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Barbara Walters’ Most Fascinating People List

Actors, musicians, and entertainers are routinely rewarded for their ability to captivate the masses, but when it comes to the most fascinating people of the year, Barbara Walters is the definitive judge.

Walter’s 2010 list included the people who wowed the world this year, from princess-to-be Kate Middleton to octogenarian actress Betty White, making sure to leave a little room for the big muscles and even bigger hair of the ‘Jersey Shore’ cast.

However, the most fascinating individual of 2010 isn’t a TV star or other celebrity, he’s none other than General David Petraeus, lead commander of our America’s war overseas. As reported by PEOPLE, Walters commended Petraeus’ benevolence toward the citizens of Afghanistan.

“In life, it seems, there are people who break things and people who fix them,” Walters said of Petraeus. “This man is a fixer.”

2. Sandra Bullock
Bullock had a remarkable and tumultuous year, beginning with her Oscar win for her performance in ‘The Blind Side.’ The actress became tabloid fodder when news of her husband’s infidelity broke, but Bullock ended the year on a strong note, becoming a mother to son Louis in April.

3. Justin Bieber
The Canadian heartthrob’s charisma is strong enough to make even Barbara a belieber! Bieber has had a wild ride to success, beginning with YouTube stardom with no end in sight.

4. Sarah Palin
Palin has been a media darling since her unsuccessful run for vice president alongside John McCain, but 2010 has truly been the year of the whole Palin clan. Palin’s eldest daughter, Bristol, had a successful run on ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ while Mama Grizzly nabbed her own show, ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska,’ on TLC.

5. LeBron James
The basketball champ made waves in the sporting world when he left the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat, leaving one-time fans sipping hatorade.

Check out the full list of 2010′s most fascinating people after the jump!

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Barbara Walters Announces Her 10 Most Fascinating People

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Michelle Obama is Barbara Walters’ Most Fascinating Person of 2009.

Barbara Walters Announces Her 10 Most Fascinating People

Almost a year since the Obama family moved to Washington, D.C., the first lady reflected on the transition to the White House.

“It has been a whirlwind. But it’s been amazing,” she told Walters. “I mean, if you think about this year, I had to get these two beautiful girls settled into a new city, into a new home, into a new school. We got a dog. I visited eight countries with my husband. I planted a garden. I’ve started a mentoring program. It has been everything. And now, here we are at our first Christmas in the White House.”

During her tenure as first lady, Obama has promoted healthy living and taken steps to combat childhood obesity — creating a vegetable garden on the White House lawn and holding health fairs with exercise stations for kids.

“I think I’ve begun to lay the foundation to a conversation about the health of our kids — particularly when we’re looking at statistics that say that one in three kids in this country are obese, and those numbers increase if you’re African-American or Hispanic,” she said. “So we’re going to spend a lot more time on that issue in the years to come.”

Relieved it’s her. I was convinced it would be Taylor Swift or Stephanie Meyers. Michelle Obama is totes fascinating. The fact that she’s really active and is doing something different and really reaching out to people in simple ways, I love it.

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