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

Manmohan Singh

By TIME STAFFThursday, Apr. 01, 2010
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Age: 77
Occupation: Prime Minister of India
Previous TIME 100 Appearances: 1

If he weren't so unfailingly modest, Singh could claim double bragging rights for India's emergence as one of the world's leading nations: as its Finance Minister in the 1990s, he instituted the reforms that fired up the Indian economic engine; and as Prime Minister for the past six years, he has provided the political stability that allowed it to accelerate. Small wonder that voters returned his Congress Party to power last year with a stronger mandate.

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