--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42746bee59289d52/69889025196cf4a77103b4ae/facebook-main-package.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The 100 Most Influential People 2016 ## Pioneers "I think of it as, 'What’s the thing that’s not in the world that should be in the world?'" *  [Lin-Manuel Miranda](/collections/2016-time-100/4299633/lin-manuel-miranda-2016-time-100/) byJ.J. Abrams *  [Kip Thorne](/collections/2016-time-100/4299639/kip-thorne-2016-time-100/) byChristopher Nolan *  [Kathy Niakan](/collections/2016-time-100/4301356/kathy-niakan-2016-time-100/) byJennifer Doudna *  [Gina Rodriguez](/collections/2016-time-100/4302233/gina-rodriguez-2016-time-100/) byRita Moreno *  [Ibtihaj Muhammad](/collections/2016-time-100/4301357/ibtihaj-muhammad-2016-time-100/) byKeith Ellison *  [Raj Panjabi](/collections/2016-time-100/4302208/raj-panjabi-2016-time-100/) byBill Clinton *  [Alan Stern](/collections/2016-time-100/4302228/alan-stern-2016-time-100/) byEd Stone *  [Christiana Figueres](/collections/2016-time-100/4299640/christiana-figueres-2016-time-100/) byRobert Redford *  [Marc Edwards and Mona Hanna-Attisha](/collections/2016-time-100/4301337/marc-edwards-and-mona-hanna-attisha-2016-time-100/) byRachel Maddow *  [Mussie Zerai](/collections/2016-time-100/4302419/mussie-zerai-2016-time-100/) byAi Weiwei *  [Lee Berger](/collections/2016-time-100/4302420/lee-berger-2016-time-100/) byJeffrey Kluger *  [Nadia Murad](/collections/2016-time-100/4302382/nadia-murad-2016-time-100/) byEve Ensler *  [Dan Carder](/collections/2016-time-100/4302390/dan-carder-2016-time-100/) byRalph Nader *  [Hope Jahren](/collections/2016-time-100/4301342/hope-jahren-2016-time-100/) bySiobhan O’Connor *  [Felix Kjellberg (a.k.a. PewDiePie)](/collections/2016-time-100/4302406/felix-kjellberg-pewdiepie-2016-time-100/) byTrey Parker *  [Roy Choi](/collections/2016-time-100/4301775/roy-choi-2016-time-100/) byAnthony Bourdain *  [Sunita Narain](/collections/2016-time-100/4299642/sunita-narain-2016-time-100/) byAmitav Ghosh *  [Palmer Luckey](/collections/2016-time-100/4299643/palmer-luckey-2016-time-100/) byRidley Scott * [Laura Esserman and Shelley Hwang](/collections/2016-time-100/4299646/laura-esserman-and-shelley-hwang-2016-time-100/) byMelissa Etheridge *  [Caitlyn Jenner](/collections/2016-time-100/4301820/caitlyn-jenner-2016-time-100/) byWayne Maines *  [Aziz Ansari](/collections/2016-time-100/4301822/aziz-ansari-2016-time-100/) byIlana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson ## Titans "The only way to achieve our full potential is to channel the talents, ideas and contributions of ev *  [Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg](/collections/2016-time-100/4301268/priscilla-chan-mark-zuckerberg-2016-time-100/) byBill and Melinda Gates *  [Stephen Curry](/collections/2016-time-100/4301269/stephen-curry-2016-time-100/) byMisty Copeland *  [Eli Broad](/collections/2016-time-100/4301267/eli-broad-2016-time-100/) byMichael Bloomberg *  [Kathleen Kennedy](/collections/2016-time-100/4301271/kathleen-kennedy-2016-time-100/) byTony Kushner *  [Wang Jianlin](/collections/2016-time-100/4301265/wang-jianlin-2016-time-100/) byHannah Beech *  [Sundar Pichai](/collections/2016-time-100/4301266/sundar-pichai-2016-time-100/) byBill Nye *  [Pope Francis](/collections/2016-time-100/4301270/pope-francis-2016-time-100/) byJoe Biden *  [Dwayne Johnson](/collections/2016-time-100/4299718/dwayne-johnson-2016-time-100/) byPeter Berg *  [Katie Ledecky](/collections/2016-time-100/4299717/katie-ledecky-2016-time-100/) byJanet Evans *  [Mohammed bin Nayef](/collections/2016-time-100/4299720/mohammed-bin-nayef-2016-time-100/) byLeon E. Panetta *  [Yuri Milner](/collections/2016-time-100/4300003/yuri-milner-2016-time-100/) byStephen Hawking *  [Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal](/collections/2016-time-100/4300001/binny-bansal-and-sachin-bansal-2016-time-100/) byLev Grossman *  [Tim Cook](/collections/2016-time-100/4299721/tim-cook-2016-time-100/) byBob Iger ## Artists "The girl next door’s face has changed. She does not come from a particular place ... She can be any *  [Priyanka Chopra](/collections/2016-time-100/4299686/priyanka-chopra-2016-time-100/) byDwayne Johnson *  [Yayoi Kusama](/collections/2016-time-100/4299687/yayoi-kusama-2016-time-100/) byMarc Jacobs *  [Charlize Theron](/collections/2016-time-100/4299681/charlize-theron-2016-time-100/) byBlake Mycoskie *  [Mark Rylance](/collections/2016-time-100/4299682/mark-rylance-2016-time-100/) bySteven Spielberg *  [Julia Louis-Dreyfus](/collections/2016-time-100/4299993/julia-louis-dreyfus-2016-time-100/) byLena Dunham *  [Guo Pei](/collections/2016-time-100/4299994/guo-pei-2016-time-100/) byWendi Murdoch *  [Ta-Nehisi Coates](/collections/2016-time-100/4301246/ta-nehisi-coates-2016-time-100/) byBryan Stevenson *  [Oscar Isaac](/collections/2016-time-100/4301247/oscar-isaac-2016-time-100/) byPaul Haggis *  [Bjarke Ingels](/collections/2016-time-100/4301248/bjarke-ingels-2016-time-100/) byRem Koolhaas *  [Idris Elba](/collections/2016-time-100/4299764/idris-elba-2016-time-100/) byDavid Simon *  [Ariana Grande](/collections/2016-time-100/4299766/ariana-grande-2016-time-100/) byJason Robert Brown *  [Ryan Coogler](/collections/2016-time-100/4299688/ryan-coogler-2016-time-100/) byTa-Nehisi Coates *  [Riccardo Tisci](/collections/2016-time-100/4299843/riccardo-tisci-2016-time-100/) byDonatella Versace *  [Elena Ferrante](/collections/2016-time-100/4299844/elena-ferrante-2016-time-100/) byLauren Groff *  [Melissa McCarthy](/collections/2016-time-100/4299845/melissa-mccarthy-2016-time-100/) byPaul Feig *  [Taraji P. Henson](/collections/2016-time-100/4301243/taraji-p-henson-2016-time-100/) byLee Daniels The 100 Most Influential People 2016 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/"},"headline":"The 100 Most Influential People 2016","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/","datePublished":"2026-07-21T07:07:52.523Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:07:51.928Z","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156}},"mainEntity":{"@type":"ItemList","numberOfItems":96,"itemListOrder":"Descending"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42746bee59289d52/69889025196cf4a77103b4ae/facebook-main-package.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/","name":"The 100 Most Influential People 2016"}}]}] ```