List of Time’s Person of the Year from 1927 – 2010
List of Time’s Person of the Year from 1927 – 2009
Time’s person of the year in 1927: Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop.
Time’s person of the year in 1928: Walter P. Chrysler
Walter Percy Chrysler, a Kansas boy who built one of the nation’s largest automobile companies, the Chrysler Corporation.
Time’s person of the year in 1929: Owen D. Young
Owen D. Young was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.
Time’s person of the year in 1930: Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi was the leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule, and is widely considered the father of his country. His doctrine of non-violent protest to achieve political and social progress has been hugely influential.
Time’s person of the year in 1931: Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval a French politician. Elected to the chamber of deputies as a Socialist, he held various cabinet posts and in 1926 became a senator as an Independent.
Time’s person of the year in 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt also known by his initials, FDR was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century.
Time’s person of the year in 1933: Hugh Samuel Johnson
Hugh Samuel Johnson American Army officer, businessman, speech writer, government official and newspaper columnist. He is best known as a member of the Brain Trust of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932-34.
Time’s person of the year in 1934: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Time’s person of the year in 1935: Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie I was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
Time’s person of the year in 1936: Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson
In the entire history of Great Britain there has been only one voluntary royal abdication and it came about in 1936 solely because of one woman, Mrs. Simpson.
Time’s person of the year in 1937: Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek
Time’s person of the year in 1938: Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler German fascist dictator. He served in the German army during World War I, receiving a decoration for bravery.
Time’s person of the year in 1939: Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and head of state who served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953.
Time’s person of the year in 1940: Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during WW2.
Time’s person of the year in 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Time’s person of the year in 1942: Joseph Stalin
Time’s person of the year in 1943: George Catlett Marshall
George Catlett Marshall was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense.
Time’s person of the year in 1944: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower nicknamed “Ike” was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961, and the last to be born in the 19th century.
Time’s person of the year in 1945: Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States serving 2 terms from 1945–1953.
Time’s person of the year in 1946: James F. Byrnes
Byrnes served as a member of the House of Representatives, as a Senator, as Justice of the Supreme Court, as Secretary of State, and as the 104th Governor of South Carolina. He became one of very few politicians to be active in all three branches of the federal government while also being active in state government.
Time’s person of the year in 1947: George Catlett Marshall
Time’s person of the year in 1948: Harry S. Truman
Time’s person of the year in 1949: Winston Churchill
Time’s person of the year in 1950: American Fighting-Man
Time’s person of the year in 1951: Mohammed Mossadegh
Mohammad Mosaddegh was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 when he was overthrown in a coup d’état backed by the United States CIA.
Time’s person of the year in 1952: Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II is the Head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
Time’s person of the year in 1953: Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman who took Germany from the ruins of World War II to the most prosperous nation in Europe.
Time’s person of the year in 1954: John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.
Time’s person of the year in 1955: Harlow Herbert Curtice
Harlow Herbert Curtice was an American auto industry executive who led General Motors from 1953 to 1958.
Time’s person of the year in 1956: Hungarian Freedom Fighter
Time’s person of the year in 1957: Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier.
Time’s person of the year in 1958: Charles De Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969.
Time’s person of the year in 1959: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Time’s person of the year in 1960: U.S. Scientists
Time’s person of the year in 1961: John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
Time’s person of the year in 1962: Pope John XXIII
Blessed John XXIII was elected as the 261st Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City on 28 October 1958.
Time’s person of the year in 1963: Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement.
Time’s person of the year in 1964: Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. He is one of four Presidents who served in all four elected Federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President and President.
Time’s person of the year in 1965: General William Childs Westmoreland
William Childs Westmoreland was an American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968, with the Tet Offensive.
Time’s person of the year in 1966: Twenty-Five and Under
Time’s person of the year in 1967: Lyndon B. Johnson
Time’s person of the year in 1968: Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell
Time’s person of the year in 1969: The Middle Americans
Time’s person of the year in 1970: Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt was a German politician, Chancellor of West Germany 1969–1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1964–1987.
Time’s person of the year in 1971: Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974, having formerly been the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
Time’s person of the year in 1972: Nixon and Kissinger
Time’s person of the year in 1973: John J. Sirica
John Joseph Sirica was the Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where he became famous for his role in the Watergate scandal.
Time’s person of the year in 1974: King Faisal
Time’s person of the year in 1975: American Women
Time’s person of the year in 1976: Jimmy Carter
James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the only U.S. President to have received the nobel peace Prize after leaving office.
Time’s person of the year in 1977: Anwar Sadat
Muhammad Anwar El Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalists on 6 October 1981.
Time’s person of the year in 1978: Teng Hsiao-P’ing
Deng Xiaoping or Teng Hsiao-p’ing (1904-97), Chinese revolutionary and government leader
Time’s person of the year in 1979: Ayatullah Khomeini
Ayatollah Khomeini’s rise from dutiful student in Iran to one of the 20th century’s most ruthless leaders
Time’s person of the year in 1980: Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California.
Time’s person of the year in 1981: Lech Walesa
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. He co-founded Solidarity, the Soviet bloc’s first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland 1990–95.
Time’s person of the year in 1982: The Computer
Time’s person of the year in 1983: Ronald Reagan & Yuri Andropov
Time’s person of the year in 1984: Peter Ueberroth
Peter Victor Ueberroth served as the sixth commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1984 to 1989.
Time’s person of the year in 1985: Deng Xiaoping
Time’s person of the year in 1986: Corazon Aquino
Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was the 11th President of the Philippines and the first woman to hold that office.
Time’s person of the year in 1987: Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991.
Time’s person of the year in 1988: Endangered Earth
Time’s person of the year in 1989: Mikhail Gorbachev
Time’s person of the year in 1990: The Two George Bushes
Time’s person of the year in 1991: Ted Turner
Ted Turner is an American media mogul and philanthropist. He is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel.
Time’s person of the year in 1992: Bill Clinton
He won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1992 and then defeated incumbent George Bush to become the 42nd president of the United States.
Time’s person of the year in 1993: The Peacemakers
Time’s person of the year in 1994: Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II reigned as Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005.
Time’s person of the year in 1995: Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, Time magazine selected him as the Person of the Year for his role in leading the Republican Revolution in the House, ending 40 years of the Democratic Party being the majority.
Time’s person of the year in 1996: Dr. David Ho
David Da-i Ho is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team.
Time’s person of the year in 1997: Andy Grove
Andrew Stephen “Andy” Grove was one of the earliest employees of Intel Corporation and ultimately played key leadership roles in its success.
Time’s person of the year in 1998: Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
Time’s person of the year in 1999: Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston “Jeff” Bezos is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com.
Time’s person of the year in 2000: George W. Bush
George Walker Bush was the 43rd President of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas, serving from 1995 to 2000.
Time’s person of the year in 2001: Rudolph Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani is an Italian American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York. He served as Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.
Time’s person of the year in 2002: The Whistleblowers
Time’s person of the year in 2003: The American Soldier
Time’s person of the year in 2004: George W. Bush
Time’s person of the year in 2005: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono
Time’s person of the year in 2006: You
Time’s person of the year in 2007: Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus.
Time’s person of the year in 2008: Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office.
Time’s person of the year in 2009: Ben Bernanke
Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist, and the Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve. Previously, he served as Fed Governor and Chairman of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Time’s person of the year in 2010: Mark Zuckerberg
As Facebook approaches 600 million users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is named Time’s person of the year for 2010
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