Who Should Be Among This Year's Picks for the TIME 100?

To help make the selection, TIME asked earlier honorees whom they would select as the world's most influential people. This week's installment:

ZIYI ZHANG The star of Memoirs of a Geisha has broken down barriers for Chinese actors. I hope Ang Lee is on the list. Because of him, Chinese filmmaking will be better recognized by the U.S. film industry. He has made his fellow Chinese extremely proud. I would also include Wang Yung-ching, a Taiwanese businessman who is donating hearing implants to the children of China this year, and Professor Han Demin, the head of Beijing's Tongren Hospital, because of his charity fund-raising efforts.

JEFFREY SACHS Enemy of poverty, friend of Bono, he wrote the book on how to help the world's...

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