by Dolapo Adelana

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladmir Putin have been listed among the 100 most influential persons for 2017 by TIME magazine.

The list categorised into five sections – Pioneers, Artists, Leaders, Titans and Icons.

The 2017 edition has actress Viola Davis, musician John Legend, Melinda Gates, Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos and Riz Ahmed on its cover.

Chinese president, Xi Jinping appears on the list for his eighth time, the most of anyone featured this year. Activist for LGBT rights, Gavin Grimm is the youngest person on the list at 17 years old while Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Supreme Court Justice, is the eldest at 87.

Notable figures like Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Beckham and John McCain also worked behind the scenes to pen tributes to this year’s featured influential people.

See full list below:

Pioneers

Samantha Bee

Chance the Rapper

Constance Wu

Gavin Grimm

Kirsten Green

Bob Ferguson

Ivanka Trump

Demis Hassabis

Barbara Lynch

Hamdi Ulukaya

Jared Kushner

Celina Turchi

Jordan Peele

Glenda Gray

Yuriko Koike

Conor McGregor

Riz Ahmed

Guus Velders

Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour

Natalie Batalha, Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Michaël Gillon

 

Artists

Emma Stone

Colson Whitehead

Ed Sheeran

Alicia Keys

Ryan Reynolds

Donald Glover

Leslie Jones

Ben Platt

Ava DuVernay

Barry Jenkins

Margot Robbie

Sarah Paulson

James Corden

John Legend

Alessandro Michele

Kerry James Marshall

Demi Lovato

 

Leaders

Theresa May

Narendra Modi

Chuck Schumer

Donald Trump

Elizabeth Warren

Julian Assange

James Comey

Kim Jong Un

Reince Priebus

Xi Jinping

Rodrigo Duterte

Stephen Bannon

Theo Epstein

Tom Perez

Vladimir Putin

Wang Qishan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Sandra Day O’Connor

Pope Francis

General James Mattis

King Maha Vajiralongkorn

Juan Manuel Santos

Major General Qasem Soleimani

Melinda Gates

 

Titans

Janet Yellen

LeBron James

Daniel Ek

Bernard J. Tyson

Evan Spiegel

George Church

Jean Liu

Tom Brady

James Allison

Rebekah Mercer

Jason Blum

Jeff Bezos

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Margrethe Vestager

 

Icons

Simone Biles

Ashley Graham

Cindy Sherman

John Lewis

Margaret Atwood

Colin Kaepernick

Jeanette Vizguerra

Neymar

RuPaul

Raf Simons

Biram Dah Abeid

Leila de Lima

David Adjaye

Gretchen Carlson

Fatou Bensouda

Thelma Aldana

Fan Bingbing

Viola Davis

Raed Saleh

Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista