White House candidates make Time 100 most influential

New York: The four leading candidates in the race for the White House were among those named the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine Thursday.

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has made the cut an astonishing 10 times, beaten only by US President Barack Obama who has featured 11 times.

But this time she was joined by Bernie Sanders, her self-declared democratic socialist rival in the race to win the Democratic nomination, and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and his closet rival Ted Cruz.

The fifth candidate still in the running -- John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio who has managed to win only his home state in the nominating contests for the party's ticket -- did not feature.

Time's annual list does not rank candidates, but groups them together into five categories of titans, pioneers, artists, leaders and icons.

The 100 list included transgender hero Caitlyn Jenner, Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio and British singer Adele, alongside less known but inspirational figures such as Nadia Murad, 23, a Yazidi woman once held as a sex slave by the Islamic State extremist group.

It includes contributions from famous people writing about others on the list -- such as US Vice President Joe Biden on Pope Francis, Irish rocker Bono on Secretary of State John Kerry and actress Jennifer Lawrence on singer Adele.

Apart from the US presidential candidates, other figures singled out as leaders were Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Canada's glamorous new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also made the cut.