The 100 Most Influential People

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Money speaks volumes

Christine Lagarde

Guardian of the global economy

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No organization is more crucial to the stability of the global economy than the International Monetary Fund.
Its decisions affect billions of people, so the person who heads the IMF must be an outstanding, effective leader.
Christine Lagarde meets this high standard. She has ably led the IMF through a tumultuous era for the world economy
since she was chosen in 2011 by the more than 100 nations that govern the organization.

http://time.com/4301292/christine-lagarde-2016-time-100/

 

[ProtectGao]

If Ho Ching and LHL are not on this list it's not worth shit.

In my humble opinion, I beg to differ, I would prefer Sun Ho instead.

 

[yinyang]

Pioneers section, history in the making

Kip Thorne

Cosmic visionary

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About 1.3 billion years before Kip Thorne was born, a pair of black holes collided in space, rattling the fabric of space-time itself.
The gravitational ripples of that long-ago cataclysm traveled the universe, heading for an improbable encounter with sentient beings
sophisticated enough both to detect them and to recognize their origin. It was Kip, 75, a Caltech- and Princeton-trained astrophysicist,
who made that discovery possible. As the leading founder, in 1984, of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO),
played a critical role in developing the instruments that detected the waves and in so doing confirmed a prediction Albert Einstein made a century before.

http://time.com/4299639/kip-thorne-2016-time-100/

 

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Nadia Murad

A witness for war’s victims

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Nadia Murad stands in a long, invisible history of fierce, indomitable women who rise from the scorched earth of rape
during war to break the odious silence and demand justice and freedom for their sisters.
At 19 she lost her home, her country, her culture, her mother to murder; witnessed male members of her family murdered in mass killings;
and was kidnapped, sold and endlessly raped by members of ISIS. She now travels the world speaking out on the genocide being inflicted
on her Yezidi people and demanding release for the more than 3,000 women still held in bondage.

http://time.com/4302382/nadia-murad-2016-time-100/

 

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Still on pioneers segment. 43mil subscribers?!

Felix Kjellberg (a.k.a. PewDiePie)

The pied piper of YouTube

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The first time my stepson showed me a PewDiePie video, it made me feel old.
Most of the screen was a video game—except a small box in the corner,
which showed the 20-something guy playing it. Every few seconds,
he’d make a joke or react to events with an exaggerated facial expression.
I remember thinking, What the hell is this?
But the more we saw, the more I understood why Felix Kjellberg, with some 43 million subscribers,
is the most-watched person on YouTube. He’s charming and funny,
and he knows how to edit himself. And he has turned passive gaming into active, enjoyable entertainment.

http://time.com/4302406/felix-kjellberg-pewdiepie-2016-time-100/

 

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VW's woes on emissions problem, due to this man

Dan Carder

Driver of accountability

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Working with his small team of researchers at West Virginia University, Dan Carder exposed a giant corporation’s harmful fraud:
although VW’s diesel-engine cars passed lab tests for EPA regulations for emissions of toxic nitrogen oxides,
on the road the cars were emitting up to 35 times as much NOx into the air. The uproar has thrown VW—then the world’s largest automaker
—into a maelstrom of law-enforcement actions, private mass litigation and loss of dealer and customer confidence.
Eleven million of its cars will have to be fixed or repurchased—which could cost VW as much as $20 billion.
With over 500,000 such diesel cars affected in the U.S. and many millions abroad, why was it Carder who caught the problem, instead of the EPA,
50 state motor-vehicle departments or their counterparts in other countries?

http://time.com/4302390/dan-carder-2016-time-100/

 

[452SAR]

How about Mr stephen hawking?

 

[Agoraphobic]

How about Mr. Ralph Sonny Barger? Or Mr. Pablo Escobar? These are big timers man!

Cheers!

 

[yinyang]

Pablo Escobar? These are big timers man!

Can't find him the list. But understand where you're coming from :p

 

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Now for the Titans

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg

(by Bill Gates)

The future of giving

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We admire Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of an interconnected world where all people have a chance to make the most of their talents.
Priscilla and Mark are curious. Ambitious. Thoughtful. Open-minded and bighearted. Willing to learn and grow.
And they care deeply about fixing the inequities they see in the world. Mark already built a company that changed the way people connect, and Priscilla
devoted herself to the health and well-being of children by becoming a pediatrician. Now they have inspired people around the world by creating the
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and committing 99% of their wealth to taking on challenges like improving education, curing disease, connecting people and
building strong communities. Changing the world once was not enough for them. We can’t wait to see what they’ll do in the decades to come.

The Gateses founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

http://time.com/4301268/priscilla-chan-mark-zuckerberg-2016-time-100/

 

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Boss of Lucas Films

Kathleen Kennedy

Cinematic explorer

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When Kathy Kennedy told me that she’d been offered the job of running Lucasfilm, I hadn’t seen it coming, but I wasn’t surprised, exactly.
Since her legendary career is defined by her refusal to be easily definable, Kathy will surprise me only if she’s ever unsurprising, and I’m not worried.
She’s produced many of Steven Spielberg’s greatest films, she’s produced action franchises and extraordinary indie improbables like (back-to-back)
Persepolis and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Now she’s de facto empress of a far-faraway cosmos, which seems to me the best thing that’s happened
to big movie franchises since she joined Spielberg in creating the form. In her remarkably quiet way, eschewing as she always does the usual fanfare and
pronouncements, Kathy’s already doing her thing, melding tradition and innovation, acknowledging and upending expectation, insisting that genre is, finally,
a meaningless word for artists. However galactically vast the distances separating the worlds she brings to life, the constant in Kathy Kennedy’s career is her
interest in investigating liberation, equality, justice, community—the decidedly human concerns that constitute the core of the art of making films.

http://time.com/4301271/kathleen-kennedy-2016-time-100/

 

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Pope Francis

The standard bearer

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For six days in September, Pope Francis captivated America.
I saw it as President Obama and I welcomed him to the White House, overflowing with admirers.
I saw it as he addressed Congress, and tens of thousands of well-wishers gathered on our National Mall.
Thousands more saw it as he traveled to New York City and Philadelphia, and still more across the country
felt his presence even hundreds of miles away.

He’s electrified the world because he embodies the basic tenets of Catholic social doctrine that also cut across all great faiths
—everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity; we have an obligation to help the poor; we have responsibilities to one another and to our planet.

http://time.com/4301270/pope-francis-2016-time-100/

 

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Gay too?

Tim Cook

Apple’s core

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Apple is known for elegant, innovative products that change the world by transforming how we connect, create and communicate,
as well as how we work, think and act. Its continued success requires a leader of great courage and character who demands excellence,
upholds the highest ethical standards and routinely challenges the status quo, including encouraging vital conversations about
who we are as a culture and a community.

http://time.com/4299721/tim-cook-2016-time-100/

 

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Now onto Icons

Usain Bolt

A unifier on the track

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Usain Bolt is a light. There are a lot of things in Jamaica—and the world—that cause separation: politics, inequality, crime.
But an entire generation can look up to Usain. He’s a unifying force.

I see many similarities between Usain and my father. They both grew up in very modest circumstances and went on to make positive change
on the world stage. Usain makes music on the track; he runs with great joy, with passion and with soul. He has that smile, that Jamaican flair.
It’s a swagger and confidence that we all really enjoy. A lot of people who get to that superstar level pretend to be somebody else. I think that’s
the thing I like most about Usain. He’s real. He’s not putting on a facade.

http://time.com/4298224/usain-bolt-2016-time-100/

 

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Leaders now. Pedigree?

Justin Trudeau

True north

For years now I have been telling my friends that I thought Barack Obama was the first Canadian President.
I meant it as a compliment. So it’s only fitting that as Obama’s time in office winds down, another Canadian leader
steps onto the world stage. Though I live in New York, Canadians are Canadians wherever they live.
It’s the way we look at the world, which to us seems perfectly reasonable and right.
In many ways Canada is no longer the country I grew up in, but when I hear Justin Trudeau talk, it sounds like my Canada again.
Bold, clear as a bell and progressive.

​http://time.com/4302095/justin-trudeau-2016-time-100/

 

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Vladimir Putin

The sphinx

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How does Putin think he’s doing? The portrait of him I want to read is his own.
Nothing we know about him suggests a strong introspective bent, but let’s imagine
him opening up to his workout buddy, Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev.

http://time.com/4301437/vladimir-putin-2016-time-100/

 

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Kim Jong Un

Exploiter of fears

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Kim Jong Un is the 30-something boss of a family-run totalitarian state.
Beefy, murderous and quick with a toothy grin, he takes after his late grandfather Kim Il Sung,
North Korea’s Great Leader. Dictatorships need enemies like fish need water, and
the essential enemy of North Korea is the U.S. After the Great Leader invaded South Korea in 1950
and started the Korean War, American B-29s bombed and burned North Korea, razing cities and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians.

http://time.com/4301296/kim-jong-un-2016-time-100/

 

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Trumpers here will disagree :p

Hillary Clinton

Democratic fighter

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In 2010 a devastating earthquake hit Haiti. With 160,000 dead, the country was in chaos.
Somewhere in the rubble were dozens of orphans set to be adopted by families in my state.
Records were destroyed, protocols abandoned. Yet distraught Minnesota moms were on the ground, looking for their children.

When they called me, I called the only person I knew would help: then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
She didn’t pawn it off or think it too small. She went to work.
She got those babies home, and a few were even brought to the Port-au-Prince airport
in a State Department car, diapers, bottles and all.

 

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Turkey's boss

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The man in the middle

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a remarkable leader. He has changed his country for the better by empowering millions of people
who had never before participated in their nation’s political and economic life. He’s also an egotistical and thin-skinned person
whose thirst for power has imperiled freedom of speech in Turkey and pushed his country toward authoritarianism.
And between the war in Syria and the refugee crisis, he’s arguably occupying the most important geopolitical space in the world today.
That makes him a valuable Western ally—and a dangerous one.

http://time.com/4301438/recep-tayyip-erdogan-2016-time-100/

 

[jw5]

Trumpers here will disagree :p

Hillary Clinton

She has inspired thousands of wives to "Stand by your man and later you can try to emulate him."