Most Influential Men

Who are the biggest movers and shakers among the world’s males? AskMen.com poses the question annually and recently produced its list of the Top 49 Most Influential Men for 2008.

More than 200,000 votes were tabulated. Readers also were allowed to add a comment explaining why that individual was worthy of recognition.

Here are the Top 10:

  1. Barack Obama
  2. Steve Jobs
  3. Michael Phelps
  4. Robert Downey, Jr.
  5. Stephen Colbert
  6. Gordon Ramsay
  7. Christian Bale
  8. Rob Kay
  9. Cristiano Ronaldo
10. John McCain

To see the full list, and find out what readers had to say about each, visit AskMen.com. You can also see the 2007 list and the 2006 version to find out whose stock is rising or falling.