Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2012 [May 2012]

Historical Accolades

Missing: Cami Anderson * Marc Andreessen * Jose Andres * Anonymous * Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglo * Mamata Banerjee * Eike Batista * Fatou Bensouda * Preet Bharara * Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani * Pete Cashmore * Iftikhar Chaudhry * Tim Cook * Ray Dalio * Mario Draghi * Maryam Durani * Daniel Ek * Asghar Farhadi * Maria das Graças Silva Foster * Ron Fouchier * Rached Ghannouchi * Robert Grant * Harold Hamm * Freeman Hrabowski * Walter Isaacson * Xi Jinping * Goodluck Johnathan * Salman Khan (educator) * Christine Lagarde * Chen Lihua * Andrew Lo * Christian Marclay * Erik Martin * Dulce Matuz * Mario Monti * Alexei Navalny * Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy * Ann Patchett * Ai-jen Poo * Ben Rattray * Rene Redzepi * Cecile Richards * Virginia Rometty * Hans Rosling * Dilma Rousseff * Raphael Saadiq * David Sadoway * Juan Manuel Santos * Henrik Scharfe * U Thein Sein * Portia Simpson-Miller * Barbara Van Dahlen * Alice Walton * Wang Yang * Sheik Moktar Ali Zubeyr

Vote Ranking  

1

Anjali Gopalan

Advocate

100% (1 of 1 votes)

2

Sarimah Ibrahim

TV Personality

100% (1 of 1 votes)

3

Oscar Pistorius

Athlete

100% (15 of 15 votes)

4

Christine Lagarde

Politician

87.50% (7 of 8 votes)

5

Lionel Messi

Soccer Player

81.82% (18 of 22 votes)

6

Novak Djokovic

Tennis Player

75.00% (3 of 4 votes)

7

Kim Jong Un

Military Personnel

71.18% (205 of 288 votes)

8

Rihanna

Vocalist

70.15% (1156 of 1648 votes)

9

Sara Blakely

Entrepreneur

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

10

Mullah Mohammed Omar

Terrorist

60.92% (449 of 737 votes)

11

Barack Obama

U.S. President

59.59% (4749 of 7970 votes)

12

Stephen Colbert

Comedian

59.47% (270 of 454 votes)

13

Louis C.K.

Comedian

58.33% (84 of 144 votes)

14

Marco Rubio

U.S. Senator

57.58% (57 of 99 votes)

15

Andrew Cuomo

U.S. Governor

52.63% (50 of 95 votes)

16

Mitt Romney

U.S. Senator

52.38% (55 of 105 votes)

17

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

18

Tilda Swinton

Actress

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

19

Jeremy Lin

Basketball Player

50.0% (5 of 10 votes)

20

Angela Merkel

World Leader

48.39% (15 of 31 votes)

21

Tim Tebow

Football Player

47.83% (11 of 23 votes)

22

Bashar Al-Assad

World Leader

46.15% (216 of 468 votes)

23

Matt Lauer

Commentator

44.76% (47 of 105 votes)

24

Manal Al-Sharif

Advocate

42.86% (3 of 7 votes)

25

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

World Leader

42.05% (37 of 88 votes)

26

Alexei Navalny

Politician

41.79% (84 of 201 votes)

27

Harvey Weinstein

Entrepreneur

40.27% (745 of 1850 votes)

28

Anthony Kennedy

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

40.0% (14 of 35 votes)

29

Benjamin Netanyahu

World Leader

34.43% (105 of 305 votes)

30

Kate Middleton

Royalty

30.38% (79 of 260 votes)

31

Claire Danes

Actress

30.0% (21 of 70 votes)

32

Adele

Musician

29.17% (28 of 96 votes)

33

Chelsea Handler

Comedienne

29.09% (16 of 55 votes)

34

Warren Buffett

Financier

21.21% (7 of 33 votes)

35

Kristen Wiig

Comedienne

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

36

Jessica Chastain

Actress

11.11% (1 of 9 votes)

37

Yani Tseng

Golfer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

38

Elinor Ostrom

Economist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

39

E.L. James

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

40

Ali Farzat

Artist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

41

Sheryl Sandberg

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

42

Viola Davis

Actress

0% (0 of 3 votes)

43

Timothy Dolan

Religious Figure

0% (0 of 0 votes)

44

Ron Paul

Politician

0% (0 of 9 votes)

45

Pippa Middleton

Celebrity's Relative

0% (0 of 1 votes)

46

Sarah Burton

Designer

0% (0 of 0 votes)

47

Cecile Richards

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

48

Marc Andreessen

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

49

Jose Andres

Chef

0% (0 of 1 votes)

50

Ann Patchett

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)