Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African-American president of the United States and a Democratic Party member. He returned to electoral politics in 1997, serving in the Illinois Senate until 2004, when he ran for the United States Senate. Obama gained national attention in 2004 with his March Senate primary victory, his well-received July Democratic Global Convention keynote address, and his landslide November election to the Senate. In 2008, he was nominated for president by the Democratic Party after a close primary battle with Hillary Clinton. Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009, alongside running mate Joe Biden, after defeating Republican contender John McCain in the presidential election. Nine months later, he was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, eliciting both praise and condemnation. Obama was inaugurated for a second term on January 20, 2013, after winning re-election over Republican opponent Mitt Romney. During his tenure, he labeled the 2013 Snowden revelations unpatriotic, but he also urged for more controls on the National Security Agency (NSA) to address privacy concerns. Obama also advocated for LGBT Americans' inclusion. Obama leaves office on January 20, 2017, and remains in Washington, D.C.

During Obama's presidency, the United States' international reputation and economy both improved considerably. Scholars and historians rate him as one of the tops to mid-tier American presidents. After leaving office, Obama remained active in Democratic politics, campaigning for Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections, attending the 2020 Democratic National Convention, and campaigning for Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Outside of politics, Obama has three best-selling novels: Dreams from My Father (1995), The Audacity of Hope (2006), and A Promised Land (2008).

Twitter Handle: @BarackObama
Followers: 132,4M

Justin Bieber is a Canadian singer. Bieber is well-known for his genre-blending musicianship and has had a significant impact on modern popular music. My World 2.0 (2010), Bieber's adolescent pop-driven debut studio album, debuted atop the US Billboard 200, becoming him the youngest solo male performer to top the chart in 47 years. The album spawned the worldwide successful hit "Baby", which went on to become one of the highest certified singles of all time in the United States, and enhanced Bieber's global fans, dubbed "Beliebers", a portmanteau of Bieber and "believer". Bieber debuted in EDM with the release of "Where Are Ü Now", which received the Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Recording in 2015.

Bieber is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, with over 150 million records sold worldwide. He has three RIAA Diamond distinctions for his songs "Baby", "Sorry", and "Despacito". He has two Grammy Awards, one Latin Grammy Award, eight Juno Awards, two Brit Awards, one Bambi Award, 26 Billboard Music Awards, 18 American Music Awards, 21 MTV Europe Music Awards (the most wins for any artist), 23 Teen Choice Awards (the most wins for a male individual), and 33 Guinness World Records to his name. Time named Bieber one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2011, and he was on Forbes' list of the top ten most powerful celebrities in 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Twitter Handle: @justinbieber
Followers: 114,1M

Elon Musk is a business magnate and investor. Musk has an estimated net worth of roughly $238 billion as of September 26, 2022, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes' real-time billionaire list. Musk started SpaceX, an aircraft manufacturer, and space transport services company, in 2002, and he currently serves as CEO and Chief Engineer. He was an early investor in electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. in 2004. (now Tesla, Inc.). He moved through the ranks to become the company's chairman and product architect before becoming CEO in 2008. He was a founding member of SolarCity, which Tesla acquired and renamed Tesla Energy. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a non-profit research organization dedicated to the advancement of friendly artificial intelligence (AI). In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup focused on developing brain-computer interfaces, and The Boring Company, a tunnel construction firm. Musk is the founder and chairman of the Musk Foundation, which promotes scientific research and education. He has proposed a high-speed hyperloop vactrain transportation system.

Musk has been chastised for making unscientific and provocative statements, such as propagating misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and supporting divisive political and technological viewpoints, particularly on Twitter. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States sued Musk in 2018 for tweeting that he had secured funds for a private acquisition of Tesla, which the SEC described as false and deceptive. He reached an agreement with the SEC but did not acknowledge guilt, and he stood aside as Tesla's chairman for the time being. In 2019, he prevailed in a slander suit launched against him by a British caver who assisted in the Tham Luang cave rescue. In 2022, Musk agreed to purchase Twitter for $44 billion but later submitted a termination letter of the deal, leading to lawsuits between both parties.

Twitter Handle: @elonmusk
Followers: 102,7M

Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and captains the Portugal national team. Ronaldo is widely recognized as one of the greatest players of all time, having won five Ballon d'Or trophies and four European Golden Shoes, the most ever by a European player. In his career, he has won 32 trophies, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, and the UEFA European Championship. Ronaldo has the marks for most Champions League appearances (183), goals (140), assists (42), goals in the European Championship (14), international goals (117), and international appearances by a European player (191). He is one of the only handful of players who have appeared in over 1,100 professional games and scored over 800 official senior career goals for the club and country.

Ronaldo made his debut for Portugal as an 18-year-old in 2003 and has since amassed over 190 caps, making him the country's most-capped player. He is also the nation's all-time leading scorer with nearly 100 international goals. Ronaldo scored his first international goal as Portugal advanced to the Euro 2004 final. He was selected captain of the national squad in July 2008. In 2015, the Portuguese Football Federation named Ronaldo the greatest Portuguese player of all time. The next year, he guided Portugal to its first major tournament victory, earning the Silver Boot as the tournament's second-highest goalscorer. He also led them to victory in the inaugural UEFA Nations League in 2019, and he went on to win the Golden Boot as the best scorer at Euro 2020. Ronaldo, one of the world's most marketable and popular athletes, was named Forbes' highest-paid athlete in 2016 and 2017, and ESPN's most famous athlete from 2016 to 2019. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. He is the first footballer and just the third athlete in history to earn $1 billion in his career.

Twitter Handle: @Cristiano
Followers: 102,6M

Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current prime minister of India since 2014. Modi served as Gujarat's chief minister from 2001 to 2014 and is a Member of Parliament from Varanasi. He is a supporter of the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organization. He is the longest-serving prime minister from a political party other than the Indian National Congress. Modi was born and raised in Vadnagar, Gujarat, and completed his secondary school there. He was introduced to the RSS when he was eight years old. He began working full-time with the RSS in 1971.

Following the earthquake in Bhuj in 2001, Modi was appointed Chief Minister of Gujarat due to Keshubhai Patel's worsening health and poor public image. Modi was elected to the parliamentary assembly rapidly. His administration has been accused of complicity in the 2002 Gujarat riots, which killed 1044 people, three-quarters of whom were Muslims or has been rebuked for how it handled the situation. Modi led the BJP to victory in the 2014 general election, giving the party a majority in India's lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, for the first time since 1984. Modi's government has attempted to stimulate foreign direct investment in the Indian economy while cutting spending on healthcare, education, and social welfare programs. Modi consolidated power by dissolving the Planning Commission. He oversaw the country's response to the COVID-19 epidemic. Modi has received continuously strong approval ratings during his tenure. Modi is considered as causing a political realignment toward right-wing politics, and his handling of the Gujarat riots in 2002 has been seen as evidence of an exclusionary social agenda both locally and abroad.

Twitter Handle: @narendramodi
Followers: 81,3M

Justin Timberlake is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. With over 88 million record sales, he is one of the world's best-selling musicians. Timberlake has received numerous prizes and distinctions, including 10 Grammy Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, three Brit Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, the Songwriters Hall of Fame's Contemporary Icon Award, and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. According to Billboard, he is the best-performing male soloist in Mainstream Top 40 ever. Timberlake's R&B-focused debut solo album Justified (2002) and it's single "Cry Me a River" earned him two Grammy Awards. "Rock Your Body", another single from the album, was also a hit. Established as a solo artist worldwide, his first two albums both exceeded sales of 10 million copies, as he continued producing records and collaborating with other artists.

Timberlake's music career restarted in 2013 with the release of his third and fourth albums, The 20/20 Experience and The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2, which explored neo-soul sounds inspired by the vast song structures of the 1960s and 1970s rock. The former was the year's best-selling album, and it yielded the top three singles "Suit & Tie" (with Jay-Z) and "Mirrors". Timberlake portrayed Branch in DreamWorks Animation's Trolls (2016), whose music contains his fifth Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single, "Can't Stop the Feeling!", for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Man of the Woods (2018), his fifth studio album, became his fourth number-one record in the United States. Supported by the two top ten singles, "Filthy" and "Say Something" (featuring Chris Stapleton), it concluded 2018 as the sixth best-selling album of the year.

Twitter Handle: @jtimberlake

Followers: 63M

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He and his late childhood friend Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. During his tenure at Microsoft, Gates held the offices of chairman, CEO, president, and chief software architect, as well as being the company's largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He was a key figure in the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. During the late 1990s, he was reprimanded for his anti-competitive business activities. This opinion has been supported by numerous court decisions. Since 1987, Gates has been on Forbes' list of the world's wealthiest people. Except for 2010 and 2013, he was the world's richest person every year from 1995 to 2017. In October 2017, he was eclipsed by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who had an estimated net worth of $90.6 billion at the time, compared to Gates' net worth of $89.9 billion. Gates has an estimated net worth of US$110 billion as of September 2022, making him the world's sixth richest person.

Since quitting Microsoft's day-to-day operations in 2008, Gates has pursued other corporate and social endeavors. He started and now serves as chairman of several companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, bgC3, and TerraPower. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private foundation, he has made major contributions to a number of humanitarian organizations and scientific research endeavors. In the early twenty-first century, he oversaw a vaccine campaign that contributed significantly to the eradication of wild poliovirus in Africa. Gates and Warren Buffett formed The Giving Pledge in 2010, in which they and other billionaires promised to contribute at least half of their fortunes to charity.

Twitter Handle: @BillGates

Followers: 60.3M

Neymar is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Brazil national team. He is recognized as one of the top players in the world due to his prolific goalscoring and legendary playmaking. Neymar is one of three players in history to have scored at least 100 goals for three separate clubs. Neymar rose to popularity with Santos, when he made his professional debut when he was 17 years old. Neymar was crowned South American Footballer of the Year twice, in 2011 and 2012, and moved to Europe to join Barcelona. Motivated to become a club talisman, Neymar joined PSG in 2017 for €222 million, making him the most expensive player in history. In France, he won four league titles and was named Ligue 1 Player of the Year in his rookie season, among other accolades. Notably, he helped PSG attain a domestic quadruple in the 2019–20 season, and led the club to its first-ever Champions League Final.

With 75 goals in 121 appearances for Brazil since his debut at the age of 18, Neymar is the country's second-highest goalscorer, after only Pelé. He played a key role in Brazil's victory in the 2011 South American Youth Championship, finishing as the tournament's top goalscorer, and he won a silver medal in men's football at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2013, as well as the Golden Ball the following year. Neymar has twice been nominated to the FIFA FIFPro World11, twice to the UEFA Team of the Year, and three times to the UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season, finishing third for the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2015 and 2017. He has also been named to the FIFA FIFPro World11, the UEFA Team of the Year twice, and the UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season three times. Off the field, he is recognized as one of the most prominent athletes in the world. SportsPro ranked him the most marketable athlete in the world in 2012 and 2013, and ESPN labeled him the world's fourth-most known athlete in 2016. In 2017, he was selected to Time magazine's annual list of the world's 100 most influential people. France Football ranked Neymar the world's third highest-paid footballer in 2018. The following year, Forbes named him the world's third highest-paid athlete, a position he will hold until 2020.

Twitter Handle: @neymarjr

LeBron James is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and is sometimes compared to Michael Jordan in disputes over who is the greatest basketball player of all time. James has four NBA championships, four NBA MVPs, four NBA Finals MVPs, three All-Star MVPs, and two Olympic gold medals to his name. James has the most playoff points, the second most career points, and the seventh most career assists. He has been named an NBA All-Star 18 times, a record 18 times to the All-NBA Team, and five times to the NBA All-Defensive First Team. He has appeared in eleven NBA Finals, the third most all-time, including eight straight from 2011 to 2018. In 2021, James was selected to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team, and in 2022 became the first player in NBA history to accumulate 10,000 or more career points, rebounds, and assists.

James played basketball for St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, and was praised by the national media as a possible NBA great. As a prep-to-pro prospect, he was selected first overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2003 NBA draft. In 2004, he was voted NBA Rookie of the Year, and he rapidly established himself as one of the league's top players, winning the NBA MVP award in 2009 and 2010. While playing for the Miami Heat in 2012 and 2013, James earned his first two NBA championships. He was also named league MVP and Finals MVP in both of these seasons. In addition, James became the first active player in NBA history to earn $1 billion in earnings. Off the court, James has accumulated more wealth and fame from numerous endorsement contracts. He has been featured in books, documentaries (including winning two Sports Emmy Awards as an executive producer), and television commercials.

Twitter Handle: @KingJames

Followers: 52.1M

James Thomas Fallon (born September 19, 1974) is an American comedian, television host, actor, and writer. He is most known for his work on Saturday Night Live and as the host of the late-night talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, which he took over after Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ended. Fallon grew up with a love of humor and music and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21 to pursue stand-up comedy. In 1998, he was cast as a member of Saturday Night Live, achieving a longstanding desire. Between 1998 and 2004, he co-hosted SNL's Weekend Update section for six years, becoming well-known in the process. He departed the show to feature in films including Taxi (2004) and Fever Pitch (2006). (2005).

Fallon returned to television in 2009 as the host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC, where he became noted for his emphasis on music and video games. In 2014, he left that show to become the sixth permanent host of the long-running Tonight Show. In addition to his television appearances, he has released two comedy CDs and seven novels, the majority of which are directed at youngsters.

Twitter Handle: @jimmyfallon

Followers: 51.3M