Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen are among nine Indians who figure in the annual Time magazine list of 100 most influential people. <br/><br/>The alumnae chart is topped by Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. <br/><br/>The magazine recognised Prime Minister Singh's contribution towards liberalising the economy and guiding India into the ranks of the great powers. <br/><br/>The magazine said, the long history of India boasts many great leaders but the much shorter history of Indian democracy is already creating its own heroes, and Manmohan Singh, 77, is one of them.<br/><br/>Other Indians on the list of most influential people are:<br/><br/>Eye specialist Perumalsamy Namperumalsam, humanitarian worker Sanjit Buker Roy, writer Chetan Bhagat, Indian-America doctor and Harvard professor Atul Gwande, paramedic from Toronto Rahul Singh and entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.<br/><br/>About Tendulkar, the magazine writes that to millions of Indians and countless fans around the world, Tendulkar's double century – 200 runs – in a One Day International match, which caps a career of record-breaking feats, arouses a sense of awe.<br/><br/>Tendulkar, 37, stands for national dignity in a way that perhaps only a postcolonial nation can understand.<br/><br/>Describing Amartya Sen as occasionally loquacious, often ironic, usually genial, always brilliant, the magazine noted that the economist's notion of measuring human development is now central to the work of the UN and the World Bank.