Man of the Year

Man of the Year is an annual issue of TIME magazine that features a profile on the man, woman, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year."

The title is sometimes mistakenly assumed to be an honor. There was a massive public backlash after TIME named Ayatollah Khomeini Man of the Year in 1979.

In 1999 the title was changed to Person of the Year to be more politically correct.

Men of the Year

• 1927- Charles Lindbergh
• 1928- Walter Chrysler
• 1929- Owen Young[?]
• 1930- Mahatma Gandhi
• 1931- Pierre Laval[?]
• 1932- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• 1933- Hugh Johnson[?]
• 1934- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• 1935- Haile Selassie
• 1936- Wallis Simpson
• 1937- Chiang Kai-Shek & Soong May-ling
• 1938- Adolf Hitler
• 1939- Joseph Stalin
• 1940- Winston Churchill
• 1941- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• 1942- Joseph Stalin
• 1943- George Marshall
• 1944- Dwight Eisenhower
• 1945- Harry Truman
• 1946- James Byrnes[?]
• 1947- George Marshall
• 1948- Harry Truman
• 1949- Winston Churchill
• 1950- The American Fighting-Man
• 1951- Mohammed Mossadegh
• 1952- Queen Elizabeth II
• 1953- Konrad Adenauer
• 1954- John Dulles
• 1955- Harlow Curtice[?]
• 1956- Hungarian Freedom Fighter
• 1957- Nikita Khrushchev
• 1958- Charles De Gaulle
• 1959- Dwight Eisenhower
• 1960- U.S. Scientists
• 1961- John F. Kennedy
• 1962- Pope John XXIII
• 1963- Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1964- Lyndon Johnson
• 1965- William Westmoreland
• 1966- Twenty-Five and Under
• 1967- Lyndon Johnson
• 1968- Frank Borman, James Lovell[?], William Anders
• 1969- The Middle Americans
• 1970- Willy Brandt
• 1971- Richard Nixon
• 1972- Richard Nixon & Henry Kissinger
• 1973- John Sirica[?]
• 1974- King Faisal[?]
• 1975- American Women[?]
• 1976- Jimmy Carter
• 1977- Anwar Sadat
• 1978- Teng Hsiao-P'ing[?]
• 1979- Ayatollah 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- George H. W. Bush & George W. Bush
• 1991- Ted Turner
• 1992- Bill Clinton
• 1993- Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin
• 1994- Pope John Paul II
• 1995- Newt Gingrich
• 1996- Dr. David Ho
• 1997- Andy Grove
• 1998- Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr

Persons of the Year

• 1999- Jeffrey P. Bezos
• 2000- George W. Bush
• 2001- Rudolph Giuliani
• 2002- Cynthia Cooper[?], Sherron Watkins[?], Coleen Rowley[?]
• 2003-