Top 25 Most Influential Living People in the World as of December 2025 (all still alive, ranked by current global impact in politics, technology, culture, and ideas):
1. Elon Musk
2. Donald Trump
3. Xi Jinping
4. Vladimir Putin
5. Narendra Modi
6. Pope Francis
7. Taylor Swift
8. Volodymyr Zelenskyy
9. Jerome Powell (Fed Chair)
10. Mark Zuckerberg
11. Jeff Bezos
12. Ursula von der Leyen (EU Commission President)
13. Sam Altman
14. Greta Thunberg
15. Cristiano Ronaldo
16. Jensen Huang (NVIDIA CEO)
17. Janet Yellen
18. Emmanuel Macron
19. Lionel Messi
20. Olaf Scholz
21. Giorgia Meloni
22. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
23. Yoon Suk Yeol
24. Lula da Silva
25. Tim Cook