Top ten most influential people of the decade

[Hooktonnfonics]

Uh hey...JACK WHITE? MAYNARD? CLAUDIO? HOMME? Yeah that's all music, but that's all that matters.

[briano1983]

Im a year late but i say the creator of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and the guys at twitter, who ever they are.. then the pep's from youtube. no one watches tv anymore or talks to each other in person because of them, haha kidding. well not really.

[sambath92kumaar]

Dr.ManMohan Sing.....

[makhseed]

unlike you i wont focus purely on american politics and musical acts but more then that. a broader influence on the world.

michael jackson- need i say more?

lionel messi- greatest football (soccer) player in the world, recognized worldwide and is copied by many

george bush- for coming closer then anybody to destroying the world

oprah- she decides the winners of elections, its that simple

[makhseed]

@makhseed sayid ali khamina'i- supreme leadear of iran, what he says goes, if he did not influence this year he will certainly influence the next decade

will smith- most powerful actor in holywood, rich, great reputation, well loved, and his movies make millions. nuff said

and last but not least....davis fleetwood ;p

[nightlifeblonde]

the messiah

Michael jackson

bill gates

adulf hitley

roosevelt

nelson mandella

the beatles

[123456lvr]

1.George Bush

2.Osama Bin Laden

3.Sadam Hussein

[raphi72]

George W Bush and Richard Cheney for needless wars and establishing CIA torture as new normality.

[excelgeo]

what happenned with this list? i never saw it..

[BudSoda02]

Influential doesnt have to be 4 good obama and bush are just puppets who are out to send this country in the tank. (well just obama now and hes killin this country in 1yr than bush did in 8)

[andyham95]

Saddam Hussein

Osama Bin Laden

Oprah Winfrey

Micheal jackson

Lance Armstrong

Micheal Phelps

Tiger Woods

George Bush

Larry Page and Sergery Brin (made Google)

Ummmm... thats all i can think of haha

[Unsungheroful]

Bin Laden Saddam Barrac Usain Bolt Michael Phelps Lance Armstrong Shoemaker(F1) Tiger Woods Federer nelson mandela Steve Irwin gEORGE BUSH BONO MIChael Jackson

[lygophile]

* George Carlin

* Trey Parker & Matt Stone

* Barrack "Change" Obama. in bringing false hope, probably

* Ron Paul. for popularising right wing anti-establishmentarianism, and disassociating being critical of the "military industrial complex" from fantastic conspiracy theories, to some degree anyway.

i refuse to fill it up to ten.

[lygophile]

its also at random order

[lygophile]

ow and

* Oprah Winfrey, for contributing to the popularisation of humanist, new age christianity.

[billytinkler]

why does everybody keep putting obama, what has he actually DONE yet?

id save him for the next list

[ziggycardon]

1) paris hilton XD

2) obama

3) michael jackson

4) johnny depp

5) simon keizer

6) nick schilder

7) jan smit

8) my mother XD

9) God

10) George Bush

[IAMoraes]

30 million people abandoned extreme poverty because of Lula. How could I not name him?

An uncountable number of people entered extreme poverty because of Bush. How could I not name him?

(Thanks for the invite. Accepted.)

[MrEmesis]

Because you've said "The Most" top 10 influential people of the decade, it seems that this warrants an answer. But I cannot name 10 people of this past decade that deserve to have their name next to the word "influential". Perhaps you should try the top 3 influential people.

I'd say that this was the decade of empty promises, the death of journalism, the end of moral majority and the beginning of the New World Order. And I thought that the 80's sucked.

[wr4aith]

Anthony Robbins

[MrEmesis]

wr4aith: Never heard of him.

[893160007]

10 Tony Blair

9 Vlademir Putin

8 John Paul 2nd

7 Kim Jung II

6 Suddam Hueisen

5 Micheal Moore

4 Barrack Obama

3 Al Gore

2 Osama Bin Ladden

1 George W Bush

[893160007]

i changed my mind 9 is now the dali lama and 10 is putin

[XOXOkaytee]

you look like gerard butler, and i enjoy it :) lmao OK so this is not in a particular order: Osama bin Laden George Bush Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Barack Obama Britney Spears Tony Blair Vladimir Putin Fidel Castro Ariel Sharon Bibi Natanyahu It pains me that Britney Spears is the only non-political person on my list..

[Kulumuli]

I guess a lot of people will nominate Barack Obama. I didn't. He's too fresh, but maybe he should be at the bottom of my list. What were you thinking 2 or 3 years ago? From 9/11 and on Osamah Bin Laden has haunted us. A farmer in Madagaskar will know who Bin Laden is, but never heard of Sarah Palin.

[Kulumuli]

1. Osama Bin Laden 2. George W Bush 3. Dan Brown 4. Michael Moore 5. Saddam Hussein 6. Vladimir Putin 7. Kim Jong Il 8. Brithey Spears 9. Hugo Chavez 10. Steve Jobs Who ever doubted Osamah in No-1? The reason for 2 wars and heightened worldwide alert isn't enough?

[Dutchoven08]

Ron Burgundy (Anchorman example used to train modern say-a-lot, report nothing-of-importance reporters)

Rush L (spun so much fear and disinfo, needs an award, and a noose)

Katie Couric (slowly called out Palin on stupidity)

Beck/Hannity (tie for spin masters of the simple)

Biden (backed Credit Cos/screwed US and still got erected)

Cheney (ok'd pentgn to get missld & still in power)

Chuck Todd ("decided" Kucinich couldn't run in DNC debate on MSNBC, now Obama's fave pool reporter/ Hand-jobber)

[RedAtlasman]

1 George W Bush

2 Dick Cheney

3 Saddam Hussein

4 Osama Bin Laden

5 Barack Obama

6 Hugo Chaves

7 The Pope

8 Vlademir Putin

9 J.K Rowling

10 Dan Brown

[xPoptartz]

agreed

[JHolmes17]

In no particular order: Jon Stewart Barack Obama Bono Steve Jobs Osama Bin Laden George W. Bush (sadly) Vladamir Putin Nicholas Scarcozy Al Gore Sarah Palin (Jesus, I hate saying that)

[basch2020]

Hate to break the obvious US bias but after the emergence of China as the worlds most influential economy, one should mention Hu JinTao.

Don't forget Tony Blair either. 10 years as UK PM, and likely to be the first president of the EU by the end of the decade.

I fail to see how Sarah Palin is more influential than them.

[thinazzabird]

Rumsfeld was holding a "we gotta get this turkey in the air" -themed meeting when the roosting at the new improved Pentagon began- he's the black-garbed prison warden who's won my heart for Death-dealer of The Century- also the Loose Change people deserve acknowledgement.

[Brettah31]

m00t

[juwanbe]

No particular order. Osama Bin Laden George W. Bush Dick Cheney Saddam Hussein Oprah Al Gore Barack Obama Mark Zuckerberg Craig Venter Ron Paul

[bek12]

rofl... Ron Paul? Get some perspective man!

[newexperiment]

Ron Paul might be disagreeable in many respects. However his internet celebrity introduced the horror of fractional reserve banking to the masses who otherwise might not have become interested in how the world works at all.

[leftymathprof]

George Bush. Greatest recruiter for the Democratic Party in history.

Jon Stewart. Greatest deliverer (not promiser) of HOPE in recent years.

George Lakoff. Cause of some of the sanity that has begun to enter politics in recent years, though mostly indirectly -- i.e., various people who read Lakoff have written influential stuff.

Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, though actually I think it's morely likely that the stuff they've written this decade will influence the NEXT decade.

[SpaceHamlet]

Eddie McOwskey

[detriplea]

1.Osama Bin laden

2. Osama Bin Laden

3. Him again over and over again till number 10. Honestly look at the world after 9/11. More love from the Government.

[mjr256]

For the BEST:

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bono, Richard Dawkins, Steve Jobs

For the WORST:

Osama bin Laden, Oprah, George W. Bush,

Dick Chaney, Carl Rove, gods, Jenny McCarthy, Rupert Murdock, The Pope

[detriplea]

Awesome list though I don't know why you included Rupert Murdoch on the worst list.

[Sam666gelber]

I'm just going to list people who have had a positive influence. That is, people who've had a positive influence on me, since I couldn't care less about the rest of you. Lewis Black George Carlin Eddie Izzard Mike Gravel Matt Stone/Trey Parker team (counts as one I believe) Hunter S Thompson Eamonn McCann Captain Sensible Stuart Murdoch/Stevie Jackson/The rest of Belle and Sebastian Reverend Billy Talon

[Sam666gelber]

If we were to talk most influential, our list would be getting very negative. If you want to talk negative influence look at two years, 2004 and 2009, take the Pres, vice pres, speaker, maj leader, and sec of state from both years, and put them in any order you feel like.

[1DRock37167]

dumbya, he fucked everything up

[womblefree]

ronald reagan an wife}indirectly margret thatcher} indirectly george bush senior} indirectly Big Billy Clinton} indirectly deregulation dubyas brother Allah The Jewish god? cant remember his name Rupert Murdoch bill gates alan Greenspan Tony Blair and his Voodoo man, mandy madelson Putin Rumsfeld stilt skin conwoman rice chavez dick head Cheney

[Tressco]

Rothschilds

Rockefellers

Warburgs

Lehmans

Lazards

Kuhns

Goldmans

Sachs

Greenspans

Bernankes

[mjdishere]

Heres 13 in no particular order Dick Cheney Bill O'reily Alex Jones The "terrorists" God Keith Olberman Mickey Mouse and the rest of Disney Mark Zuckerburg Rush Limbaugh Barack HUSSEIN Obama Michael Moore Hulliburton Hillary Clint

[creten69]

people you dont know create and change the world more than anyone understands,ex i showed the towel heads the capt door didnt work,hence 911 also i killed mj because i wrote a comment and he read it,walaa

[Zionismisnazism]

rothschild

[Jaysnipes]

I don't believe its possible for me to think of any people. Most of mines are actors or people who aren't really even famous, but have interesting lives.

[RadarKat73080]

George W Bush aka King George II

K G's brain aka Karl Rove

Dick Cheney aka Satan

bin Laden aka Satan's anus

Rupert Murdoch aka Mr. Burns

[ZoneofA]

Ten candidates in no particular order David Rockefeller Henry Kissinger Alan Greenspan Paul Volcker Timothy Geithner Henry Paulson Zbigniew Brzezinski John Negroponte Gorge Soros Dick Cheney

[btigtime2]

Osama bin Laden

G W Bush

Carl Rove

Tony "the Big Baby" Blair

Tricky Dicky Cheney

The little soldier Girl that stuck a dildo in the prisoners ass at Guantanamo.

Ron Paul

[newexperiment]

George Bush

Richard Dawkins

Noam Chomsky

Stefan Molyneux (the original voice to peacefully disband the U.S.A.)

Rupert Murdoch

Alan Greenspan

George Carlin

Ron Paul

[colmmernagh]

Has to be Sponge Bob, yeaaaahhhh !!

[AngryPirateProd]

1. Dubya

2. Obama

3. Hu Jintao

4. Vladamir Putin

5. Dick Cheney

6. Dalai Lama

7. Tony Blair

8. Osama bin Laden

9. Pratibha Patil

10. Jaques Chirac.

[panzermort]

1. CIA boss what an idea the guy came up with in the 0's it enables usa to live the way it always has.

2. Bush.

3.obama

4. pope john pal 2

5 i lost concentration

[ekb110]

Won't anyone credit Amy Goodman? If John Stewart, then at least have Amy on there!

[FFTAResponses]

I certainly WISH I could put Amy on this list, but I think this list is about people who are influential, not people we would like to be powerful.

[womblefree]

Amy Good man i wish, but jon stewart maybe

[FeelFreeToArgue]

1. Dick Cheney 2. Dr. James Hanson 3. Osama bin Laden 4. Roger Ailes 5. Rupert Murdoch 6. Hugo Chavez 7. Karl Rove 8. Rush Limbaugh 9. Matt Drudge 10. Paul Wolfowitz A depressing list, to be sure. But these are the trolls with their hands on the levers of power. Hanson is probably overly optimistic, but without a couple bright spots I'd blow my brains out. As to a name for the decade, how about either "The Delusional Decade?"

[FeelFreeToArgue]

or "The Era of American Overreach?"

[toeg1]

1. George Bush

2. Alan Greenspan

3. Tony Blair

4. Kofi Annan

5. Hu Jintao

6. Vladimir Putin

7. Hugo Chavez

8. Osama Ben Laden

9. Dick Cheney

10. Fidel Castro

[PersonalJesus348]

1. Gary Coleman

2. Jesus

3. The Frogs (band)

4. George W. Bush Jr.

5. Penis (Dick) Cheyney

6. Ronald Reagan

7. George Carlin

8. Keith Olberman

9. Wolf Blitzer

10. Allah

[FeelFreeToArgue]

Shit, I forgot all about Gary Coleman on my list.

"Whatchew talkin' about, Willis?!"

[ekb110]

wrong decade, though funny

[wfosborn4]

Ben Bernake or Henry Paulson or whatever Fed chairman from the last few years. Sarah Palin or Tina Fey helped Obama get elected...Sean Hannity, I believe started his big radio show in 2001, he has influenced opinions positive and negative.

[trichenosis]

1. Osama Bin Laden

2. William Kristol

3. Kurt Vonnegut

4. Dick Cheney

5. Stephen Colbert

6. John Stewart

7. Shepard Fairy

8. Ron Paul

9. Alex Jones

10. Mike Meyers

[TennesseeJed]

Dick Cheney deserves a spot as the engineer of the events in Manhattan that won his company a sweet contract with the Military Industrial Complex.

[EastSideHoffman]

Stuck in the Box Obama.

[EastSideHoffman]

Billy Mays - the only one worth a shit.

[KellerDweller82]

1: Osama Bin Laden

2: George W Bush

3: Cat Stephens

4:Barack Obama

5: Kim ill Jung 2nd

6: Benjamin Netanyahu

7: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (For being the best Marionette there is out there boy that man can dance to a tune)

8: Gordon Brown (For single handley f**king up)

9:Michael Jackson (Prince of Pop eternally)

10: Christian Bale (For proving that even if he is a male diva he can humble himself to an applogy and make it himself rather then through his PA)

[kevmo99]

The Sam Walton Family (Not 1 person but they might as well be) - #4, #5, #6, #7 richest Americans. They are the assholes who own the corporation that ship shitty plastic things from shitty factories in China, shut-down small business everywhere, bust up unions and provide little benefits for their workers and made everyone familiar with "greeter" as an actual job.

[kevmo99]

Al Gore - Conceded the highly contentious 2000 election to Bush, thus altering the fate of the decade completely. Made the rest of the world momentarily think that Americans understood and gave a fuck about climate change. Won an Oscar and a Nobel. His legislation brought us the world wide web - which I hear is quite big with the kids these days. A politician who embraces rather than runs from science.

[ffbittencourt]

Lula (brazilian president)

Rihanna

Obama

George W. Bush

[edAVP1138]

Saddam

George Bush

Dick Cheney

Ron Paul

Osama

Alan Greenspan

Donald Rumseld

Tony Blair

Steve Jobs

Ben Bernanke

[Geoshi]

George W. Bush

John Stewart

Barack Obama

Mark Zuckerberg

Tony Blair

Osama Bin Laddin

[crnogoracz]

The guys: - who came up with the idea of advertising - who came up with propaganda and/or indoctrination - who came up with the idea of profit - who came up with bribery - who came up with idea of loans - who came up with divide and conquer - who came up with racism - who came up with religion - who came up with the notion of Eve being worth just one male rib - who came up with top-ten lists, cause the 11th guy is just too much to think about, and thinking is a no-no nowadays.

[trumasamune]

-Francis Collins (director of Human Genome Project)

-Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla Motors, Paypal)

-W.

-Brittney Spears

-Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

-Trent Reznor (leading in digital music distribution movement)

-Richard Dawkins

-Obama

-Steve Jobs

-Jimmy Wales (or whoever was most important in starting Wikipedia)

[ArcticSlicer]

George W. Bush

Dick Cheney

Mir Hussein Mousavi

Barack Obama

Steve Jobs

Rush Limbaugh

Ben Bernanke

Alan Greenspan

Hank Paulson

Bill Gates

[GlasgowCelticBhoy]

PEOPLE WHO SHOULDN'T MAKE THE LIST

Michael Jackson (a good entertainer but just doesn't influence enough people - certainly not this decade)

Barack Obama (hasn't made enough of a difference yet)

Sports people. This includes Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Tiger Woods, etc. They entertain some people, and their achievements are a marvel to the human being, but they really don't influence many of us. Scientists should surpass anyone here, as they will influence our lives whether we know it or not

[GlasgowCelticBhoy]

BEST

Larry Page and Sergey Brin - cofounders of Google, completely changed the landscape of the internet, and placed some needed competition on Microsoft

Mark Zuckerberg - another who changed the internet with facebook, and changed the way we interact with each other

Richard Branson - great businessman, humanitarian, and forward thinking (space tourism anyone)

Bill Gates - say what you want about this guy... no one can really dispute that he is a great philanthropist!

[GlasgowCelticBhoy]

WORST

Bush - Made the world an extremely dangerous place

Osama - The excuse for Bush to make the world an extremely dangerous place, also doesn't exactly do any favours for world stability himself.

Pope Benedict XVI - for rejecting the use of condoms and discrimination against homosexuals. A very dangerous person, but I wouldn't expect any less from a religious leader.

Kim Jong-il - plump fanboy who unfortunately is in control of a country with nuclear and long-ranged missile ambitions.

[Fultron]

Dick Cheney George Bush jr. Osama Bin Laden Barack Obama Rupert Murdoch Bernie Madoff Steve Jobs Donald Rumseld Condoleza Rice Hu Jintao it could easily be argued my list is all for the worse...

[bruce3635]

Alex Jones, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Osama Bin Ladden, George W.Bush, Obama

[marniespeaks]

George Bush& Dick Cheney

Tony Blair

Ralph Nader & Ron Paul

Raymond Kurzweil

Ben Bernanke

Hank Paulson

Arianna Huffington

Jon Stewart

Rush Limbaugh

Christopher Hitchens

[devtamagi]

Clearly and sadly George W Bush

[rgart7575]

Osama Bin Laden

Sadly no one else comes to mind besides my parents

[kjgear]

Mary Jane

[b1oodseek]

John Carmack

Bill Gates

[skotty1992]

Davis Fleetwood, Sam Webb

[Keszler]

Vice President Dick Cheney

Osama Bin Ladden

President Obama