10 Most powerful People In The World
10Most Powerful People in the world. A list compiled annually by Forbes, the list totals 75 lists of individuals around the world. In this article we are picking the top 10 of the most powerful people in the list.
The list of the top 10 most powerful people in the world
1. Xi Jinping
XI Jinping was born 15th of June 1953 at Fuping County (The province of Shaanxi) in China. HE is the current president of China since March 2013 and was re-elected to office in March 2018.
2. Vladmir Putin
Vladmir Putin was born on the 7th of October, 1952. He is the current President of Russia. HE has served other roles before becoming a President. He was once an Intelligent Officer, a prime minister, and he is also the second-longest seating President in the European Region.
3. Donald Trump
Donald Trump was born on the 14th June 1946 in Queens, New York City, in the United States of America (USA). He was the 45th President of the United States of America serving from 2017 to 2021.
He owns the trump Organization formally known as Fred Trump’s real estate. His company has further gone into other sectors like building and renovation of Skyscrapers, Building Casinos, Golf Courses, and Hotels.
4. Angela Merkel
Angela Merkal is according to this 2018 rating in 2021, is the most powerful woman in the world. She was born on17th July 1954. She is the Chancellor of Germany. She is a member of Christian Democratic Union. The first female Chancellor in Germany.
5. Jeff Bezos
Jeffery Preston Bezoz aka Jeff Bezos was on 12th January 1964 from Albuquerque. He was raised in Miami and Houston in the United States of America.
He has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of of Princeton in 1986.
He founded Amazon ( Amazon.com) and he is has served in the roles of CEO, Chairman, President, and Current the executive Chairman of Amazon.
As at August 2021, He is the second world richest person with a net worth of about 190 Billion Dollars according to Forbes.
Amazon began as a website that sells online books then moved to e-commerce, Cloud Computing, artificial intelligence, and Cloud Infrastructure like AWS ( Amazon web services).
He is also the founder Blue Origin and aerospace manufacturer which space companies.
6. Pope Francis
Pope Francis with the birth name Jorge Marios Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires in Argentina on 17th December 1936. He has had jobs like being a bouncer and Janitor while he was young. He has also worked as a technician for a laboratory that deals in food science. He joined The Society of Jesus known as The Jesuits in 1958 and was ordained as a Catholic Priest in 1969.
He is head of the Catholic Church also sovereign of the Vatican City State since 2013.
7. Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III aka Bill Gates was born on the 28th of October, 1955 in Seattle Washington DC. He is the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. He is a software developer, investor, philanthropist, and author.
He was the company CEO and chairman up till January 2020.
8. Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud aka MBS was born on 31 August, 1985 from Saudi Arabia. He is a Politician since 21st June 2017 and a Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
He is the current Deputy Prime Minister in the country.
9 Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on 17 September, 1950 from Vadnagar in Gujarat in India. HE is the Prime Minister of India since 2014.
He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organization.
10. Larry Page
Lawrence Edward Page aka Larry Page was borin on the 26 March, 1973. He is one of the founders of Google. He was the CEO of google between 1997 and 2001, Also CEO of Alphabet a company by google where he held this post to 4th December, 2019.