New Statesman - 50 People who matter 2010

[Creder]

Entries compiled by Caroline Crampton, Ollie Cussen, George Eaton, Sophie Elmhirst, Mehdi Hasan, James Macintyre, Patrick Osgood, Nick Petrie, Duncan Robinson, Samira Shackle and Daniel Trilling.

The New Statesman 50 People Who Matter 2010 are:

Previous year's ranking in brackets, with (-) denoting a new entry.

1. (2) Rupert Murdoch
2. (1) Barack Obama
3. (-) Mahmoud Ahmedinijad
4. (10) Xi Jinping
5. (-) Steve Jobs
6. (26) Pope Benedict XVI
7. (24) Ashfaq Kayani
8. (12) Angela Merkel
9. (4) Eric Schmidt, Larry Page & Sergey Brin
10. (44) Hugo Chavez
11. (-) Binyamin Netanyahu
12. (12) David Petraeus
13. (-) Sarah Palin
14. (-) Craig Venter
15. (-) David Cameron
16. (13) Bill Gates
17. (-) Felipe Calderon
18. (-) Khaled Meshal
19. (25) Warren Buffett
20. (7) Vladimir Putin
21. (8) Osama bin Laden
22. (-) Angelina Jolie
23. (-) Julian Assange
24. (-) Lloyd Blankfein
25. (-) Hillary Clinton
26. (-) Mark Zuckerberg
27. (-) Ratan Tata
28. (-) Stephenie Meyer
29. (31) Sonia Gandhi
30. (-) James Cameron
31. (28) Ingvar Kamprad
32. (-) Stephen McIntyre
33. (-) Moqtada al-Sadr
34. (-) Aung San Suu Kyi
35. (-) Margaret Chan
36. (-) Jacob Zuma
37. (-) Bob Diamond
38. (35) Oprah Winfrey
39. (-) Paul Krugman
40. (36) Mohammed Yunus
41. (34) Simon Cowell
42. (-) Zaha Hadid
43. (22) Amartya Sen
44. (-) Lady Gaga
45. (6) Malalai Joya
46. (-) John Lasseter
47. (-) Julia Gillard
48. (-) Han Han
49. (14) Paul Kagame
50. (-) Caster Semenya

 

[Creder]

Its amazing the man hasn't even given out a single interview..The single most quality that i admire the most in this man is his absolute professionalism

 

[ultimateracer267]

why my name is not there..??

 

[r3alist]

this is not actually a good thing - please think!

 

[think]

these lists are useless. lady gaga? WTF?

 

[Abhishek_]

Angelina Jolie at 22.
nuff said

 

[Capt.Popeye]

The New Statesman 50 People Who Matter 2010 are:
1. (2) Rupert Murdoch
2.
..................... so on upto
50. (-) Caster Semenya

Now; for example, who does No.50 matter to?
And who does this list matter to? Most importantly, how do they matter?
Looking at the patchwork composition of the list, does it even matter?