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Mahinda Rajapaksa reaches Top Ten in ‘TIME 100’ poll

Mahinda Rajapaksa, listed in TIME Magazine’s TIME 100 most influential people in the world, has reached the Top Ten. The Sri Lankan President is currently ranked 6th in the list with a total of 85,934 votes. He is the highest ranked political leader in the list thus making him the most influential political leader.

Rajapaksa is the only politician in the Top Ten while only certain artists and the “Mother Teresa of Asia” the Taiwanese Buddhist nun, Cheng Yen is ahead of him.

The President, appearing for the very first time in the online poll carried out by Time Magazine, is the also the first Sri Lankan leader to be featured in the TIME 100 Top Ten.

Amongst other prominent world leaders in the list is US President Barack Obama at the 46th position while US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and India’s Congress President Sonia Gandhi are in at 42 and 95 respectively.

The magazine’s profile on President Rajapaksa states that “Since ending Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long war against the Tamil Tigers in 2009, and grabbing control over once independent institutions like commissions on human rights and elections, Mahinda Rajapaksa has come to dominate the institutions of his nation more than any other democratically elected head of state. “

“He challenged the U.S., the European Union and the U.N. to prosecute him for war crimes, confident that Russia, China and India would not support it — the latter two have billions of investment at stake in Sri Lanka.” it said.

The 2011 TIME 100 Poll Result


Rank
Name Influential Not
Influential		 Total Votes

1
Rain41431134079448390

2
Jay Chou21228536396248681

3
Susan Boyle1532065598158804

4
Cheng Yen90836630497140

5
Beyoncé69409918178590

6
Mahinda Rajapaksa719901918191171

7
Chris Colfer53070941462484

8
Christopher Hitchens39987324843235

9
Bradley Manning35884159337477

10
Glenn Beck547772263577412

11
Julian Assange26848274729595

12
Lady Gaga32175825840433

13
Tawakul Karman23239471527954

14
Ron Paul21039251923558

15
Fukushima Power Plant Workers22697554228239

16
Mohamed Bouazizi17801112718928

17
Wisconsin's 'Fab 14' State Senators20945530126246

18
Han Han16179137917558

19
Rihanna18459502223481

20
Dan Savage and Terry Miller15585275118336

21
Alan Mulally11074100612080

22
Mohamed Elbaradei11359136212721

23
Aamir Khan10473166612139

24
Gabrielle Giffords11193358414777

25
Wael Ghonim9982267912661

26
Mara Brock Akil849312549747

27
Hu Jintao806811049172

28
Mark Zuckerberg9446266512111

29
Al-Jazeera696815598527

30
Michelle Obama10878561316491

31
Ray Kurzweil616210707232

32
Michelle Rhee624218798121

33
Sarah Palin8147391812065

34
Andy Cohen529512556550

35
Betty White579218837675

36
Marc LaForce41868885074

37
Steve Jobs39066674573

38
Craig J. Venter and Daniel Gibson39457594704

39
Aung San Suu Kyi33982283626

40
Chilean Miners474416036347

41
Stephen Hawking34573723829

42
Hillary Clinton443014395869

43
Warren Buffett34384883926

44
Cory Booker400111355136

45
Elizabeth Warren6511397310484

46
Barack Obama556831508718

47
Ryan Schreiber30247913815

48
Christian Bale410219946096

49
Lee Unkrich28377733610

50
Mark Bittman318511624347

51
Johnny Depp28599133772

52
Conan O'Brien26828073489

53
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert532835758903

54
Florence and the Machine294612674213

55
Katy Perry419625436739

56
Geoffrey Canada19873702357

57
Carrie Fisher25259403465

58
Paul Ryan254710573604

59
George Clooney24119563367

60
Marco Rubio21898313020

61
Anna Bligh20397082747

62
Mitt Romney325819395197

63
Rafael Nadal21508392989

64
Colin Firth18605792439

65
Salvatore Giunta14952551750

66
Andy Carvin19126942606

67
Cecile Richards6122493211054

68
Jeff Bridges21639943157

69
Kamala Harris17766392415

70
Clinton Cragg15334321965

71
David Petraeus17356452380

72
Scott Brown235112663617

73
Robert Gates14133381751

74
Vladimir Putin15104401950

75
Marisol Valles Garcia12812351516

76
Roger Ebert15054761981

77
Chris Christie213811163254

78
Lionel Messi202110163037

79
Dick Costolo17627592521

80
Charles Ferguson12893371626

81
Trey Parker and Matt Stone15165882104

82
Oprah226813643632

83
Matt Damon18699802849

84
Benjamin Netanyahu15036252128

85
Derrick Rossi17028562558

86
Sandra Bullock214513153460

87
David Drummond15237342257

88
Jamie Oliver13435751918

89
Yukio Edano10503091359

90
Natalie Portman289321855078

91
Siddhartha Mukherjee10843891473

92
Mumford & Sons171110262737

93
James Franco15788992477

94
Li Chengpeng14968412337

95
René Redzepi172210932815

96
Christopher Nolan11615411702

97
Ricky Gervais13287092037

98
Sonia Gandhi11125051617

99
Christine Loh and Joanne Ooi11615641725

100
Levon Helm10945341628

101
V.S. Ramachandran11576221779

102
Roy Choi13117862097

103
Reed Hastings8313061137

104
Daniel Hernandez10816331714

105
Dmitri Medvedev11086731781

106
David Karp10266171643

107
Prince William and Kate Middleton264322364879

108
Sam Kass9355531488

109
Davis Guggenheim7083311039

110
John Boehner248221754657

111
Nikki Haley8676231490

112
David Cameron7995661365

113
Ahmad Shuja Pasha7225301252

114
Seiko Noda509324833

115
David Brooks10068441850

116
Lisa Jackson7145561270

117
Roger Ailes144912932742

118
Terry Gou517365882

119
Margaret Hamburg506375881

120
Amy Poehler116210362198

121
Malcolm Gladwell459339798

122
Joe Biden242023014721

123
Sofia Vergara7206181338

124
Neil Young9989051903

125
Jack White8998421741

126
Naoto Kan523468991

127
Lara Logan9048931797

128
Alex Kipman379378757

129
Charles and David Koch102610352061

130
Tavi Gevinson5625881150

131
Cristoph Schönborn6656951360

132
Mukesh Ambani401433834

133
The Gregory Brothers4965311027

134
Rob Bell110211422244

135
Hassan Nasrallah6236671290

136
Aaron Sorkin5265801106

137
Jon Huntsman Jr.5556461201

138
Isabel Wilkerson423519942

139
Mark Wahlberg5046121116

140
Michael Tilson Thomas275387662

141
Andrew Mason7298451574

142
Michele Bachmann442345438966

143
Jonathan Franzen313461774

144
Jon Hamm399548947

145
Lisa Stone311460771

146
Nathan Myhrvold6247841408

147
Javier Bardem393553946

148
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt107312362309

149
Alex Ferguson4676371104

150
Peter Vesterbacka261432693

151
Billy Gardell and Melissa McCarthy300505805

152
Louis C.K.6218421463

153
Jennifer Lopez210923374446

154
Hamid Karzai4036501053

155
Roger Goodell295548843

156
Kathleen Sebelius6779321609

157
Clay Shirky190448638

158
Cee Lo Green5818631444

159
Nick Denton288594882

160
Sarah Burton5368451381

161
Tilda Swinton303630933

162
Justin Bieber5207553510742

163
Arianna Huffington181621493965

164
Hung Huang310672982

165
Téa Obreht214586800

166
Jennifer Egan174551725

167
Mia Wasikowska207586793

168
Than Shwe153534687

169
Frank Darabont270681951

170
Marine Le Pen61910711690

171
Michael Fassbender212678890

172
Brian Roberts4138811294

173
Feisal Abdul Rauf87013662236

174
Muqtada al-Sadr97814882466

175
Jamie Dimon213126704801

176
Jay-Z105616232679

177
Sepp Blatter53011651695

178
Aaron Rodgers69914002099

179
Bob Dudley42312651688

180
Jenna Lyons23710841321

181
Grant Achatz83417242558

182
Bruno Mars83517422577

183
Michael Vick38813081696

184
Annette Bening67316462319

185
Russell Brand88419002784

186
Aziz Ansari95519832938

187
Silvio Berlusconi41614841900

188
Dilma Rousseff102723923419

189
Newt Gingrich185633635219

190
Willow Smith40819702378

191
Lady Antebellum79523903185

192
Liu Xiaobo337150578428

193
Ai Weiwei88791070319582

194
Rooney Mara15721232280

195
Gwyneth Paltrow136233584720

196
Scott Walker97151191521630

197
Zach Galifianakis4641763112272

198
Chelsea Handler254873659913

199
Kim Kardashian81264067218

200
Charlie Sheen4198991914117

201
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi73065367266

202
Amy Chua31761102314199

203
Kanye West71023485041952

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