HONORS

Originally Time Man of the Year, for "the man, woman, or idea that for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year."

1927	Charles Lindbergh
1928	Walter P. Chrysler
1929	Owen Young
1930	Mahatma Gandhi
1931	Pierre Laval
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933	Hugh Johnson
1934	Franklin D. Roosevelt (2nd)
1935	Haile Selassie
1936	Wallis Simpson
1937	Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
1938	Adolf Hitler
1939	Josef Stalin
1940	Winston Churchill
1941	Franklin D. Roosevelt (3rd)
1942	Josef Stalin (2nd)
1943	George C. Marshall
1944	Dwight D. Eisenhower
1945	Harry S. Truman
1946	James F. Byrnes
1947	George C. Marshall (2nd)
1948	Harry S. Truman (2nd)
1949	Winston Churchill (2nd)
1950	The American Fighting-Man
1951	Mohammed Mossadegh
1952	Queen Elizabeth II
1953	Konrad Adenauer
1954	John Foster Dulles
1955	Harlow Curtice
1956	Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957	Nikita Khrushchev
1958	Charles de Gaulle
1959	Dwight D. Eisenhower (2nd)
1960	U.S. Scientists
1961	John F. Kennedy
1962	Pope John XXIII
1963	Martin Luther King
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson
1965	William Westmoreland
1966	Twenty-Five and Under
1967	Lyndon B. Johnson (2nd)
1968	Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders
1969	The Middle Americans
1970	Willy Brandt
1971	Richard M. Nixon
1972	Richard M. Nixon (2nd) and Henry Kissinger
1973	John Sirica
1974	King Faisal
1975	American Women	Susan Brownmiller, Kathleen Byerly, Alison Cheek, Jill Ker Conway, Betty Ford, (broken link, Ella Grasso), Carla Hills, Barbara Jordan, Billie Jean King, Carol Sutton, Susie Sharp, and Addie Wyatt
1976	Jimmy Carter
1977	Anwar Sadat
1978	Deng Xiaoping
1979	Ayatollah Khomeini
1980	Ronald Reagan
1981	Lech Walesa
1982	The Computer
1983	Ronald Reagan (2nd) and Yuri Andropov
1984	Peter Ueberroth
1985	Deng Xiaoping (2nd)
1986	Corazon Aquino
1987	Mikhail Gorbachev
1988	Endangered Earth (as "Planet of the Year")
1989	Mikhail Gorbachev (2nd)
1990	George H.W. Bush
1991	Ted Turner
1992	Bill Clinton
1993	Nelson Mandela, F. W. de Klerk, Yasser Arafat, and Yitzhak Rabin
1994	Pope John Paul II
1995	Newt Gingrich
1996	David Ho
1997	Andy Grove
1998	Bill Clinton (2nd) and Ken Starr
1999	Jeff Bezos
2000	George W. Bush
2001	Rudy Giuliani
2002	The whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom, Sherron Watkins of Enron, Colleen Rowley of the FBI
2003	The American Soldier
2004	George W. Bush (2nd)
2005	Bono, Melinda Gates, Bill Gates
2006	You
2007	Vladimir Putin
2008	Barack Obama
2009	Ben Bernanke
2010	Mark Zuckerberg
2011	The Protester
2012	Barack Obama
2013	Pope Francis
2014	Ebola Fighters

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