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The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists

Posted by Matt in January 14th, 2009
  1. RAIN
    AGE: 25 OCCUPATION: Korean pop sensation — and last year’s landslide winner of this poll NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2
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  2. SHIGERU MIYAMOTO
    AGE: 55 OCCUPATION: Video-game designer NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: As if creating Mario, Donkey Kong,
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  3. JAY ADELSON – The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists – TIME
    AGE: 37 OCCUPATION: CEO of Digg.com NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: As click-throughs and page views increasingly set
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  4. ROGER FEDERER
    AGE: 26 OCCUPATION: Tennis god NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: One of the greatest players ever to pick up a racket,
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  5. STEPHEN COLBERT
    AGE: 43 OCCUPATION: Comedian, host of The Colbert Report NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: Hands down the nimblest
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  6. MADONNA
    AGE: 49 OCCUPATION: Singer-songwriter, yoga fanatic NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 1 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Even as she approaches the big
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  7. SHINYA YAMANAKA
    AGE: 61 OCCUPATION: Professor at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences at Kyoto University NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON
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  8. ANWAR IBRAHIM
    AGE: 60 OCCUPATION: Malaysian politician NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Seen as a possible future Prime Minister,
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  9. CHIP KIDD
    AGE: 44 OCCUPATION: Associate art director at Alfred A. Knopf, novelist NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Opinions vary,
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  10. CECILY VON ZIEGESAR
    AGE: 37 OCCUPATION: Author of the Gossip Girl book series, on which the TV series is based NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
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  12. AMY WINEHOUSE
    AGE: 24 OCCUPATION: Singer-songwriter NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: The only artist thus far to get audiences
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  14. DALAI LAMA
    AGE: 72 OCCUPATION: Buddhist monk, exiled leader of Tibet NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 2 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: A self-described “simple
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  16. BARACK OBAMA
    AGE: 46 OCCUPATION: First-term Illinois Senator, Democratic Presidential candidate NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 4 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: The
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  18. JULIA ROBERTS
    AGE: 40 OCCUPATION: Actress NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 1 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Last seen on the big screen in 2004’s Closer and Ocean’s
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  20. TOMAS MAIER
    AGE: Fashionistas never give their age! Even if they’re fashionistos. OCCUPATION : Creative director of Bottega Veneta NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS
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  22. NIKKI FINKE
    AGE: roughly 53 OCCUPATION: Journalist/blogger, LA Weekly columnist NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Her well-sourced
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  24. JON STEWART
    AGE: 45 OCCUPATION: Comedian and host of The Daily Show NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: He shepherded us through a dud
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  26. ELLEN PAGE
    AGE: 21 OCCUPATION: Actress NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Playing doggedly against her mind-boggling cuteness (as
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  28. MATT DRUDGE
    AGE: 41 OCCUPATION: Founder and editor of the Drudge Report NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: Over a decade after it
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  30. M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)
    AGE: 31 OCCUPATION: Rapper, singer- songwriter, artist NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Even if you’ve never heard of
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  32. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CAST
    AGE: Combined, probably still less than one Warren Beatty OCCUPATION: Heartthrobs NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO : Last
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  34. HAMID KARZAI
    AGE: 50 OCCUPATION: President of Afghanistan NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Seen as a decent and incorruptible man,
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  36. POPE BENEDICT XVI
    AGE: 80 OCCUPATION: Pope NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 2 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: After three years on the job, the former Joseph Alois
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  38. WILL SMITH
    AGE: 39 OCCUPATION: Actor, musician, producer, brand NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: He may be the last movie star
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  40. NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE
    AGE: 65 OCCUPATION: Architect, scientist, ex-director of the MIT Media Lab and founder of One Laptop Per Child NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES
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  42. TIM PIPER
    AGE: 36 OCCUPATION: Associate creative director of Ogilvy & Mather Toronto , and director of Dove’s “Evolution” ad NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS
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  44. BRITNEY SPEARS
    AGE: 26 OCCUPATION: Former pop star, current tabloid staple NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: After becoming more famous
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  46. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
    AGE: 66 OCCUPATION: Mayor of New York City, bajillionaire NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 2 (one for the 2007 Time 100, one with Schwarzenegger) PREVIOUS APPEARANCES
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  48. BAITULLAH MEHSUD
    AGE: roughly 34 OCCUPATION: Commander of Taliban forces in Waziristan NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: He nearly routed
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  50. GENERAL ASHFAQ PERVEZ KIYANI
    AGE: mid-50s OCCUPATION: Pakistan Army Chief NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Took the reins of military power from a
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  52. KATSUAKI WATANABE
    AGE: 65 OCCUPATION: CEO of Toyota NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: Toyota is now the top-seller in North America,
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  54. MARK ZUCKERBERG
    AGE: 23 OCCUPATION: Founder and president of FacebookNUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Forbes has him as the youngest
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  56. JOHN ROBERTS
    AGE: 53 OCCUPATION: Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 1 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: The first full term of the
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  58. OPRAH WINFREY
    AGE: 54 OCCUPATION: Talk-show host, television producer, magazine publisher, actress, power broker NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 1 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME
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  60. DAVID AXELROD
    AGE: 52 OCCUPATION: Chicago consultant, Obama consigliere NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Barack Obama’s chief
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  62. JAMIE DIMON
    AGE: 52 OCCUPATION: CEO of JP Morgan Chase NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: Having deftly navigated his own investment
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  64. WARREN BUFFETT
    AGE: 77 OCCUPATION: Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: The Oracle from Omaha has surpassed
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  66. JOSEPH STIGLITZ
    AGE: 53 OCCUPATION: Nobel Prize–winning economist NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: In a new book, his sobering
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  68. DAVID FROST
    AGE: 69 OCCUPATION: Al Jazeera commentator NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 1 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Recruited by the new Al Jazeera English
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  70. KHALED HOSSEINI
    AGE: 43 OCCUPATION: Author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: Hosseini’s
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  72. SARAH SILVERMAN
    AGE: 37 OCCUPATION: Comedian, actress, putative Matt Damon–f—er NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Silverman — the
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  74. LORENA OCHOA
    AGE: 26 OCCUPATION: Top-ranked golfer in the LPGA NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Having won eight titles and the top
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  76. CONDOLEEZZA RICE
    AGE: 53 OCCUPATION: US Secretary of State NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 2 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 4 PRO: As the picking apart of the Iraq debacle
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  78. VLADIMIR PUTIN
    AGE: 55 OCCUPATION: Former President of the Russian Federation, current shadow- President of the Russian Federation NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 1 PREVIOUS
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  80. SIDNEY CROSBY
    AGE: 20 OCCUPATION: Hockey player, Pittsburgh Penguins’ captain NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: The Canadian sensation
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  82. ISABEL CARO
    AGE: 27 OCCUPATION: Comedienne, anorexia activist NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: A billboard featuring her naked,
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  84. AI WEIWEI
    AGE: 50 OCCUPATION: Architect and contemporary artist NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Since dropping out of Beijing’s
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  86. STEVE JOBS
    AGE: 53 OCCUPATION: Founder and CEO of Apple Inc.NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 5 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 3 PRO: With its raved-about interface and
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  88. ALEX RIGOPULOS and ERAN EGOZY
    AGE: 38 and 37, respectively OCCUPATION: Co-creators of the Guitar Hero videogame series and creators of Rock Band NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS
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  90. RHONDA BYRNE
    AGE: roughly 53 OCCUPATION: Author of The Secret NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: The Secret — Byrne’s Opranointed
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  92. JIMMY WALES
    AGE: 41 OCCUPATION: Creator of Wikipedia NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: As the brains behind Wikipedia, Wales,
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  94. TYLER PERRY
    AGE: 39 OCCUPATION: Playwright, performer, writer-director, Madea NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Ever since Diary of
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  96. GEORGE CLOONEY
    AGE: 46 OCCUPATION: Actor, director, producer, movie star NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 1 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: Nominated for a fourth Oscar
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  98. KRISTIN HALVORSEN – The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists – TIME
    AGE: 47 OCCUPATION: Finance Minister of Norway NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: As manager and chief architect of
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  100. JOHN McCAIN
    AGE: 71 OCCUPATION: Arizona Senator, Republican Presidential candidate NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 3 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: Never give this
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  102. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
    AGE: 50 OCCUPATION: Actor, milkshake enthusiast NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: As There Will Be Blood’s atavistic
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  104. TYRA BANKS
    AGE: 34 OCCUPATION: Talk-show host, America’s Next Top Model mentor NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: With her own talk
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  106. STEPHENIE MEYER
    AGE: 35 OCCUPATION: Author of the Twilight series of young adult vampire novels NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO:
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  108. JOHN KUFUOR
    AGE: 69 OCCUPATION: President of Ghana NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Having effected the first bloodless power
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  110. CAROLINE KENNEDY
    AGE: 50 OCCUPATION: Author, attorney, Kennedy NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 2PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Shortly after endorsing Barack Obama,
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  112. TINA FEY
    AGE: 37 OCCUPATION: Writer, producer, comedienne NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1PRO: 30 Rock is the most hilarious
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  114. JEAN-CLAUDE TRICHET
    AGE: 65 OCCUPATION: President of the European Central Bank NUMBER OF TIME COVERS : 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: Trichet’s firm hand on the
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  116. CRAIG NEWMARK
    AGE: 55 OCCUPATION: Internet entrepreneur NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: As the founder of Craigslist,
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  118. CARINE ROITFELD
    AGE: 53 OCCUPATION: Editor in chief of French Vogue NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Roitfeld’s been called “the
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  120. PRINCE CHARLES
    AGE: 59 OCCUPATION: Prince of Wales, future King of England NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 4 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Considered something of a
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  122. BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI
    AGE: 19 OCCUPATION: Oxford student, Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party and son of slain leader Benazir Bhutto NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS
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  124. ELIZABETH GILBERT
    AGE: 38 OCCUPATION: Author of Eat, Pray, Love NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Eat — Gilbert’s bestselling memoir of
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  126. MIKE HUCKABEE
    AGE: 52 OCCUPATION: Former Republican governor of Arkansas, ex-Presidential candidate NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO:
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  128. NOVAK DJOKOVIC
    AGE: 20 OCCUPATION: Professional tennis player NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: The Serbian denied the seemingly
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  130. THE MYSPACE MEN: CHRIS DeWOLFE and TOM ANDERSON – The 2008 TIME
    The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists. Are They Worthy? MySpace founders Tom Anderson (L) and Chris DeWolfe.
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  132. ELIOT SPITZER
    AGE: 48 OCCUPATION: Former governor of New York NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: As New York Attorney General,
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  134. JULIE GERBERDING
    AGE: 52 OCCUPATION: Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: Under
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  136. MARK PENN
    AGE: 54 OCCUPATION: CEO of Burson-Marsteller, chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON
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  138. CHARLES GIBSON
    AGE: 65 OCCUPATION: Anchor of ABC World News with Charles Gibson NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: After being passed
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  140. PATRIC VERRONE
    AGE: 48 OCCUPATION: President of Writer’s Guild of America West NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Recognizing that the
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  142. ALEXIS SINDUHIJE
    AGE: 40s OCCUPATION: Founder of Radio Publique Africaine, Burundian presidential candidate NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
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  144. RUPERT MURDOCH
    AGE: 77 OCCUPATION: Chairman and controlling shareholder of the News Corp. NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 2 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: The Rupe
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  146. MICHAEL CERA
    AGE: 19 OCCUPATION: Actor, comedian NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: The mumbling, eerie-natural nerd’s nerd from
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  148. LIU QI
    AGE: 65 OCCUPATION: President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1
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  150. MADEEHA HASAN ODHAIB
    AGE: 37 OCCUPATION: Seamstress, Baghdad district councilwoman NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Called the “Mother
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  152. H. LEE SCOTT JR.
    AGE: 59 OCCUPATION: CEO of Wal-Mart NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: He’s pledged to cut the energy use of many of
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  154. SIMON COWELL
    AGE: 48 OCCUPATION: A&R exec, reality TV judge NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: As the caustic, charismatic judge on
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  156. AL GORE
    AGE: 59 OCCUPATION: Green investor, global-warming standard-bearer NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 2 solo, 8 shared, 1 Time 100 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100:
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  158. RAUL CASTRO
    AGE: 76 OCCUPATION: President of Cuba NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: Change has come to Cuba! Youth! Vigor!
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  160. MANNY RAMIREZ
    AGE: 35 OCCUPATION: Left-fielder for the Boston Red SoxNUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: A hitting powerhouse and
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  162. YOUSAF RAZA GILANI
    AGE: 57 OCCUPATION: Prime Minister of Pakistan NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: The day he was sworn in,
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  164. PETER GABRIEL
    AGE: 58 OCCUPATION: Rocker, humanitarian NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: More focused on promoting the music of others
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  166. GUY LALIBERTÉ
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  167. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF
    AGE: 64 OCCUPATION: President of Pakistan NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: A staunch counterterrorism ally following
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  169. NOAM CHOMSKY
    AGE: 79 OCCUPATION: Linguist-philospher NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: On staff at the Massachusetts Institute of
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  171. HO CHING
    AGE: 54 OCCUPATION: CEO of Temasek Holdings, wife of Singapore’s Prime Minister NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: Ranked
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  173. WENDY KOPP
    AGE: 41 OCCUPATION: Founder and CEO of Teach for America NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Kopp conceived of TFA in 1989
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  175. KIM JONG IL
    AGE: 67 OCCUPATION: Dear Leader of North Korea NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 1 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: In a show of arts diplomacy,
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  177. BONO
    AGE: 47 OCCUPATION: Lead singer of U2, activist, philanthropist NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 3 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2 PRO: The Irish
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  179. NATALIE PORTMAN
    AGE: 26 OCCUPATION: Actress NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Preternaturally beautiful and keenly intelligent about her
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  181. IAN McEWAN
    AGE: 59 OCCUPATION: Novelist NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: After a plagiarism “scandal” many felt was trumped up
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  183. DAVID BECKHAM
    AGE: 32 OCCUPATION: Soccer star, billboard NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: Coming from La Liga champions, Real Madrid,
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  185. ICHIRO SUZUKI
    AGE: 34 OCCUPATION: Seattle Mariners’ All-Star center-fielder NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: He’s batted .333 in
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  187. RADIOHEAD
    AGE: 17 OCCUPATION: Rock band NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Bypassing their label altogether, Radiohead became the
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  189. LOU JIWEI
    AGE: 57 OCCUPATION: Chairman of China Investment Corp. (CIC) NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Led China’s fledgling
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