GEJ celebrates making Times 100 most influential people in the world

 

Awwww, our own GEJ! Congrats sir. *Yimz* Read what they wrote about him HERE. Continue to see the full list of Time Magazine 2012 100 most influential people...

1. Jeremy Lin- Basketball Player, America
2. Christian Marclay- Visual artist and composer, Swiss-America
3. Viola Davis- Actress, America
4. Salman Khan- Educator, America
5. Tim Tebow- Football quarterback, American
6. EL James- Author, America
7. Louis CK- Comedian, Mexican-American
8. Rihanna- Recording artist, actress, US
9. Marco Rubio- United States Senator from Florida
10. Ali Ferzat- Cartoonist, Syria
11. René Redzepi- chef, Denmark
12. Kristen Wiig- Television actress, comedian, America
13. Anthony Kennedy- Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
14. Novak Djokovic- Tennis player, Serbia and Montenegro
15. Ben Rattray- Founder, Change.org, US
16. Jessica Chastain- Actress, America
17. Yani Tseng- Golfer- Republic of China (Taiwan)
18. Raphael Saadiq- Singer- America
19. Elinor Ostrom- Economist, US
20. Samira Ibrahim- Plaintiff, Egypt
21. Jose Andres- Chef, Spanish
22. Ann Patchett- Writer, America
23. Dulce Matuz- President, Arizona Dream Act Coalition
24. Henrik Scharfe- Professor, Director, Centre for Computer-mediated Epistemology, Denmark
25. Freeman Hrabowski- Educator, America
26. Maryam Durani- Member, Kandahar Provincial Council, Afghanistan
27. Manal al-Sharif- Women’s rights activist and computer security consultant, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
28. Anjali Gopalan- Advocate, India
29. Rached Ghannouchi- Tunisian Islamist politician and co-founder, The Ennahda Movement
30. Barbara Van Dahlen- Founder and President, Give an Hour, US
31. Ron Fouchier- Scientist, Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands
32. Donald Sadoway- John F Elliott Professor, Materials Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
33. Hans Rosling- Statistician, Sweden
34. Asghar Farhadi- Filmmaker, Iran
35. Sarah Burton- Fashion Designer, UK
36. Anonymous- Self described hacktivist group, Voluntary association, Global
37. Pete Cashmore- Social News Guru,Scotland
38. Cami Anderson- Superintendent,Newark schools
39. Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu- Neo-Ottomans
40. Ai-jen Poo- Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, US
41. Marc Andreessen- Kingmaker, America
42. Preet Bharara- Prosecutor, America
43. Robert Grant- AIDS Researcher, San Francisco
44. Andrew Lo- Harris & Harris Group Professor Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
45. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy- Pakistani-Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker
46. Alexei Navalny- Russian lawyer, politician, and political and financial activist
47. Ray Dalio- American businessman and founder of Bridgewater Associates
48. Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani- Prime Minister of Qatar
49. Chelsea Handler- American stand-up comedian, actress, best-selling author, and producer
50. Harvey Weinstein- American film producer and movie studio chairman
51. Chen Lihua- Chairperson, Fu Wah International, China
52. Warren Buffett- Chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
53. Alice Walton- Heiress, Walton family fortune
54. Harold Hamm- CEO, Continental Resources
55. Sheryl Sandberg- COO, Facebook
56. Sara Blakely- Founder of Spanx, and world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, US
57. Eike Batista- President, EBX Group, Brazil
58. Tim Cook- CEO, Apple, US
59. Daniel Ek- CEO and Founder, Spotify, Sweden
60. Virginia Rometty- CEO, IBM, US
61. Barack Obama- President, USA
62. Goodluck Jonathan- President of Nigeria
63. Xi Jinping- First Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of China
64. Fatou Bensouda- Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Gambia
65. Christine Lagarde- MD, IMF, France
66. Mario Draghi- President, European Central Bank, Italy
67. U Thein Sein- President of Burma
68. Ayatullah Ali Khamenei- Supreme Leader of Iran
69. Mitt Romney- Candidate, 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination
70. Juan Manuel Santos- President of Colombia
71. Timothy Dolan- American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
72. Portia Simpson Miller- Prime Minister of Jamaica
73. Mario Monti- Prime Minister of Italy
74. Wang Yang- Secretary, Guangdong Committee of the Communist Party of China
75. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster- CEO of Petrobras, Brazil
76. Andrew Cuomo- Governor of New York, US
77. Iftikhar Chaudhry- Chief Justice of Pakistan
78. Mamata Banerjee- Chief Minister Of Indian state of West Bengal
79. Walter Isaacson- President and CEO, Aspen Institute, US
80. Ron Paul- Member of the US House of Representatives
81. Benjamin Netanyahu- Prime Minister of Israel
82. Dilma Rousseff- President of Brazil
83. Erik Martin- Founder and editor, Muschelhaufen
84. Cecile Richards- Democratic Party activist, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
85. Angela Merkel- Chancellor of Germany
86. Lionel Messi- Footballer and Captain of Argentinian national team
87. Tilda Swinton- British actress
88. Hillary Clinton- United States Secretary of State
89. Catherine- Duchess of Cambridge, and Pippa Middleton, her sister
90. Adele- Recording artist and songwriter, UK
91. Matt Lauer, TV journalist, Host, NBC’s The Today Show
92. Oscar Pistorius- sprint runner, South Africa
93. Claire Danes- American television, stage and film actress
94. Stephen Colbert- American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, actor; Host, Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report