HuffPost's 2011 Game Changers: This Year's Ultimate 12

Last month we announced HuffPost's 2011 Game Changers -- 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are changing the way we look at the world and the way we live in it. And we asked you to weigh in on who the Ultimate Game Changer is in each of our 12 categories: Politics, Green, Media, Style, Food/Travel, Entertainment, Culture, Business/Technology, Sports, World, Impact/Education, and Healthy Living.

The response was tremendous. Thank you! Now it's time to reveal your picks for the Ultimate 12.

They are an eclectic mix of those accustomed to the spotlight and those who have been working under the radar.

So click through the slideshow below to see who the HuffPost community selected as the Ultimate Game Changers.

And congratulations again to all 100 of our 2011 Game Changers. There has seldom been a moment in history in which such people have been more essential. If we're going to overcome the many problems the world is facing, we are going to need all the Game Changers we can find. And those of us in the media will have to do a better job of turning the spotlight on those who are charting the way forward, and inspiring others in their communities to follow suit.

P.S. Check out these videos and photos from last week's Game Changers event -- from the red carpet to the podium and all around the party.

 

 

 

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Comments

[Siebenstein]

01:24 AM on 11/09/2011

No. None of the above.

The number one game changer in 2011 was and is "Occuppy Wall Street" !!

[Mister E]

10:44 PM on 10/29/2011

Have not heard of most of these game changers however I applaud their good works. I do think in such a diverse society 12 is too limiting. This is the World Wide Web there should have been no less than fifty

[Star2000dancer]

04:16 PM on 10/29/2011

Perhaps "Pay it Forward" will pick up mementum next year.

[Star2000dancer]

04:11 PM on 10/29/2011

I'd just been thinking maybe it's time to call the Govenor. Clover Properties have aquired all the Senior Homes here and Nationally. They treat the disabled and anyone on the system like dirt. As they build new Senior Villages with smaller units & $200 more/mo. The richer Seniors run out of here to them. Then they find out it's the same kind of management. They're abusive and need investigation.

Go Gov. Cuomo!

[zooots999]

02:44 PM on 10/29/2011

though these are some impressive people!

[Panther]

07:57 PM on 10/28/2011

No disrespect to Ian Somerhalder, whose activism and celebrity will no doubt introduce many young people to the movement who may not otherwise have cared. He should be applauded to be sure. But to choose him, while Tim DeChristopher languishes in prison for single-handedly saving millions of acres of wilderness from exploitation , reminds me of the funniest joke Jay Leno ever told: "So Nancy Reagan won Humanitarian of the Year last year. Good thing that conniving little b**ch Mother Theresa didn't win!"

[BeerLover]

09:55 PM on 10/26/2011

I have only one thing to tell you about your "game changers" list..... FAIL!!!!!!

[PRONESE]

09:51 PM on 10/26/2011

Judge Charles Ramos may make it 13.
R/ PRONESE

[goodgravy]

09:36 PM on 10/26/2011

HP could be a game changer by quit using the term game changer.

[oldandintheway1]

08:24 PM on 10/26/2011

I guess i really am out of the loop, but then again maybe i've just been to busy earning a living and
trying to pay my bills, and barely getting by to pay much attention to these folks..I'm sorry , i will try harder.

[CanadaStan]

06:40 PM on 10/26/2011

SunNews is the biggest game changer in Canada this year.

[rocket richaard]

05:59 PM on 10/26/2011

How about taking on the NYPD who messede with proteters outside your last event. That might help change the game.

[Mr Hoodoo]

03:12 PM on 10/26/2011

I'm sorry.

What ever credibility you once had on anything has been totally undermined by naming Kim Kardashian a "game changer". Certainly no one out here in the real world would have thought such a ridiculous thing.

With that one choice, proudly made, We, The People, the readers and posters of this site cannot take you seriously until you can justify that choice.

Pay attention to us 99%ers, not your fellow 1%ers.

[Mr Hoodoo]

03:14 PM on 10/26/2011

Nope. Being a 1%er and choosing the vacuous, vapid fellow 1%er Kim Kardashian as a "game changer" completely stripped my ability to take this "award" and the creator of it seriously.

[NyJimbo]

12:37 PM on 10/26/2011

Seems the people didn't think of Kim Kardashian as one of the Ultimate 12. I am shocked, shocked I tell you.