| Time Magazine's Person of the Year |
| Year |
Person |
Field |
| 1927 |
Charles Augustus Lindbergh |
Aviation |
| 1928 |
Walter P. Chrysler |
American Automobile Manufacturer |
| 1929 |
Owen D. Young |
Board Chairman of General Electric |
| 1930 |
Mohandas Gandhi |
Nationalist/Spiritual Leader |
| 1931 |
Pierre Laval |
French Politician |
| 1932 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
32nd U.S. President |
| 1933 |
Hugh Samuel Johnson |
American Army Officer/Politician |
| 1934 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
32nd U.S. President |
| 1935 |
Haile Selassie |
Ethiopian Emperor |
| 1936 |
Wallis Warfield Simpson |
Duchess of Windsor |
| 1937 |
Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek |
Chinese General and his wife |
| 1938 |
Adolf Hitler |
German Politician and Leader |
| 1939 |
Joseph Stalin |
Soviet Political Leader |
| 1940 |
Winston Churchill |
British Statesman |
| 1941 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
32nd U.S. President |
| 1942 |
Joseph Stalin |
Soviet Political Leader |
| 1943 |
George Catlett Marshall |
American Army Officer/Statesman |
| 1944 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
34th U.S. President |
| 1945 |
Harry Truman |
33rd U.S. President |
| 1946 |
James F. Byrnes |
American Politician |
| 1947 |
George Catlett Marshall |
American Army Officer/Statesman |
| 1948 |
Harry Truman |
33rd U.S. President |
| 1949 |
Winston Churchill |
British Statesman |
| 1950 |
American Fighting Man |
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| 1951 |
Mohammed Mossadegh |
Iranian Politician |
| 1952 |
Elizabeth II |
Queen of England |
| 1953 |
Konrad Adenauer |
German Politician |
| 1954 |
John Foster Dulles |
American Lawyer and Diplomat |
| 1955 |
Harlow Herbert Curtice |
President of General Motors |
| 1956 |
Hungarian Freedom Fighter |
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| 1957 |
Nikita Khrushchev |
Russian Dictator |
| 1958 |
Charles De Gaulle |
President of France |
| 1959 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
34th U.S. President |
| 1960 |
U.S. Scientists |
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| 1961 |
John F. Kennedy |
35th U.S. President |
| 1962 |
Pope John XXIII |
Head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| 1963 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Civil Rights Activist |
| 1964 |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
36th U.S. President |
| 1965 |
William Childs Westmoreland |
U.S. General |
| 1966 |
Twenty-Five and Under |
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| 1967 |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
36th U.S. President |
| 1968 |
Anders, Borman, and Lovell |
American Astronauts |
| 1969 |
The Middle Americans |
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| 1970 |
Willy Brandt |
German Politician |
| 1971 |
Richard Milhous Nixon |
37th U.S. President |
| 1972 |
Nixon and Kissinger |
U.S. President and His Security Adviser |
| 1973 |
John J. Sirica |
U.S. Federal Judge |
| 1974 |
King Faisal |
King of Saudi Arabia |
| 1975 |
American Women |
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| 1976 |
Jimmy Carter |
39th U.S. President |
| 1977 |
Anwar Sadat |
Egyptian President |
| 1978 |
Teng Hsiao-P'ing |
China's Vice Premier |
| 1979 |
Ayatullah Khomeini |
Leader of Iran |
| 1980 |
Ronald Reagan |
40th U.S. President |
| 1981 |
Lech Walesa |
Polish Freedom Fighter/President |
| 1982 |
The Computer |
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| 1983 |
Reagan & Yuri Andropov |
U.S. President & Soviet Politician |
| 1984 |
Peter Ueberroth |
Olympic Organizer |
| 1985 |
Deng Xiaoping |
Chinese Politician |
| 1986 |
Corazon Aquino |
Philippino Leader and Revolutionary |
| 1987 |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
President of the Soviet Union |
| 1988 |
Endangered Earth |
|
| 1989 |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
President of the Soviet Union |
| 1990 |
The Two George Bushes |
41st U.S. President |
| 1991 |
Ted Turner |
Media Mogul |
| 1992 |
Bill Clinton |
42nd U.S. President |
| 1993 |
The Peacemakers (Yitzhak Rabin, Nelson Mandela, F.W. De Klerk, Yasser Arafat) |
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| 1994 |
Pope John Paul II |
Head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| 1995 |
Newt Gingrich |
U.S. Speaker of the House |
| 1996 |
Dr. David Ho |
AIDS Researcher |
| 1997 |
Andy Grove |
CEO of Intel |
| 1998 |
Bill Clinton/Kent Starr |
U.S. President & Special Counsel |
| 1999 |
Jeff Bezos |
CEO of Amazon.com |
| 2000 |
George W. Bush |
43rd U.S. President |
| 2001 |
Rudolph Giuliani |
Mayor of New York City |
| 2002 |
The Whistleblowers (Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom, Coleen Rowley of the FBI, Sherron Watkins of Enron) |
Enron, FBI, and Worldcom employees |
| 2003 |
The American Soldier |
U.S. Military men and women |
| 2004 |
George W. Bush |
43rd U.S. President |
| 2005 |
The Good Samaritans (Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono) |
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| 2006 |
You |
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| 2007 |
Vladimir Putin |
Russian President |
| 2008 |
Barack Obama |
President Elect |
