50 People Who Matter 2011

From pop stars and dissident activists to tech gurus and heads of state, the people doing most to sh

By Staff blogger Published 26 September 2011

1. (8) Angela Merkel

2. (12) David Petraeus

3. (-) Ai Wei Wei

4. (-) Tim Cook

5. (2) Barack Obama

6. (9) Larry Page, Sergey Brin
and Eric Schmidt

7. (-) Christine Lagarde

8. (-) Liang Guanglie

9. (1) Rupert Murdoch

10. (-) Wael Ghonim

11. (-) Recep Tayyip Erdogan

12. (-) Nicolas Sarkozy

13. (-) Ben Bernanke

14. (7) Ashfaq Kayani

15. (-) Paul Krugman

16. (15) David Cameron

17. (16) Bill Gates

18. (11) Binyamin Netanyahu

19. (-) Jack Dorsey

20. (-) Mario Draghi

21. (-) Dilma Rousseff

22. (19) Warren Buffett

23. (-) Usain Bolt

24. (20) Vladimir Putin

25. (-) Richard Dawkins

26. (44) Lady Gaga

27. (25) Hillary Clinton

28. (27) Ratan Tata

29. (29) Sonia Gandhi

30. (3) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

31. (-) David Beers

32. (-) Michele Bachmann

33. (-) J K Rowling

34. (33) Moqtada al-Sadr

35. (-) Jon Stewart

36. (-) Jacob Zuma

37. (-) Anwar al-Awlaki

38. (6) Pope Benedict XVI

39. (41) Simon Cowell

40. (23) Julian Assange

41. (-) Mark Thompson

42. (34) Aung San Suu Kyi

43. (-) Roger Ailes

44. (-) Robin Li

45. (-) The Koch brothers

46. (-) Nicki Minaj

47. (48) Han Han

48. (49) Paul Kagame

49. (-) Matt Damon

50. (-) Lionel Messi

 

 
 

35 comments

Joanne Goldstein's picture

Thu, 2012-07-26 16:54 — Joanne Goldstein (not verified)

It is well within the rights of anyone to make a complaint that they feel is worthy of discussion. What truly determines the conversational value of a topic is whether or not anyone responds to it. In essence, it is only my response (and future responses) that validate your words here projekty rodinnych domov. If no one reads and no one cares, then you might as well have been speaking to yourself.

Andrew Chapman's picture

Wed, 2012-06-13 19:17 — Andrew Chapman (not verified)

This is quite a good article. Many new questions emerge to the surface, all you need do is to read further information about the issues. Only then one can form a final view on a particular subject. Otherwise everything is seen only in the dimension of more cum black and white. The natural logic of evaluating things before vstavane skrine they were properly cognitively processed is a horrible mistake, made by those less intelligent. People should not throw away their common golf sense easily. Anything and everything deserves appropriate time for making judgements.

Mc Andy's picture

Thu, 2011-10-20 00:02 — Mc Andy (not verified)

Agree! Paul Kagame, the president of the little African country of Rwanda is one of the visionaries history has ever seen.

Rick's picture

Thu, 2011-10-20 00:05 — Rick (not verified)

Paul Kagame, truly a great leader.

Elpenor Dignam's picture

Tue, 2011-10-04 09:15 — Elpenor Dignam (not verified)

Where's Chomsky?

Colin Sloss's picture

Tue, 2011-10-04 09:31 — Colin Sloss (not verified)

Strangely I don't seem to be mentioned!

1R4M's picture

Mon, 2011-10-10 22:07 — 1R4M

Niki Minaj?? seriously??

Ng Nanci's picture

Thu, 2011-10-20 00:30 — Ng Nanci (not verified)

Kagame , is the miracle Rwanda needed to escape being another African Somalie after 1994..we'll deserved recognition.

Livers's picture

Mon, 2011-10-10 22:47 — Livers (not verified)

Now that IS random.

I'd love to know how the survey was conducted.

Might want to add some "baddies" on there too .. they are influencing us all just as much as the "goodies".

God, did I just sound like a 7 year old?

Jussy's picture

Thu, 2011-10-20 01:35 — Jussy (not verified)

Paul Kagame is the father of a nation that almost went off the map of the world. Bravo Paul

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