Person of the Year

Person of the Year (Person of the Year; and 1999 Man of the Year , man (or man) of the year ') is a selection of individuals, groups, ideas or objects that since 1927 annually by the US news magazine Time published . With the appointment as Person of the Year , those are selected who, in the opinion of the editors, have significantly changed or moved the world in the respective year - for the "good" or the "bad".

story

The tradition of choosing Man of the Year began in 1927 when Time editors pondered what to write about in a pickle season . First of all, it was also about making up for the embarrassment of the wrong editorial decision not to have Charles Lindbergh on the front page after his transatlantic flight. At the end of the year it was decided that Charles Lindbergh would be named “Man of the Year” with a cover story.

Since that time, specific people, groups of people (e.g. a team or a demographic category ) or, in two specific cases, an invention and planet earth, have been selected for issue towards the end of each year. Since 2000, the title has been generalized to Person of the Year . : Still, only few women have received the title of Wallis Simpson in 1936, Soong Mei-ling in 1937, Queen Elizabeth II. All American women in 1975, in 1952, Corazon Aquino in 1986, the whistleblower informants referred to uncover the scandal helped in 2002, Melinda Gates in 2005, Angela Merkel in 2015, the "Silence Breakers" (the women who stood up against sexual assault and abuse in the workplace) in 2017, Greta Thunberg in 2019 and Kamala Harris in 2020 .

Every President of the United States since Franklin D. Roosevelt (with the exception of Gerald Ford ) has been named Person of the Year at least once . It is now part of Time's policy to appoint a President of the United States each time he is elected (or re-elected) to recognize this achievement in itself.

perception

The award is partly understood as an honor or a prize. However, Time-Magazine regularly points to the sole criterion: who had the greatest influence on the events of the year - in the good or bad sense [for better or for worse, ... has done the most to influence the events of the year] . This is evident in Hitler's 1938, Stalin's 1939 and 1942, and Khomeini's 1979 awards.

People of the year from the German-speaking area

The dictator Adolf Hitler was selected in 1938 as the person who had the greatest impact on world history. In addition, the Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1953, Willy Brandt in 1970 and Angela Merkel in 2015 were people of the year. In 1940 Pastor Martin Niemöller was named Martyr of the Year.

Albert Einstein was chosen as the person of the (20th) century , Johannes Gutenberg as the person of the 15th century .

"People of the year" selected by Time

image	year	Surname	country	Function / reason
	1927	Charles Lindbergh	United States	first solo crosser of the Atlantic by plane
	1928	Walter Percy Chrysler	United States	Automobile pioneer and founder of the Chrysler Corporation
	1929	Owen D. Young	United States	Industrialist and Chairman of General Electric
	1930	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	British India	Pacifist and leader of the Indian independence movement
	1931	Pierre Laval	France	French Prime Minister
	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	United States	US President
	1933	Hugh S. Johnson	United States	General and Government Official, Head of New Deal
	1934	Franklin D. Roosevelt	United States	US President and initiator of the New Deal
	1935	Haile Selassie	Ethiopia	Emperor of Ethiopia
	1936	Wallis Simpson	United States	Mistress of the English King Edward VIII , who abdicated on her account.
	1937	Chiang Kai-shek	China	Leader of the Kuomintang
		Song Meiling		Wife of Chiang Kai-shek
	1938	Adolf Hitler	Deutsches Reich	Chancellor of the German Empire
	1939	Joseph Stalin	Soviet Union	General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU
	1940	Winston Churchill	United Kingdom	British Prime Minister
	1941	Franklin D. Roosevelt	United States	US President
	1942	Joseph Stalin	Soviet Union	General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and Head of Government (Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars) of the Soviet Union
	1943	George C. Marshall	United States	general
	1944	Dwight D. Eisenhower	United States	Commander in Chief of the Allied Forces in Europe
	1945	Harry S. Truman	United States	US President
	1946	James F. Byrnes	United States	United States Secretary of State
	1947	George C. Marshall	United States	General and initiator of the Marshall Plan
	1948	Harry S. Truman	United States	US President
	1949	Winston Churchill	United Kingdom	British Prime Minister
	1950	The American soldier	United States	fights in the Korean War
	1951	Mohammad Mossadegh	Iran	Prime Minister of Iran
	1952	Elizabeth II	United Kingdom	Queen of the United Kingdom
	1953	Konrad Adenauer	BR Germany	German Chancellor
	1954	John Foster Dulles	United States	United States Secretary of State
	1955	Harlow Herbert Curtice	United States	General Motors CEO
	1956	The Hungarian freedom fighters	Hungary	had failed in the fight against the dictatorship
	1957	Nikita Khrushchev	Soviet Union	Party leader of the CPSU
	1958	Charles de Gaulle	France	French Prime Minister
	1959	Dwight D. Eisenhower	United States	US President
	1960	The American scientists	United States	represented by Linus Pauling , Isidor Isaac Rabi , Edward Teller , Adam Fisher , Donald Arthur Glaser , Willard Libby , Robert B. Woodward , Charles Stark Draper , William Bradford Shockley , Emilio Segrè , John Franklin Enders , Charles Hard Townes , George Wells Beadle , James Van Allen and Edward Mills Purcell
	1961	John F. Kennedy	United States	US President
	1962	John XXIII	Vatican City Italy	Pope
	1963	Martin Luther King	United States	Civil Rights Movement Leader
	1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	United States	US President
	1965	William Westmoreland	United States	Commander in chief of US troops in the Vietnam War
	1966	The under-25s	global	see baby boomers
	1967	Lyndon B. Johnson	United States	US President
	1968	Frank Borman	United States	Apollo 8 astronauts
		Jim Lovell
		William Anders
	1969	The average American	United States
	1970	Willy Brandt	BR Germany	German Chancellor
	1971	Richard Nixon	United States	US President
	1972	Richard Nixon	United States	US President
		Henry Kissinger		United States National Security Advisor
	1973	John Sirica	United States	Head of the Watergate Burglar Trial
	1974	Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz	Saudi Arabia	King of Saudi Arabia
	1975	American women	United States	represented by Betty Ford , Carla Anderson Hills , Ella T. Grasso , Barbara Jordan , Susie Sharp , Jill Conway , Billie Jean King , Susan Brownmiller , Addie L. Wyatt , Kathleen Byerly , Carol Sutton and Alison Cheek
	1976	Jimmy Carter	United States	US President
	1977	Anwar as-Sadat	Egypt	President of Egypt
	1978	Deng Xiaoping	People's Republic of China	Reform politician
	1979	Ruhollah Khomeini	Iran	Leader of the Islamic Revolution
	1980	Ronald Reagan	United States	US President
	1981	Lech Wałęsa	Poland	Chairman of the Solidarność trade union
	1982	The computer
	1983	Ronald Reagan	United States	US President
		Yuri Andropov	Soviet Union	General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and head of state of the Soviet Union.
	1984	Peter Ueberroth	United States	Organizer of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
	1985	Deng Xiaoping	People's Republic of China	Reform politician
	1986	Corazon Aquino	Philippines	President of the Philippines
	1987	Mikhail Gorbachev	Soviet Union	General Secretary of the CPSU
	1988	the threatened earth	global	see also: pollution
	1989	Mikhail Gorbachev	Soviet Union	General Secretary of the CPSU and head of state of the Soviet Union
	1990	George HW Bush	United States	US President
	1991	Ted Turner	United States	Media entrepreneur and founder of CNN International
	1992	Bill Clinton	United States	US President
	1993	Nelson Mandela	South Africa	Leader of the African National Congress 1
		Frederik Willem de Klerk		President of South Africa, who was on the end of apartheid towards 1
		Yasser Arafat	Palestine	Palestinian leader 1
		Yitzchak Rabin	Israel	Prime Minister of Israel 1
	1994	John Paul II	Vatican City Poland	Pope
	1995	Newt Gingrich	United States	Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
	1996	David Ho	United States	AIDS researchers
	1997	Andrew Grove	United States	Co-founder of Intel
	1998	Bill Clinton	United States	US President
		Kenneth Starr		Judge; Investigator of the allegations against President Clinton
	1999	Jeff Bezos	United States	Founder and CEO of Amazon.com
	2000	George W. Bush	United States	US President
	2001	Rudolph Giuliani	United States	Mayor of New York City
	2002	Cynthia Cooper	United States	Whistleblower
		Sherron Watkins
		Coleen Rowley
	2003	The American soldier	United States	fights in the Iraq war
	2004	George W. Bush	United States	US President
	2005	Bono	Ireland	Musician 2
		Bill Gates	United States	Software entrepreneurs and benefactors 2
		Melinda Gates		then wife of Bill Gates 2
	2006	You. Yes, you. You control the information age. Welcome to your world. (You. Yes, you. You influence the information age . Welcome to your world.)	global	in response to the proliferation of participatory websites
	2007	Wladimir Putin	Russia	President of the Russian Federation
	2008	Barack Obama	United States	US President
	2009	Ben Bernanke	United States	President of the Federal Reserve Board
	2010	Mark Zuckerberg	United States	Founder of Facebook
	2011	The Protester (the protesters)	global	in response to global protests
	2012	Barack Obama	United States	US President
	2013	Francis	Vatican City Argentina	Pope
	2014	Doctors and nurses in the fight against Ebola	West africa	represented by the doctor and Ebola survivor Kent Brantly , the surgeon and clinic director Jerry Brown , the ambulance driver Foday Gallah , the Ebola survivor Salome Karwah and the Doctors Without Borders employee Ella Watson-Stryker .
	2015	Angela Merkel	Germany	German Chancellor
	2016	Donald Trump	United States	President of the United States
	2017	The Silence Breakers (Those who break their silence)	global	#MeToo , represented by Isabel Pascual (pseudonym), Adama Iwu, Ashley Judd , Susan Fowler, Taylor Swift and an anonymous woman
	2018	The Guardians and the War on Truth (The guards and the war for the truth)	global	Journalists charged, jailed, or murdered for reporting. Jamal Khashoggi , Maria Ressa , the editorial team of The Capital , Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are shown on various cover pictures . Shahidul Alam , Alam Habani , Patrícia Campos Mello and Victor Mallet are mentioned as other Guardians .
	2019	Greta Thunberg	Sweden	Climate protection activist and initiator of school strikes for the climate
	2020	Joe Biden	United States	President of the United States
		Kamala Harris		Vice President of the United States
	2021	Elon Musk	South Africa United States	Entrepreneur

¹ Mandela, de Klerk, Arafat and Rabin were jointly recognized as "peacemakers"

²Bono and the Gates were jointly named “ Good Samaritans ”

In addition, Albert Einstein was selected as Person of the Century in 1999 and Winston Churchill as Person of the Half Century in 1950 .

Other categories

Four more categories were introduced in 2020:

• Guardian of the Year : Anthony Fauci and Health Professionals; Assa Traoré , Porche Bennett-Bey and fighters for racial justice
• Business Person of the Year : Eric Yuan (Zoom)
• Athlete of the Year : LeBron James
• Entertainer of the Year : BTS

Web links

Commons : Persons of the Year  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Person of the Year: A Photo History . Time (English)
• Person of the Year . Time; Cover stories of the winners from 2008 to 2013

Individual evidence

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6. ↑ Elliott MacLaughlin: Ebola fighters are Time's 'Person of the Year'. In: CNN.com , December 11, 2014.
7. ^ Nancy Gibbs: Person of the Year. Angela Merkel. In: Time , December 9, 2015 (English).
8. ^ Nancy Gibbs: Why Donald Trump is TIME's Person of the Year. In: TIME.com. Retrieved December 7, 2016 . 
9. ↑ dpa / shz.de: Time Magazine: # MeToo movement: “Person of the Year” are everyone who broke their silence | shz.de. Retrieved March 13, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Stephanie Zacharek, Eliana Dockterman, Haley Sweetland Edwards: Time Person of the Year 2017. The Silence Breakers. time.com, December 6, 2017
11. ↑ Person of the Year 2018. In: Time. December 11, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019. In: Time. December 11, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Joe Biden and Kamala Harris named Time magazine's 2020 person of the year. In: The Guardian . December 11, 2020, accessed December 11, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Elon Musk Is TIME's 2021 Person of the Year. Retrieved December 13, 2021 . 
15. ↑ CNN : Time magazine chooses Biden and Harris as 2020's Person of the Year , December 11, 2020