Indians on Times list

Here's a list of the proud Indians to be featured on the Times List of top 100 people from around the world. Bollywood sensation Aishwarya Rai Bachchan tops the Time 100 Alumnae list. The former Miss World, secures a position on the list of the people who most affect our world.

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar gets the 13th place among 25 'Heroes' headed by former US president Bill Clinton. Sachin is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsman in the history of cricket. The guy who just knows how to spell bound his fans and peers with his magical knocks on the field.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is among nine Indians figuring in Time magazine's annual list of 100 most influential people. He finds himself in the 19th spot in the Leaders list headed by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with US president Barack Obama in the fourth place.

Blockbuster author Chetan Bhagat is the lone Indian in the list of 'Artists' headed by extravagantly outfitted singer Lady Gaga. Author of bestsellers, 'One Night @ the Call Centre' and 'Five Point Someone' is among the list of Indians to be featured on the Times list.

Entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar Shaw gets the 16th spot among 'heroes' for donating $2 million to support health insurance coverage for 100,000 Indian villagers and another $10 million for creating the 1,400-bed Mazumdar-Shaw Cancer Centre in Bangalore. (BCCL/Narasimha Murthy)

Nobel prize winner economist Amartya Sen is 20th on the 'Thinkers' list. He is known as 'the Conscience of Economics' for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, gender inequality and political liberalism.