From pioneers, leaders, and titans to artists, innovators, and icons, the world’s most influential people, are extraordinary leaders from around the world working to build a better future, from entertainers striving to make Hollywood more inclusive to activists fighting for sustainability and human rights. They are disrupters, fixers, doers, iconoclasts, and problem solvers. We all have an opportunity to help create a better world. And we can choose to be among those who pick up the phone and run toward the struggle.
Here are the top 100 most influential people in the world.
Artists
- Dua Lipa
- Dev Patel
- 21 Savage
- Alia Bhatt
- Jenny Holzer
- Colman Domingo
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph
- Lauren Groff
- Jeffrey Wright
- Fantasia Barrino
- Leslie Odom Jr.
- LaToya Ruby Frazier
- Alex Edelman
- James McBride
- Brooks Headley
Icons
- Taraji P. Henson
- Kylie Minogue
- Elliot Page
- Burna Boy
- Michael J. Fox
- Thelma Golden
- Sofia Coppola
- Jenni Hermoso
- Frank Mugisha
- Motaz Azaiza
- Sakshi Malik
- Mark Cuban
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Suzanne Simard
- Julienne Lusenge
- Rosanna Flamer-Caldera
Titans
- Patrick Mahomes
- Satya Nadella
- A’ja Wilson
- Kelly Ripa
- Jack Antonoff
- Thasunda Brown Duckett
- Donna Langley
- Beth Ford
- Wang Chuanfu
- Kelley Robinson
- Chizuko Ueno
- Jesper Brodin
- Larry Ellison
- Joanne Crevoiserat
- Max Verstappen
Leaders
- Yulia Navalnaya
- Narges Mohammadi
- Donald Tusk
- William Lai
- Greg Abbott
- Marina Silva
- William Burns
- E. Jean Carroll
- Rena Lee
- Javier Milei
- Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos
- Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani
- Elise Stefanik
- Diana Salazar Méndez
- Jack Smith
- Rachel Goldberg-Polin
- Ajay Banga
- Gavin Newsom
- William Ruto
- Giorgia Meloni
- Li Qiang
- Jigar Shah
- Lauren Blauvelt
- Andriy Yermak
Innovators
- Jensen Huang
- Maya Rudolph
- Shawn Fain
- Siya Kolisi
- Akiko Iwasaki
- Ynon Kreiz
- Tory Burch
- Rachel Hardeman
- Katsuhiko Hayashi
- Dominique Crenn
- Dave Ricks
- Connie Walker
- Julie Sweet
- Jonathan Anderson
- Marina Tabassum
Pioneers
- America Ferrera
- Lesley Lokko
- Ophelia Dahl
- Kennedy Odede
- Yoshua Bengio
- Asma Khan
- Kelly Sawyer Patricof
- Norah Weinstein
- Priyamvada Natarajan
- Joel Habener
- Svetlana Mojsov
- Dan Drucker
- Sam Tsemberis
- Sharon Lavigne
- Stuart Orkin
