AGE: 40
OCCUPATION: Professional basketball player
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: Four-time winner of the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year award and the second-oldest player in the NBA, Mutombo last year donated $15 million towards the construction of a hospital in his hometown, the Congolese capital Kinshasa.
CON: His on-court taunting of other players has earned him repeated technical fouls for unsportsmanlike conduct.