List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004
|
|
The first annual special issue of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people (or pairs), was on newsstands on 2004-04-20. 20 people or pairs were listed in five categories. See also TIME Magazine's Person of the Year and Most important people of the 20th century (http://www.time.com/time/time100/).
| Contents |
Leaders and revolutionaries
- George W. Bush — president of the USA.
- Abu al-Zarqawi — Islamic terrorist.
- Condoleezza Rice — U.S. national security adviser.
- Wu Yi — Chinese vice premier and health minister.
- Vladimir Putin — leader of the Russian Federation.
- Kim Jong-il — leader of North Korea.
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan — prime minister of Turkey.
- Atal Behari Vajpayee — former prime minister of India.
- Kofi Annan — secretary-general of the United Nations.
- Bill Gates — co-founder of Microsoft.
- Luisa Diogo — prime minister of Mozambique.
- John Kerry — USA senator and Democratic party presidential candidate.
- Toshihiko Fukui — governor of the bank of Japan.
- John Abizaid — general of the USA army and Commander-in-Chief of CENTCOM.
- Ali Husaini Sistani — Iraqi Muslim leader.
- Osama bin Laden — Saudi terrorist.
- Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton — former president of the USA & senator.
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — president of Brazil.
- Hu Jintao — president of the People's Republic of China.
- John Paul II — Pope.
Builders and titans
- Sergey Brin & Larry Page — co-founders of Google.
- Warren Buffett — CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
- Michael Dell — CEO of Dell.
- Carly Fiorina — CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
- John Browne — chief executive of BP.
- Rupert Murdoch — media mogul.
- Lee Scott — CEO of Wal-Mart.
- Lindsay Owen-Jones — chairman and CEO of L'Oréal.
- Meg Whitman — CEO of eBay.
- Steve Jobs — CEO of Apple Computer.
- Howard Schultz — Starbucks.
- The Al Jazeera team — satellite television channel.
- Azim Premji — chairman of Wipro.
- David Neeleman — CEO of JetBlue Airways.
- Hiroshi Okuda & Fujio Cho — chairman/president of Toyota
- Daniel Vasella — chairman CEO of Novartis.
- Belinda Stronach — CEO of Magna International and politician.
- Bernard Arnault — LVMH.
- Abigail Johnson — president of Fidelity Investments.
- Sepp Blatter — president of FIFA.
Artists and entertainers
- Nicole Kidman — actor.
- Charlie Kaufman — screenwriter.
- Frank Gehry — architect.
- Hideo Nakata — film director.
- Norah Jones — singer.
- Simon Cowell — American Idol judge.
- Sean Penn — actor.
- John Galliano — chief fashion designer at Christian Dior.
- Jerry Bruckheimer — producer.
- Ferran Adria — chef.
- Nicholas Hytner — stage director.
- J. K. Rowling — author.
- Guy Laliberté — creator of Cirque du Soleil.
- Ken Kutaragi — president and CEO of Sony Computers.
- Aishwarya Rai — actress and model.
- Andre Benjamin & Antwan Patton — members of the Hip hop group OutKast.
- Mark Burnett — executive producer of Survivor and The Apprentice.
- Katie Couric — co-anchor of The Today Show.
- Bruce Nauman — artist.
- Peter Jackson — film director.
Scientists and thinkers
- Julie Gerberding — Director of the US Centers for Disease Control.
- Eric Lander — scientist.
- Bernard Lewis — historian and author.
- Sandra Day O'Connor — justice of the USA Supreme Court.
- Joschka Fischer — foreign minister of Germany.
- Jong-Wook Lee — physician.
- Paul Ridker — scientist and researcher.
- Bjørn Lomborg — author.
- Samantha Power — author of A Problem from Hell.
- Woo Suk Hwang & Shin Yong Moon — cloners.
- Jürgen Habermas — philosopher.
- Edward Witten — physicist.
- Hernando de Soto — economist.
- Niall Ferguson — historian.
- Linus Torvalds — creator of the Linux kernel.
- Steven Pinker — experimental psychologist.
- Louise Arbour — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- Tariq Ramadan — philosopher and Islamic theoretician.
- Jeffrey Sachs — director of The Earth Institute.
- Jill Tarter — director of the center for research, SETI.
Heroes and icons
- Shirin Ebadi — human rights activist.
- Lance Armstrong — champion cyclist.
- Mel Gibson — film director.
- Evan Wolfson — campaigner for same-sex marriage.
- Bernard Kouchner — humanitarian.
- Arthur Agatston — nutrionist.
- Tenzin Gyatso — Dalai Lama.
- Paula Radcliffe — athlete.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger — actor and politician.
- Oprah Winfrey — television show presenter.
- Tiger Woods — golfer.
- Bono — rock star; peace and AIDS activist.
- David Beckham — football player.
- B.K.S. Iyengar — Yoga instructor.
- Rania — queen of Jordan.
- John Bogle — founder of the Vanguard mutual fund complex and creator of the first index fund.
- Bill Belichick — coach of the New England Patriots.
- Yao Ming — basketball player.
- Nelson Mandela — former president of South Africa.
- Aung San Suu Kyi — Burmese pro-democracy activist.