Time Person of the Year

Persons of the Year

Year	Choice		Lifetime	Notes
1927	Charles Lindbergh	USA	1902–1974
1928	Walter Chrysler	USA	1875–1940
1929	Owen D. Young	USA	1874–1962
1930	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	British Raj	1869–1948
1931	Pierre Laval	France	1883–1945
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	USA	1882–1945
1933	Hugh Samuel Johnson	USA	1882–1942
1934	Franklin D. Roosevelt	USA	1882–1945
1935	Emperor Haile Selassie I	Ethiopia	1892–1975
1936	Wallis Simpson	USA	1896–1986
1937	Chiang Kai-shek	ROC	1887–1975
	Soong May-ling	ROC	1898–2003
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
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	Mohammed Mossadegh	Iran	1882–1967
1952	Queen Elizabeth II	[n 1]	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[8]
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	PRC	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	PRC	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	Palestine  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	Taiwan/ USA	1952-
1997	Andy Grove	Hungary/ USA	1936-
1998	Bill Clinton	USA	1946-
	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[9]			Represented by the individual content creator on the World Wide Web
2007	Vladimir Putin[10]	Russia	1952-
2008	Barack Obama[11]	USA	1961-
2009	Ben Bernanke[12]	USA	1953-
2010	Mark Zuckerberg[13]	USA	1984-