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Time People of the Year
Starting in 1927, Time magazine has chosen a Person of the Year every year. The Person of the Year can be an individual, grouop, machine, or even a concept that "for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year."
- 1927: Charles Lindbergh
- 1928: Walter Chrysler
- 1929: Owen D. Young
- 1930: Mahatma Gandhi
- 1931: Pierre Laval
- 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1933: Hugh Samuel Johnson
- 1934: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1935: Halie Selassie I
- 1936: Wallis Simpson
- 1937: Chiang Kai-shek and Soong May-ling
- 1938: Adolf Hitler
- 1939: Josef Stalin
- 1940: Winston Churchill
- 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1942: Josef Stalin
- 1943: George Marshall
- 1944: Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1945: Harry S Truman
- 1946: James F. Byrnes
- 1947: George Marshall
- 1948: Harry S Truman
- 1949: Winston Churchill
- 1950: The American Fighting-Man
- 1951: Mohammed Mossadegh
- 1952: Queen Elizabeth II
- 1953: Konrad Adenauer
- 1954: John Foster Dulles
- 1955: Harlow Curtice
- 1956: The Hungarian Freedom Fighter
- 1957: Nikita Khrushchev
- 1958: Charles de Gaulle
- 1959: Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1960: U.S. Scientists
- 1961: John F. Kennedy
- 1962: Pope John XXIII
- 1963: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1964: Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1965: William Westmoreland
- 1966: The Generation Twenty-Five and Under
- 1967: Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1968: The Apollo 8 Astronauts
- 1969: The Middle Americans
- 1970: Willy Brandt
- 1971: Richard M. Nixon
- 1972: Richard M. Nixon and Henry Kissinger
- 1973: John Sirica
- 1974: King Faisal
- 1975: American Women
- 1976: Jimmy Carter
- 1977: Anwar Sadat
- 1978: Deng Xiaoping
- 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini
- 1980: Ronald Reagan
- 1981: Lech Walesa
- 1982: The Computer
- 1983: Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov
- 1984: Peter Ueberroth
- 1985: Deng Xiaoping
- 1986: Corazon C. Aquino
- 1987: Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1988: The Endangered Earth
- 1989: Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1990: George H. W. Bush
- 1991: Ted Turner
- 1992: Bill Clinton
- 1993: The Peacemakers
- 1994: Pope John Paul II
- 1995: Newt Gingrich
- 1996: David Ho
- 1997: Andy Grove
- 1998: Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
- 1999: Jeffrey P. Bezos
- 2000: George W. Bush
- 2001: Rudy Giuliani
- 2002: The Whistleblowers
- 2003: The American Soldier
- 2004: George W. Bush
- 2005: The Good Samaritans
- 2006: You
- 2007: Vladimir Putin
- 2008: Barack Obama
- 2009: Ben Bernanke
