Aliko Dangote named among 50 world most influential people - See Full List

Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote has been named among the Bloomberg Markets 50 Most Influential personalities in the world 2015.

Dangote who ranked 41 on the list is joined by notable personalities like Barack Obama (6), Pope Francis (31) and Angela Merkel (9). See Full list after the cut..

01

Janet Yellen

02

Xi Jinping

03

Tim Cook

04

Larry Fink

05

Warren Buffett

06

Barack Obama

07

Carl Icahn

08

Lloyd Blankfein

09

Angela Merkel

10

Reid Hoffman

11

Jamie Dimon

12

Abigail Johnson

13

Narendra Modi

14

Mario Draghi

15

Jeff Bezos

16

Ana Botín

17

Jorge Paulo Lemann

18

Ray Dalio

19

Elizabeth Warren

20

Thomas Piketty

21

Jeffrey Gundlach

22

Fan Bao

23

Tidjane Thiam

24

Ruth Porat

25

Elon Musk

26

Paul Singer

27

Marc Andreessen

28

Renaud Laplanche

29

Akio Toyoda

30

Paul Krugman

31

Pope Francis

32

Ellen Kullman

33

Wang Qishan

34

Jonathan Gray

35

Ken Griffin

36

John Stumpf

37

Wang Jianlin

38

Christine Lagarde

39

Jiang Jianqing

40

Jimmy Lai

41

Aliko Dangote

42

Michael Kim

43

John Taylor

44

Blythe Masters

45

George Osborne

46

Richard Thaler

47

Elizabeth Holmes

48

Mo Ibrahim

49

Jane Gladstone

50

Ruchir Sharma