21st Century’s Most Influential People

From Esquire

Esquire magazine set out to find the most influential people “across every field of endeavor, the people who are bending history right now. It was an impossible task, but the result is a determined, defiant, earnest, brilliant, philanthropic, space-going, smoking-hot group, and together they are writing the first chapter of the rest of our lives.” You can see the complete list and read the notes on each influential person at Esquire.com, but here are the first 10:

• Roman Abramovich — 41, oilman and owner of the Chelsea football club, Moscow and London
• Mukesh Ambani — 51, chairman of Reliance industries, Mumbai
• David Chang — 31, chef, futurist, New York
• Bill Clinton — 62, former president, Chappaqua, New York
• Hillary Clinton — 60, politician, Chappaqua, New York
• Guillermo Del Toro — 43, film director, high priest of the comic-book age, California
• Deng Xiaoping — Chinese Communist leader (dead)
• Larry Page and Sergey Brin — 35 and 35, co-founders, Google, Mountain View, California
• Ratan Tata — 70, chairman of the Tata Group, India’s largest privately held company, Mumbai
• Danger Mouse — 31, musician and producer, Los Angeles

Source: Esquire