Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2015 [April 2015]

Historical Accolades

Missing: Haider Al-Abadi * Martin Blaser * Tom Catena * Emmanuelle Charpentier * Brian Chesky * Beji Caid Essebsi * Obiageli Ezekwesili * Aura Elena Farfan * Tony Fernandes * Tom Frieden * Rula Ghani * Mustafa Hassan * Reid Hoffman * Chai Jing * Kira Orange Jones * Lei Jun * Scott Kelly * King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud * Chanda Kochhar * Sarah Koenig * Jimmy Lai * Jorge Paulo Lemann * Joanne Liu * Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow * Gabriel Medina * Danny Meyer * Satya Nadella * Chris Ofili * Vikram Patel * Thomas Piketty * Pardis Sabeti * Anita Sarkeesian * Abubakar Shekau * Jill Soloway * Bryan Stevenson * Rudolph Tanzi * Alex Tsipras * Alexander Wang * Lu Wei * Mohammad Javad Zarif

Vote Ranking  

1

Tim Cook

Entrepreneur

100% (2 of 2 votes)

2

Robert Iger

Entrepreneur

100% (3 of 3 votes)

3

Jorge Ramos

TV Personality

100% (1 of 1 votes)

4

Samantha Power

Diplomat

100% (11 of 11 votes)

5

Muhammadu Buhari

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

6

Joko Widodo

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

7

Haruki Murakami

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

8

Susan Wojcicki

Entrepreneur

100% (1 of 1 votes)

9

Adam Silver

Sports Executive

100% (1 of 1 votes)

10

Elizabeth Holmes

Entrepreneur

85.71% (6 of 7 votes)

11

Martin Dempsey

Military Personnel

80.0% (4 of 5 votes)

12

Kim Jong Un

Military Personnel

71.18% (205 of 288 votes)

13

Kim Kardashian

Socialite

70.11% (732 of 1044 votes)

14

Mitch McConnell

U.S. Senator

67.86% (853 of 1257 votes)

15

Lorne Michaels

TV Executive

63.64% (7 of 11 votes)

16

Kanye West

Vocalist

61.07% (4286 of 7018 votes)

17

Barack Obama

U.S. President

59.59% (4749 of 7970 votes)

18

Vladimir Putin

World Leader

53.88% (2374 of 4406 votes)

19

Taylor Swift

Vocalist

53.67% (716 of 1334 votes)

20

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

21

Janet Yellen

Economist

48.51% (98 of 202 votes)

22

Angela Merkel

World Leader

48.39% (15 of 31 votes)

23

Pope Francis I

Religious Figure

47.55% (68 of 143 votes)

24

Kevin Hart

Comedian

47.25% (86 of 182 votes)

25

Julianne Moore

Actress

45.16% (28 of 62 votes)

26

Elizabeth Warren

U.S. Senator

44.99% (193 of 429 votes)

27

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

44.74% (200 of 447 votes)

28

Jeb Bush

U.S. Governor

42.16% (43 of 102 votes)

29

Xi Jinping

World Leader

35.29% (66 of 187 votes)

30

Benjamin Netanyahu

World Leader

34.43% (105 of 305 votes)

31

Amy Schumer

Comedienne

33.94% (75 of 221 votes)

32

Tim McGraw

Vocalist

33.33% (17 of 51 votes)

33

Marine Le Pen

Politician

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

34

Bjork (Guomundsdottir)

Vocalist

32.30% (73 of 226 votes)

35

Julianna Margulies

Actress

31.37% (16 of 51 votes)

36

Chris Pratt

Actor

31.19% (63 of 202 votes)

37

Christopher Nolan

Filmmaker

31.11% (42 of 135 votes)

38

Reese Witherspoon

Actress

26.77% (321 of 1199 votes)

39

Malala Yousafzai

Advocate

25.00% (1 of 4 votes)

40

Bradley Cooper

Actor

23.08% (9 of 39 votes)

41

Laverne Cox

Actress

22.22% (2 of 9 votes)

42

Charles Koch

Entrepreneur

5.71% (2 of 35 votes)

43

David Koch

Entrepreneur

5.71% (2 of 35 votes)

44

Diane Von Furstenberg

Designer

5.56% (2 of 36 votes)

45

Emma Watson

Actress

5.26% (1 of 19 votes)

46

Audra McDonald

Actress

0% (0 of 1 votes)

47

Lee Daniels

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

48

Mellody Hobson

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 1 votes)

49

John Oliver

Comedian

0% (0 of 4 votes)

50

Richard Linklater

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

51

Raul Castro

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

52

Misty Copeland

Dancer

0% (0 of 0 votes)

53

Narendra Modi

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

54

Jerry Brown (Doctor)

Doctor

0% (0 of 7 votes)

55

Abby Wambach

Soccer Player

0% (0 of 0 votes)

56

Ina Garten

Chef

0% (0 of 2 votes)

57

Marie Kondo

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

58

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

59

Bob Corker

U.S. Senator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

60

Jennifer Doudna

Scientist

0% (0 of 2 votes)