Meet The 30 Most Influential Teenagers of 2015

According to TIME, the most influential teenagers across the globe include a wide assortment of actresses, Youtube stars, Nobel Peace prize winners, athletes, a First Daughter and yes, of course, the youngest members of the Kardashian-Jenner clan. The annual list has been released, unveiling the rising young stars of 2015 to keep an eye on. The unordered ranking, which instead lists teenagers from youngest to oldest, selected the teens based on global impact through social media as well as the ability to drive news.

Here is the list of this year’s 30 most influential teenagers:

Moziah Bridges, 13

Young entrepreneur Moziah Bridges appeared on the hit ABC investment television series Shark Tank last September and now, thanks largely to his investor and mentor Daymond John, his bow tie business has skyrocketed. In a feature piece on Entrepreneur.com , it is highlighted that Mo’s Bows has now shown at New York City’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

Maddie Ziegler, 13

Madison “Maddie” Nicole Ziegler is an American child dancer, actress and model. She is known for appearing in Lifetime’s long-running reality show Dance Moms and for starring in music videos of Sia’s songs, including “Chandelier” and “Elastic Heart”, which cumulatively have attracted more than 1.4 billion views on YouTube.

Rowan Blanchard, 14

Rowan Blanchard is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Riley Matthews on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World. Blanchard began acting at the age of five. In 2010,

Ashima Shiraishi, 14

Ashima Shiraishi is an American rock climber. She is known for being one of the strongest young climbers – male or female – of all time. She started climbing in Central Park at age seven, and at Brooklyn Boulders.

Ahmed Mohamed, 14

Ahmed Mohamed became the subject of national news in September when he went to school with a suspicious looking device which he claimed was a clock he invented. Ahmed and his family received tons of attention from the media and he was even invited to the White House.

Jazz Jennings, 15

Jazz Jennings is an American transgender girl, YouTube personality, spokesmodel and LGBTQ rights activist. Jennings is notable for being one of the youngest publicly documented people to be identified as gender dysphoric , and for being the youngest person to become a national transgender figure.

Chloe Kim, 15

Chloe Kim is an elite American snowboarder. Kim earned silver in superpipe in the 2014 Winter X Games, coming behind Kelly Clark. Chloe won Gold in the super pipe event in the 2015 Winter X Games beating Kelly Clark.

Flynn McGarry, 16

Chef Flynn McGarry is just sixteen years old, but you’d never guess it from his latest project. He just began a pop-up dinner series where a reservation will cost you $160 a head — plus an additional $80 for wine pairings.

Martin Odegaard, 16

Martin Ødegaard is a Norwegian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Spanish club Real Madrid Castilla and the Norway national team.

Amandla Stenberg, 17

Amandla Stenberg is an American actress and filmmaker. She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

Shawn Mendes, 17

Shawn Peter Raul Mendes is a Canadian singer and songwriter. He attracted a following in 2013, when he began posting song covers on the popular video sharing application Vine.

Jaden Smith, 17

Jaden Christopher Syre Smith is an American actor and rapper. He is the son of actors Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, elder brother of singer Willow Smith and younger half-brother of Trey Smith.

Malia Obama, 17

The oldest First Daughter, Malia, is described as a “full-fledged cultural icon” by TIME. That title is perfect for the first daughter whose fashion choices and college visits are followed by millions of Americans. Like her parents, this 17-year-old Obama has big things ahead of her.

Ariel Winter, 17

Ariel Winter is an American actress, singer, model and voice actress. She is best known as Alex Dunphy in the TV series Modern Family, as well as the voice of the title character in the Disney Junior show Sofia the First.

William Turton, 17

William Turton of Cosby High School is a reporter who has broken many national stories about hacking this past year. He was the first to report about Planned Parenthood’s hack and the first to break the story of New York Magazine’s cyber-attack after its Bill Cosby cover.

Silentó, 17

Richard Lamar Hawk, better known by his stage name Silentó, is an American hip hop and R&B recording artist. He is best known for his debut single “Watch Me” which peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Bindi Irwin, 17

Bindi Sue Irwin is an Australian actress, television presenter, and conservationist. She is the daughter of Steve Irwin and Terri Irwin.

Olivia Hallisey, 17

Olivia Hallisey, a 17 year old girl who designed a low cost, portable test for Ebola, is the grand prize winner of the 2015 Google Science Fair.

Malala Yousafzai, 18

Malala Yousafzai S.St is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.

Kylie Jenner, 18

Kylie Kristen Jenner is an American reality television personality, socialite and model. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, she is best known for appearing on the E! reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Tiffany Zhong, 18

Tiffany “Tiff” Zhong is an entrepreneur and venture capital analyst. She began her career while still in high school in Menlo Park, California as Chief Product Officer for the now defunct startup, Glimpse Labs.

Maisie Williams, 18

Maisie Williams is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Arya Stark in the HBO television series Game of Thrones, which earned her the 2012 Portal Awards for Best Supporting Actress.

Lydia Ko, 18

Lydia Ko is a New Zealand professional golfer who became the No. 1 ranked woman professional golfer on 2 February 2015 at 17 years 9 months 8 days of age, making her the youngest player of either sex to be ranked No. 1 in professional golf.

Katie Ledecky, 18

Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky is an American competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, nine-time world champion, and current world record holder in multiple events. She is the current world record-holder in the 400-, 800-, and 1,500-meter freestyle.

Zendaya, 19

Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman, known simply as Zendaya, is an American singer, actress, dancer, and model.

Joshua Wong, 19

Joshua Wong Chi-fung is a Hong Kong student activist who is the convenor and founder of the Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism.

Kendall Jenner, 19

Kendall Nicole Jenner is an American fashion model and television personality. Jenner first came to public attention for appearing in the E! reality television show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Bethany Mota, 19

Bethany Noel Mota is an American video blogger from Los Banos, California. Starting with her YouTube channel, Macbarbie07, created in 2009, she rose to fame for her haul videos, in which she shows her fashion purchases via the internet.

Kim Kataguiri, 19

Lele Pons, 19

Eleonora Pons, more commonly known as Lele Pons, is an Internet personality most notable for her six-second video loops on the video-sharing service Vine.