The 2009 TIME 100 Finalists.

The 2009 TIME 100 Finalists






Courtesy & Complete List: Time



Activism

•Aung San Suu Kyi: National League of Democracy leader (63)

•Yoani Sénchez: Blogger (33)

•The Charter 08 authors: The 303 Chinese citizens who signed this pro-democracy manifesto

•Dalai Lama: Spiritual leader (73)

US Politics

•Barack Obama (47, President of the United States)

•Sarah Palin: Governor of Alaska (45)

•Hillary Clinton: US Secretary of State (61)

President Contenders – 2012 America

•Mike Huckabee: Commentator, candidate-in-waiting (53)

•Michelle Obama: First Lady (45)

•Ron Paul: U.S. Representative, former presidential candidate (73)

GOP Opposition

•Eric Cantor: Republican whip, U.S. House of Representatives (45)

•John Boehner: U.S. House minority leader (59)

•Newt Gingrich: Political analyst (65)

•Jonathan Krohn: Lil’ Limbaugh (14)

Behind the scenes – Wheeler dealers

•Ron Bloom: Auto adviser (53)

•Neel Kashkari: TARP-throb (35)

Government Organizations

•Bill Gross: Pimco co-founder (65)

•James Lockhart: Federal Housing Finance Agency CEO (62)

•Sheila Bair: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairwoman (54)

Religion – Jesus Christ

•Pope Benedict XVI (81)

•Rowan Williams: Archbishop of Canterbury (58)

•Rick Warren: Evangelist (55)

Social Service

•Sister Mary Scullion: Philadelphia’s Mother Theresa (55)

Finance

•Leonard Abess: Banker (60)

•Odell Barnes: The foreclosure king

Filthy Rich & Powerful

•Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway chairman (78)

•T. Boone Pickens: Billionaire, renewable-energy booster (80)

Media, News Heads

•Sam Zell: Tribune Co. chairman and CEO (67)

•Rupert Murdoch: News Corp. chairman (78)

TV Executives

•Charlie Gasparino: CNBC on-air editor (47)

•Abdul Rahman al-Rashed: Al-Arabiya general manager

•Seth MacFarlane: Animation maven (35)

On Screen Persona – Ladies

•Katie Couric: News anchor (52)

•Oprah Winfrey: Kingmaker (55)

•Rachel Maddow: MSNBC host (35)

TV Shows

•Jon Stewart: Faux-news anchor (46)

•Jay Leno: Prime-time TV host (58)

•Tina Fey: Actress, comedian, writer (38)

•The View: Whoopi Goldberg moderates discussions and is joined by Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd and Barbara Walters

Extreme Right: Conservative Gang

•Bill O’Reilly: Commentator/enforcer of spin-free zone (59)

•Rush Limbaugh: Radio host (58)

Bank Board

•Jamie Dimon: JPMorgan Chase CEO (53)

•Ken Lewis: Bank of America CEO (61)

•Dick Kovacevich: Wells Fargo chairman (66)

•Lloyd Blankfein: Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO (54)

Dow Brass Ring

•Michael Duke: Wal-Mart CEO (57)

•Jeffrey Immelt: General Electric chairman and CEO (53)

•Indra Nooyi: PepsiCo CEO (53)

Hi-Tech Crowd

•Jeff Bezos: Amazon.com chairman (45)

•Steve Jobs: Apple chairman and CEO (56)

•Jeff Kindler: Pfizer CEO (54)

•John Chambers: Cisco Systems CEO (59)

•Steve Ballmer: Microsoft CEO (53)

Dangerous Liaisons

•Muqtada al-Sadr: Shi’ite cleric (35)

•Rod Blagojevich: Former Illinois governor (52)

•Baitullah Mehsud: Taliban leader

Glamor Dolls

•Kate Winslet: Actress (33)

•Angelina Jolie: Actress (33)

Rich People’s Hobby

•Stella McCartney: Fashion designer (37)

•Tom Ford: Fashion designer (47)

Mid-Life Crisis Gentlemen

•Joaquin Phoenix: Actor, alleged rapper (34)

•Ricky Gervais: Comedian, scamp (47)

•Patrick Swayze: Actor (56)

Out-of work Hollywood Stars

•Tom Hanks: Actor, filmmaker (52)

•George Clooney: Actor (47)

•Brad Pitt: Actor (45)

•Hugh Jackman: Actor, Oscar host (40)

•Clint Eastwood: Actor, director (78)

Teenage Heartthrobs

•Zac Efron: Actor, pinup (21)

•Miley Cyrus: Actress, singer (16: Hannah Montana)

•Taylor Swift: Singer (19)

•The Jonas Brothers: Kevin, 21; Joe, 19; Nick, 16 : Musicians, hormone aggregators

Teaching in University: Academia

•Nouriel Roubini: Economics professor (49)

•Meredith Whitney: Banking analyst (39)

•Roland Fryer: Harvard University economics professor (31)

Fancy Construction: Civil Engineers

•Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio: Founders, Diller Scofidio + Renfro

•Rem Koolhaas: Architect (64)

•Renzo Piano: Architect (71)

Queer

•Dan Barber: Blue Hill at Stone Barns chef (39)

•Damien Hirst: Wealthy art provocateur (43)

•William Kentridge: Artist (54)

•Gustavo Dudamel: Los Angeles Philharmonic (28)

Rappers

•Kanye West: Musician (31)

•Lil’ Wayne: Self-proclaimed greatest rapper alive (26)

•T-Pain: Musician, producer (23)

•M.I.A.: Singer (31)   (Born In Sri lanka  Uk Citizen)

Alternate Grammy

•Rain: South Korean pop star

•Prince: Singer, commercial genius, legend (50)

Gulf Autocrats

•Gamal Mubarak: Egyptian politician (46)

•Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum: Emir of Dubai (59)

•Madeeha Hasan Odhaib: Seamstress, Baghdad district councilwoman (38)

Petrol & Oil mixed with Money

•Ali al-Naimi: Saudi Arabian Oil Minister (74)

•Prince Alwaleed bin Talal: Saudi billionaire (54)

•Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan: Abu Dhabi Investment Authority managing director

Forbes Top 10 in World

•Carlos Slim: Mexican monopolist (60)

•Alexander Lebedev: Billionaire (49)

•Mo Ibrahim: Sudanese-born cell-phone magnate

Sports

•Tiger Woods: Golfer (33)

•Danica Patrick: Racy driver (28)

•Manny Pacquiao: Boxer (30)

•Rafael Nadal: Tennis player (22)

•Lance Armstrong: Bicyclist (37)

•Kaká: Soccer star (29)

•Michael Phelps: Olympian (23)

•Kobe Bryant: Basketball star (30)

Sports Club Owners

•Mark Cuban: Entrepreneur (50)

Military, Army

•General Petraeus: General, U.S. Central Command chief (56)

•David McKiernan: International Security Assistance Force commander (57)

Local Govt; Big Impact

•Michelle Rhee: Washington, D.C., schools chancellor (39)

•Elizabeth Warren: Congressional Oversight Panel chairwoman (59)

Finance

•Ben Bernanke: Federal Reserve Chairman (55)

Hollywood Movies

•Judd Apatow: Director, producer (41)

•Tyler Perry: Filmmaker (39)

•Danny Boyle: The Oscars’ top dog (52)

Television Programming

•Matthew Weiner: Mad Men creator (44)

Thinkers, Bestsellers

•Malcolm Gladwell: Author (45)

•Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein: Nudgers

Writers, Book Keepers

•Tucker Max: Frat-boy laureate (33)

•Jeff Kinney: Author (38)

•Takashi Murakami: Artist (46)

•Stephenie Meyer: Author (35)

•Roberto Saviano: Mob muckraker (29)

•Khaled Hosseini: Author (44)

Notable Indians

•Ram Charan: Management consultant to the stars (67)

•Ratan Tata: Tata Motors chairman (71)

•Mukesh Ambani: Petrol prince (51)

•Ronnie Screwvala: UTV Group CEO (46)

Commonwealth

•Tony Blair: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (55)

•Gordon Brown: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (58)

•Boris Johnson: Mayor of London (44)

•Kevin Rudd: Prime Minister of Australia (51)

EU

•Angela Merkel: Chancellor of Germany (54)

Jews, Israel Lobby

•Benjamin Netanyahu: Prime Minister–designate of Israel (59)

•George Mitchell: US envoy to the Middle East (75)

•Tzipi Livni: Israeli Foreign Minister (50)

Environment, Pollution

•Steven Chu: U.S. Secretary of Energy (61)

•Connie Hedegaard: Danish energy czar (48)

Researchers: More Academia

•Yochiro Nambu: University of Chicago professor (88)

•Nicholas Christakis: Social scientist (47)

Medical Doctors

•Dr. Alain Carpentier: Heart surgeon (75)

•Peter Pronovost: Johns Hopkins physician (44)

•Eric Chivian (professor of psychiatry at Harvard) and Richard Cizik (Evangelical)

•Doris A. Taylor: Medical researcher

•Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller: Gene genies

•Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki: 23andMe co-founders

•Douglas Melton: Harvard Stem Cell Institute co-director (55)

•Craig Venter: Geneticist (62)

South Asia

•Sonia Gandhi: Indian National Congress Party president (62)

•Asif Ali Zardari: President of Pakistan (53)

•Ashfaq Pervez Kayani: Pakistan army chief of staff (56)

Africa

•Morgan Tsvangirai: Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (57)

•Robert Mugabe: President of Zimbabwe (85)

•Paul Kagame: President of Rwanda (51)

Enemy?

•Vladimir Putin: Prime Minister of Russia (56)

•Hu Jintao: President of China (66)

•Ma Ying-jeou: President of Taiwan (58)

•Evo Morales: President of Bolivia (49)

Incumbent?

•Jacob Zuma: African National Congress president (66)

•Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysian politician (61)

Technology & Web Entrepreneurs

•Jessica Flannery: Kiva co-founder (32)

•Nate Silver: FiveThirtyEight.com (31)

•The Twitter Guys, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone

•Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook founder (24)

•Jay Adelson: Digg CEO (38)

•moot: 4chan.org founder

Entertainment Industry

•Michael Rapino: Live Nation CEO (43)

•Ryan Schreiber: Pitchfork Media founder (33)

Cool Guys

•Dov Charney: American Apparel founder (40)

•Richard Kelly: Xcel Energy CEO (63)

Inner Villain Exposure Enablers

•Jeff Han: Perceptive Pixel founder (33)

•Will Wright: Game designer (49)

•Dan Houser: Rockstar Games co-founder (34)

•Shigeru Miyamoto: Video-game designer (56)

Volunteering, NGO, Donations

•Larry Brilliant: Google good guy (64)

•Nancy Brinker: Susan G. Komen founder (62)

•Mary Lou Jepsen: Pixel Qi founder (44)

Example Bureaucrats

•Tom Dart: Cook County, Ill., sheriff (46)

•Cory Booker: Mayor of Newark, N.J. (39)

•Michael Bloomberg: Mayor of New York City (67)

Newsmakers

•The Pregnant Man: Thomas Beatie (35)

•Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III: Pilot (58