December 06, 2012

Forbes World Most Powerful People List 2012

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Friends, a question to all... What do you think our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Barrak Obama, facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Congress President Sonia Gandhi all have in common? ok ok .. stop banging your head They are all featured in the Forbes world most Powerful people list for the year 2012 :P US President Barack Obama topped the list (it is a consecutive second year for him to top this list). Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel got the second place while Russia's President Vladimir Putin has to satisfy with the 3rd possition. Our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congess President Sonia Gandhi have been named among the top 20 on the most poweful list. Some more indians in the list are Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and and Arcelor Mittal CEO Lakshmi Mittal.

Here is the Top 50 People in the Forbes List of World Most Powerful People 2012

Barack Obama

Angela Merkel

Vladimir Putin t

Bill Gates

Pope Benedict XVI

Ben Bernanke

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud

Mario Draghi

Xi Jinping

David Cameron

Carlos Slim Helu & family

Sonia Gandhi

Li Keqiang

Francois Hollande

Warren Buffett

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Duke

Dilma Rousseff

Manmohan Singh

Sergey Brin, Larry Page

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

Rex Tillerson

Benjamin Netanyahu

Jeffrey Immelt

Mark Zuckerberg

Rupert Murdoch

Jeff Bezos

Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

Mario Monti

Ban Ki-moon

Li Ka-shing

Ali Al-Naimi

halifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan

Jamie Dimon

Timothy Cook

Lloyd Blankfein

Mukesh Ambani

Christine Lagarde

Lou Jiwei

Masaaki Shirakawa

Charles Koch, David Koch

Larry Fink

Akio Toyoda

Kim Jong-un

Jim Yong Kim

Steve Balmer

Lakshmi Mittal

Hugo Chavez

Sebastian Pinera

Bill Clinton

Note : For the sake of information we've provided with top 50 people. There is no need to memorize this entire list for competitive exams. Better try to remember the names marked in red color with their rankings.