Hozier joins Trump and Hollywood stars on Time influence list
By Lauren Del Fabbro, PA Entertainment Reporter
Irish musician Hozier has been named a titan of 2025 along with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as British prime minister Keir Starmer, US president Donald J Trump and a scientist make Time Magazine’s list of the most influential people.
Singer Ed Sheeran, Hollywood actress Blake Lively and popstar Nicole Scherzinger are also among the 100 names on the list of “forces shaping our lives” along with French rape survivor Gisele Pelicot, and tech billionaire Elon Musk.
The Time100 index also saw British marine biologist Richard Thompson, who came up with the term microplastics, mentioned.
Hozier, whose full name is Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, is best known for his number one album, Unreal Unearth, and hit songs Take Me To Church and Too Sweet.
The singer was honoured on the list with an article by Grammy-nominated singer Noah Kahan, who was brought out on stage to perform Work Song with Hozier at Iron Blossom Music Festival in 2023 to sing Work Song.
Kahan said: “When an artist can create a sound so beautiful and melancholy, so full of symbolism and truth that you feel they must be from a different time, or a better world, you can’t help but believe in magic.”
Mr Starmer was inducted by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who praised him for his commitment to Ukraine at a time of “geopolitical turmoil”.
Others on the list includes US actress Scarlett Johansson, American rapper Snoop Dogg, The Substance star and Oscar-nominee Demi Moore, and two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody, who took the awards season by storm with his immigration movie The Brutalist.
Sheeran (34) is best known for his hit singles Shape of You, Perfect and Thinking Out Loud and was described by actor Chris Hemsworth in the magazine as “supernatural”.
Hemsworth said: “Ed Sheeran has an almost supernatural ability to connect. His songs, his voice, his words—they belong to all of us.”
The singer shot to fame in 2011 with his debut album, + (Plus) which reached number one in the UK album charts and remained at the top for three consecutive weeks.
Gossip Girl star Lively was named amid an ongoing legal battle with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni who Lively sued in late December, alleging harassment and a co-ordinated campaign to attack her reputation if she spoke about her treatment on the set of the romance and domestic abuse movie.
Baldoni, who denies Lively’s allegations, filed a counter-suit against Lively and Deadpool actor Reynolds for defamation and extortion with a trial date set for March 2026.
US singer Scherzinger rose to fame as a member of girl group The Pussycat Dolls and won an Olivier award for best actress in a musical for her role as Norma in a West End production of Sunset Boulevard.
The US actress is set to star in the sequel to the psychological thriller A Simple Favour alongside Pitch Perfect actress Anna Kendrick.
She was added to the list by civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill, who called Lively “a philanthropist and a student of our country’s most intractable problems”.
Previous list makers included pop star Dua Lipa, actor Dev Patel, filmmaker Sofia Coppola and Nigerian singer-songwriter Burna Boy.