Time Magazine
At the end of every year, TIME magazine selects a person, group of persons, or an idea that (for better or worse) has most influenced events during the year.
The distinction should not necessarily be considered an honor with persons like Ayatollah Khomeini and Adolf Hitler appearing on the list.
In 1999, TIME selected Albert Einsten as the Person of the Century.
| Year | Winner(s) |
| 2011 | The Protester |
| 2010 | Mark Zuckerberg |
| 2009 | Ben Bernanke |
| 2008 | Barack Obama |
| 2007 | Vladimir Putin |
| 2006 | You |
| 2005 | The Good Samaritans Bono; Bill Gates; Melinda Gates |
| 2004 | George W Bush |
| 2003 | The American Soldier |
| 2002 | The Whistleblowers Cynthia Cooper; Sherron Watkins; Coleen Rowley |
| 2001 | Rudolph Giuliani |
| 2000 | George W Bush |
| 1999 | Jeff Bezos |
| 1998 | Bill Clinton Kenneth Starr |
| 1997 | Andy Grove |
| 1996 | David Ho |
| 1995 | Newt Gingrich |
| 1994 | Pope John Paul II |
| 1993 | Nelson Mandela; FW de Klerk; Yasser Arafat; Yitzhak Rabin |
| 1992 | Bill Clinton |
| 1991 | Ted Turner |
| 1990 | George H W Bush |
| 1989 | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 1988 | Endangered Earth |
| 1987 | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 1986 | Corazn Aquino |
| 1985 | Deng Xiaoping |
| 1984 | Peter Ueberroth |
| 1983 | Ronald Reagan Yuri Andropov |
| 1982 | The Computer |
| 1981 | Lech Walessa |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan |
| 1979 | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| 1978 | Deng Xiaoping |
| 1977 | Anwar Sadat |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter |
| 1975 | American Women |
| 1974 | King Faisal |
| 1973 | John Sirica |
| 1972 | Richard Nixon Henry Kissinger |
| 1971 | Richard Nixon |
| 1970 | Willy Brandt |
| 1969 | The Middle Americans |
| 1968 | Apollo 8 Crew Frank Borman; Jim Lovell; William Anders |
| 1967 | Lyndon Johnson |
| 1966 | Twenty-Five and Under |
| 1965 | William Westmoreland |
| 1964 | Lyndon Johnson |
| 1963 | Martin Luther King |
| 1962 | Pope John XXIII |
| 1961 | John F Kennedy |
| 1960 | US Scientists |
| 1959 | Dwight Eisenhower |
| 1958 | Charles De Gaulle |
| 1957 | Nikita Khrushchev |
| 1956 | Hungarian Freedom Fighter |
| 1955 | Harlow Curtice |
| 1954 | John Dulles |
| 1953 | Konrad Adenauer |
| 1952 | Queen Elizabeth II |
| 1951 | Mohammed Mossadegh |
| 1950 | The American Fighting Man |
| 1949 | Winston Churchill |
| 1948 | Harry Truman |
| 1947 | George Marshall |
| 1946 | James F Byrnes |
| 1945 | Harry Truman |
| 1944 | Dwight Eisenhower |
| 1943 | George Marshall |
| 1942 | Joseph Stalin |
| 1941 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill |
| 1939 | Joseph Stalin |
| 1938 | Adolf Hitler |
| 1937 | Chiang Kai-Shek Soong May-ling |
| 1936 | Wallis Simpson |
| 1935 | Haile Selassie |
| 1934 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1933 | Hugh Johnson |
| 1932 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1931 | Pierre Laval |
| 1930 | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1929 | Owen Young |
| 1928 | Walter Chrysler |
| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh |