The Time Magazine has released the list of 100 most influential people in the world, which includes people such as artists, reformers, researchers, head of states and captains of industry.
From India, the list includes two names, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and eminent lawyer Anjali Gopalan.
The list further includes US President Barack Obama, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and footballer Lionel Messi.
Here's a look at the names that feature in the Time 100 list:
1. Jeremy Lin- Basketball Player, America
2. Christian Marclay- Visual artist and composer,Swiss-America
3. Viola Davis- Actress, America
4. Salman Khan- Educator, America
5. Tim Tebow- Football quarterback, American
6. EL James- Author, America
7. Louis CK- Comedian, Mexican-American
8. Rihanna- Recording artist, actress, US
9. Marco Rubio- United States Senator from Florida
10. Ali Ferzat- Cartoonist, Syria
11. René Redzepi- chef, Denmark
12. Kristen Wiig- Television actress, comedian, America
13. Anthony Kennedy- Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
14. Novak Djokovic- Tennis player, Serbia and Montenegro
15. Ben Rattray- Founder, Change.org, US
16. Jessica Chastain- Actress, America
17. Yani Tseng- Golfer- Republic of China (Taiwan)
18. Raphael Saadiq- Singer- America
19. Elinor Ostrom- Economist, US
20. Samira Ibrahim- Plaintiff, Egypt
21. Jose Andres- Chef, Spanish
21. Ann Patchett- Writer, America
22. Dulce Matuz- President, Arizona Dream Act Coalition
23. Henrik Scharfe- Professor, Director, Centre for Computer-mediated Epistemology, Denmark
24. Freeman Hrabowski- Educator, America
25. Maryam Durani- Member, Kandahar Provincial Council, Afghanistan
26. Manal al-Sharif- Women's rights activist and computer security consultant, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
27. Anjali Gopalan- Advocate, India
28. Rached Ghannouchi- Tunisian Islamist politician and co-founder, The Ennahda Movement
29. Barbara Van Dahlen- Founder and President, Give an Hour, US
30. Ron Fouchier- Scientist, Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands
31. Donald Sadoway- John F Elliott Professor, Materials Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
32. Hans Rosling- Statistician, Sweden
33. Asghar Farhadi- Filmmaker, Iran
34. Sarah Burton- Fashion Designer, UK
35. Anonymous- Self described hacktivist group, Voluntary association, Global
36. Pete Cashmore- Social News Guru,Scotland
37. Cami Anderson- Superintendent,Newark schools
38. Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu- Neo-Ottomans,
39. Ai-jen Poo- Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, US
40. Marc Andreessen- Kingmaker, America
41. Preet Bharara- Prosecutor, America
42. Robert Grant- AIDS Researcher, San Francisco
43. Andrew Lo- Harris & Harris Group Professor Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
44. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy- Pakistani-Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker
45. Alexei Navalny- Russian lawyer, politician, and political and financial activist
46. Ray Dalio- American businessman and founder of Bridgewater Associates
47. Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani- Prime Minister of Qatar
48. Chelsea Handler- American stand-up comedian, actress, best-selling author, and producer
49. Harvey Weinstein- American film producer and movie studio chairman
50. Chen Lihua- Chairperson, Fu Wah International, China
51. Warren Buffett- Chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
52. Alice Walton- Heiress, Walton family fortune
53. Harold Hamm- CEO, Continental Resources
54. Sheryl Sandberg- COO, Facebook
55. Sara Blakely- Founder of Spanx, and world's youngest self-made female billionaire, US
56. Eike Batista- President, EBX Group, Brazil
57. Tim Cook- CEO, Apple, US
58. Daniel Ek- CEO and Founder, Spotify, Sweden
59. Virginia Rometty- CEO, IBM, US
60. Barack Obama- President, USA
61. Goodluck Jonathan- President of Nigeria
62. Xi Jinping- First Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of China
63. Fatou Bensouda- Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Gambia
64. Christine Lagarde- MD, IMF, France
65. Mario Draghi- President, European Central Bank, Italy
66. U Thein Sein- President of Burma
67. Ayatullah Ali Khamenei- Supreme Leader of Iran
68. Mitt Romney- Candidate, 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination
69. Juan Manuel Santos- President of Colombia
70. Timothy Dolan- American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
71. Portia Simpson Miller- Prime Minister of Jamaica
72. Mario Monti- Prime Minister of Italy
73. Wang Yang- Secretary, Guangdong Committee of the Communist Party of China
74. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster- CEO of Petrobras, Brazil
75. Andrew Cuomo- Governor of New York, US
76. Iftikhar Chaudhry- Chief Justice of Pakistan
77. Mamata Banerjee- Chief Minister Of Indian state of West Bengal
78. Walter Isaacson- President and CEO, Aspen Institute, US
79. Ron Paul- Member of the US House of Representatives
80. Benjamin Netanyahu- Prime Minister of Israel
81. Dilma Rousseff- President of Brazil
82. Erik Martin- Founder and editor, Muschelhaufen
83. Cecile Richards- Democratic Party activist, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
84. Angela Merkel- Chancellor of Germany
85. Lionel Messi- Footballer and Captain of Argentinian national team
86. Tilda Swinton- British actress
87. Hillary Clinton- United States Secretary of State
88. Catherine- Duchess of Cambridge, and Pippa Middleton, her sister
89. Adele- Recording artist and songwriter, UK
90. Matt Lauer, TV journalist, Host, NBC's The Today Show
91. Oscar Pistorius- sprint runner, South Africa
93. Claire Danes- American television, stage and film actress
94. Stephen Colbert- American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, actor; Host, Comedy Central's The Colbert Report
Rogues
Kim Jong Un- Supreme leader of North Korea
Mullah Mohammed Omar- Spiritual leader, Taliban, Afghanistan
Sheik Moktar Ali Zubeyr- Emir, Harakat Al-Shabab Mujahideen, Somalia
Bashar Assad- President of Syria
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