by TIME Magazine · 52 items
2023: Taylor Swift
2022: Volodymyr Zelensky and the Spirit of Ukraine
2021: Elon Musk
2020: Joe Biden & Kamala Harris
2019: Greta Thunberg
2018: The Guardians
2017: The Silence Breakers
2016: Donald Trump
2015: Angela Merkel
2014: Ebola Fighters
2013: Pope Francis
2012: Barack Obama
2011: The Protester
2010: Mark Zuckerberg
2009: Ben Bernanke
2008: Barack Obama
2007: Vladimir Putin
2006: You
2005: Bill & Melinda Gates, Bono
2004: George W. Bush
2003: The American Soldier
2002: The Whistleblowers
2001: Rudy Giuliani
2000: George W. Bush
1999: Jeffrey P. Bezos
1998: Bill Clinton & Kenneth Starr
1997: Andy Grove
1996: Dr. David Ho
1995: Newt Gingrich
1994: Pope John Paul II
1993: The Peacemakers
1992: Bill Clinton
1991: Ted Turner
1990: George H.W. Bush
1989: Mikhail Gorbachev
1988: Earth / The Endangered Earth
1987: Mikhail Gorbachev
1986: Deng Xiaoping
1985: Deng Xiaoping
1984: Peter Ueberroth
1983: Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov
1982: The Computer
1981: Lech Walesa
1980: Ronald Reagan
1979: Ayatollah Khomeini
1978: Deng Xiaoping
1977: Anwar Sadat
1976: Jimmy Carter
1975: American Women
1974: King Faisal
1973: Judge John Sirica
1972: Nixon and Kissinger