The 100 most influential people of the year

They include the Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, the Queen and Tyra Banks, a model who made headlines for showing that women with curves did belong on the covers of magazines. Also featured are Maher Arar, who was abducted by US authorities because of flawed intelligence, and Peter Akinola, an archbishop who strongly opposes homosexuality.

This eclectic mix are among the cast who make up Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2007, published today. Time said the list of 71 men and 29 women from 27 different countries highlighted the people "whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world".

There are plenty of safe bets among the 100. Who would argue, for instance, that Microsoft founder Bill Gates and presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do not deserve to be on the list? But does Maher Arar, the Canadian-Syrian who was "renditioned" by US agents who claimed he was an al-Qa'ida operative and sent to Damascus where he was held and tortured for 10 months, really qualify as one of the world's 100 most influential individuals?

Mr Arar said he was delighted to be featured, while his profile in Time, written by the US senator Patrick Leahy, noted: "Maher Arar's case stands as a sad symbol of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security."

The magazine also listed Peter Akinola, the Archbishop of Nigeria, who has criticisedthe investiture in other countries of openly gay clergy. The magazine said: "If the Anglican Communion ... falls apart, Peter Akinola ... will have been a catalyst, even if he does not end up prince of one of the pieces."

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Artists and Entertainers

Tina Fey - television writer, producer and actress

Youssou N'Dour - musician

Anna Netrebko - soprano opera singer

Justin Timberlake - pop singer

Sacha Baron Cohen - comic actor and writer

Leonardo DiCaprio - actor

Nora Roberts - romance writer

Rick Rubin - music producer

Martin Scorsese - film director

Cate Blanchett - actress

Alber Elbaz - fashion designer

America Ferrera - actress

Simon Fuller - music manager and television presenter

Brian Grazer - producer

John Mayer - musician

David Mitchell - writer

Kate Moss - model

Rosie O'Donnell - actress

Brad Pitt - actor

Shonda Rhimes - screenwriter

Kara Walker - artist

Brian Williams - news anchor

Leaders and Revolutionaries

Queen Elizabeth II

Tzipi Livni - foreign minister and vice president Israel

Peter Akinola - Nigerian archbishop

Liu Qi - Beijing Communist Party secretary

Condoleezza Rice - US Secretary of State

Omar Hassan al-Bashir - leader of Sudan

John Roberts - US chief justice

Sonia Gandhi - leader of Indian Congress party

Raul Castro - defence minister of Cuba

Arnold Schwarzenegger - California governor

David Petraeus - US general

Hillary Clinton - 2008 US presidential candidate

Hu Jintao - President of China

Nancy Pelosi - US speaker of the house

King Abdullah - King of Saudi Arabia

Barack Obama - 2008 US presidential candidate

Michael Bloomburg - businessman

Ayutollah Ali Khamenei - supreme leader of Iran

Pope Benedict XVI - leader of the Catholic Church

Angela Merkel - German chancellor

Osama bin Laden - Saudi terrorist

Heroes and Pioneers

Oprah Winfrey - television presenter

Elizabeth Edwards - attorney and wife of US 2008 presidential candidate

Warren Buffett - businessman

Drew Gilpin Faust - Harvard president

Wesley Autrey - subway hero

Tony Dungy - American football coach

Roger Federer - tennis player

Tyra Banks - model and television presenter

Youk Chhang - director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia

George Clooney - actor

Michael J Fox - actor

Timothy Gittins - army officer

Judith Mackay - doctor

Chien-Ming Wang - baseball player

Maher Arar - software engineer (wrongly accused of terrorism)

Thierry Henry - soccer player

Zeng Jinyan - blogger

Garry Kasparov - chess player and politician

Amr Khaled - accountant and website owner

Scientists and Thinkers

Al Gore - former US vice president and climate change champion

Neil deGrasse Tyson - astrophysicist and author

J Craig Venter - geneticist

Lisa Randall - theoretical physicist

John Mather - astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner

Elizabeth Blackburn - biologist

Alan Stern - director of Nasa Science Mission Directorate

Tullis Onstott - geophysicist

Svante Pääbo - evolutionary geneticist

Steven Nissen - heart specialist

Richard Dawkins - evolutionary biologist

Chris Anderson - physicist

Paul Allen - co-founder of Microsoft

Monty Jones - developmental plant breeder

Klaus Schwab - founder of World Economic Forum in Davos

Nora Volkow - director of US National Institute of Drug Abuse

Frans de Waal - psychologist, primatologist and ethologist

Douglas Melton - stem cell researcher

Kari Stefansson - neurologist

Builders and Titans

Richard Branson - entrepreneur

Cyril Ramaphosa - union leader

Erik Lie - business analyst

Pony Ma - internet guru

Chad Hurley and Steve Chen - founders of YouTube

Katsuaki Watanabe - environmental car designer

Bernard Arnault - chairman of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton

Clara Furse - CEO of London Stock Exchange

Ken Lewis - CEO of Bank of America

Lakshmi Mittal - CEO of Arcelor Mittal

Shigeru Miyam - video game designer

Rhonda Byrne - author of self-help books

Steven Cohen - businessman

Steve Jobs - director of Apple

Philip Rosedale - creator of Second Life

Ho Ching - CEO of Temasek

Indra Nooyi - CEO of PepsiCo

Stephen Schwarzman - CEO Blackstone Group

Michael Moritz - internet entrepreneur