The 100 Most Influential People 2016
Pioneers
"I think of it as, 'What’s the thing that’s not in the world that should be in the world?'"
Lin-Manuel Miranda
byJ.J. Abrams
Kip Thorne
byChristopher Nolan
Kathy Niakan
byJennifer Doudna
Gina Rodriguez
byRita Moreno
Ibtihaj Muhammad
byKeith Ellison
Raj Panjabi
byBill Clinton
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Alan Stern
byEd Stone
Christiana Figueres
byRobert Redford
Marc Edwards and Mona Hanna-Attisha
byRachel Maddow
Mussie Zerai
byAi Weiwei
Lee Berger
byJeffrey Kluger
Nadia Murad
byEve Ensler
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Dan Carder
byRalph Nader
Hope Jahren
bySiobhan O’Connor
Felix Kjellberg (a.k.a. PewDiePie)
byTrey Parker
Roy Choi
byAnthony Bourdain
Sunita Narain
byAmitav Ghosh
Palmer Luckey
byRidley Scott
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Laura Esserman and Shelley Hwang
byMelissa Etheridge
Caitlyn Jenner
byWayne Maines
Aziz Ansari
byIlana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson
Titans
"The only way to achieve our full potential is to channel the talents, ideas and contributions of ev
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg
byBill and Melinda Gates
Stephen Curry
byMisty Copeland
Eli Broad
byMichael Bloomberg
Kathleen Kennedy
byTony Kushner
Wang Jianlin
byHannah Beech
Sundar Pichai
byBill Nye
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Pope Francis
byJoe Biden
Dwayne Johnson
byPeter Berg
Katie Ledecky
byJanet Evans
Mohammed bin Nayef
byLeon E. Panetta
Yuri Milner
byStephen Hawking
Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal
byLev Grossman
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Tim Cook
byBob Iger
Artists
"The girl next door’s face has changed. She does not come from a particular place ... She can be any
Priyanka Chopra
byDwayne Johnson
Yayoi Kusama
byMarc Jacobs
Charlize Theron
byBlake Mycoskie
Mark Rylance
bySteven Spielberg
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
byLena Dunham
Guo Pei
byWendi Murdoch
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
byBryan Stevenson
Oscar Isaac
byPaul Haggis
Bjarke Ingels
byRem Koolhaas
Idris Elba
byDavid Simon
Ariana Grande
byJason Robert Brown
Ryan Coogler
byTa-Nehisi Coates
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Riccardo Tisci
byDonatella Versace
Elena Ferrante
byLauren Groff
Melissa McCarthy
byPaul Feig
Taraji P. Henson
byLee Daniels
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