TIME Reveals the 2026 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World

[TaylorSwift 162,451]

Global leaders and policymakers on this year's list include Pope Leo XIV, Mark Carney, Mette Frederiksen, Claudia Sheinbaum, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Xi Jinping, Tarique Rahman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rafael Mariano Grossi, Sanae Takaichi, Balendra Shah, and Henna Virkkunen.

Musicians on this year's list include Luke Combs, Coco Jones, Jennie, Hilary Duff, Rauw Alejandro, and Noah Kahan.

U.S. political figures and public leaders on this year's list include Donald Trump, Gavin Newsom, Marco Rubio, Mark Kelly, Zohran Mamdani, Jacob Frey, Steve Witkoff, Susie Wiles, and Dan Caine.

Business, technology, and AI leaders on this year's list include Gwynne Shotwell, Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Sundar Pichai, Neal Mohan, Michael Dell, Susan Dell, MrBeast, C.C. Wei, Jeremy Allaire, Sarah Friar, John Furner, David Ellison, Josh D'Amaro, Aliko Dangote, Lip-Bu Tan, and Fatih Birol.

Science, space, and health innovators featured include Reid Wiseman, Tony Tyson, Kiran Musunuru, Precious Matsoso, Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, Mariangela Hungria, Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, Luciano Moreira, and Anne-Claire Amprou.

Advocates and changemakers on this year's list include Shirin Ebadi, Dolores Huerta, Heather Gerken, Kica Matos, Shannon Minter, Lauren Hersh, Mamadou Amadou Ly, Zabib Musa Loro, Rachel Foster, and Sabrina Walter.

Entertainers featured on this year's list include Ben Stiller, Benicio Del Toro, Zoe Saldaña, Ethan Hawke, Kate Hudson, Dakota Johnson, Ranbir Kapoor, Claire Danes, Keke Palmer, Sterling K. Brown, Alan Cumming, Noah Wyle, Anderson .Paak, Jonathan Groff, Wagner Moura, Rhea Seehorn, Jafar Panahi, and Nikki Glaser.

Athletes on this year's list include Scottie Scheffler, Chloe Kim, Lando Norris, Noah Lyles, Hilary Knight, and Alysa Liu.

Visionaries in fashion, visual, literary, and culinary arts include Ralph Lauren, Victoria Beckham, Matthieu Blazy, Anok Yai, Nancy Silverton, Vikas Khanna, Mashama Bailey, Lynsey Addario, Cao Fei, Tayari Jones, Yiyun Li, Freida McFadden, and Walter Hood.
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[faysalaaa 5,336]

Globally? They are barely influential in America

[Republicanne 7,843]

Global leader Hillary Duff y'all

[Mister Gaga 23,194]

Rauw alejandro???

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[mamo 20,428]

10 minutes ago, clownery said:

Global leader Hillary Duff y'all

um ok and your point? What other person can give us this iconic choreography??? 

[weed 78,957]

.....ok...

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 32,013]

I mean, there’s an obvious reason people stopped caring about their lists years ago

[monstertoronto 11,744]

1 hour ago, Teletubby said:

Luke Combs, Coco Jones, Jennie, Hilary Duff, Rauw Alejandro, and Noah Kahan

What was their actual criteria for “most influential “ that could produce this random list. 

[Junko Enoshima 4,582]

Who the actual **** are these people?