People

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator

Contemporary influential

268

Quentin Tarantino

Filmmaker

Contemporary influential

214

Madonna

Pop icon

Contemporary influential

205

Taylor Swift

Singer-songwriter

Contemporary influential

200

Mikhail Gorbachev

Last Soviet leader, glasnost

Contemporary influential

198

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, science communicator

Contemporary influential

195

Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar democracy leader

Contemporary influential

187

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Black Swan theory

Contemporary influential

179

Gloria Steinem

Feminist leader

Contemporary influential

179

Pope Francis

Current Pope, reformist

Contemporary influential

178

George Carlin

Comedian, social critic

Contemporary influential

172

Diego Maradona

Argentine soccer legend

Contemporary influential

167

Dave Chappelle

Comedian

Contemporary influential

164

Angela Merkel

German Chancellor

Contemporary influential

163

Cristiano Ronaldo

Soccer star

Contemporary influential

163

Stephen Hawking

Black holes, cosmology

Contemporary influential

162

Boris Yeltsin

First Russian Federation president

Contemporary influential

161

Tim Berners-Lee

Inventor of the World Wide Web

Contemporary influential

155

Yuval Noah Harari

Historian, Sapiens author

Contemporary influential

155

Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook/Meta founder

Contemporary influential

155