U2 lead singer Bono, film director Steven Spielberg and Google's Sergei Brin are among the nine nominees of the Mikhail Gorbachev award.
The Gorbachev Awards have been set up by the former Soviet leader, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, to mark his 80th birthday earlier this month.
The former Soviet leader said the winners for the three categories will be announced on March 30 in London, during a charitable concert.
Other nominees include World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, ex-Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Martin Cooper who invented the cellular phone.
Mr Gorbachev said each nominee contributed to 'changing the world we're living in'.
He turned 80 last Wednesday. Revered in the West for liberal reforms that led to the collapse of Communism, he has been reviled at home, where many hold him responsible for the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Mr Gorbachev said: 'The people nominated for the inaugural Gorbachev Awards have already made a significant contribution to the world and changed the way we live our lives today.
'Selecting just nine people has been very hard and we are delighted that the people we have nominated bring such a diverse range of skills and achievements to the awards, and the values the awards stand for.'
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