Time Magazine's Top 100

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva came in as an influential leader on Time magazine's 2010 Time 100 list.

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Time 100 Leaders: J.T. Wang

J.T. Wang is the CEO of the Taiwanese PC maker Acer Group.

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Time 100 Leaders: Admiral Mike Mullen

Admiral Mike Mullen is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Time 100 Leaders: Barack Obama

President Barack Obama also was listed in the leaders category in Time magazine's 2010 Time 100 list.

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Time 100 Leaders: Ron Bloom

Ron Bloom is the senior adviser for manufacturing policy and the nation's so-called "car czar."

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Time 100 Leaders: Yukio Hatoyama

Yukio Hatoyama, right, is the prime minister of Japan.

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Time 100 Leaders: Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, center, is the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

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Time 100 Leaders: Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on Time magazine's 2010 Time 100 leaders list.

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Time 100 Leaders: Sarah Palin

Former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now a contributor for Fox News.

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Time 100 Leaders: Salam Fayyad

Salam Fayyad is the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority.

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Time 100 Leaders: Jon Kyl

Sen. Joh Kyl, R-Ariz., is the Senate minority whip.

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Time 100 Leaders: Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck has gained a strong following from both his Fox News TV show and nationally-syndicated radio program.

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Time 100 Leaders: Annise Parker

Annise Parker, center, is the mayor of Houston. She's the first openly gay mayor to serve a city with more than a million residents.

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Time 100 Leaders: Tidjane Thiam

Tidjane Thiam is the CEO of Prudential, the British insurer that is buying AIG's Asian unit.

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Time 100 Leaders: Jenny Beth Martin

Jenny Beth Martin is the he co-founder and national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots.

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Time 100 Leaders: Christine Lagarde

Christine Lagarde, left, is France's minister of finance.

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Time 100 Leaders: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the prime minister of Turkey.

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Time 100 Leaders: General Stanley McChrystal

General Stanley McChrystal is the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

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Time 100 Leaders: Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh, left, is the prime minister of India.

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Time 100 Leaders: Bo Xilai

Bo Xilai is one of China's most powerful officials.

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Time 100 Leaders: Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Crown Prince Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi.

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Time 100 Leaders: Mark Carney

Mark Carney is the head of the Bank of Canada.

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Time 100 Leaders: Sister Carol Keehan

Sister Carol Keehan is the president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States.

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Time 100 Leaders: Robin Li

Robin Li is the CEO of Baidu.com, a Chinese search engine.

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Time 100 Leaders: Scott Brown

Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., is junior senator from Massachusetts who was elected to serve the remainder of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's term.

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Time 100 Heroes: Bill Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton is on the heroes list on Time magazine's 2010 Time 100 list.

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Time 100 Heroes: Kim Yu-Na

South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-Na won the gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

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Time 100 Heroes: Mir Hossein Mousavi

Mir Hossein Mousavi is an Iranian reformist politician who challenged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 presidential election.

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Time 100 Heroes: Ben Stiller

Actor Ben Stiller works with his charity, StillerStrong.org, to provide schools for Haitian children.

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Time 100 Heroes: Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin is an animal scientist and author who was born with autism.

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Time 100 Heroes: Perumalsamy Namperumalsamy

Dr. Perumalsamy Namperumalsamy is the chairman of Aravind Eye Care System in Inida, the world's largest provider of eye care services.

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Time 100 Heroes: Nay Phone Latt

Nay Phone Latt is an imprisioned Burmese blogger and the 2010 winner of the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.

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Time 100 Heroes: Chen Shu-chu

Chen Shu-chu is a vegetable seller at a market in southern Taiwan who has donated more than $320,000 to various charitable causes in her country.

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Time 100 Heroes: Phil Mickelson

Phil Mickelson won the 2010 Masters tournament.

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Time 100 Heroes: Didier Drogba

Didier Drogba plays on for England's Chelsea Football Club and is the captain of the C

Time 100 Heroes: Graca Machel

Graca Machel, left, is the former first lady of South Africa and the wife of former President Nelson Mandela.

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Time 100 Heroes: Reem Al Numery

Reem Al Numery was a former child bride in Yemen who is now a children's rights activist.

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Time 100 Heroes: Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar is an Indian cricket player.

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Time 100 Heroes: Tristan Lecomte

Tristan Lecomte is the founder of Alter Eco, a company that imports and distributes fair-trade products in France.

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Time 100 Heroes: Liya Kebede

Liya Kebede is an Ethiopian model and maternal health advocate. She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

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Time 100 Heroes: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

The chairman and managing director of a biotech company, Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw donated $10 million to create a cancer care center in Bangalore, India.

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Time 100 Heroes: Zahra Rahnavard

Zahra Rahnavard, left, is an artist, educator and the wife of former Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, center.

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Time 100 Heroes: Jet Li

Jet Li is an actor and the founder of the One Foundation, which assists with disaster-relief efforts in China.

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Time 100 Heroes: Serena Williams

Serena Williams is a Grand Slam tennis champion and a big supportive of charities that support causes from abuse, education, health, literacy and children.

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Time 100 Heroes: Chief Master Sergeant Tony Travis

With his excellent leadership skills, Chief Master Sergeant Tony Travis was able to build a temporary air-traffic-control system which helped bring relief to Haiti after a massive earthquake.

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Time 100 Heroes: Karls Paul-Noel

Karls Paul-Noel is an Assistant Fire Chief who led a rescue efforts team in Port-au-Prince after the Haitian earthquake. His team found 11 survivors.

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Time 100 Heroes: Rahul Singh

Rahul Singh is a paramedic and founder of the GlobalMedic. His non-profit organization helped bring 2.4 million gallons of clean water to quake-torn Haiti.

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Time 100 Heroes: Valentin Abe

Valentin Abe teaches Haitians how to fish in order to be self-sufficient.

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Time 100 Heroes: Malalai Joya

Malali Joya is an Afghan politician who is known for her brave opposition against other members of parliament.

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Time 100 Heroes: Will Allen

Will Allen is an urban farmer who advocates for accessibility of food that is grown naturally through his organization, Milwaukee's Growing Power Inc.

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Time 100 Artists: Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is an American recording artist known for her chart topping hits and outlandish fashion choices.

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Time 100 Artists: Conan O'Brien

Conan O'Brien is an American television host and comedian.

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Time 100 Artists: Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director.

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Time 100 Artists: Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is an award-winning American talk show host and producer.

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Time 100 Artists: Valery Gergiev

Valery Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director.

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Time 100 Artists: Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson is a British actor, best known for his vampire role in the "Twilight" series.

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Time 100 Artists: Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher is an American actor and producer, best known from the Fox show"That 70's Show" and MTV's "Punk'd"

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Time 100 Artists: Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author.

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Time 100 Artists: Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is an award-winning American country-pop singer.

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Time 100 Artists: Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor most famous for his roles in "Doogie Howser" and "How I Met Your Mother."

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Time 100 Artists: Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof

Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof are executive producers and writers of ABC's hit show "Lost"

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Time 100 Artists: Prince

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Prince is an American musician, singer, songwriter and producer.

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Time 100 Artists: Lea Michele

Lea Michele is a cast member in the television series "Glee."

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Time 100 Artists: Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik

Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik are the writer and illustrator of the online comic "Penny Arcade."

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Time 100 Artists: Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell is a British television producer and talent judge on "American Idol."

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Time 100 Artists: Neill Blomkamp

Neill Blomkamp directed the Oscar-nominated film "District 9."

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Time 100 Artists: Elton John

Elton John is an award-winning recording artist.

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Time 100 Artists: Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs is the fashion designer behind Marc Jacobs, Marc by Marc Jacobs and is the current head designer for Louis Vuitton.

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Time 100 Artists: David Chang

David Chang is the chef/owner of the Momofuku restaurants.

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Time 100 Artists: Banksy

Banksy is the pseudonym for a British graffiti artist.

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Time 100 Artists: Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author.

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Time 100 Artists: Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "The Blind Side."

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Time 100 Artists: Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais is the British actor and comedian who starred in the original version of "The Office."

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Time 100 Artists: Han Han

Han Han is an author, singer and China's most popular blogger.

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Time 100 Artists: James Cameron

James Cameron is an American movie director, best known for his blockbuster hits "Avatar" and "Titanic."

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Time 100 Thinkers: Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi deconstructivist architect.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren heads the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Douglas Schwartzentruber & Larry Kwak

Douglas Schwartzentruber and Larry Kwak are both working on a cancer vaccine.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is an American journalist, critic of the global industrial food complex, and author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma"

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Time 100 Thinkers: Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande is a researcher, physician, lecturer, author and senior adviser to former President Bill Clinton.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier is the author of "You Are Not a Gadget."

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Time 100 Thinkers: Victor Pinchuk

Victor Pinchuk built Ukraine's first large-scale contemporary art center.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew is the minister mentor of Singapore.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Deborah Gist

Deborah Gist is the commissioner of Rhode Island's schools.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Kathleen Merrigan

Kathleen Merrigan is the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Tim White

Tim White is an American paleoanthropologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Lisa Jackson

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Lisa Jackson is the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a South-African physicist and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Paypal.com and Tesla Motors.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Edna Foa

Edna Foa is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Time 100 Thinkers: Jaime Lerner

Jaime Lerner is an architect, urban planner and the former governor of Parana, Brazil.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Paul Volcker

Paul Volcker is an American economist and former chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Amy Smith

Amy Smith is an engineer who creates devices for the developing world.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Matt Berg

Matt Berg is the technology director for ChildCount+, which works to track disease in Africa via text messages.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, right, received the 1998 Nobel Prize for economics and is known for his work on poverty, famine and human development.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Michael Sherraden

Michael Sherraden is a professor of social development at Washington University in St. Louis and co-leader of the Global Assets Project.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Sanjit "Bunker" Roy

Sanjit "Bunker" Roy trains people in rural India for jobs through his Barefoot College organization.

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Time 100 Thinkers: Tim Westergren

Tim Westergren is the creator of the online music recommendation service Pandora.

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Time 100 Thinkers: David Boies and Theodore Olson

Once fighting on opposition sides in the infamous Bush vs. Gore Florida-recount case, David Boies and Theodore Olson join together to challenge California's Proposition 8, which eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry in California

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Time 100 Thinkers: Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor is the first Hispanic and third female to serve as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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