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TIME's 100 Most Influential People List of 2009
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TIME's 100 Most Influential People List of 2009
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In the annual TIME's 100 issue, this year, they name the people who most affected our world. Some with Asian heritage have made the list. Can you guess who they are?

LEADERS & REVOLUTIONARIES
Edward Kennedy
Gordon Brown
Christine Lagarde
Thomas Dart
Avigdor Lieberman
Joaquín Guzmán
Nouri al-Maliki
Hillary Clinton
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Boris Johnson
Norah al-Faiz
Elizabeth Warren
Paul Kagame
Nicolas Sarkozy
Angela Merkel
Wang Qishan
Xi Jinping
David McKiernan
Ashfaq Kayani
Barack Obama

BUILDERS & TITANS
The Twitter Guys
T. Boone Pickens
Ted Turner
Tessa Ross
Carlos Slim
Brad Pitt
Meredith Whitney
Suze Orman
Lauren Zalaznick
Timothy Geithner
Nandan Nilekani
Stella McCartney
Jamie Dimon
Sheila Bair
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Alexander Medvedev
Alan Mulally
Robin Chase
Jack Ma
Bernie Madoff

ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS
Rush Limbaugh
M.I.A.
Sam and Dan Houser
Kate Winslet
Werner Herzog
William Kentridge
Penélope Cruz
Lang Lang
John Legend
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
Gustavo Dudamel
Jeff Kinney
Tavis Smiley
The View
Zac Efron
Tina Fey
Tom Hanks
Jay Leno
A.R. Rahman
Judith Jamison

HEROES & ICONS
Michelle Obama
Chesley B. Sullenberger
Richard Phillips
Seth Berkley
Michael Eavis
Leonard Abess
Hadizatou Mani
Rick Warren
Van Jones
Somaly Mam
Rafael Nadal
Suraya Pakzad
Jeff Bezos
Tiger Woods
George Clooney
Brady Gustafson
Sister Mary Scullion
Oprah Winfrey
Sarah Palin
Manny Pacquiao

SCIENTISTS & THINKERS

Nouriel Roubini
Amory Lovins
Jon Favreau
Dambisa Moyo
Dan Barber
Yoichiro Nambu
Roland Fryer
Martin Lindstrom
Barbara Hogan
David Sheff
Steven Chu
Paul Krugman
Connie Hedegaard
Daniel Nocera
Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller
Nicholas Christakis
Doug Melton
Paul Ekman
Shai Agassi
Nate Silver
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RE: TIME's 100 Most Influential People List of 2009
woot woot! Pacman is on the list! Big Grin

AR Rahman is Asian too... mmm... let's see who else...

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is Indonesian...
Nandan Nilekani is Indian...
Nouri al-Maliki is an Iraqi
Ashfaq Kayani is Pakistani...
Norah al-Faiz is from Saudi Arabia...

idk if there's more, I just go with the most Asian sounding names and asked wiki! lol
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lol...I didn't want to go through all 107 of them just to point out who was Asian..I just highlighted whoever was the obvious one...rofl Big Grin
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Oprah fell from nr one to this?
06-28-2009 05:44 AM
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im a little bit surprise for Zac Efron, but yes i also agree... especially to teens.


congratulations to the asian people whose with this list...
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wow Pacman is on the list!!! Congrats!
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i am glad we have some asians on the list too, but for some reason, i dont know any of them except tiger woods.
07-03-2009 02:10 AM
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RE: TIME's 100 Most Influential People List of 2009
Uhh...Zac Efron? o_o; What did he do that's influential...?
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I am not ashamed to admit that I do not recognize half of these names, whether they are highlighted or not. Toungue

Even so.... go, Asians! Jia you! Big Grin
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yea!pacman!
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