AskMen.com the world’s largest lifestyle portal for men with more than 11 million visitors monthly, revealed its highly anticipated 4th annual reader-voted list of the Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2009 today.

The list assembles a diverse collection of men from around the world and from a variety of industries including entertainment, politics, technology, and sports. All the honorees had a direct effect on the way men see the world, and notably in 2009, many reflect classic values that are most meaningful to the male identity today.

“In a turbulent 2009, men are seeking the stability of tradition in the masculine qualities that they imagine their fathers and grandfathers to have had,” says James Bassil, Editor-in-Chief of AskMen.com. “The character of Don Draper brings all these traits together, and in doing so speaks directly to the modern man. He’s a man whose time has come.”

Others on the list embody a host of classic qualities; Usain Bolt as the personification of competitive and athletic ability, President Barack Obama as the male portrait of classic statesmanship, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs as pillars of entrepreneurial spirit and determination.

The top 49 most influential men in order are:

1 Don Draper
2 Usain Bolt
3 Barack Obama
4 Mark Zuckerberg
5 Simon Cowell
6 Michael Jackson
7 Steve Jobs
8 Roger Federer
9 Peyton Manning
10 Dana White
11 Jay-Z
12 Tom Ford
13 Jon Stewart
14 Jack Dorsey
15 Quentin Tarantino
16 Conan O’Brien
17 Ashton Kutcher
18 Gary Vaynerchuk
19 Ryan Seacrest
20 George Clooney
21 Brad Pitt
22 Lionel Messi
23 Chesley Sullenberger
24 Manny Pacquaio
25 Mark Ronson

See 26-49 complete with profiles at AskMen.com. You might be surprised who rounded out the list!

Ben Affleck and Jon Hamm filmed scenes for their new film, “The Town” today in Boston, Ben’s old stomping grounds. Ben not only stars in the film, but he also wrote it, and is directing it!

Jon Hamm, of course, plays sexy Don Draper on AMC’s Mad Men. If you’re living under a rock, and don’t know who Don Draper is, and for some reason you’re not watching Mad Men, then you’re dead to me!

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I saved the best for last! Here is the cast of my favorite show on TV! All the beautiful people from Mad Men!

Pictured: The stunning January Jones (wearing my favorite dress of the night), Christina Hendricks and her boyfriend, Jon Hamm and girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt, Elizbeth Moss and boyfriend (and SNL funnyman) Fred Armisen,

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Mad Men began its third season on AMC Sunday, with Don Draper (Jon Hamm) taking a sexually charged business trip and cavorting with a stewardess (that’s what they called flight attendants in the ’60s.) When he gets back to work, he’s going to face some morally challenging new jobs this year.

“He basically sees what the aerospace industry is turning into,” Hamm said. “It is essentially a war industry and a military defense industry. And he realizes that his job will essentially be selling people on nuclear war. That’s what he’s going to be pitching and I think that lands on a guy like Don. It sits kind of heavy. That turns into, ‘What am I doing with my life? What’s important to me? What am I really doing?’”

A master ad man like Don Draper certainly could sell nuclear war, but as with most issues on Mad Men, the show won’t take the simple way out. “Sure, but I think with anything, you could write a story or something that maybe would be detrimental to a friend of yours or someone you knew or whatever, but you have to go through that process of like, ‘How much of myself am I giving away by doing this?’ And I think that’s basically what Don’s journey to California was. What is important to me? What do I care about? Who am I? And I think at the end of it, he realized what was really important to him was his family and his life that he’s created, literally, out of whole cloth. Of course, he goes back, it’s in a shambles and he has to work to rebuild it, but that’s part of the deal.”

Outside the office, expect to see Draper try to reassemble his broken family. “I think he realizes that going away isn’t the answer all the time. I think what he really needed was to be grounded and to really stay and to really be who he is. I think that’s what he had with Anna. When he went back to Anna Draper and said, ‘Anna, I’m lost. I don’t know what I’m doing. Help me.’ And I think she did.”

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Okay, this gave me goosepimples! I cannot WAIT to watch season 3 of Mad Men!! I re-watched season 1, and I’m almost through re-watching season 2.  It’s so freaking good!!!!

Tina Fey gets a kiss on the cheek from Jon Hamm (”Mad Men”)–who will be doing several episodes of “30 Rock” while they film the Golden Globe award winning show on W. 87th and West End ave. today. Jon also rode a scooter and almost toppled off as Tina watched.

He looks so much hotter in Mad Men!

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