What do Lady Gaga and David Cameron have in common? Julian Assange and Steve Jobs? Jacob Zuma and Angelina Jolie? They all have world-changing potential. And they are new entries in our annual list of the individuals who have global influence – for good or ill.

The New Statesman 50 People Who Matter 2010 are:

1. (2) Rupert Murdoch [2]
2. (1) Barack Obama [3]
3. (-) Mahmoud Ahmedinijad [4]
4. (10) Xi Jinping [5]
5. (-) Steve Jobs [6]
6. (26) Pope Benedict XVI [7]
7. (24) Ashfaq Kayani [8]
8. (12) Angela Merkel [9]
9. (4) Eric Schmidt, Larry Page & Sergey Brin [10]
10. (44) Hugo Chavez [11]
11. (-) Binyamin Netanyahu [12]
12. (12) David Petraeus [13]
13. (-) Sarah Palin [14]
14. (-) Craig Venter [15]
15. (-) David Cameron [16]
16. (13) Bill Gates [17]
17. (-) Felipe Calderon [18]
18. (-) Khaled Meshal [19]
19. (25) Warren Buffett [20]
20. (7) Vladimir Putin [21]
21. (8) Osama bin Laden [22]
22. (-) Angelina Jolie [23]
23. (-) Julian Assange [24]
24. (-) Lloyd Blankfein [25]
25. (-) Hillary Clinton [26]
26. (-) Mark Zuckerberg [27]
27. (-) Ratan Tata [28]
28. (-) Stephenie Meyer [29]
29. (31) Sonia Gandhi [30]
30. (-) James Cameron [31]
31. (28) Ingvar Kamprad [32]
32. (-) Stephen McIntyre [33]
33. (-) Moqtada al-Sadr [34]
34. (-) Aung San Suu Kyi [35]
35. (-) Margaret Chan [36]
36. (-) Jacob Zuma [37]
37. (-) Bob Diamond [38]
38. (35) Oprah Winfrey [39]
39. (-) Paul Krugman [40]
40. (36) Mohammed Yunus [41]
41. (34) Simon Cowell [42]
42. (-) Zaha Hadid [43]
43. (22) Amartya Sen [44]
44. (-) Lady Gaga [45]
45. (6) Malalai Joya [46]
46. (-) John Lasseter [47]
47. (-) Julia Gillard [48]
48. (-) Han Han [49]
49. (14) Paul Kagame [50]
50. (-) Caster Semenya [51]

Previous year's ranking in brackets, with (-) denoting a new entry.

Entries compiled by Caroline Crampton, Ollie Cussen, George Eaton, Sophie Elmhirst, Mehdi Hasan, James Macintyre, Patrick Osgood, Nick Petrie, Duncan Robinson, Samira Shackle and Daniel Trilling.

All photos by Getty Images.