20 top powerful personalities of the world.
79Hillary
Hillary Clinton, the 20th position.
Hillary Clinton has been ranked at the end of the list.
She is now Secretary of
State, United States of America. She is wife of x-president of USA Mr. Bill Clinton.
What Forbes says: Former first lady and the US senator is 'now America's most popular politician, with favorability rating nine percentage points higher than Obama's'.
Nicolas
Nicolas Sarkozy at 19th rank.
Nicolas Sarkozy
He is now President of France. He has also become famous for his love marriage with a model named Carla bruney.
What Forbes says: Nicolas Sarkozy 'is standing tough on raising the retirement age (to 62) and pension reform'.
Manmohan Singh
18th one Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh is the Prime Minister, India and member of Indian National Congress.
What Forbes says: Dr Singh is enjoying the success of his own liberalisation policy. 'World Bank forecasts India's GDP will surge 7.6% in 2010, another 8% in 2011; not far behind its 9% forecast for China.'
Steve
Steve Jobs - the 17th person
Steve Jobs is co-founder and CEO Apple incorporated.
What Forbes says: 'First, personal computers with Apple II, Macintosh; then film with Pixar; music (iTunes), mobile (iPhone). Now iPad is treated as messiah tablet, savior for publishing industry.'
Dilma
Dilma Rousseff- No: 16
The President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff is on sixteenth position.
What Forbes says: 'As Brazil's newly elected president Rousseff will run Latin America's largest economy and world's pantry: top exporter of sugar, orange juice, coffee, beef, poultry.'
Jean
Jean-Claude Trichet 15th position
Jean-Claude Trichet
President, European Central Bank is on 15th position.
What Forbes says: Jean-Claude Trichet 'oversees monetary policy for 16 countries constituting Eurozone'
Silvio
Silvio Berlusconi 14th rank
Silvio Berlusconi
Who: Prime Minister, Italy
What Forbes says: He may be plagued by scandals, but Italy's prime minister has built his 'fortune through Fininvest, which now has interests in media, life insurance, movie production and soccer team AC Milan'.
Rupert and Dmitry
Rupert Murdoch 13th & Dmitry Medvedev 12th
Rupert Murdoch (13th)
Who is he ? - CEO, News Corp.
What Forbes says: Murdoch's 'Fox News generated $700 million in operating profit in 2010'
Dmitry Medvedev (12th)
He is Russian President at present.
What Forbes says: Though Putin still rules, the Russian president 'is finally showing signs of independence'.
Zhou
Zhou Xiaochuan 11th
After the president, Governor of People's Bank of China Zhou Xiaochuan has been marked at eleventh position.
What Forbes says: A Chinese economist and bureaucrat, Zhou has been 'in charge of the monetary policy of the People's Republic of China'.
Bill
Bill Gates 10th
Bill
Gates
World’s leading billionaire, Co-Chair of ‘Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’
What Forbes says: Bill Gates 'convinced nearly 60 of the world's wealthiest to sign his Giving Pledge' for charity.
Soniya
Sonia Gandhi on ninth position.
Sonia Gandhi is the President of Indian National
Congress. She is from Italy. When then prime minister Shreemati Indira gandhi's son Rajeev was in Italy, fell in love with her and brought her to India after marriage. After the death of her husband in a bomb blast she became the president of Indian national congress.
What Forbes says: Sonia Gandhi is described as 'a person who wields unequalled influence over 1.2 billion Indians'.
Actually I do not agree what forbes says about her. Because I am from India and I know what is the position of congress in India in her ownership. Congress is mingled in making so many scams, such as selling country's securities in the hands of terrorist and other scams like 2G scam. Now the question is how congress win ? From the money from scams they buy votes.
Ben
Mr. Ben Bernanke eighth
Mr. Ben Bernanke is Chairman of Federal Reserve.
What Forbes says: Ben Bernanke, who regulates US fiscal policy, now has 'only one arrow left in his financial quiver: quantitative easing - in layman's terms, printing money.'
David Cameron & Angela Merkel
David seventh and Angela sixth
Prime Minister of United Kingdom David Cameron is on seventh position.
What Forbes says: The youngest British prime minister's rule has been 'hailed by some as the second coming of Margaret Thatcher'.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on sixth rank.
What Forbes says: 'She is the most powerful woman on the planet'
Pope
Pope Benedict XVI has been ranked fifth
Pope of Vatican city Pope Benedict XVI is on fifth place.
What Forbes says:Pope Benedict XVI 'appears genuinely interested in healing old wounds'.
Mr. Putin
Vladimir Putin at no. 4
The Russian Prime Minister has been ranked 4.
What Forbes says: Prime Minister Putin is still 'more powerful than his handpicked head-of-state, President Dmitry Medvedev'
king Abdullah
King Abdullah ranked 3rd
Who is he ?
King of Saudi Arabia
What Forbes says: The King 'is a ruler of desert kingdom that contains the world's largest crude oil reserves'.
Obama
Barack Obama at 2nd position
President of United States of America
What Forbes says: The US President topped the list last year. 'It's quite a come-down for last year's most powerful person, who after enacting widespread reforms in his first two years in office will be hard-pressed to implement his agenda in the next two.'
Hu Jinato
Hu Jinta-no. 1
President of the People's Republic of China since 2003
What Forbes says:'Unlike Western counterparts, (he) can divert rivers, build cities, jail dissidents and censor internet without meddling from pesky bureaucrats, courts'.
Do not think that this is the final as these results are made on the basis of reader’s rating, surveys, polls… etc. There may be more powerful personalities than these twenty whom we do not know.
Top most
Chinese President Hu Jintao, who rules over world's largest populated country consisting 1/5th of the world’s population population, is on top of the list of world's most powerful person as rated by the US Forbes magazine. We have gone through the topmost twenty personalities published by forbes..But do you know ?
Ruling over people or having so much wealth is not a reason to declare them powerful personality in real.Ruling over the people's heart shows more sign. World known saint Asaramjee Bapu is on the top most. He rules over the hearts of trillions of people not only in India but all over the world. He spends all his time and wealth to serve the people in need.
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suziecat7 Level 5 Commenter 14 months ago
I think I would like to vote for Dilma Rousseff - Interesting Hub.