Top 10 most Powerful and famous leaders and personalities in the world

Top 10 Most Powerful leaders and Personalities of the world

 

According to the recent reports of Forbes magazine , a list of world's top ten most powerful leaders and Influencing personalities of the world has been prepared that includes some interesting names that you might found excited to be in this list :

1. Xi jinping 

At very first position comes President of People Republic of China Xi jinping from communist party of China. Xi jinping was born on 15th June,1953. Xi  jinping has started his way to early services in Chinese military services.

Served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2012, and President of the People's Republic of China since 2013

Xi managed to accumulate power at a rapid pace during his first term as China’s president. The success of his anti-corruption strategy continued, with more than one million corrupt officials being punished by late 2017. The strategy also served to remove many of jinping political rivals, further bolstering his efforts to eliminate dissent and strengthen his grip on power. 

Chinese government headed by  Xi jinping has worked well in order to make China one of the top economic power.

                      

Recently, during global pandemic a lot of countries like United States, Australia, Britain raised question on Chinese government head on not sharing information with other countries on time to deal with the virus spreading.

2. Vladimir Putin                                                  

Vladimir putin was born on 7th Oct,1953 in saint petersburg. He studied law from leningrad State University, and graduated in year 1975. Vladimir putin was very passionate towards spy services since his childhood days and his joined KGB. He is former KGB officer.

                      

Putin worked for secret services for 16 years in foreign countries and later  on as director of federal security services and secretary of the security council.

He was elected as prime minister between years 1999 to 2000 & again from years 2008 to 2012 and a presidential term from 7th may 2000 to 7th may 2008.

United States officials accused Putin for running an interference program against Hillary Clinton in support of Donald Trump in 2016 presidential elections.

Putin obtained 76% of the vote in election of 2018 and was re-elected for 6 year of term ending in 2024.

3. Donald Trump

Donald Trump was born on 14th June 1946, and he is the 45th President of United States of America. Before presidential election his was a famous businessman and tv personality. Trump surprised everyone with his entery in 2016  U. S. Presidential Eections as a Republican Party candidate and recorded big victory against Democratic party nominee Hillary Clinton in electoral college. 

Donald Trump has always been in news due to his controversial statement and action like withdrawing from Paris agreement on climate change, imposing import tarrif, Ordered travel ban on citizens from several muslim majority countries, Moved the United States embassy in Israel to Jerusalem,and many other decisions during his entire term.

But it is expected that his name from this list may go down as Trump lost the 2020's American presidential Eections against Joe Biden but denied to approve his defeat. He made alligations of electoral fraud, recounting of votes, mounted a series of unsuccessful legal challenges to the results, and ordered government officials not to cooperate in the presidential power transition.

4. Angela Merkel

Her name in this list shows women power and  how she can be Influencing by his actions and statement by his leadership qualities.

Angela Merkel sets a very big example of a Powerful women that inspires every women around the world.

Angela Merkel was born on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg, Germany.Angela Markel became the first female chancellor of Germany in 2005.

He is serving his fourth term as chancellor of Germany. In 2018, she stepped down as Christian democratic union.

She allowed more than one million refugees of Syria in Germany & said that Germany would open his borders in the face of humanitarian emergency which shows her political will and quality of kind hearted as a person. 

Recently She announced that she will not seek any other term for chancellor of Germany from the year 2021.

All her political, social, economic leadership qualities makes her a strong and dedicated person as a globe leader.

According to surveys more than 75% adult in 14 European nations believe more in Angela Merkel tha any other political leader in this region.

Also,She set a big example for humanity. That's why she deserves to be in this list among top leaders and personalities.

5.  Jeff Bezos

According to forbes wealth index he is the first centi- billionaire. You definitely won't be surprised to see this face if you have ever done online Shoppings from site like Ebay, Walmart , Alibaba,flipkart, Amazon,ShopClues and many more.

Yes we are talking about Jeff Bezos well known as founder and CEO of Amazon.com online shopping website. He is entrepreneur, industrialist, and investor.

Jeff was born on 3rd January,1964 in New Mexico State of USA.

After receiving elementary education , Jeff received his graduation in electrical and computer engineering from Princeton University. He worked on wall street in various fields from 1986 to 1994 and achieved his market experience.

His experience of Marketing from wall street gave him worth when he founded e commerce website Amazon.com in last 1994. It all was Started from a basement where he keep stocks and books, magazine and journal for online sales.

Further he expanded his e commerce website for customers to purchase computer software, hardware, audio streaming,cloud computing and other various products.

Now his e-commerce company is the world's largest online sales company.

Jeff also founded an aerospace manufacturing

and suborbital flights services company named Blue Origin in 2000. He owned the famous American newspaper "The Washington Post" in 2013 worth  $250 million.

Apart from these, Bezos have made many other investments through his Bezos expeditions capital venture company.

Now he have a net worth of  $182 Billion US dollars making him the richest person of world.

6. Pope Francis

Pope Francis is the spiritual leader of more than 1/6th of total world's population i.e, 1.3 billion people.

Pope Francis was born on 17 December, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received a Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. 

At the age of 21, he suffered from life-threatening pneumonia and three cysts.He had part of a lung excised shortly afterwards.

After this incident he inspired to join the society of jesus in 1958. He become a catholic priest in1969 and further as Argentina's provincial superior of the society of Jesus(Jesuits).

Pope Francis has taken steps in order to transform outstanding conservative image of 

Catholic Church. So In Nov 2016, he decided to give power to the priests to forgive women who undergo abortion, favoured marriage of same orientation. He also advocated necessarily action needed to be taken on climate change. He also promoted humanity and welfare of society by his unique ideas.

7. Bill Gates

Bill gates is well known as Co-founder and CEO of Microsoft Corporation. He is an American business magnate, software developer and philanthropist.

Bill gates was born at Seattle, Washington of United States of America.

At a very small age of 13, he wrote his first software program. Gates was very passionate towards machine that how his written program will run perfectly. Also he was excused from maths classes in order to pursue his interest of writing software codes and executing them.

At age of 18, Bill and his friend Paul Ellen

formed a venture called Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on Intel 8008 process. He was a National Merit scholar when he received his graduation from Lakeside school in 1973. In Autumn of 1973 Bill join Harvard University but dropped out from there. 

In 1975 Bill and his friend Paul Ellen saw big opportunity to start there own software company.

Bill was appointed as Microsoft's CEO in 2000 and remained at this post until hi resignation in 2014. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Gates was the world's highest-earning billionaire in 2013, as his net worth increased by US$15.8 billion to US$78.5 billion. 

In many of his interviews Bill gates has given his concern for future over super- intelligence, climate change, environment, global health and development,and education.

8. Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud was born on 31st August 1985 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He holds a degree in law from King Saud University. After graduating from college, Mohammed bin Salman spent several years in the private sector before becoming personal aide to his father.

On 15 December 2009, at the age of 24, Mohammed bin Salman stepped in politics as a special advisor to his father.

Mohammed bin Salman took the leadership in the restructuring economic power which he officially announced in April 2016 when he introduced Vision 2030, the country's strategic orientation for the next 15 years. Vision 2030 plans to reform Saudi economy towards a more diversified and Private structure. It details goals and measures in various fields, from developing non-oil revenues and privatisation of the economy to e-government and sustainable growth. 

Saudi Prince has also made social reform in society of Saudi Arabia. Some of them are restricting powers of religious police, Removing ban on women drivers in June 2018, allowing concerts by female singers, first stadium which admits women, increasing female population in workforce &  Introduction of new e-visa system that allows applying and issues of Visas through internet. Prince has been in news for some of his controversial decisions too  but his economical , social,foreign policies, defense strategies makes him a global leaders with straight forward visions.

9. Narendra Modi

Here comes the name of the leaders from India the Biggest Democratic country of the world i.e, Narendra Modi.

He is the renowned face among top global leaders. Narendra Modi came into power in common elections for lok sabha seats in may 2014. As a candidate for prime minister from Bhartiya janta Party (BJP) he recorded massive victory over his political rival and formulated an independent government by taking oath 

on 26th may 2014.

Narendra Modi was born on 17 sep,1950 in gujarat(Vadnagar) in India. Going through struggles and hardships in his early life became chief minister of gujarat state in year 2001 and remained chief minister of gujarat state by 24th may, 2014.

Narendra Modi has showed great dedication towards his nation and his work and made remarkable reform in various fields around the country.

His foreign and inter-country policies has given India more strength in excelling  for economically, socially and security strategically purposes.

He is also known for his tough decision making skills. In a big democratic country like India it is not possible to take hard decision so easily but Modi has been succeeded to make it possible with his well pre-planned strategy and leading political approach towards big deals.

Inspite of his tough decision like de -monetisation in India, Goods and services taxes, surgical strickes over Pakistan, anti corruption campaigns,

Again,Indian citizens gave there mandate to Narendra Modi by electing him as prime minister again in 2019 lok sabha elections. It is his second term as prime minister of India .

 

In current scenario, his decisions are working good for his nation's development. His thoughts and strategies put effects on entire globe and welfare of world. Thus he must be on this list.

10. Larry Page

Lawrence Edward Page is  best known as Co-founder of Google. He is an American computer scientist and also an internet entrepreneur. Larry was born on 26th March 1973, Lansing, Michigan.

Larry obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering with honors from University of Michigan and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University. During his master's Larry created a Inkjet printer which uses line plotting after an idea came to him of making a cheap method of printing large size posters.

Page worked as the CEO of Google from 1997 until August 2001 and later stepped down in favor of Eric  Schmidt. Further He became CEO of Alphabet Inc. from April,2011 to July,2015 Which was parent company of Google that was created to given advancement.

Larry earned a lot of profit by creating Google and thus built large amount of wealth. Forbes Magazine placed him 10th in his list named "Billionaires 2019". By the end of July 2020, Larry Page was the 13th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $69.4 billion, according to forbes. In 2015,Forbes identified google as the "most influential company" of digital era.