Goodluck Jonathan makes 2012 Time 100 Most Influential People in the World

Time magazine has listed Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan as one of the 100 Most Influential Persons in the World.

Jonathan is the only African leader on the list, published on Wednesday. It is also the cover story of the current edition of Time.

 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
95. Kim Jong Un
96. Mullah Mohammed Omar and Sheik Moktar Ali Zubeyr
97. Bashar Assad

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