Barbara Walters Names Amal Alamuddin the Most Fascinating Person of 2014 for Being George Clooney's Wife

Amal Clooney, the new wife of actor and notorious former bachelor George Clooney, was named Barbara Walter's most fascinating person of 2014.

Walters' annual list of influential and successful people chose Mrs. Clooney over the likes of Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey and George R. R. Martin.

Formerly Amal Alamuddin, the British-Lebanese lawyer actually keeps a fairly low profile despite marrying one of the most well-known actors in the world.

Walters said she was fascinating for marrying a man who was thought to be firmly against the institution. Clooney was briefly married previously in the early 1990s and told Walters in a 1995 interview, "I'm never going to get married again."

That interview was so well-known that years later in another catchup with the "Ocean's Eleven" actor in 2006, he said he never needed to explain to women he was dating he didn't want to get married since he had already said it to Walters.

"You did my work for me," he told the legendary female journalist, according to ABC News.

Despite his resolve to never exchange vows again, something about Alamuddin seemed to change the Clooney's mind. They met while attending a charity event in Italy in 2013.

Alamuddin attended Oxford and earned a law degree at New York University and remained in New York, clerking for former federal judge Sonia Sotomayor. When she returned to her family home in London, she began working as a prominent human rights attorney, representing high-profile clients like Julian Assange, Yulia Tymoshenko and Kofi Annan.

Following a whirlwind romance, she and Clooney married in a lavish ceremony in Venice. She was noted in the press for her chic and refined style, including her one-of-a-kind wedding dress designed by the late great Oscar de la Renta.

"Amazingly, Amal has been the subject of very little snark or envy, maybe because we, like George Clooney, find it impossible to resist perfection, or maybe because it is heartening to think that no matter how long it may take, a perfect someone is out there for everyone," Walters said.