Person of the Year (called Man of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, group, idea or object that “for better or for worse…has done the most to influence the events of the year”.
| Year | TIME Person of the year |
| 1927 | Charles Augustus Lindbergh |
| 1928 | Walter P. Chrysler |
| 1929 | Owen D. Young |
| 1930 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| 1931 | Pierre Laval |
| 1932 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1933 | Hugh Samuel Johnson |
| 1934 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1935 | Haile Selassie |
| 1936 | Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson |
| 1937 | Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek |
| 1938 | Adolf Hitler |
| 1939 | Joseph Stalin |
| 1940 | Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
| 1941 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1942 | Joseph Stalin |
| 1943 | George Catlett Marshall |
| 1944 | Dwight David Eisenhower |
| 1945 | Harry Truman |
| 1946 | James F. Byrnes |
| 1947 | George Catlett Marshall |
| 1948 | Harry Truman |
| 1949 | Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
| 1950 | American Fighting-Man |
| 1951 | Mohammed Mossadegh |
| 1952 | Elizabeth II |
| 1953 | Konrad Adenauer |
| 1954 | John Foster Dulles |
| 1955 | Harlow Herbert Curtice |
| 1956 | Hungarian Freedom Fighter |
| 1957 | Nikita Krushchev |
| 1958 | Charles De Gaulle |
| 1959 | Dwight David Eisenhower |
| 1960 | U.S. Scientists |
| 1961 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| 1962 | Pope John XXIII |
| 1963 | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 1965 | General William Childs Westmoreland |
| 1966 | Twenty-Five and Under |
| 1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 1968 | Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell |
| 1969 | The Middle Americans |
| 1970 | Willy Brandt |
| 1971 | Richard Milhous Nixon |
| 1972 | Nixon and Kissinger |
| 1973 | John J. Sirica |
| 1974 | King Faisal |
| 1975 | American Women |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter |
| 1977 | Anwar Sadat |
| 1978 | Teng Hsiao-P’ing |
| 1979 | Ayatullah Khomeini |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan |
| 1981 | Lech Walesa |
| 1982 | The Computer |
| 1983 | Ronald Reagan & Yuri Andropov |
| 1984 | Peter Ueberroth |
| 1985 | Deng Xiaoping |
| 1986 | Corazon Aquino |
| 1987 | Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev |
| 1988 | Endangered Earth |
| 1989 | Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev |
| 1990 | The Two George Bushes |
| 1991 | Ted Turner |
| 1992 | Bill Clinton |
| 1993 | The Peacemakers |
| 1994 | Pope John Paul II |
| 1995 | Newt Gingrich |
| 1996 | Dr. David Ho |
| 1997 | Andy Grove |
| 1998 | Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr |
| 1999 | Jeff Bezos |
| 2000 | George W. Bush |
| 2001 | Rudolph Giuliani |
| 2002 | The Whistleblowers |
| 2003 | The American Soldier |
| 2004 | George W. Bush |
| 2005 | Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono |
| 2006 | You |
| 2007 | Vladimir Putin |
| 2008 | Barack Obama |
| 2009 | Ben Bernanke |
| 2010 | Mark Zuckerberg |
| 2011 | The Protester |
| 2012 | Barack Obama |
| 2013 | Pope Francis |
