The 2010 TIME 100 Poll

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators and icons who you think are the most influential people in the world. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed, with Mir-Hossein Mousavi having won the honor, users can continue to vote for their favorites until the list is revealed on Thursday, April 29th

2010 Candidates

Steve Jobs

By TIME StaffThursday, Apr. 01, 2010
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Age: 55
Occupation: CEO of Apple Inc.
Previous TIME 100 Appearances: 4

When Jobs unveiled the iPod in 2001, he began a revolution in the way the world listens to music and how the recording industry is ordered. Now he is taking a stab at the publishing industry with the introduction of the iPad, a new digital device for reading books, magazines and newspaper articles as well as surfing the Web.

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