Page Six can exclusively reveal the 2025 Time100 list.
This year’s “Most Influential People in the World,” according to Time magazine contributors, include politicians, tech entrepreneurs and business moguls, as well as entertainment execs and stars.
Time senior correspondent Brian Bennett nominated President Trump, arguing that “no other modern president has as forcefully grabbed control of the US government.”
Fellow senior correspondent Alice Park chose “public health disrupter” and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who “is already having an outsized impact on US health care.”
Simon Shuster, another senior correspondent, selected Tesla tycoon Elon Musk, noting that his “meteoric rise … has been punctuated by bouts of frenetic energy, which usually come over him when he takes on a new challenge.”
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston named Mark Zuckerberg for having “the courage to bet boldly on the future,” as the Facebook co-founder “invested aggressively in virtual and augmented reality, later staking Meta’s identity on a vision others couldn’t yet see.”
TV show creator Shonda Rhimes nominated “savvy streaming executive” Ted Sarandos, the CEO of Netflix, for being “fearlessly smart, fearlessly innovative [and] fearlessly truthful.”
Actor Will Ferrell chose “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels, who “cultivates new talent and gives [rising comedians] the ability to express [themselves] in ways [they] didn’t know were possible.”
Filmmaker Rian Johnson selected actor Adrien Brody, who “has earned the ‘they don’t make ’em like that anymore’ seal.”
TV show creator Ryan Murphy named “high-spirited” actress Demi Moore, who has not only “shaped the culture for decades” but also “changed the way we talk about pregnancy and motherhood.”
Actor Chris Evans nominated Scarlett Johansson for being “one of the most versatile, influential and bankable actors of her generation.”
Filmmaker Marielle Heller chose “effervescent” Kristen Wiig. “With Kristen in a scene, there is always liftoff. And not just in comedies. Kristen is one of the best dramatic actors out there,” Heller gushed.
Amy Poehler selected her “Parks and Recreation” co-star Rashida Jones, whose “work crosses genres in a way that few can pull off.”
And Broadway pioneer Patti LuPone named “Sunset Boulevard” star Nicole Scherzinger, whose “mad scene alone is worth the price of admission.”
Here’s who else made the list, which can be seen in full on Time.com: Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, Argentina President Javier Milei, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and actors Diego Luna and Hiroyuki Sanada.
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