Rihanna, Adele, Raphael Saadiq & Tim Tebow Among Time's Most Influential People

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» by Kazeem Famuyide (@RealLifeKaz) April 18, 2012, 12:17pm

Time Magazine released their list of the most influential people in the world today and among those who made the list were Rihanna, Adele, Jeremy Lin, Raphael Saadiq, Viola Davis & Tim Tebow. Keeping with tradition, each of the forwards for these people of interest were written by other celebrities. Rihanna's article for example was penned by Stella McCartney, daughter of The Beatles' Paul McCartney. goes out of her way to support the people she believes in. "She is one of the few people I know in that world of fame and celebrity who aren't all about themselves," she says about the Barbadian beauty. " She'll give a real part of herself to an ordinary person she may meet, and that's rare."

New York Jets QB, Tim Tebow, had his article written by fellow influential person, Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks. "He realizes what he has been blessed with and seeks to help those who are worse off," says Lin. "As athletes, we pour our hearts into winning games. Tim is a reminder that life is about much more than that."

Check the full list below and to read all of the articles click here.

 

• Jeremy Lin
• Christian Marclay
• Viola Davis
• Salman Khan
• Tim Tebow
• E.L. James
• Louis CK
• Rihanna
• Marco Rubio
• Ali Ferzat
• René Redzepi
• Kristen Wiig
• Anthony Kennedy
• Novak Djokovic
• Ben Rattray
• Jessica Chastain
• Yani Tseng
• Raphael Saadiq
• Elinor Ostrom
• Samira Ibrahim
• José Andrés
• Ann Patchett
• Dulce Matuz
• Henrik Schärfe
• Freeman Hrabowski
• Maryam Durani
• Manal al-Sharif
• Anjali Gopalan
• Rached Ghannouchi
• Barbara Van Dahlen
• Ron Fouchier
• Donald Sadoway
• Hans Rosling
• Asghar Farhadi
• Sarah Burton
• Anonymous
• Pete Cashmore
• Cami Anderson
• Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu
• Ai-jen Poo
• Marc Andreessen
• Preet Bharara
• Robert Grant
• Andrew Lo
• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
• Alexei Navalny
• Ray Dalio
• Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani
• Chelsea Handler
• Harvey Weinstein
• Chen Lihua
• Warren Buffett
• Alice Walton
• Harold Hamm
• Sheryl Sandberg
• Sara Blakely
• Eike Batista
• Tim Cook
• Daniel Ek
• Virginia Rometty
• Barack Obama
• Goodluck Jonathan
• Xi Jinping
• Fatou Bensouda
• Christine Lagarde
• Mario Draghi
• U Thein Sein
• Ayatullah Ali Khamenei
• Mitt Romney
• Juan Manuel Santos
• Timothy Dolan
• Portia Simpson Miller
• Mario Monti
• Wang Yang
• Maria das Graças Silva Foster
• Andrew Cuomo
• Iftikhar Chaudhry
• Mamata Banerjee
• Walter Isaacson
• Ron Paul
• Benjamin Netanyahu
• Dilma Rousseff
• Erik Martin
• Cecile Richards
• Angela Merkel
• Lionel Messi
• Tilda Swinton
• Hillary Clinton
• Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Pippa Middleton
• Adele
• Matt Lauer
• Oscar Pistorius
• Claire Danes
• Stephen Colbert

Rogues

• Kim Jong Un
• Mullah Mohammed Omar and Sheik Moktar Ali Zubeyr
• Bashar Assad

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