The World's 50 Greatest Leaders
Some were already extraordinary achievers in business, government, philanthropy, athletics, and the arts. Others were ordinary citizens. In truly unprecedented times, each stepped up to make the world better, and inspired others to do the same. Read more about our eighth annual list here.
- 1 Jacinda Ardern
- 2 mRNA Pioneers
- 3 Dan Schulman
- 4 Dr. John Nkengasong
- 5 NBA Rescuers
- 6 Jessica Tan
- 7 Justin Welby
- 8 Stacey Abrams
- 9 Reshorna Fitzpatrick
- 10 Adar Poonawalla
- 11 Dolly Parton
- 12 Mike Sommers and Vicki Hollub
- 13 Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan
- 14 Dr. Seth Berkley
- 15 Dr. Aparna Hegde
- 16 Willie Ray Fairley
- 17 Nury Turkel
- 18 Kate Bingham
- 19 MacKenzie Scott
- 20 Francis X. Suarez
- 21 Xie Zhenhua
- 22 Tom Brady
- 23 Dr. Ala Stanford
- 24 Timnit Gebru
- 25 Tim Scott
- 26 C. C. Wei
- 27 Craig Jelinek
- 28 Sara Blazevic and Varshini Prakash
- 29 Diana Berrent
- 30 Dr. Ching-Hon Pui
- 31 Malala Yousafzai
- 32 Adena Friedman
- 33 Michael Regan
- 34 C. Nicole Mason
- 35 Reginald Dwayne Betts
- 36 Kenneth Chenault
- 37 Megan Rapinoe
- 38 Eugene Goodman
- 39 Ben and Erin Napier
- 40 Fawzia Koofi
- 41 Nathália Rodrigues
- 42 Guy Fieri
- 43 Aurora James
- 44 Timothy Renick
- 45 Epidemiologists of Social Media
- 46 Naomi Osaka
- 47 Cătălin Tolontan
- 48 Strive Masiyiwa
- 49 Demis Hassabis
- 50 Ashish Jha
