Leaders
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- J.T. Wang
- Admiral Mike Mullen
- Barack Obama
- Ron Bloom
- Yukio Hatoyama
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Nancy Pelosi
- Sarah Palin
- Salam Fayyad
- Jon Kyl
- Glenn Beck
- Annise Parker
- Tidjane Thiam
- Jenny Beth Martin
- Christine Lagarde
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- General Stanley McChrystal
- Manmohan Singh
- Bo Xilai
- Mark Carney
- Sister Carol Keehan
- Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan
- Robin Li
- Scott Brown
Heroes
- Bill Clinton
- Kim Yu-Na
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi
- Ben Stiller
- Temple Grandin
- P. Namperumalsamy
- Nay Phone Latt
- Chen Shu-chu
- Phil Mickelson
- Didier Drogba
- Graça Machel
- Reem Al Numery
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Tristan Lecomte
- Liya Kebede
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
- Zahra Rahnavard
- Jet Li
- Serena Williams
- Chief Master Sergeant Tony Travis
- Karls Paul-Noel
- Rahul Singh
- Valentin Abe
- Malalai Joya
- Will Allen
Artists
- Lady Gaga
- Conan O'Brien
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Oprah Winfrey
- Valery Gergiev
- Robert Pattinson
- Ashton Kutcher
- Suzanne Collins
- Taylor Swift
- Neil Patrick Harris
- Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof
- Prince
- Lea Michele
- Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
- Simon Cowell
- Neill Blomkamp
- Elton John
- Marc Jacobs
- David Chang
- Banksy
- Chetan Bhagat
- Sandra Bullock
- Ricky Gervais
- Han Han
- James Cameron
Thinkers
- Zaha Hadid
- Elizabeth Warren
- Douglas Schwartzentruber and Larry Kwak
- Michael Pollan
- Atul Gawande
- Jaron Lanier
- Victor Pinchuk
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Deborah Gist
- Kathleen Merrigan
- Steve Jobs
- Tim White
- Lisa Jackson
- Elon Musk
- Edna Foa
- Jaime Lerner
- Paul Volcker
- Amy Smith
- Matt Berg
- Amartya Sen
- Michael Sherraden
- Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy
- Tim Westergren
- David Boies and Theodore Olson
- Sonia Sotomayor
Social Networking
TIME 100 Alumnae
- Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan
- Condoleezza Rice
- Barbara Walters
- Wendy Kopp
- Sherri Shepherd
- Martha Stewart
- Amy Smith
- Suze Orman
- Anna Netrebko
- Alice Munro
- Joy Behar
- Nora Roberts
- Suzanne Collins
- Edna Foa
- Lauren Zalaznick
- Elizabeth Warren
- Meg Whitman
- Elisabeth Hasselbeck
- Stella McCartney
- Sister Mary Scullion
- Ann Coulter
- Katie Couric
- Nancy Pelosi
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Kiki Smith
- Serena Williams
- Alicia Keys
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Deborah Gist
- Arianna Huffington
- Sarah Palin
Essay
To Our Readers
In our annual TIME 100 issue we name the people who most affect our world