People Covered

Zackie Achmat, South African HIV/AIDS activist

Edward Fenech Adami, Prime Minister of Malta

Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer

Alexy II, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church

Michèle Alliot-Marie, French defense minister

Kazem al-Sahir, Iraqi singer

Martin Amis, British writer

Amma, Indian Hindu guru, humanitarian, and philanthropist

Giovanni Anselmo, Italian artist

Christine Anu, Australian singer and actress

Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese photographer

Asia Argento, Italian actress, writer, and director

Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader

Dora Bakoyianni, Mayor of Athens, Greece

Eric Bana, Australian actor

Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian

David Beckham, British soccer player

Steve Bell, British political cartoonist

Monica Bellucci, Italian actress

Wolf Biermann, German poet and songwriter

Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian biathlete

Hans Blix, Former Chief Weapons Inspector for the United Nations

Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission

Orlando Bloom, British actor

Adrián Caetano, Argentine filmmaker

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter

Mohamed ibn Chambas, Executive Secretary of ECOWAS

The Cheeky Girls, Romanian pop music duo

Hermann Chinery-Hesse, Ghanaian software entrepreneur

Stephen Chow, Chinese actor, director, and screenwriter

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French-German politician

Hans Corell, United Nations (UN) Undersecretary General for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel

Raúl Corrales, Cuban photographer

Russell Coutts, New Zealand yachtsman

Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican filmmaker

Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, Brazilian mathematician

Inul Daratista, Indonesian singer and dancer

Luiz Inácio da Silva, President of Brazil

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General of NATO

Lee Demarbre, Canadian filmmaker

Dominique Deruddere, Belgian filmmaker

Dominique de Villepin, French foreign minister

Kristin Krohn Devold, Norwegian defense minister

El-Hadji Diouf, Senegalese soccer player

Howard Eastman, Guyanese/English boxer

Mohamed ElBaradei, Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Ernie Els, South African golfer

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey

Luis Figo, Portuguese soccer player

Gianfranco Fini, Deputy prime minister of Italy and leader of the National Alliance party

Flaming Sideburns, Finnish rock band

Fou Ts’ong, Chinese pianist

Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor

Subhash Ghai, Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer

Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer and songwriter

Amos Gitai, Israeli filmmaker

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican filmmaker

Susan Greenfield, British neuroscientist

Herbert Grönemeyer, German rock musician

David Gulpilil, Australian actor

Georg Hackl, German luger

Zaha M Hadid, Iraqi architect

Claudie Haigneré, French astronaut and cabinet minister

Christine Hakim, Indonesian actress and social activist

Johnny Hallyday, French rock musician

Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch member of parliament

Iben Hjejle, Danish actress

Eric J Hobsbawm, British historian

Stanley Ho, Chinese gambling mogul

Hu Jintao, President of China

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Egyptian social scientist and political dissident

Chie Imai, Japanese fashion designer and entrepreneur

Eddie Izzard, British comedian and actor

Asma Jahangir, Pakistani human rights lawyer and activist

Joyce Jimenez, Philippine-American actress and businesswoman

Juan Carlos I, King of Spain

Juanes, Colombian singer

Stephen Kakfwi, Premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories

Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish actor and film director

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, CEO of the Russian oil company Yukos

Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast

Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya

Vitali Klitschko, Ukranian boxer

Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater

Wim Kok, Dutch politician

Lajos Koltai, Hungarian cinematographer

Baltasar Kormákur, Icelandic director, actor, and screenwriter

Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player

Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer and songwriter

Guy Laliberté, Canadian co-founder and CEO of Cirque du Soleil

Lang Lang, Chinese classical pianist

Tommy Lapid, Israeli Minister of Justice and leader of the Shinui Party

Nigella Lawson, British cookbook author and television personality

Jong-Wook Lee, Director general of the World Health Organization (WHO)

Cecile Licad, Philippine classical pianist

Li Ka-Shing, Chinese entrepreneur

Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mayor of Mexico City

Ruud Lubbers, United Nations High Commission for Refugees

Ricardo Maduro, President of Honduras

Hermann Maier, Austrian skier

Samira Makhmalbaf, Iranian filmmaker

Peter Zvi Malkin, Israeli spy, author, and painter

Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer

Vincent Maphai, South African businessman

Herbert F Mataré, Swiss physicist and developer of the transitron

Cynthia Maung, Burmese doctor and social activist

Theresa May, Chairman of the British Conservative Party

Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish-Zimbabwean writer

Julio Medem, Spanish director and screenwriter

Péter Medgyessy, Prime Minister of Hungary

Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker

Roger Milla, Cameroonian soccer player and UNAIDS ambassador

Kylie Minogue, Australian pop star and actress

Mario Miranda, Indian cartoonist

Narendra Modi, Chief minister of Gujarat, India

Salvador Moncada, Honduran-born pharmacologist

Lukas Moodysson, Swedish filmmaker

Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer, author, and television host

Alison Moyet, British singer

Bakili Muluzi, President of Malawˆi

Ricardo Muñoz, Mexican chef

Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia

Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball manager

Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi writer

Thandie Newton, British actress

Yukio Ninagawa, Japanese theater director

Saparmyrat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan

Les Nubians, French music duo

Miranda Otto, Australian actres

François Ozon, French film director and screenwriter

René Pape, German opera singer

Daniel M Pauly, Canadian fisheries expert

Oswaldo Payá, Cuban dissident

Malik Peiris, Sri Lankan epidemiologist

Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Sarah Polley, Canadian actress

Enrique Ponce, Spanish bullfighter

Franka Potente, German actress

Rodrigo Prieto, Mexican cinematographer

Philip Pullman, British author

Paula Radcliffe, British middle-distance and marathon runner

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France

Raffi, Canadian musician

Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress

Joël Robuchon, French chef and restauranteur

Antonio Rodotà, Italian aerospace engineer and administrator

Roh Moo Hyun, President of South Korea

Salman Rushdie, British writer

Kaija Saariaho, Finnish composer

Marat Safin, Russian tennis player

Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese video game designer

Sambrook, Richard, British news director

Eduardo Sanchez Junco, Spanish publisher

Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter

Oumou Sangare, Malian singer

Katrin Saß, German actress

Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist

Michael Schumacher, German race car driver

Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer

Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician

Saira Shah, British journalist and documentary filmmaker

Pope Shenouda III, Egyptian leader of the Christian Coptic Orthodox Church

Sigur Rós, Icelandic music group

John Simpson, Chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary

Carlos Slim Helù, Mexican financier

Sompop Jantraka, Thai children’s activist

Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian-British writer

Kári Stefánsson, Icelandic neuropathologist and CEO of deCODE Genetics

Yu Suzuki, Japanese video game designer

Oumou Sy, Senegalese fashion designer and entrepreneur

Ryoko Tamura, Japanese judo champion

Tatu, Russian pop music duo

Nicholas Terrett, British pharmacologist and co-inventor of Viagra

Naresh Trehan, Indian heart surgeon and hospital administrator

Paul Twomey, Australian president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Jan Ullrich, German cyclist

Jørn Utzon, Danish architect

Paula van der Oest, Dutch film director and writer

Vangelis, Greek composer and musician

Giuliano Vangi, Italian sculptor

Jorge Vergara Madrigal, Mexican entrepreneur

Wang Nan, Chinese table tennis player

Steve Waugh, Australian cricket player

Papa Wemba, Congolese musician

Wen Jiabao, Premier of China

Hayley Wickenheiser, Canadian hockey player

Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist

Xie Jin, Chinese filmmaker

Xu Wenli, Chinese democracy activist

Koji Yamamura, Japanese animator

Yang Lan, Chinese talk show host and businesswoman

Yanni, Greek composer and musician

Yun Jong Yong, President and CEO of Samsung Electronics

Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American political scientist and editor of Newsweek International

Zhang Ning, Chinese badminton player

Zhang Yimou, Chinese filmmaker

Zhou Hai, Chinese photographer

Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People’s Bank of China

Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh