Time Person of The Year - Persons of The Year

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
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 British Raj 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 Ethiopia 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 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 Nazi Germany 1889–1945
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 Wrote the Marshall Plan
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
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 1926–
1953 Konrad Adenauer West Germany 1876–1967
1954 John Foster Dulles USA 1888–1959
1955 Harlow Curtice USA 1893–1962
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 Baby Boomers
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
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–
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

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