Time Magazine on 20 April 2017 released the annual list of 100 most influential people of 2017.
This year's list includes the names of Presidents and Prime Ministers, CEOs and celebrities for the power of their inventions, the scale of their ambitions, the genius of their solutions to problems that could not be solved before.
This year, only two Indians to feature on the list- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
Highlights of the 100 Most Influential People of 2017
• Oscar winner Viola Davis, Grammy winner John Legend, actor Riz Ahmed, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and philanthropist Melinda Gates graced the five different covers of this year’s list of 100 most influential people.
• US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Theresa May featured on the new list of 100 most influential people by the magazine.
• The list includes active opponents not only US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un but also the Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte and his nemesis Senator Leila de Lima.
• There are several people on the list whose influence is the subject of heated debate, from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to FBI Director James Comey to White House adviser Stephen Bannon.
• PM Narendra Modi featured on the list as a political leader. He is described as a maestro of the art of political seduction, playing on the existential fears and cultural insecurities of people facing downward or blocked mobility.
• Another Indian Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Paytm founder, also featured on the list. His venture Paytm witnessed a huge growth by the end of 2016 with 177 million users, compared with 122 million at the beginning of the year.
List of 100 Most Influential People of 2017
| Pioneers | Artists | Leaders | Titans | Icons |
| Samantha Bee | Emma Stone | Theresa May | Janet Yellen | Simone Biles |
| Chance the Rapper
| Colson Whitehead | Narendra Modi | LeBron James | Ashley Graham |
| Constance Wu | Ed Sheeran | Chuck Schumer | Daniel Ek | Cindy Sherman |
| Gavin Grimm | Alicia Keys | Donald Trump | Bernard J. Tyson | John Lewis |
| Kirsten Green | Ryan Reynolds | Elizabeth Warren | Evan Spiegel | Margaret Atwood |
| Bob Ferguson | Donald Glover | Julian Assange | George Church | Colin Kaepernick |
| Ivanka Trump | Leslie Jones | James Comey | Jean Liu | Jeanette Vizguerra |
| Demis Hassabis | Ben Platt | Kim Jong Un | Tom Brady | Neymar |
| Barbara Lynch | Ava DuVernay | Reince Priebus | James Allison | RuPaul |
| Hamdi Ulukaya | Barry Jenkins | Xi Jinping | Rebekah Mercer | Raf Simons |
| Jared Kushner | Margot Robbie | Rodrigo Duterte | Jason Blum | Biram Dah Abeid |
| Celina Turchi | Sarah Paulson | Stephen Bannon | Jeff Bezos | Leila de Lima |
| Jordan Peele | James Corden | Theo Epstein | Vijay Shekhar Sharma | David Adjaye |
| Glenda Gray | John Legend | Tom Perez | Margrethe Vestager | Gretchen Carlson |
| Yuriko Koike | Alessandro Michele | Vladimir Putin |
| Fatou Bensouda |
| Conor McGregor | Kerry James Marshall | Wang Qishan |
| Thelma Aldana |
| Riz Ahmed | Demi Lovato | Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
| Fan Bingbing |
| Guus Velders |
| Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Viola Davis |
| Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour |
| Pope Francis |
| Raed Saleh |
| Natalie Batalha, Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Michaël Gillon |
| General James Mattis |
| Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista |
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| King Maha Vajiralongkorn |
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| Juan Manuel Santos |
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| Major General Qasem Soleimani |
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| Melinda Gates |
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