The 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century

We set out to find them across every field of endeavor, the people who are bending history right now. It was an impossible task, but the result is a determined, defiant, earnest, brilliant, philanthropic, space-going, smoking-hot group, and together they are writing the first chapter of the rest of our lives.
Roman Abramovich // © TassPhoto/WireImage
TassPhoto/WireImage

Roman Abramovich

41, oilman and owner of the Chelsea football club, Moscow and London

Because he's one of the richest men in Russia and Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarch.

 
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