Time Reveals 100 Most Influential People of 2016

21 Apr, 2016

Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio is just one also graces of six covers celebrating the list, each featuring a member of the 13th annual Time 100 list — singer and rapper Nicki Minaj, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, actress Priyanka Chopra, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde and Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the Broadway smash, “Hamilton.”

Time Magazine editor Nancy Gibbs revealed the others who made the cut, ranging from U.S. presidential candidates to Hollywood stars, and the qualities that defined them as “most influential” in the world.

Here are some highlights from the list. You can see the full list on Time.com.

Adele

Singer, songwriter

Aung San Suu Kyi

Burmese politician

Aziz Ansari

Comedian

Mohammed bin Nayef

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia

Priyanka Chopra

Actor

Hillary Clinton

Former U.S. Secretary of State, presidential candidate

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Writer

James Comey

FBI director

Tim Cook

Apple CEO

Ted Cruz

U.S. Senator, Texas, presidential candidate

Stephen Curry

Golden State Warriors basketball player

Leonardo DiCaprio

Actor, environmentalist

Pope Francis

Pontiff

Nikki Haley

Governor, South Carolina

Lewis Hamilton

Formula One driver

Lester Holt

NBC Nightly News anchor

Caitlyn Jenner

Activist, reality star

Kathleen Kennedy

Lucasfilm president

John Kerry

U.S. Secretary of State

Kim Jong Un

Supreme Leader of North Korea

Christine Lagarde

International Monetary Fund director

Kendrick Lamar

Rapper

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Actor

Palmer Luckey

Inventor, founder, Oculus Rift

Sean MacFarland

United States Army General

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany

Yuri Milner

Venture capitalist

Nicki Minaj

Singer, rapper

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Actor, creator, “Hamilton”

Sérgio Moro

Brazilian federal judge

Barack Obama

President of the United States

Sundar Pichai

Google CEO

Reince Priebus

Republican National Committee chairman

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

Paul Ryan

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker

Bernie Sanders

U.S. Senator, Vermont, presidential candidate

Jordan Spieth

Golfer

Alan Stern

Astrophysicist

Justin Trudeau

Prime Minister of Canada

Donald Trump

The Trump Organization chairman and president, presidential candidate

Xi Jinping

President of the People’s Republic of China, General Secretary, Communist Party, China

Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan

Philanthropists, Facebook founder and CEO, pediatrician

CBS News

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