Friday, 22 April 2016

7 Indians Listed Among 100 Most Influential People By Time Magazine

Washington DC: The Times’ 100 Most Influential People of 2016 list is out and it features seven Indians.

RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, tennis star Sania Mirza, actor Priyanka Chopra, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, environmentalist Sunita Narain and founders of Flipkart, Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal have been named by Time magazine in its list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Time’s annual list, released on Thursday, listed the 100 people in five categories – Pioneers, Titans, Artists, Leaders and Icons. The list includes Pioneers like composer Lin Manuel-Miranda, Titans like founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Artists like comedian Mellisa McCarthy, Leaders like IMF head Christine Lagarde and Icons like actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who are “exploring the frontiers of art, science, society, technology and more.”
Narain was listed in the Pioneers category, while Pichai and the Bansal duo were listed in the Titans category. Rajan was listed in the Leaders category. Chopra was listed in the Artist category, whereas Mirza was listed in the Icons category, thereby ensuring that at least one Indian was included in each of the five categories.
Other prominent names included in this year’s list are Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Adele, Usain Bolt, Lewis Hamilton, Nicki Minaj, Karlie Kloss, Denis Mukwege, Ronda Rousey, Christine Lagarde, Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Tsai Ing-Wen, Sean Barry MacFarland, Bernie Sanders, Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Hillary Clinton, Queen Maxima, Dwayne Johnson, Lori Robinson, Vladimir Putin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Pope Francis, Gina Rodriguez, Nadia Murad, Caitlyn Jenner, Charlize Theron, Oscar Issac, Ariana Grande, Idris Elba, Kendrick Lamar, Elena Ferrante, among others.
Apart from the seven Indians, several people of Indian origin have also found a spot on the list — Raj Panjabi, Aziz Ansari and Nikki Haley.


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