2009 Candidates
- Barack Obama
- The Twitter Guys, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone
- Jim Cramer
- The Charter 08 authors
- Tzipi Livni
- Bernie Madoff
- Arianna Huffington
- Pope Benedict XVI
- Rain
- George W. Bush
- Katie Stam
- Alex Rodriguez
- M.I.A.
- Prince
- Bill O'Reilly
- Joaquin Phoenix
- David Plouffe
- Rahm Emanuel
- Dov Charney
- Mark Cuban
- Eric Holder
- Odell Barnes
- Rod Blagojevich
- The Pregnant Man: Thomas Beatie
- Roland Burris
- Stephen Colbert
- Sarah Palin
- The Jonas Brothers
- Britney Spears
- Miley Cyrus
- Angelina Jolie
- John McCain
- Hillary Clinton
- Ron Paul
- Mike Huckabee
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Ratan Tata
- Oprah Winfrey
- Tina Fey
- Michelle Obama
- Katie Couric
- Michael Phelps
- Kobe Bryant
- Lil' Wayne
- Mukesh Ambani
- Ron Bloom
- Bill Gross
- Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
- Warren Buffett
- Carlos Slim
- T. Boone Pickens
- Ram Charan
- Neel Kashkari
- James Lockhart
- Jamie Dimon
- Michael Duke
- Ken Lewis
- Dick Kovacevich
- Sheila Bair
- Charlie Gasparino
- Tim Geithner
- Meredith Whitney
- General Petraeus
- Abdul Rahman al-Rashed
- Michelle Rhee
- Nancy Pelosi
- Elizabeth Warren
- Gordon Brown
- Boris Johnson
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Asif Ali Zardari
- Ashfaq Pervez Kayani
- Morgan Tsvangirai
- Robert Mugabe
- Paul Kagame
- Richard Kelly
- Alexander Lebedev
- Ronnie Screwvala
- Steve Jobs
- Jeff Kindler
- Nouriel Roubini
- Yochiro Nambu
- Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller
- Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki
- Douglas Melton
- Nicholas Christakis
- Nate Silver
- Rowan Williams
- Paul Krugman
- Dr. Alain Carpentier
- Doris A. Taylor
- Roland Fryer
- Steven Chu
- Connie Hedegaard
- Jon Favreau
- Rachel Maddow
- Rush Limbaugh
- Kate Winslet
- Seth MacFarlane
- Damien Hirst
- William Kentridge
- Danny Boyle
- Gustavo Dudamel
- Renzo Piano
- Ricky Gervais
- Dan Barber
- Will Wright
- Hugh Jackman
- Clint Eastwood
- Roberto Saviano
- Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III
- Jeff Bezos
- Rick Warren
- Patrick Swayze
- Tiger Woods
- Danica Patrick
- Manny Pacquiao
- Jessica Jackley
- Rafael Nadal
- Dalai Lama
- Vladimir Putin
- Hu Jintao
- Jacob Zuma
- Anwar Ibrahim
- Ben Bernanke
- Muqtada al-Sadr
- Robert Gates
- Sonia Gandhi
- Baitullah Mehsud
- Evo Morales
- Ma Ying-jeou
- Brad Pitt
- Lance Armstrong
- Kaká
- Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum
- Yoani Sénchez
- Madeeha Hasan Odhaib
- Tony Blair
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- George Mitchell
- Craig Venter
- Larry Brilliant
- Jeff Han
- Nancy Brinker
- Peter Pronovost
- Eric Chivian and Richard Cizik
- Mary Lou Jepsen
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Tyler Perry
- Khaled Hosseini
- Rem Koolhaas
- Judd Apatow
- George Clooney
- Suze Orman
- Sister Mary Scullion
- Stephenie Meyer
- Takashi Murakami
- Indra Nooyi
- Ali al-Naimi
- Rupert Murdoch
- John Chambers
- Jay Adelson
- Steve Ballmer
- Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
- Jeffrey Immelt
- Tom Ford
- Lloyd Blankfein
- Mo Ibrahim
- Ted Kennedy
- Nadya (Octomom) Suleman
- Tom Hanks
- Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
- The View
- Jay Leno
- Dan Houser
- Angela Merkel
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Leonard Abess
- Kevin Rudd
- Stella McCartney
- Zac Efron
- Eric Cantor
- Newt Gingrich
- Jeff Kinney
- Tom Dart
- Sam Zell
- David McKiernan
- Ryan Schreiber
- Michael Rapino
- Jonathan Krohn
- T-Pain
- Tucker Max
- Jon Stewart
- Taylor Swift
- moot
- Gamal Mubarak
- Kanye West
- Matthew Weiner
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Cory Booker
- John Boehner
- Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- Michael Bloomberg
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The 2009 TIME 100 Finalists
Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers who deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100. — By Brian Raftery