stewart
Alicia Keys
Jamie Foxx
Johnny Depp
Art Spiegelman
The Halo Trinity
Ann Coulter
Hayao Miyazaki
Ziyi Zhang ( =D> =D> great coverage)
Juanes
Miuccia Prada
Marc Newson
Santiago Calatrava
Alice Munro
Cornelia Funke

Builders & Titans (Hot gadgets, cool sales techniques and sheer brashness (welcome back, Martha!) make these business brains the world's most influential)
Steve Jobs
The Google Guys
Lee Scott
Meg Whitman
Martha Stewart
Craig Newmark
Jay-Z
Amy Domini
Reed Hastings
Bram Cohen
Martin Sorrell
John Bond
Howard Stringer
Katsuaki Watanabe
Noël Forgeard
Anne Lauvergeon
Ren Zhengfei
Lee Kun Hee
Roman Abramovich
The BlackBerry Guys
Rupert Murdoch

Scientists & Thinkers (Whether to conquer space or remake the political world, they have come up with the big ideas of our time)
Jeffrey Sachs
Malcolm Gladwell
Robert Klein
Andrew Weil
Burt Rutan
Karl Rove
Rick Warren
Brian Atwater
Mitchell Baker
Timothy Garton Ash
Natan Sharansky
Abdolkarim Soroush
Peter Singer
Richard Pound
Lee Kuan Yew
Larry Summers

Heroes & Icons (They righted the wrongs, played through the pain, offered spiritual solace or simply inspired us with their remarkable talents)
Bill Gates
Oprah Winfrey
LeBron James
Eliot Spitzer
Melissa Etheridge
The Dalai Lama
Nelson Mandela
Viktor Yushchenko
Dina Astita
Hania Mufti
Wangari Maathai
Mary Robinson
Lubna Olayan
Ellen MacArthur
John Stott
Michael Schumacher [-X
Stephen Lewis

http://www.time.com/time/2005/time100/index.html

Lebron James ... this list is awful.

Noone with a brain would listen to what he had to say.

Michael Schumacher rocks! :razz:

But Hilay Swank? Please... I mean, she might be an amazing actress, but to pick her as the most influential person...?

the guy is obviously picking americans more than anything else lecter. i mean come on .. the list doesn't contain osama and rushdie and the Aga Khan

Lebron James and hilary skank?
Lol! what a terrible list.

What the hell is "The Halo Trinity"? Is this referring to the videogame?

Also, where the hell is Mel Gibson?

That list is much too much of a Northeastern US mindset. The idea that Melissa Etheridge has any relevance for 95% of the planet is ludicrious. And that's just one example of many.

Ann Fucking Coulter? Then again, I guess she belongs. All the time, she influences me to blow my brains out with a gun.

I find it extremely amusing Gordon Brown was listed ahead of Tony Blair under leaders and revolutionaries.... he's not prime minister yet :wink:

Yeh. I posted an article awhile back that said Foxx was named one of the most "powerful" people today. He's a great actor, and has the support of many communities, but I haven't really seen him do anything with it yet that would lead me to believe his now well-known name would stand the test or, say, a political campaign (for himself or others, an organization, etc). I was pretty shocked that everyone, both in that article and this one, overlooked Gibson, who for good or bad was definately the most influencial and powerful figure in Hollywood this year.

I am listing the people on the list who I give the thumbs-up to.

The list is a joke. Maybe time should let Premiere magazine pick the most influential in Hollywood because Foxx and Swank are good actors, they can't carry a film to any kind of blockbuster status. Foxx might be able to do it but let's not confuse oscar with the green. Gibson said a big fuck you to Hollywood last year and it only ended up making him close to a billion dollars. Clint Eastwood is a fabulous film maker, but find me the last film he did that made 100 mill ( Mystic River came just short). If you want to truly talk influence in Hollywood, you still haev to point to the usual suspects, that being Spielberg and Lucas, yes, Lucas. Johnny Depp, influential? To what? I truly do not understand what crieteria they used for this survey.

The book Some Do Care (Free Press) discusses the moral development of several well and lesser known people who 'made a difference'.. Gahndi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Cabell Brand... Shows how they came to a place of moral leadership that influenced many people.. A studied approach, more than a contrived list.. A good read..