--- description: He beat out pop star CL of the girl group 2NE1 title: Vladimir Putin Wins TIME 100 Reader's Poll image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7248ee9e2882b3dc/6987eadb06f2c12328337b30/vladimir-putin.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [TIME 100](/tag/time-100/) ## TIME 100 Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Vladimir Putin Wins TIME 100 Reader's Poll  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 13, 2015 8:30 PM CUT  Russian president Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the prime minister of Greece at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 8, 2015. Russian president Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the prime minister of Greece at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 8, 2015.Metzel Mikhail—Itar-Tass/Corbis  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 13, 2015 8:30 PM CUT Russian President Vladimir Putin is the winner of this year’s TIME 100 [reader’s poll](http://time.com/3747734/time-100-poll/ "undefined"). Putin edged out rapper-singer CL (of the South Korean girl-group 2NE1) to claim the number one spot with 6.95% of the votes in the final tally. Pop stars Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Taylor Swift rounded out the top five with 2.6%, 1.9% and 1.8% of the votes, respectively. The TIME 100 is an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, spanning politics, entertainment, business, technology, science, religion and other fields. Chosen by the editors of TIME, this year’s list will be unveiled April 16\. Voting for the reader’s poll closed April 10. Besides Putin, the only non-entertainers to crack the top 10 were the Dalai Lama (1.7%), Malala Yousafzai (1.6%) and Pope Francis. (1.5%). Barack and Michelle Obama sat just outside the top 10 with 1.4% and 1.2% of the votes, respectively. More than half of the votes — 57.38% — were cast within the United States. Canada and the United Kingdom followed with 5.54% and 4.55% respectively. _Read next:_ [_Meet the Pro-Russian ‘Partisans’ Waging a Bombing Campaign in Ukraine_](http://time.com/3768762/pro-russian-partisans-ukraine/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3820069/time-100-readers-poll-results/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3820069/time-100-readers-poll-results/"},"headline":"Vladimir Putin Wins TIME 100 Reader's Poll","datePublished":"2015-04-13T20:30:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:15:09.951Z","description":"He beat out pop star CL of the girl group 2NE1","url":"https://time.com/3820069/time-100-readers-poll-results/","keywords":["TIME 100","Vladimir Putin","TIME 100"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7248ee9e2882b3dc/6987eadb06f2c12328337b30/vladimir-putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7248ee9e2882b3dc/6987eadb06f2c12328337b30/vladimir-putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Russian president Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the prime minister of Greece at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 8, 2015.","caption":"Russian president Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the prime minister of Greece at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 8, 2015.","creditText":"Metzel Mikhail—Itar-Tass/Corbis","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-100/","name":"TIME 100"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3820069/time-100-readers-poll-results/","name":"Vladimir Putin Wins TIME 100 Reader's Poll"}}]}] ```