Time 100: Donald Trump, Adele, Kim Jong-Un and Caitlyn Jenner among world's most influential people
As are Ted Cruz and Nicki Minaj
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Your support makes all the difference.A list of the most influential people in the world, according to Time magazine that is, has been revealed.
The 100 names vary from world leaders to Youtubers to activists to rappers and according to the editor Nancy Gibbs they all “have the power to make us think”.
Extremely high-profile, expected individuals like Tim Cook, President Barack Obama and Caitlyn Jenner make the list as do lesser-known individuals like Dan Carder, the engineer who exposed the Volkswagen emissions scandal of 2015.
The select six chosen to be on the front of the coveted issues are Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicki Minaj, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Christine Lagarde, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Priyanka Chopra.
The description of how each person is influential in their field of work is often written up by somebody in the same field, for example, Zuckerberg and Chan’s write-up is by fellow technology-come-humanitarian power couple Bill and Melinda Gates while Jennifer Lawrence profiles her friend Adele.
Aside from Adele, who has just been named the UK’s richest ever female musician, fellow Brits on the list include Mark Rylance, Idris Elba and Lewis Hamilton.
See the full list below
Aziz Ansari
Caitlyn Jenner
Laura Esserman and Shelley Hwang
Palmer Luckey
Sunita Narain
Roy Choi
Felix Kjellberg (a.k.a. PewDiePie)
Hope Jahren
Dan Carder
Nadia Murad
Lee Berger
Mussie Zerai
Marc Edwards and Mona Hanna-Attisha
Christiana Figueres
Alan Stern
Raj Panjabi
Ibtihaj Muhammad
Gina Rodriguez
Kathy Niakan
Kip Thorne
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Titans
Tim Cook
Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal
Yuri Milner
Mohammed bin Nayef
Katie Ledecky
Dwayne Johnson
Pope Francis
Sundar Pichai
Wang Jianlin
Kathleen Kennedy
Eli Broad
Stephen Curry
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg
Artists
Kendrick Lamar
Gael García Bernal
Taraji P. Henson
Melissa McCarthy
Elena Ferrante
Riccardo Tisci
Ryan Coogler
Ariana Grande
Idris Elba
Bjarke Ingels
Oscar Isaac
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Guo Pei
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Mark Rylance
Charlize Theron
Yayoi Kusama
Priyanka Chopra
Leaders
Kim Jong Un
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Vladimir Putin
Paul Ryan
Diana Natalicio
Lori Robinson
Lester Holt
Queen Máxima
Ted Cruz
François Hollande
Darren Walker
James Comey
Raghuram Rajan
Hillary Clinton
Aung San Suu Kyi
Sergio Moro
Justin Trudeau
Xi Jinping
Barack Obama
Mauricio Macri
Jaha Dukureh
Reince Priebus
Tsai Ing-wen
Sean MacFarland
Bernie Sanders
Nikki Haley
Jin Liqun
Donald Trump
Angela Merkel
John Kerry
Christine Lagarde
Icons
Nicki Minaj
Lewis Hamilton
Usain Bolt
Marilynne Robinson
Karlie Kloss
Jordan Spieth
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Adele
Tu Youyou
Denis Mukwege
Sania Mirza
Ronda Rousey
Leonardo DiCaprio
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