Time Person of the Year

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	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
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.
		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			Represented by the individual content creator on the World Wide Web
2007		Vladimir Putin	Russia	1952–
2008		Barack Obama	USA	1961–
2009		Ben Bernanke	USA	1953–
2010		Mark Zuckerberg	USA	1984–
2011		The Protester			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	USA	1961–
2013		Pope Francis	Vatican City/Argentina	1936–	Elected head of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.