List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2005
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Leaders and revolutionaries
- Mahmoud Abbas – new President of the Palestinian Authority
- Gordon Brown – British Chancellor of the Exchequer
- George W. Bush — President of the United States
- Hugo Chávez – President of Venezuela
- Chen Shui-bian – President of the Republic of China; leader of Taiwan.
- Bill Clinton — former President of the United States
- Bill Frist – United States Senate majority leader
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali – member of the Dutch Tweede Kamer
- John Howard – Prime Minister of Australia
- Hu Jintao — president of the People's Republic of China.
- Kim Jong Il — leader of North Korea.
- Mark Malloch Brown – Chief of Staff to Kofi Annan
- Thabo Mbeki- President of South Africa
- Barack Obama – United States Senator
- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI)
- Condoleezza Rice — former United States National Security Advisor and now Secretary of State
- Donald Rumsfeld – United States Secretary of Defense
- Ariel Sharon – Prime Minister of Israel
- Manmohan Singh – Prime Minister of India
- Ali Husaini Sistani — Iraqi Muslim leader.
- Javier Solana — High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union (EU) and the Western European Union (WEU).
- Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi — Islamic terrorist, extremist.
Artists and entertainers
- Clint Eastwood
- Michael Moore
- Hilary Swank
- Quentin Tarantino
- Dan Brown
- Dave Eggers
- Marc Cherry
- John Elderfield
- Kanye West
- Jon Stewart
- Alicia Keys
- Jamie Foxx
- Johnny Depp
- Art Spiegelman
- The Halo Team
- Ann Coulter
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Ziyi Zhang
- Juanes
- Miuccia Prada
- Marc Newson
- Santiago Calatrava
- Alice Munro
- Cornelia Funke
- Billy Joe Armstrong
Builders and titans
- Steve Jobs
- The Google Guys
- Lee Scott
- Meg Whitman
- Martha Stewart
- Craig Newmark
- Jay-Z
- Amy Domini
- Reed Hastings
- Bram Cohen
- Martin Sorrell
- John Bond
- Howard Stringer
- Katsuaki Watanabe
- Noël Forgeard
- Anne Lauvergeon
- Ren Zhengfei
- Lee Kun Hee
- Roman Abramovich
- The BlackBerry Guys
- Rupert Murdoch
Scientists and thinkers
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Robert Klein
- Andrew Weil
- Burt Rutan
- Karl Rove
- Rick Warren
- Brian Atwater
- Mitchell Baker
- Timothy Garton Ash
- Natan Sharansky
- Abdolkarim Soroush
- Peter Singer
- Richard Pound
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Larry Summers
Heroes and icons
- Bill Gates
- Oprah Winfrey
- LeBron James
- Eliot Spitzer
- Melissa Etheridge
- The Dalai Lama
- Nelson Mandela
- Viktor Yushchenko
- Dina Astita
- Hania Mufti
- Wangari Maathai
- Mary Robinson
- Lubna Olayan
- Ellen MacArthur
- John Stott
- Michael Schumacher
- Stephen Lewis
See also
- Time Magazine
- Person of the Year
- List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century
- List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004