Each year Time Magazine puts out a list of 100 people they feel are the current most influential people in the world. Good or bad. This year the list is chock full of people trying to change the world for the better… with some obvious exceptions.
Dr Anthony Fauci, President Donald Trump and the founders of Black Lives Matter… all sharing space on the list that aims to give readers an idea of where we are in our quest for better idols.
In a tribute to the ‘woke’ heavyweights of the last year, BLM founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi were joined on the annual list by Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade who were praised for raising their transgender daughter Zaya while soccer player Megan Rapinoe was hailed for her LGBT rights advocacy.
Here’s the complete list and don’t be ashamed to google some of these people. I did on 40% of them.
PIONEERS
Megan Thee Stallion
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Ibram X. Kendi
Nathan Law
Tomi Adeyemi
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir
Julie K. Brown
Cecilia Martinez
Maya Moore
Chase Strangio
Zhang Yongzhen
Tourmaline
Waad al-Kateab
Abubacarr Tambadou
Gabriela Cámara
Camilla Rothe
Rebecca Gomperts
Ravindra Gupta
Lauren Gardner
Shi Zhengli
Shiori Ito
ARTISTS
The Weeknd
Ali Wong
Michael B. Jordan
Selena Gomez
J Balvin
JoJo Siwa
Halsey
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Jennifer Hudson
Yo-Yo Ma
Dapper Dan
Anaïs Mitchell
Michaela Coel
Bong Joon Ho
LASTESIS
Julie Mehretu
Ayushmann Khurrana
LEADERS
Dr Anthony Fauci
Kamala Harris
Tsai Ing-wen
John Roberts
Xi Jinping
Donald Trump
Caesar
Angela Merkel
Joe Biden
Jair Bolsonaro
Nancy Pelosi
Narendra Modi
William Barr
Anne Hidalgo
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Mary Kay Henry
Nemonte Nenquimo
Ursula von der Leyen
Jung Eun-kyeong
Bonnie Castillo
Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum
Yousef Al Otaiba
TITANS
Gabrielle Union
Dwyane Wade
Sundar Pichai
Tyler Perry
MacKenzie Scott
Robert F. Smith
Lewis Hamilton
Jerome Powell
Eric Yuan
Patrick Mahomes
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot
Greg Berlanti
Shari Redstone
Tony Elumelu
Zhong Nanshan
Kristalina Georgieva
Lisa Nishimura
General Charles Q. Brown Jr
Daniel Zhang
Gwynne Shotwell
Tunji Funsho
ICONS
Amy O’Sullivan
Black Lives Matter Founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi
Ady Barkan
Billy Porter
Naomi Osaka
Angela Davis
Chi Chia-wei
Megan Rapinoe
Felipe Neto
Allyson Felix
Sister Norma Pimentel
David Hill
Arussi Unda
Nury Turkel
Lina Attalah
Bilkis