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Amal Alamuddin is the most fascinating person of the year, according to Barbara Walters!

While we're pretty interested in how she bagged George Clooney, our interest ends there ... I mean, she's a lawyer, she lives separate from her husband, her first big assignment after becoming Mrs. Clooney was to get the Elgin Marbles back to Greece and now one of the busts is off in Russia (without the Greeks' approval) while Amal is busy with nightly dinners with the hubs in LA?!

Okay, so maybe we're just jealous ... Amal, 36, tops the list of celebs, politicians and influencers that includes Taylor Swift, Michael Strahan, philanthropist David Koch, Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, George R.R. Martin, Chelsea Handler, Neil Patrick Harris and Scarlett Johansson.