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How We Chose the 2025 TIME100

Here are the people who we believe most changed the stories that defined the past year.

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Alex Karp

As Palantir, the data-analytics giant that works closely with U.S. armed forces and intelligence agencies, has grown in value on the stock market, its chief executive, Alex Karp, has become the embodiment of a new...

By Nikhil Kumar

Russell Vought

When Donald Trump took office in January, he was armed with a weapon none of his predecessors had enjoyed: a shadow government in waiting, ready to turn his ideas into policy. The man who built...

By Eric Cortellessa

Donald Trump

No other modern President has as forcefully grabbed control of the U.S. government as Donald Trump. Within weeks of moving back into the White House, he fired prosecutors and inspectors general who might check his...

By Brian Bennett

Ismahane Elouafi

Ismahane Elouafi holds the keys to feeding our future. At a time when more people around the world are struggling to put food on the table for their families, CGIAR—the agricultural research organization she runs—is...

Jonathan Greenblatt

Protecting the Jewish people has never been an easy job. But when threats escalated, Jonathan Greenblatt transformed the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) into an indispensable shield. In 2024 alone, the ADL briefed 17,000 law-­enforcement officers, analyzed...

Bonnie Y Chan

Bonnie Y Chan doesn’t believe a woman must be as aggressive and overbearing as some men to succeed in a male-­dominated world. As co-COO of the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing (HKEX) during the pandemic,...

By Charlie Campbell

Fatou Baldeh

Last year, Gambia’s parliament considered a bill that would have repealed the country’s ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). Widely recognized as a human-rights violation, FGM has been illegal in Gambia since 2015, but experts...

By Chantelle Lee

Howard Lutnick

A year ago, Howard Lutnick was a Wall Street power player. Running the financial-services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, he amassed an estimated net worth of more than $2 billion. Now he’s at the center of Donald...

By Eric Cortellessa

Duma Boko

Few predicted the seismic election upset that made Duma Boko President of Botswana. Last October, the 55-year-old Harvard-trained lawyer ousted the party that had ruled the nation of 2.5 million people since its independence from...

By Vivienne Walt

J.D. Vance

Normally, Vice Presidents fade into obscurity after taking office. Not so for J.D. Vance, whose profile and remit have grown since he and Donald Trump won last November’s election. Vance was central to overcoming resistance...

By Massimo Calabresi

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has raised questions about vaccine safety. Now, as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kennedy oversees the government’s key health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and...

By Alice Park

Elon Musk

The meteoric rise of Elon Musk has been punctuated by bouts of frenetic energy, which usually come over him when he takes on a new challenge. Musk’s biographer, former TIME editor Walter Isaacson, has described...

By Simon Shuster

Julie Burkhart

Julie Burkhart has been fighting for decades to provide abortions in some of the most rural and conservative areas of the U.S. After Wyoming banned abortion in 2022, she joined other advocates to challenge the...

By Charlotte Alter

Liang Wenfeng

It took a while for Silicon Valley to comprehend exactly what Liang Wenfeng had achieved. But soon markets were reeling, U.S. tech dominance was being openly questioned, and Liang had been propelled to global renown....

By Charlie Campbell

Tomas Cihlar and Wesley Sundquist: 2025 TIME100

Find out why Tomas Cihlar and Wesley Sundquist are one of the 100 most influential people of 2025.

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