U.S. President
Barack Obama, the first black president, proved to millions this year that he is either trying his best to lead the nation during the worst ...
Reality TV Star
The success of the MTV reality show Jersey Shore was a cultural phenomenon that could not be ignored in 2010, and no one was more ...
Whistleblower
Although Julian Assange sparked a media firestorm when he revealed thousands of pages of Pentagon reports proving that the U.S. military concealed more than ...
Founder of Facebook
No one made as large an impact on how we interact in 2010 as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who you really gotta hand it to ...
Actor
In one of the biggest entertainment scandals of the year, Mel Gibson, more than a decade after the fact, still has not received the critical ...
Arizona Governor
This April, when she signed into law Arizona's tough new anti-immigration policy, Gov. Jan Brewer bravely showed the nation that if the federal government ...
Businessman
Emulating the gallantry, adaptability, and dedication to duty displayed by English gentlemen in such shining moments as the Imperial occupation of India and adventurism in ...
Leader of India
As the first Sikh elected to India's highest office, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has helped change the face of…okay, just so we don ...
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
For his tireless crusade against single-party rule, writer, activist, and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, making it pretty tough ...
Italian Politician
"Come in," Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said as I was ushered by an assistant into his study. "I just opened this bottle of wine. Won ...
Filmmaker
"I'm extremely proud of her Oscar," James Cameron said of his former wife.
Consumer Phenomenon
It would be impossible to list the most influential people of 2010 without recognizing the individual who made the biggest splash in technology this year ...
Professional Soccer Player
In a year when so much went wrong for America, one would be hard-pressed to find a more tragic event than the beloved U.S ...
Pastor
With the gaze of the whole world fixed on his small Gainesville, FL–based Dove World Outreach Center this Sept. 11, Pastor Terry Jones shocked ...
Supreme Court Justice
When she became the fourth woman to join the highest court in the land last August, it was a significant moment in American history. But ...
Haitian President
For most countries, a Category 2 hurricane, a devastating earthquake, and a massive cholera outbreak in the same year would cause its people—and its ...
Icelandic Ogress
No one had as much effect on air travel in 2010 as the horrifying Icelandic mountain ogress Grýla, who this spring launched a plume ...
Teenage Adventurer
Few will be able to forget when 16-year-old California native Abby Sunderland set out this year to become the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the ...
Professional Basketball Player
Perhaps the biggest name in sports this year was basketball phenomenon LeBron James, who proved what an amazing friend he is this summer by signing ...
