TIME Best of the Person of the Year
TIME • Leaders Who Made a Better World
Taylor Swift • 2023 CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Greta Thunberg • 2019 CLIMATE CRUSADER
Angela Merkel • 2015 CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY
Ben Bernanke • 2009 CHAIRMAN OF THE U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE
Barack Obama • 2008 | 2012 U.S. PRESIDENT-ELECT
Andrew Grove • 1997 CHAIRMAN & CEO OF INTEL
Dr. David Ho • 1996 AIDS TREATMENT PIONEER
Ted Turner • 1991 FOUNDER OF CNN
Mikhail Gorbachev • 1987 | 1989 GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION
Corazon Aquino • 1986 PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Deng Xiaoping • 1978 | 1985 CHINA’S PARAMOUNT LEADER
Anwar Sadat • 1977 PRESIDENT OF EGYPT
Jimmy Carter • 1976 U.S. PRESIDENT-ELECT
John J. Sirica • 1973 SEEKER OF TRUTH
Willy Brandt • 1970 CHANCELLOR OF WEST GERMANY
Martin Luther King Jr. • 1963 AMERICA’S GANDHI
John F. Kennedy • 1961 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Harlow Curtice • 1955 PRESIDENT OF GENERAL MOTORS
John Foster Dulles • 1954 U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE
Konrad Adenauer • 1953 CHANCELLOR OF WEST GERMANY
Elizabeth II • 1952 BRITISH QUEEN
Harry Truman • 1945 | 1948 33RD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Dwight D. Eisenhower • 1944 | 1959 SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER IN EUROPE & 34TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
George C. Marshall • 1943 | 1947 CHIEF OF STAFF O F T H E U.S. ARMY & 50TH U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE
Winston Churchill • 1940 | 1949 PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
Haile Selassie • 1935 EMPEROR OF ETHIOPIA
Franklin D. Roosevelt • 1932 | 1934 | 1941 32ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Mahatma Gandhi • 1930 INDIAN REVOLUTIONARY
Owen D. Young • 1929 CHAIRMAN OF THE SECOND REPARATIONS CONFERENCE
Walter Chrysler • 1928 BUSINESSPERSON
Joe Biden & Kamala Harris • 2020 U.S PRESIDENT-ELECT & VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT
The Guardians • 2018 BRAVE TRUTH-TELLERS
The Silence Breakers • 2017 #METOO DISRUPTERS
The Ebola Fighters • 2014 SELFLESS LIFESAVERS
The Protester • 2011 HISTORY CHANGERS
The Good Samaritans • 2005 STEWARDS ON A GLOBAL MISSION
The American Soldier • 2003 IN IRAQ AND BEYOND
The Whistleblowers • 2002 RIGHTERS OF WRONGS
American Women • 1975 CHANGE-MAKERS
The Apollo 8 Astronauts • 1968 SPACE PIONEERS
U.S. Scientists • 1960 EXPLORERS OF THE FUTURE
The Hungarian Freedom Fighter • 1956 FACES OF HOPE
The American Fighting-Man • 1950 DESTINY’S DRAFTEE
Gen. & Mme. Chiang Kai-shek • 1937 PRESIDENT & FIRST LADY OF CHINA
TIME Best of the Person of the Year
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