AskMen's 49 Most Influential Men of 2009

AskMen, the free online men web portal has just recently announced the 49 Most Influential Men of 2009. From almost 500,000 votes from AskMen.com readers were counted. “Mad Men’s” Don Draper topped the websites list of the Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2009, surpassing Usain Bolt in second spot and Pres. Barack Obama in third place.

How Don Draper beat out Usain Bolt and Barack Obama?

"Mad Men's" Don Draper

The fictional TV character surpassed the greatest Olympian athlete (Bolt) and the most powerful political leader in the world (Obama) just because he did it. Don Draper has all the qualities of being an iconic male personality should possess. He’s very fascinating, unique, a commanding persona and controller of great trends. So does it all takes to be the top whether  or not he actually exist?

AskMen.com’s Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2009 are:

1. Don Draper
2. Usain Bolt
3. Barack Obama
4. Mark Zuckerberg
5. Simon Cowell
6. Michael Jackson
7. Steve Jobs
8. Roger Federer
9. Peyton Manning
10. Dana White
11. Jay-Z
12. Tom Ford
13. Jon Stewart
14. Jack Dorsey
15. Quentin Tarantino
16. Conan O’Brien
17. Ashton Kutcher
18. Gary Vaynerchuk
19. Ryan Seacrest
20. George Clooney
21. Brad Pitt
22. Lionel Messi
23. Chesley Sullenberger
24. Manny Pacquaio
25. Mark Ronson
26. Kanye West
27. Seth MacFarlane
28. Cristiano Ronaldo
29. Harvey Levin
30. Tiger Woods
31. Shepard Smith
32. Hugh Jackman
33. Kobe Bryant
34. Sidney Crosby
35. Andy Roddick
36. Georges St. Pierre
37. Chris Martin
38. Bear Grylls
39. James Cameron
40. Jeff Bezos
41. Andre Balazs
42. LeBron James
43. Dwyane Wade
44. Robert Pattinson
45. Italo Zucchelli
46. Mario Batali
47. Santiago Calatrava
48. Jenson Button
49. Lance Armstrong