TIME.com is currently conducting polling on the world's 100 most influential people. So who will ultimately be in the Top 10 list? Anyway, the individuals below currently occupying the top 10 ranking, for their own innovations and influences.1. Lady Gaga, Musician, diva
Lady Gaga (or her real name, Stefani Joanne Germanotta) has become famous by being obsessed with fame (her two albums are called The Fame and The Fame Monster). It's performance art, and at least for now, everyone is loving the performance. Read Top 10 Albums of 2009
2. Kim Yu-Na, Figure skater
Kim earned South Korea's first ever Olympic figure-skating medal, a gold one at that, during the Vancouver Games.
3. Jeff Bridges, Actor
Bridges has won over critics and audiences alike in a variety of roles since beginning his film career in the early 1970s.
4. Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State
President Obama tapped his former primary opponent to be America's top diplomat, and in 2009 she became a key member of his team, overseeing outreach to Iran, nuclear talks with Russia and a surge in advisers to Afghanistan.
5. Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
Intense, driven and just plain restless, Sarkozy has set a pace of reform and policymaking that allies and opponents alike struggle to keep up with.
6. James Cameron, Writer, filmmaker, producer, explorer
Twelve years after he accepted an Oscar for helming the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron released a movie that topped his own box-office record and, oh yeah, changed moviegoing forever. The first film to assert 3-D technique as genuine artistic device, Avatar didn't just entrance audiences around the world; it altered the way Hollywood studios thought about making and marketing blockbusters. Read Everyone going for 3D
7. Muammar Gaddafi, ruler of Libya
The world's third-longest-serving leader, and perhaps its most theatrically dressed, Gaddafi likes traveling with a retinue of female bodyguards and a Bedouin tent.
8. Sandra Bullock, Actress
Smart? Check. Funny? Check. Beautiful yet seemingly down-to-earth movie star? Check. Bullock has been on America's radar for more than a decade, but her recent performance in The Blind Side caught Hollywood's attention and earned her the coveted Best Actress Oscar at this year's Academy Awards.
9. Sarah Palin, Former governor of Alaska
he former Republican vice-presidential candidate resigned her position as Alaska's governor to pursue public speaking, book writing and a career as a Fox News pundit, but she remains a leading voice in the party and a potential contender for the 2012 nomination for President. Read also Sarah Palin Double In Nailin Paylin Porno
10. Lindsey Vonn, Olympic ski racer
Vonn wrote history in Vancouver, overcoming a shin injury to become the first American woman to win a gold medal in the downhill, the most prestigious ski race at the Games (she nabbed a bronze in the super-G too).
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