--- title: Bindi Irwin and Robert Irwin Is on the 2019 TIME 100 Next List description: Find out why Bindi Irwin and Robert Irwin made the 2019 TIME 100 Next list. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time-100-next-2019/5718903/bindi-irwin-robert-irwin/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-11-12T22:05:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:33:21.172Z og:title: Bindi Irwin and Robert Irwin Is on the 2019 TIME 100 Next List og:description: Find out why Bindi and Robert Irwin are on this year’s TIME 100 Next list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time-100-next-2019/5718903/bindi-irwin-robert-irwin/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1b8e7646da6535e/698a05aa457a52dbd1d63134/bindi-irwin-robert-irwin-time-100-next-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bindi Irwin and Robert Irwin Is on the 2019 TIME 100 Next List og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bindi Irwin and Robert Irwin Is on the 2019 TIME 100 Next List twitter:description: Find out why Bindi and Robert Irwin are on this year’s TIME 100 Next list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1b8e7646da6535e/698a05aa457a52dbd1d63134/bindi-irwin-robert-irwin-time-100-next-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 12, 2019 # Bindi Irwin and Robert Irwin by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—Getty Images Bindi and Robert Irwin were made famous by tragedy. Their father, the irrepressible conservationist Steve Irwin, died in 2006 when a stingray pierced his heart. The siblings—who between them have 4.4 million Instagram followers—have proselytized to a whole new generation about the protection and preservation of wildlife. Like their dad, they’re unsnobby. They use social media, TV dancing, animal visits on late-night comedy shows and, since 2018, a new reality-TV series about their lives to get people to do what scientists often can’t: care about the fate of the creatures with whom we share the planet. _—Belinda Luscombe_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time-100-next-2019/5718903/bindi-irwin-robert-irwin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time-100-next-2019/5718903/bindi-irwin-robert-irwin/"},"headline":"Bindi Irwin and Robert Irwin","datePublished":"2019-11-12T22:05:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:33:21.172Z","description":"Find out why Bindi Irwin and Robert Irwin made the 2019 TIME 100 Next list.","url":"https://time.com/collections/time-100-next-2019/5718903/bindi-irwin-robert-irwin/","keywords":["TIME100NEXT19"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1b8e7646da6535e/698a05aa457a52dbd1d63134/bindi-irwin-robert-irwin-time-100-next-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1b8e7646da6535e/698a05aa457a52dbd1d63134/bindi-irwin-robert-irwin-time-100-next-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"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":"https://time.com/collections/time-100-next-2019/5718903/bindi-irwin-robert-irwin/","name":"Bindi Irwin and Robert Irwin"}}]}] ```