Beyoncé takes the prime spot as the cover girl on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. And she's far from the only entertainer on the list.
Also making the cut were actors Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Redford, Kerry Washington and Robin Wright, along with musicians Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Carrie Underwood.
But it's Beyoncé who gets top billing, having proven she can do it all – juggling motherhood with activism while, oh yes, reinventing how music is made, sold and performed.
"Beyoncé doesn't just sit at the table. She builds a better one," Sheryl Sandberg writes of the pop star in the Time 100 issue. "Her secret: hard work, honesty and authenticity. And her answer to the question, What would you do if you weren't afraid? appears to be 'Watch me. I'm about to do it.' Then she adds, 'You can, too.' "
This year's list includes a record 41 women. But "if there is a common theme in many of the tributes," says Time editor Nancy Gibbs, "it's the eagerness to see what some engineer, actor, leader or athlete will do next. As much as this exercise chronicles the achievements of the past year, we also focus on figures whose influence is likely to grow, so we can look around the corner to see what is coming."
Redford, General Motors CEO Mary Barra and Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player, are featured on their own individual covers, too, though inside the magazine.
See the full list of honorees below.
• Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
• Marina Abramovic, performance artist
• Abu Du'a, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria
• Amy Adams, actor
• Anat Admati, economist
• Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
• Mary Barra, CEO, General Motors
• Beyoncé, singer, entrepreneur
• Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon
• Jerry Brown, Governor of California
• Christy Turlington Burns, supermodel, advocate
• Hillary Clinton, Former United States Secretary of State
• Jason Collins, basketball player, Brooklyn Nets
• Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
• Alfonso Cuarón, director
• Benedict Cumberbatch, actor
• Miley Cyrus, singer
• Aliko Dangote, President, Dangote Group, Nigeria Private Sector Health Alliance
• Megan Ellison, producer, founder, Annapurna Pictures
• Tony Fadell, founder and CEO, Nest
• Pope Francis, Pontifex
• Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator, New York
• John Green, author
• Abdullah Gul, President of Turkey
• Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability, Bank of England
• Katharine Hayhoe, climatologist
• Eric Holder, United States Attorney General
• Carl Icahn, investor
• Obadah al-Kaddri, Syrian activist, director of Radio Watan
• Travis Kalanick, CEO, Uber
• Arvind Kejriwal, Indian politican
• Megyn Kelly, host, FOX News' The Kelly File
• John Kerry, United States Secretary of State
• Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, comedians
• Kim Jong Un, Supreme Leader of North Korea
• Lydia Ko, golfer
• David and Charles Koch, executives
• Jenji Kohan, television writer, producer, director
• John Kovac, astronomer
• Robert Lanza, Chief Scientific Officer, Advanced Cell Technology
• Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, songwriters, Frozen
• Jack Ma, chairman, Alibaba
• Pony Ma, founder and CEO, Tencent Holdings
• Thuli Madonsela, human rights lawyer
• Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela
• Natalie Massenet, founder, Net-A-Porter
• Matthew McConaughey, actor
• Major General Herbert Raymond McMaster, commander, Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia
• Steve McQueen, director
• Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
• Seth Meyers, host, NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers
• Narendra Modi, Indian politician
• José Mujica, President of Uruguay
• Arunachalam Muruganatham, inventor
• Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, activist
• Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Imam Omar Kobine Layama and Nicolas Guérékoyame-Gbangou, clerics
• Barack Obama, President of the United States
• Ory Okolloh, activist, director of investments, Omidyar Network
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Finance Minister, Nigeria
• Rand Paul, U.S. Senator, Kentucky
• Diane Paulus, theater director
• Wilthelma 'T' Ortiz Walker Pettigrew, activist
• Phoebe Philo, creative director, CÉLINE
• Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
• Hosain Rahman, cofounder and CEO, Jawbone
• Robert Redford, actor
• Cristiano Ronaldo, soccer player, Portugal, Real Madrid
• Charlie Rose, television host
• Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
• Arundhati Roy, writer, activist
• Richard Sherman, football player, Seattle Seahawks
• David Sinclair, geneticist
• Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, commander, Egyptian Armed Forces
• Edward Snowden, activist
• Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, cofounders, Snapchat
• Tom Steyer, environmentalist
• Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, activist
• Kathryn Sullivan, director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Donna Tartt, author
• Barbara Brown Taylor, Episcopal priest
• Sheikha al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, art collector, Chairwoman of the Qatar Museums Authority
• Carrie Underwood, singer, songwriter
• Binyavanga Wainaina, author
• Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin
• Kerry Washington, actor, activist
• Alice Waters, chef
• Mary Jo White, chairwoman, Securities and Exchange Commission
• Pharrell Williams, singer, producer
• Serena Williams, tennis player
• Robin Wright, actor
• Xi Jinping, General Secretary, Communist Party, China
• Yao Chen, Chinese actor
• Janet Yellen, Chairwoman, Federal Reserve
• Malala Yousafzai, author, activist
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