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title: Say What: Beyonce is TIME Magazine’s Most Influential Person
author: Chris Z
published: 2014-04-26
modified: 2014-05-30
section: Lifestyle
tags: Beyoncé, Influential People, TIME magazine
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# Say What: Beyonce is TIME Magazine’s Most Influential Person

*TIME Magazine* has released its annual “The 100 Most Influential People” list for 2014.

Among the list are world leaders such as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kirsten Gillibrand and Chile President Anat Admati, entertainers Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus and businessmen like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.

[![time-magazine-beyonce](https://www.stasheverything.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/time-magazine-beyonce-300x200.jpg)](https://www.stasheverything.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/time-magazine-beyonce.jpg)

Topping the list, surprisingly, is Beyonce. “Shooting for *TIME magazine* was eventually one of the goals in my life,” she revealed. “It’s something important for me as an artist because it’s not about fashion or beauty or music. It’s about the influence I’ve had on culture and to be amongst the other influential people is a huge honor for me.”

Here are 50 people in alphabetical order (more [here](http://time.com/70716/beyonce-2014-time-100/)).

**Shinzo Abe**, Prime Minister of Japan
 **Marina Abramovic**, performance artist
 **Abu Du’a**, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria
 **Amy Adams**, actor
 **Anat Admati**, economist
 **Michelle Bachelet**, President of Chile
 **Mary Barra**, CEO, General Motors
 **Beyoncé**, singer, entrepreneur
 **Jeff Bezos**, CEO, Amazon
 **Jerry Brown**, Governor of California
 **Christy Turlington Burns**, supermodel, advocate
 **Hillary Clinton**, Former United States Secretary of State
 **Jason Collins**, basketball player, Brooklyn Nets
 **Ertharin Cousin**, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
 **Alfonso Cuarón**, director
 **Benedict Cumberbatch**, actor
 **Miley Cyrus**, singer
 **Aliko Dangote**, President, Dangote Group, Nigeria Private Sector Health Alliance
 **Megan Ellison**, producer, founder, Annapurna Pictures
 **Tony Fadell**, founder and CEO, Nest
 **Pope Francis**, Pontifex
 **Kirsten Gillibrand**, U.S. Senator, New York
 **John Green**, author
 **Abdullah Gul**, President of Turkey
 **Andrew Haldane**, Executive Director for Financial Stability, Bank of England
 **Katharine Hayhoe**, climatologist
 **Eric Holder**, United States Attorney General
 **Carl Icahn**, investor
 **Obadah al-Kaddri**, Syrian activist, director of Radio Watan
 **Travis Kalanick**, CEO, Uber
 **Arvind Kejriwal**, Indian politican
 **Megyn Kelly**, host, FOX News’ The Kelly File
 **John Kerry**, United States Secretary of State
 **Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele**, comedians
 **Kim Jong Un**, Supreme Leader of North Korea
 **Lydia Ko**, golfer
 **David and Charles Koch**, executives
 **Jenji Kohan**, television writer, producer, director
 **John Kovac**, astronomer
 **Robert Lanza**, Chief Scientific Officer, Advanced Cell Technology
 **Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez**, songwriters, Frozen
 **Jack Ma**, chairman, Alibaba
 **Pony Ma**, founder and CEO, Tencent Holdings
 **Thuli Madonsela**, human rights lawyer
 **Nicolás Maduro**, President of Venezuela
 **Natalie Massenet**, founder, Net-A-Porter
 **Matthew McConaughey**, actor
 **Major General Herbert Raymond McMaster**, commander, Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia
 **Steve McQueen**, director
 **Angela Merkel**, Chancellor of Germany

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   [![beyonce-best of](https://www.stasheverything.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/beyonce-best-of-300x300.jpg)](https://www.stasheverything.com/the-best-of-2013-according-to-billboard/beyonce-best-of/)   beyonce-best of   [![Pharrell Williams](https://www.stasheverything.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Pharrell-300x300.jpeg)](https://www.stasheverything.com/pharrell-discusses-places-and-spaces-with-hot-97/pharrell/)   Pharrell Williams