Beyoncé has landed the cover of Time magazine’s annual ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’. The pop queen beat other names on the list — from President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Vladimir Putin, Pope Francis and Miley Cyrus – to feature on the coveted cover. Further covers placed inside the magazine feature actor Robert Redford, the NBA’s first openly gay athlete Jason Collins, and General Motors CEO Mary Barra. Time’s ‘Most Influential’ list names people who have inspired others, regardless of their moral standing. Beyoncé appears in the ‘Titans’ section of the list alongside Pharrell Williams, Hillary Clinton and Jeff Bezos, while other sections include Pioneers, Artists, Leaders and Icons. Time listed Kerry Washington, Amy Adams, Frozen songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez about the most influential artists of the year. Late Night host Seth Meyers, country musician Carrie Underwood, Pharrell Williams, Russian President Vladimir Putin and singer Miley Cyrus also feature in the magazine. And interestingly, each person on the list is profiled by another famous figure; Malala Yousafzai wrote about Hillary Clinton in this issue, while Amy Poehler wrote about Seth Meyers, and Dolly Parton wrote about Miley Cyrus.

– Daily Mail

A SELECTION OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL . . .

‘TITANS’

Beyoncé

Pony Ma, founder of Tencent, one of China’s biggest Internet companies

Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve chair

Tony Fadell, engineer, ‘father of the iPod’

Sheika al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Qatar Museums Authority chair

Pharrell Williams, singer Happy

Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, founders of Snapchat app

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man

Serena Williams, tennis champion

Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme

David Koch and Charles Koch, billionaire activists driving conservative politics

Hillary Clinton

‘ARTISTS’

Benedict Cumberbatch

Seth Meyers

Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, songwriters for Frozen

Kerry Washington

Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author

Amy Adams

John Green, author of young adult fiction

Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave director

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, from Comedy Central’s Key and Peele

Diane Paulus, theatre director

Robin Wright

Matthew McConaughey

Miley Cyrus

Yao Chen, Chinese actress

Barbara Brown Taylor, acclaimed Episcopal preacher and best-selling author

‘PIONEERS’

Jason Collins, NBA’s first openly gay player

Natalie Massenet, founder of Net-a-Porter

Mary Jo White, chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Tom Steyer, hedge fund manager and environmentalist

Jack Ma, Chinese Internet entrepreneur

Richard Sherman, Seattle Seahawks cornerback

Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity director

Megan Ellison, film producer

Robert Lanza, leading cell scientist

Megyn Kelly, Fox news reporter

Arvind Kejriwal, leader of Aam Aadmi Party in India

Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, founder of school in Uganda

John Kovac, Harvard University astrophysicist

Travis Kalanick, founder of Uber

Jenji Kohan, writer for Weeds and Orange Is the New Black

Lydia Ko, New Zealand golfer

Anat Admati, Stanford economist

Obadah al-Kaddri, Syrian activist

David Sinclair, Harvard geneticist

Kathryn Sullivan, geologist

José Mujica, president of Uruguay

Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower

Major General Herbert Raymond McMaster, ‘the architect of the future US Army’

Imam Omar Kobine Layama, Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga and The Rev Nicolas Guérékoyame-Gbangou, ‘faith leaders on the front line’

Hosain Rahman, designer of wearable technology

Arunachalam Muruganantham, Indian inventor

Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist

‘LEADERS’

Mary Barra, General Motors CEO

John Kerry, Secretary of State

Vladimir Putin, Russian president

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist

Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran

Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin

Ory Okolloh, Kenyan activist

Shinzo Abe, prime minister of Japan

Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian military commander

Xi Jinping, Chinese president

Barack Obama

Withelma “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew, sex trafficking survivor

Narendra Modi, Indian politican

Eric Holder

Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile

Andrew Haldane, senior official at the Bank of England

Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany

Jerry Brown, governor of California

Thuli Madonsela, South Africa human rights lawyer

Rand Paul, senator, Kentucky

Kirsten Gillibrand, senator, New York

Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela

Abdullah Gul, president of Turkey

Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader

Abu Du’a (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), Iraqi leader