In 2008, TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
In 2010, Time listed Amartya Sen (1998) among the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Today, Time magazine released its annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
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Mr Carney was once listed by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in the world.
Chase has been named one of the 10 most influential people in healthIT (and the only vendor in the top 50).
Incredibly, Time magazine put "Glee" star Chris Colfer in its 2011 listing of the 100 most influential people in the world.
He was listed as one of Time Magazine's most influential people in 2006 and has won a series of awards for his work.
Danny Boyle has moved up to third place on this year's Stage 100, a list of the UK's most influential people in performing arts.
The programme hears from Tom Steifel-Kristensen, Creative Director of Kopenhagen Fur who has been cited as one of the most influential people in fashion.
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She is also executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and was named one of Time magazine's Most Influential People in the World.
These institutions reach millions of New Yorkers every day, due in no small part to the generosity of many of the city's most influential people.
Some of the most influential people in city government most notably Raymond Kelly, the police commissioner work out of private offices at agency headquarters separate from City Hall.
Gentology is a celebrity curated commerce site just for guys, bringing together the products that have been handpicked by some of the most influential people in sports and entertainment.
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But it is his blog that has propelled him to celebrity status in China and earned him the accolade as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2009.
Relatives, patients, local health bosses, along with politicians and some of the most influential people in the NHS were all called to the Civic Centre in Stafford to give evidence.
Baltimore based social marketing platform SocialToaster recently conducted a survey of 3, 000 social media experts and industry professionals, asking them to rank the most influential people online in 2012.
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As it is, the young soldier accused of leaking millions of pages of documents to WikiLeaks has come to be seen as one of the most influential people in the world.
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By involving the most influential people in the industry in the ideation process and making them feel like they have ownership, companies will dramatically increase the success probability for their new product.
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He is considered one of the most influential people in the state of North Carolina over the past half century and has long been a major advocate for reform in intercollegiate athletics.
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"Han Feng has a kind of all-around success in design that others don't, and that makes her one of the most influential people out there, " says friend and fashion icon Yue-Sai Kan of Shanghai.
The tensions bubbled up into view in early October when Huffington was named No. 1 on the Silicon Alley 100, a listing of the most influential people in the New York tech scene.
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Time Magazine has twice named her one of the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World, the Globe named her Bostonian of the Year, and the National Law Journal named her one of the Most Influential Lawyers of the Decade.
Lady Gaga is one of the best-selling music artists of all time: 23 million albums and 64 million singles sold worldwide, Five Grammy Awards, 13 MTV Video Music Awards, Billboard magazine's Artists of the Year, Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, No. 1 on Billboard's list of top moneymakers, and Forbes title of the world's most powerful celebrity... the list goes on.
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If it can happen to one of the richest, and most influential and powerful people in the world, surely we are not immune.
You all are some of the most creative, innovative, influential people not just in this city, but in the entire country.
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The idea is to discover those people who are most influential about social media.
Only 19% of people consider Parliament one of the three most influential institutions in their life, down from 30% in 2004, and the importance of the prime minister is rated even lower.
Most people today take their disputes to local councils and influential individuals.
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" has been named one of the most influential management books by several organizations, including Time and Forbes magazines.
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