Time Releases Its 100 Most Influential People of 2020 List

 

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STILL I RISE 🖤 YOUNG BLACK WOMAN FROM HOUSTON TEXAS ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD 🌎

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Artists

The Weeknd, Selena Gomez, J Balvin, Halsey, Jennifer Hudson, Jojo Siwa, Ali Wong, and Michael B. Jordan.

 

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Leaders

President Donald Trump, Former Vice President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, John Roberts, and Tsai Ing-Wen.

 

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President @tsai_ingwen of Taiwan is one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020. “President Tsai Ing-wen is a signal lamp casting out China’s looming shadow,” writes @sentedcruz, “conveying to the world that Taiwan will not acquiesce to the Chinese Communist Party.” Read more, and see the full 2020 #TIME100 list, at the link in bio. Photograph by @nhuxuanhua for TIME

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Titans

Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, Tyler Perry, Patrick Mahomes, Lewis Hamilton, Robert F. Smith, and Claire Babineaux-Fontenot.

 

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Proud, humbled, and honored to be part of this group. Always trying to keep it 💯 and use our voice to influence positive change in the world. THIS IS THE TIME. #TIME100 @time 📸 by @kingtexas

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Icons

Amy O’Sullivan, Billy Porter, Naomi Osaka, Megan Rapinoe, Ady Barkan, Angela Davis, and Black Lives Matter founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi.

 

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Amy O’Sullivan, an 18-year veteran ER nurse at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, is one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020. “Amy is just one of the millions of health care workers worldwide who risked everything to service others,” writes @katiecouric. “There are two simple words for their heroism: Thank you.” Read more, and see the full 2020 #TIME100 list, at the link in bio. Photograph by @paolakudacki for TIME

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Other public figures like Taylor Swift, BTS, Kim Kardashian West, Oprah Winfrey, Elton John, Chrissy Teigen, Camila Cabello, Jimmy Kimmel, Stevie Wonder, Ted Cruz, and John Legend have taken to writing essays on the impact the honorees have made on the world.

Time will be releasing eight covers that will highlight a different member of the TIME 100, and for the first time, ABC will be premiering a special on these influential figures.

For a full list of the TIME 100, click here.