| 1. | King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia |
| 2. | Peter Akinola, archbishiop, Nigeria |
| 3. | Mohamed Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, president, Sudan |
| 4. | Osama bin Laden |
| 5. | Michael Bloomberg, mayor, New York City |
| 6. | Raul Castro, acting president, Cuba |
| 7. | Hillary Clinton, U.S. senator from New York |
| 8. | Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom |
| 9. | Sonia Gandhi, chair, Indian National Congress Party |
| 10. | Hu Jintao, president, China |
| 11. | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader, Iran |
| 12. | Liu Qi, chief, Beijing Olympic Committee |
| 13. | Tzipi Livni, foreign minister, Israel |
| 14. | Angela Merkel, chancellor, Germany |
| 15. | Barack Obama, U.S. senator from Illinois |
| 16. | Nancy Pelosi, speaker, U.S. House of Representatives |
| 17. | David Petraeus, commanding general, U.S. Army |
| 18. | Pope Benedict XVI |
| 19. | Condoleezza Rice, U.S. secretary of state |
| 20. | John Roberts, chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court |
| 21. | Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor, California |
| 22. | Maher Arar, rendition survivor |
| 23. | Wesley Autrey, New York City subway hero |
| 24. | Tyra Banks, talk show host and model |
| 25. | Warren Buffett, businessman and philanthropist |
| 26. | Youk Chhang, executive director, Documentation Center of Cambodia |
| 27. | George Clooney, actor, director and activist |
| 28. | Tony Dungy, coach, Indianapolis Colts |
| 29. | Elizabeth Edwards, cancer activist |
| 30. | Drew Gilpin Faust, newly appointed president, Harvard University |
| 31. | Roger Federer, tennis star |
| 32. | Michael J. Fox, actor and stem cell advocate |
| 33. | Timothy Gittins, decorated U.S. soldier |
| 34. | Thiery Henry, French soccer star |
| 35. | Garry Kasparov, Russian chessmaster |
| 36. | Amr Khaled, Egyptian televangelist |
| 37. | Judith McKay, anti-tobacco activist, World Health Organization |
| 38. | Chien-ming Wang, pitcher, New York Yankees |
| 39. | Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and philanthropist |
| 40. | Zeng Jinyan, Chinese blogger |