The World's Most Powerful People – FORBES

Forbes in a special report on Nov 11, has released a list of 67 most important people in the world.

Here is the full list.

Obama for the most obvious reasons stands on top of this list. Four of them are Indians. Osama bin laden also takes a seat in this list (God knows where he is now)

1. Barack Obama	24. Kim Jong Il	47. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
2. Hu Jintao	25. Jean-Claude Trichet	48. Zhou Xiaochuan
3. Vladimir Putin	26. Masaaki Shirakawa	49. John Roberts Jr.
4. Ben S. Bernanke	27. Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan	50. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar
5. Sergey Brin and Larry Page	28. Akio Toyoda	51. William Keller
6. Carlos Slim Helu	29. Gordon Brown	52. Bernard Arnault
7. Rupert Murdoch	30. James S. Dimon	53. Joseph S. Blatter
8. Michael T. Duke	31. Bill Clinton	54. Wadah Khanfar
9. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud	32. William H. Gross	55. Lakshmi Mittal
10. William Gates III	33. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva	56. Nicolas Sarkozy
11. Pope Benedict XVI	34. Lou Jiwei	57. Steve Jobs
12. Silvio Berlusconi	35. Yukio Hatoyama	58. Fujio Mitarai
13. Jeffrey R. Immelt	36. Manmohan Singh	59. Ratan Tata
14. Warren Buffett	37. Osama bin Laden	60. Jacques Rogge
15. Angela Merkel	38. Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani	61. Li Rongrong
16. Laurence D. Fink	39. Tenzin Gyatso	62. Blairo Maggi
17. Hillary Clinton	40. Ali Hoseini-Khamenei	63. Robert B. Zoellick
18. Lloyd C. Blankfein	41. Joaquin Guzman	64. Antonio Guterres
19. Li Changchun	42. Igor Sechin	65. Mark John Thompson
20. Michael Bloomberg	43. Dmitry Medvedev	66. Klaus Schwab
21. Timothy Geithner	44. Mukesh Ambani	67. Hugo Chavez
22. Rex W. Tillerson	45. Oprah Winfrey
23. Li Ka-shing	46. Benjamin Netanyahu

 

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