Time Magazine Person of the Year

Known up to and including 1998 as Man of the Year. Note that the title goes to the person who "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year".

Some Notable and Recent Individuals

1927	The first recipient	Charles Lindbergh
1930	The first non–US recipient	Mahatma Gandhi
1931	The first European recipient	Pierre Laval
1932, 1934 and 1941	The only person to be awarded the title on three occasions	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1936	The first female recipient	Wallis Simpson
1938	The second European recipient	Adolf Hitler
1939 and 1942	The second person to be awarded the title twice	Josef Stalin
1940 and 1949	The first British recipient	Winston Churchill
1952	The second individual woman, and the second British recipient	Queen Elizabeth II
1986	The third individual woman	Corazon Aquino
1999	Founder of Amazon	Jeff Bezos
2010	Founder of Facebook	Mark Zuckerberg
2015	The fourth individual woman	Angela Merkel
2019	Youngest ever recipient (aged 17)	Greta Thunberg
2021	... in the year in which he became the world's richest person	Elon Musk
2022	... along with the Spirit of the country of which he was President	Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Some Non–Individual Recipients

1950	(and 2003 ... with two slightly different wordings)	American soldiers
1956	Freedom fighters in	Hungary
1968	William Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell	The crew of Apollo 8
1975	Represented by (among others) Betty Ford and Billie Jean King	American women
1993	Represented by Yasser Arafat, F. W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, and Yitzhak Rabin	The Peacemakers
2002	For exposing corruption in high places	The Whistleblowers
2005	Represented by Bono (for organising Live 8), Bill Gates and Melinda Gates (for establishing their philanthropical foundation)	The Good Samaritans
2006	Representing individual content creators on the World Wide Web	"You"
2011	Representing, for example, the initiators of the Arab Spring	The Protesters
2014	For their response to a global crisis that began in Africa	The Ebola fighters
2017	People who spoke out against sexual abuse and harassment	The Silence Breakers
2020	Political partners	Joe Biden and Kamala Harirs

Inanimate Recipients

There have been only two of these (excluding the abstract concept that was named in 2022 along with its human figurehead):

1982	Machine of the Year		The Computer
1988	Involving an aspect of Mother Nature		Planet Earth

2018

In 2018 (not for the first time), a number of individuals were grouped together. They were journalists who had faced persecution, arrest or murder as a consequence of their reporting. On this occasion however, the magazine was published with four different front covers, each highlighting one of the individuals in question. (Others were featured in the full citation.)

Collective title		The Guardians
Washington Post columnist, murdered for his criticism of the Saudi crown prince		Jamal Khashoggi
Editor of the Philippine news website Rappler, who was indicted for her critical coverage of the president's controversially violent policies		Maria Resser
Reuters journalists captured in Myanmar while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims		Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo
Daily newspaper published in Annapolis, Maryland, whose office was targeted in a mass shooting that resulted in the death of five of its employees		The Capital

Special Awards

Man of the Century (1949)		Winston Churchill
Man of the Decade (1989)		Mikhail Gorbachev
Person of the Century (1999)	Winner	Albert Einstein
	Runners–up	Franklin D. Roosevelt
	Runners–up	Mahatma Gandhi