2000 Newsmaker Roster Name list
| English Name | Chinese Name | Descriptions | English Name | Chinese Name | Descriptions | ||
| 1 | Lee Teng-hui | 李登輝 | President of the Republic of China | 11 | Kim Jong-il | 金正日 | Supreme Leader of North Korea |
| 2 | Jiang Zemin | 江澤民 | General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party | 12 | Wen Ho Lee | 李文和 | Taiwanese-American Scientist |
| 3 | Bill Clinton | 克林頓 | President of the United States | 13 | Cheng Kejie | 成克杰 | Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (was later executed for bribery) |
| 4 | Tung Chee-hwa | 董建華 | Chief Executive of Hong Kong | 14 | Li Ping | 李平 | Mistress of Cheng Kejie |
| 5 | Zhu Rongji | 朱鎔基 | Premier of the People's Republic of China | 15 | Boris Yeltsin | 葉利欽 | Former President of Russia |
| 6 | Annette Lu Hsiu-lien | 呂秀蓮 | Vice President of the Republic of China | 16 | Kim Dae-jung | 金大中 | President of South Korea |
| 7 | Elian Gonzalez | 埃利安 | Cuban citizen who became embroiled in a heated international custody and immigration controversy | 17 | Al Gore | 戈爾 | Vice President of the United States |
| 8 | Vladimir Putin | 普京 | President of Russia | 18 | Hafez Assad | 阿薩德 | President of Syria |
| 9 | Obuchi Keizo | 小淵惠三 | Prime Minister of Japan | 19 | Rubin | 魯賓 | Former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States |
| 10 | George W. Bush | 小布殊 | President-elect of the United States |