10 of TIME's 100 'most influential'

What does it mean to be influential today? TIME Magazine may not have a scientific answer, but they identified scores of people in their 2012 “100 Most Influential People in the World” list, released this week. Here is a sampling of 10 people from around the world who made the cut.

The full list

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

Yani Tseng          

Raphael Saadiq         

Elinor Ostrom          

Jessica Chastain   

Samira Ibrahim

José Andrés        

Ann Patchett              

Dulce Matuz            

Henrik Schärfe       

Manal al-Sharif

Maryam Durani   

Freeman Hrabowski   

Ai-jen Poo              

Anjali Gopalan        

Rached Ghannouchi        

Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu           

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Ron Fouchier     

Barbara Van Dahlen   

Hans Rosling         

Donald Sadoway    

Asghar Farhadi

Sarah Burton     

Anonymous               

Pete Cashmore       

Cami Anderson    

Marc Andreessen

Preet Bharara   

Robert Grant              

Andrew Lo              

Alexei Navalny       

Ray Dalio

Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani                               

Chelsea Handler     

Chen Lihua

Harvey Weinstein   

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         

Andrew Cuomo

Maria das Graças Silva Foster      

Iftikhar Chaudhry     

Mamata Banerjee    

Walter Isaacson

Ron Paul       

Benjamin Netanyahu     

Dilma Rousseff      

Erik Martin     

Cecile Richards

Angela Merkel     

Lionel Messi     

Tilda Swinton     

Hillary Clinton    

Adele

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Pippa Middleton   

Matt Lauer     

Oscar Pistorius

Claire Danes    

Stephen Colbert

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