Like each year, this year also on Thrusday 29, 2010 Time magazine released its annual list of the Time 100 the world’s most influential people. In the list, people are recognized for changing the world, for better or for worse and those those recognized fall in one of five categories: Leaders & Revolutionaries, Builders & Titans, Artists & Entertainers, Scientists & Thinkers, and Heroes & Icons. 20 most influential people are selected within each category for a grand total of 100 each year. This year Time 100 is divided the list in four categories: artists, leaders, thinkers, and heroes. And there are 25 most influential people in each category with a grand total of 100.
Lady Gaga, who dance at nightclubs, is named as the Time Magazine’s most influential artist of 2010. Conan O’Brien is on second while Kathryn Bigelow is on third place. In the other category Leaders Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is on Top following J.T. Wang and Admiral Mike Mullen. In Heros category Bill Clinton is on First and Zaha Hadid is on Top in the category Thinkers. There are also 9 Indians in the list including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Amartya Sen, Chetan Bhagat, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Atul Gawande, Sanjit Roy, P N Samy and Rahul Singh.
Here we are giving the name of the 100 Most influential people category wise. For more details you can see here Full List-The 2010 TIME 100
Leaders
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
• J.T. Wang
• Admiral Mike Mullen
• Barack Obama
• Ron Bloom
• Yukio Hatoyama
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn
• Nancy Pelosi
• Sarah Palin
• Salam Fayyad
• Jon Kyl
• Glenn Beck
• Annise Parker
• Tidjane Thiam
• Jenny Beth Martin
• Christine Lagarde
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan
• General Stanley McChrystal
• Manmohan Singh
• Bo Xilai
• Mark Carney
• Sister Carol Keehan
• Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan
• Robin Li
• Scott Brown
Heroes
• Bill Clinton
• Kim Yu-Na
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi
• Ben Stiller
• Temple Grandin
• P. Namperumalsamy
• Nay Phone Latt
• Chen Shu-chu
• Phil Mickelson
• Didier Drogba
• Graça Machel
• Reem Al Numery
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Tristan Lecomte
• Liya Kebede
• Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
• Zahra Rahnavard
• Jet Li
• Serena Williams
• Chief Master Sergeant Tony Travis
• Karls Paul-Noel
• Rahul Singh
• Valentin Abe
• Malalai Joya
• Will Allen
Artists
• Lady Gaga
• Conan O’Brien
• Kathryn Bigelow
• Oprah Winfrey
• Valery Gergiev
• Robert Pattinson
• Ashton Kutcher
• Suzanne Collins
• Taylor Swift
• Neil Patrick Harris
• Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof
• Prince
• Lea Michele
• Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
• Simon Cowell
• Neill Blomkamp
• Elton John
• Marc Jacobs
• David Chang
• Banksy
• Chetan Bhagat
• Sandra Bullock
• Ricky Gervais
• Han Han
• James Cameron
Thinkers
• Zaha Hadid
• Elizabeth Warren
• Douglas Schwartzentruber and Larry Kwak
• Michael Pollan
• Atul Gawande
• Jaron Lanier
• Victor Pinchuk
• Lee Kuan Yew
• Deborah Gist
• Kathleen Merrigan
• Steve Jobs
• Tim White
• Lisa Jackson
• Elon Musk
• Edna Foa
• Jaime Lerner
• Paul Volcker
• Amy Smith
• Matt Berg
• Amartya Sen
• Michael Sherraden
• Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy
• Tim Westergren
• David Boies and Theodore Olson
• Sonia Sotomayor