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Most Influential People in the World Today  
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Forget TIME magazine! Who do you think are the most influential people in the world today?

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

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