Librarianna has an interesting little exercise on her blog. How many of the The TIME 100 | The People Who Shape Our World can you identify?
- J.J. Abrams
- George Clooney
- Dixie Chicks
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Nicolas Ghesquiere
- Wayne Gould
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Arianna Huffington
- Ang Lee
- Renzo Piano
- Rain
- Rachael Ray
- Jeff Skoll
- Kiki Smith
- Will Smith
- Zadie Smith
- Howard Stern
- Meryl Streep
- Reese Witherspoon
- Rob Pardo
- Daddy Yankee
- Tyra Banks
- Dane Cook
- Matt Drudge
- Stephen Colbert
- Mike Brown
- Kelly Brownell
- Nancy Cox
- Richard Davidson
- Kerry Emanuel
- Jim Hansen
- Zahi Hawass
- Bill James
- John Jones
- Ma Jun
- Jim Yong Kim
- Steven Levitt
- Jacques Rossouw
- Andrew von Eschenbach
- Jimmy Wales
- Geoffrey West
- Muqtada al-Sadr
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
- Hugo Chavez
- George W. Bush
- John McCain
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Pope Benedict
- Condoleezza Rice
- Wen Jiabao
- Ehud Olmert
- Pervez Musharraf
- John Roberts
- Ismail Haniya
- Angela Merkel
- Jigme Singye Wangchuk
- Archbishop Peter Akinola
- Junichiro Koizumi
- Oprah Winfrey
- Bill & Melinda Gates
- Bono
- Michelle Wie
- Wynton Marsalis
- Angelina Jolie
- Bill Clinton & George H.W. Bush
- Steve Nash
- Orhan Pamuk
- Elie Wiesel
- Jan Egeland
- Joey Cheek
- Chen Guangcheng
- Ian Fishback
- Wafa Sultan
- Pernessa Seele
- Ralph Lauren
- Mukhtaran Bibi
- Paul Simon
- Al Gore
- Katie Couric
- Vikram Akula
- Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe
- Franz Beckenbauer
- The Flickr Founders
- Sean Combs
- Jamie Dimon
- Brian France
- Tom Freston
- Huang Guangyu
- Omid Kordestani
- Eddie Lampert
- Patricia Russo
- Sheikh Mohammed
- Anne Mulcahy
- Nandan Nilekani
- Jim Sinegal
- Steve Wynn
- The Skype Guys
- Dieter Zetsche
I knew forty-five, and I misidentified one. (I was a little vague on some: “politician” for instance.)