Time Person of the Year

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The United States magazine Time has named someone Man, Woman or Person of the Year for quite some time. This began in 1927 as a chance to put aviator Charles Lindbergh on the cover.

Persons of the Year

Year Image Choice Lifetime Notes
1927   Charles Lindbergh   USA 1902–1974 Lindbergh was, in May 1927, the first person to fly a plane non-stop from New York City, USA to Paris, France.
1928 Walter Chrysler   USA 1875–1940 In 1928, Chrysler oversaw a merger of his company with Dodge, and began work on his eponymous building.
1929   Owen D. Young   USA 1874–1962 Young chaired a committee which authored the Young Plan, a program for settlement of German reparations debts after World War I.
1930   Mahatma Gandhi   IND 1869–1948 Gandhi was the leader of the Indian independence movement. In 1930, he led the Salt Satyagraha, a 240-mile march to protest the imposition of taxes on salt by the British Raj.
1931   Pierre Laval   France 1883–1945 Laval was a four-time Prime Minister of France.
1932   Franklin D. Roosevelt   USA 1882–1945 Roosevelt won the 1932 US Presidential election by a landslide, defeating the incumbent, Herbert Hoover.
1933   Hugh Samuel Johnson   USA 1882–1942 Johnson was then the director of the National Recovery Administration, an agency tasked by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.
1934   Franklin D. Roosevelt   USA 1882–1945 Roosevelt was President of the United States from 1933 to 1945.
1935   Haile Selassie I   1892–1975 Selassie was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. In October 1935, Italian forces invaded Ethiopia, starting the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
1936 80px Wallis Simpson   USA 1896–1986 King Edward VIII abdicated his thrones to marry Simpson.
1937   Chiang Kai-shek   Republic of China 1887–1975 At the time, Chiang was Premier of the Republic of China.
Soong May-ling   Republic of China 1898–2003 At the time, Soong was the wife of Chiang Kai-shek.
1938   Adolf Hitler   Germany 1889–1945 1938 saw the unification of Germany with Austria and the Sudetenland after the Anschluss and Munich Agreement respectively.
1939 Joseph Stalin   USSR 1878–1953
1940   Winston Churchill   UK 1874–1965
1941   Franklin D. Roosevelt   USA 1882–1945
1942   Joseph Stalin   USSR 1878–1953
1943   George Marshall   USA 1880–1959
1944   Dwight D. Eisenhower   USA 1890–1969
1945   Harry S. Truman   USA 1884–1972
1946   James F. Byrnes   USA 1879–1972
1947   George Marshall   USA 1880–1959 Wrote the Marshall Plan
1948   Harry S. Truman   USA 1884–1972
1949   Winston Churchill   UK 1874–1965 Man of the half-century
1950 The American fighting-man   USA Representing Korean War troops
1951   Mohammad Mossadegh   Iran 1882–1967
1952   Elizabeth II   Commonwealth realms[n 1] 1926–
1953   Konrad Adenauer   West Germany 1876–1967
1954   John Foster Dulles   USA 1888–1959
1955 Harlow Curtice   USA 1893–1962 Head of General Motors from 1953 to 1958.
1956 The Hungarian freedom fighter   Hungary
1957   Nikita Khrushchev   USSR 1894–1971
1958   Charles de Gaulle   France 1890–1970
1959   Dwight D. Eisenhower   USA 1890–1969
1960 American Scientists   USA Represented by George Beadle, Charles Draper, John Enders, Donald A. Glaser, Joshua Lederberg, Willard Libby, Linus Pauling, Edward Purcell, Isidor Rabi, Emilio Segrè, William Shockley, Edward Teller, Charles Townes, James Van Allen, and Robert Woodward
1961   John F. Kennedy   USA 1917–1963
1962 Pope John XXIII   Holy See/  Italy 1881–1963
1963   Martin Luther King, Jr.   USA 1929–1968
1964   Lyndon B. Johnson   USA 1908–1973
1965   William Westmoreland   USA 1914–2005
1966 The Inheritor A generation: the man—and woman—of 25 and under.
1967   Lyndon B. Johnson   USA 1908–1973
1968   The Apollo 8 astronauts   USA William Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell
1969 The Middle Americans   USA Also referred to as the Silent Majority[1]
1970   Willy Brandt   West Germany 1913–1992
1971   Richard Nixon   USA 1913–1994
1972   Richard Nixon   USA 1913–1994
  Henry Kissinger   USA 1923–
1973 John Sirica   USA 1904–1992 Judge who ordered Richard Nixon to turn over Watergate-related recordings.
1974   King Faisal   Saudi Arabia 1906–1975
1975 American women   USA Represented by Susan Brownmiller, Kathleen Byerly, Alison Cheek, Jill Conway, Betty Ford, Ella Grasso, Carla Hills, Barbara Jordan, Billie Jean King, Carol Sutton, Susie Sharp, and Addie Wyatt
1976   Jimmy Carter   USA 1924–
1977   Anwar Sadat   Egypt 1918–1981
1978   Deng Xiaoping   People's Republic of China 1904–1997
1979   Ayatollah Khomeini   Iran 1902–1989
1980   Ronald Reagan   USA 1911–2004
1981   Lech Wałęsa   Poland 1943–
1982 The Computer Machine of the Year
1983   Ronald Reagan   USA 1911–2004
  Yuri Andropov   USSR 1914–1984
1984   Peter Ueberroth   USA 1937–
1985   Deng Xiaoping   People's Republic of China 1904–1997
1986   Corazon C. Aquino   Philippines 1933–2009
1987   Mikhail Gorbachev   USSR 1931–
1988 The Endangered Earth Planet of the Year
1989   Mikhail Gorbachev   USSR 1931– Man of the Decade
1990   George H. W. Bush   USA 1924–
1991   Ted Turner   USA 1938–
1992   Bill Clinton   USA 1946–
1993 The Peacemakers   Palestinian Authority
  South Africa
  Israel
Represented by Yasser Arafat, F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, and Yitzhak Rabin
1994   Pope John Paul II   Holy See/  Poland 1920–2005
1995   Newt Gingrich   USA 1943–
1996   David Ho   R.O.C/  USA 1952– Scientist, AIDS researcher.
1997   Andrew Grove   Hungary/  USA 1936–
1998   Bill Clinton   USA 1946– Time Magazine held its first online poll to decide the Person of the Year. Wrestler and activist Mick Foley won with over 50% of votes. Foley was removed from the poll, and the award was given to Clinton and Starr.[2][better source needed]
  Kenneth Starr   USA 1946–
1999   Jeffrey P. Bezos   USA 1964– See also: Person of the Century
2000   George W. Bush   USA 1946–
2001   Rudolph Giuliani   USA 1944–
2002 The Whistleblowers   USA Represented by Cynthia Cooper (WorldCom), Coleen Rowley (FBI) and Sherron Watkins (Enron)
2003 The American soldier   USA
2004   George W. Bush   USA 1946–
2005 The Good Samaritans   Ireland
  USA
Represented by Bono, Bill Gates, and Melinda Gates
2006 You[3] Represented by the individual content creator on the World Wide Web
2007   Vladimir Putin[4]   Russia 1952–
2008   Barack Obama[5]   USA 1961–
2009   Ben Bernanke[6]   USA 1953–
2010   Mark Zuckerberg[7]   USA 1984–
2011 The Protester[8] Representing many global protest movements – for example, the Arab Spring, the Indignants Movement, Tea Party movement and Occupy Movement – as well as protests in Greece, India and Russia, among others
2012   Barack Obama[9]   USA 1961–
2013   Pope Francis[10]   Vatican City/  Argentina 1936– Elected head of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.
  1. No single flag is presented for Elizabeth II as she was in 1952 the sovereign of more than one independent state, specifically the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Pakistan and South Africa

References

  1. Larsen, Roy (January 5, 1970). "A Letter From The Publisher". Time.
  2. Mick Foley Cactus Jack Pro Wrestling Legend Media Man International
  3. Lev Grossman (13 December 2006). "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570810,00.html. Retrieved 2012–12–20. 
  4. "Person of the Year 2007". Time. 2007. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1690753,00.html. Retrieved 2009–07–08. 
  5. "Person of the Year 2008". Time. 2008–12–17. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear/article/0,31682,1861543_1865068,00.html?cnn=yes. Retrieved 2008–12–17. 
  6. Grunwald, Michael (16 December 2009). "Person of the Year 2009". Time. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1947251,00.html. Retrieved 16 December 2009. 
  7. Grossman, Lev (15 December 2010). "Person of the Year 2010". Time. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183,00.html. Retrieved 15 December 2010. 
  8. Grunwald, Michael (14 December 2011). "Person of the Year 2011". Time. http://timemagazine.tumblr.com/post/14212577849/times-2011-person-of-the-year-is-the-protester. Retrieved 14 December 2011. 
  9. "Person of the Year 2012". Time. 2008–12–19. http://poy.time.com/2012/12/19/person-of-the-year-barack-obama/. Retrieved 2012–12–23. 
  10. "Pope Francis, The People’s Pope". Time. 2013–12–11. http://poy.time.com/2013/12/11/person-of-the-year-pope-francis-the-peoples-pope/?hpt=hp_t2. Retrieved 2013–12–11.