Candidates
- Adele
- Mustafa Abdel-Jalil
- Sheldon Adelson
- Ai Weiwei
- Marc Andreessen
- José Andrés
- Anonymous
- Aziz Ansari
- Bashar Assad
- Vidya Balan
- Alec Baldwin
- Eike Batista
- Fatou Bensouda
- Almudena Bernabeu
- Ben Bernanke
- Beyoncé
- Jeff Bezos
- Preet Bharara
- Sara Blakely
- Usain Bolt
- Bon Iver
- Danny Boyle
- Jan Brewer
- Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen
- Warren Buffett
- Sarah Burton
- Louis C.K.
- David Cameron
- Eric Cantor
- Pete Cashmore
- David Chang
- Jessica Chastain
- Chris Christie
- Hillary Clinton
- George Clooney
- Stephen Colbert
- Suzanne Collins
- Tim Cook
- Richard Cordray
- Dick Costolo
- Daniel Craig
- Bryan Cranston
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Andrew Cuomo
- Ray Dalio
- Claire Danes
- Viola Davis
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Lana Del Rey
- Zooey Deschanel
- Jamie Dimon
- Novak Djokovic
- Timothy Dolan
- Jack Dorsey
- Mario Draghi
- Drake
- Pamela Druckerman
- Ree Drummond
- Jaycee Dugard
- Dieter Egli
- Daniel Ek
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Rick Falkvinge
- Asghar Farhadi
- Michael Fassbender
- Julian Fellowes
- Sandra Fluke
- Maria das Graças Silva Foster
- Foster the People
- Ron Fouchier
- Rachid Ghannouchi
- Newt Gingrich
- Ira Glass
- Roger Goodell
- Ryan Gosling
- Terry Gou
- David Graeber and Tim Pool
- Robert Grant
- Alan Gross
- Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani
- Chelsea Handler
- Rick and Richard Harrison
- Kamala Harris
- Reed Hastings
- Michel Hazanavicius
- Anna Hazare
- Reid Hoffman
- François Hollande
- Hung Huang
- Goodluck Jonathan
- Tawakul Karman
- David Karp
- Hamid Karzai
- Molly Katchpole
- Jason Katims
- Ashfaq Kayani
- Ayatullah Ali Khamenei
- Salman Khan
- Imran Khan
- Kim Jong Un
- Charles and David Koch
- Kony 2012
- Nitish Kumar
- Ashton Kutcher
- Christine Lagarde
- Lady Gaga
- Chan Laiwa
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Marine Le Pen
- Ken Levine
- Li Chengpeng
- Rush Limbaugh
- Jeremy Lin
- LMFAO
- Frank Luntz
- Eli Manning
- Sergio Marchionne
- Marc Maron
- Erik Martin
- George R.R. Martin
- Melissa McCarthy
- Rory McIlroy
- Bill McKibben
- Angela Merkel
- Lionel Messi
- Ingrid Michaelson
- Kate Middleton
- Pippa Middleton
- Yuri Milner
- Nicki Minaj
- Narendra Modi
- Mario Monti
- Elisabeth Moss, Christina Hendricks and January Jones
- Laura and Kate Mulleavy
- Richard Muller
- Rupert Murdoch
- Charles Murray
- Youssou N'Dour
- Alexei Navalny
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Mike Nichols
- Grover Norquist
- Barack Obama
- Michelle Obama
- Larry Page
- Leon Panetta
- Ann Patchett
- Ron Paul
- Douglas Peterson
- Michael Phelps
- Karen Pierce
- Navi Pillay
- Mark Pincus
- Oscar Pistorius
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
- David Plouffe
- Ai-jen Poo
- John Prendergast
- Vladimir Putin
- Ben Rattray
- Queen Elizabeth II
- René Redzepi
- Cecile Richards
- Paul Rieckhoff
- Rihanna
- John Roberts
- Mitt Romney
- Marco Rubio
- Paul Ryan
- Alex Salmond
- Sheryl Sandberg
- Rick Santorum
- Juan Manuel Santos
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Howard Schultz
- Martin Scorsese
- Ryan Seacrest
- Thein Sein
- Shakira
- Graydon Sheppard
- Jessica Simpson
- Portia Simpson-Miller
- Greg Smith
- Maggie Smith
- Hope Solo
- Bruce Springsteen
- Meryl Streep
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Tilda Swinton
- Tim Tebow
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Peter Thiel
- Jonathan Tilly
- Scott Walker
- Harvey Weinstein
- Kristen Wiig
- E.O. Wilson
- Oprah Winfrey
- Xi Jinping
- Mark Zuckerberg
Your Votes
The 2012 TIME 100 Poll
Voting for inclusion in the TIME 100 issue is now closed. The final list, selected by our editors, will be revealed on Wednesday, April 18th