Time 100 Most Influential People In The World 2012

> TIME.com has released the list of the 100 most influential people in the world, which it said are “the people who inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and change our world.”

The list includes “breakouts, pioneers, moguls, leaders and icons” among them New York Knicks star player Jeremy Lin who, TIME says, “dispelled the idea that Asian-American guards somehow couldn’t hack it in the NBA.”

Also listed is Adele whom Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Pink describes as “authentic talent, great songwriting and a unique package.”

Check out the full list here:

• Jeremy Lin
• Christian Marclay
• Viola Davis
• Salman Khan
• Tim Tebow
• E.L. James
• Louis CK
• Rihanna
• Marco Rubio
• Ali Ferzat
• René Redzepi
• Kristen Wiig
• Anthony Kennedy
• Novak Djokovic
• Ben Rattray
• Jessica Chastain
• Yani Tseng
• Raphael Saadiq
• Elinor Ostrom
• Samira Ibrahim
• José Andrés
• Ann Patchett
• Dulce Matuz
• Henrik Schärfe
• Freeman Hrabowski
• Maryam Durani
• Manal al-Sharif
• Anjali Gopalan
• Rached Ghannouchi
• Barbara Van Dahlen
• Ron Fouchier
• Donald Sadoway
• Hans Rosling
• Asghar Farhadi
• Sarah Burton
• Anonymous
• Pete Cashmore
• Cami Anderson
• Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu
• Ai-jen Poo
• Marc Andreessen
• Preet Bharara
• Robert Grant
• Andrew Lo
• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
• Alexei Navalny
• Ray Dalio
• Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani
• Chelsea Handler
• Harvey Weinstein
• Chen Lihua
• Warren Buffett
• Alice Walton
• Harold Hamm
• Sheryl Sandberg
• Sara Blakely
• Tim Cook
• Eike Batista
• Daniel Ek
• Virginia Rometty
• Barack Obama
• Goodluck Jonathan
• Xi Jinping
• Fatou Bensouda
• Christine Lagarde
• Mario Draghi
• U Thein Sein
• Ayatullah Ali Khamenei
• Mitt Romney
• Juan Manuel Santos
• Timothy Dolan
• Portia Simpson Miller
• Mario Monti
• Wang Yang
• Maria das Graças Silva Foster
• Andrew Cuomo
• Iftikhar Chaudhry
• Mamata Banerjee
• Walter Isaacson
• Ron Paul
• Benjamin Netanyahu
• Dilma Rousseff
• Erik Martin
• Cecile Richards
• Angela Merkel
• Lionel Messi
• Tilda Swinton
• Hillary Clinton
• Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Pippa Middleton
• Adele
• Matt Lauer
• Oscar Pistorius
• Claire Danes
• Stephen Colbert
• Kim Jong Un
• Mullah Mohammed Omar and Sheik Moktar Ali Zubeyr
• Bashar Assad

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