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No Indian leader featured in the TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025 list. Trump, Musk were among the world leaders to find a spot in top 100.
TIME Magazine: Trump, Musk among most influential leaders (Reuters Image)
US President Donald Trump, his aide and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are among those featured in TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025 list. Surprisingly, no Indian leader could make a cut this year.
Last year, Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt and Olympic bronze medalist, Sakshi Malik, who protested against former BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on the streets of the national capital, had featured on the list.
Who Else Features in TIME’s List?
The TIME’s annual list is divided into categories such as ‘Leaders’, ‘Icons’, ‘Titans’, and others.
Other prominent leaders who feature in the ‘Leaders’ list in 2025 include US Vice President JD Vance, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Bangladesh interim government advisor Muhammad Yunus, and Mexican presidential front-runner Claudia Sheinbaum.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Javier Milei, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Friedrich Merz are among others who are named in the list.
The ‘Leaders’ list does have an Indian-origin CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Reshma Kewalramani, who migrated from India when she was 11. She rose to become the first ever woman to lead a major publicly traded biotech company in the US.
Who Appeared On TIME’s Most Influential Cover?
TIME Magazine’s 2025 issue has five international covers.
- Demi Moore, a well-known actor and producer
- Snoop Dogg, legendary musician and businessman
- Serena Williams, a former tennis star now successful in business
- Ed Sheeran, world-famous singer and songwriter
- Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, a leading company in artificial intelligence.
