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Adolf Hitler (born 1889, died 1945)
Leader of Germany in World War II. Ordered the extermination of Jews and other ''undesirables'' in concentration camps.
- 1938 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Anwar el-Sadat (born 1918, died 1981)
Egyptian statesman. Signed the Camp David Accords with Menachem Begin of Israel.
- 1977 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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William Jefferson ''Bill'' Clinton (born 1946)
Forty-second President of the U.S.
- 1992, 1998 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Charles DeGaulle (born 1890, died 1970)
French military leader and statesman.
- 1958 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Charles Draper (born 1901, died 1987)
American aeronautical engineer.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Charles H. Townes (born 1915)
American physicist known for his work in the field of quantum electronics.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Charles A. Lindbergh (born 1902, died 1974)
American aviator. First person to make a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, in 1927.
- 1927 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Chiang Kai-shek (born 1887, died 1975)
Chinese Nationalist leader who set up an independent government in Taiwan after the communists took control of mainland China.
- 1937 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Donald A. Glaser (born 1926)
American physicist who invented the bubble chamber.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Dwight David Eisenhower (born 1890, died 1969)
Supreme Allied Commander in World War II; 34th President of the U.S.
- 1944, 1959 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Edward M. Purcell (born 1912, died 1997)
American physicist who developed nuclear magnetic measurement instruments.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Emilio G. Segre (born 1905, died 1989)
Italian-born American physicist; co-discoverer of antiprotons and antineutrons.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz (born 1906, died 1975)
King of Saudi Arabia.
- 1974 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (born 1882, died 1945)
Thirty-second President of the U.S., and the only one elected to four terms. Led the nation during the Great Depression and World War II.
- 1932, 1934, 1941 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Frederik W. de Klerk (born 1936)
President of South Africa (1989-94) who negotiated the end of apartheid with Nelson Mandela.
- 1993 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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George Herbert Walker Bush (born 1924)
Forty-first President of the U.S.
- 1990 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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George C. Marshall (born 1880, died 1959)
American general and diplomat. Implemented the Marshall Plan for the rebuilding of Europe after World War II.
- 1943, 1947 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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George W. Beadle (born 1903, died 1989)
American geneticist who discovered that genes affect heredity through chemical reactions.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari) (born 1891, died 1975)
Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1935 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Harlow Curtice (born 1893, died 1962)
American automobile industry executive; president of General Motors.
- 1955 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Harry S Truman (born 1884, died 1972)
Thirty-third President of the U.S. Won a come-from-behind victory in 1948.
- 1945 and 1948 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Henry Alfred Kissinger (born 1923)
German-American political scientist and diplomat. Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford, 1973-77. Negotiated warmer U.S. relations with Egypt, China, and the Soviet Union; brought about a cease-fire in Vietnam.
- 1972 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Hugh S. Johnson (born 1882, died 1942)
American general and government official; headed the National Recovery Administration and Works Progress Administration in the 1930s.
- 1933 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Isidor Isaac Rabi (born 1898, died 1988)
American physicist who developed a method for measuring the magnetic properties of atoms.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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James F. Byrnes (born 1879, died 1972)
American politician and jurist.
- 1946 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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James Earl ''Jimmy'' Carter (born 1924)
Thirty-ninth President of the U.S. First Southern President since the Civil War.
- 1976 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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John J. Sirica (born 1904, died 1993)
American jurist who presided over the Watergate trials.
- 1973 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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John F. Kennedy (born 1917, died 1963)
Thirty-fifth President of the U.S. Youngest person to be elected President.
- 1961 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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John Foster Dulles (born 1888, died 1959)
American diplomat and secretary of State, for whom Dulles airport is named.
- 1954 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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John Franklin Enders (born 1897, died 1985)
American virologist whose work helped pave the way for Salk's polio vaccine, and who developed a vaccine for the measles.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Josef Stalin (born 1879, died 1953)
Soviet dictator who built the U.S.S.R. into a major power. Original name: Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili.
- 1939, 1942 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Joshua Lederberg (born 1925)
American geneticist who discovered that viruses can carry genes from one bacterium to another.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Konrad Adenauer (born 1876, died 1967)
German lawyer and statesman. First chancellor of West Germany.
- 1953 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Linus C. Pauling (born 1901, died 1994)
American chemist who utilized quantum principles in his study of molecular structure. In the political arena, he was a leading advocate of nuclear disarmament.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (born 1908, died 1973)
Thirty-sixth President of the U.S. Signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts.
- 1964, 1967 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Mohandas K. Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) (born 1869, died 1948)
Leader of India's struggle for independence; advocate of simple living, compassion, and non-violent civil disobedience.
- 1930 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (born 1929, died 1968)
American clergyman and civil-rights leader. President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Advocate of nonviolence; assassinated April 4, 1968.
- 1963 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Mohammed Mossadegh (born 1880, died 1967)
Iranian nationalist leader.
- 1951 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born 1918)
South African political leader. Head of the African National Congress; imprisoned 1964-90 for his anti-apartheid activities. Became the first black president of South Africa 1994-99.
- 1993 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Nikita Khrushchev (born 1894, died 1971)
Soviet leader who presided over the post-Stalin ''thaw.''
- 1957 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Owen D. Young (born 1874, died 1962)
American businessman. Founded the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
- 1929 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Peter Ueberroth (born 1937)
American commissioner of baseball and organizer of the 1984 Olympic Games.
- 1984 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Pierre Laval (born 1883, died 1945)
French politician. Member of the French Vichy government who collaborated with the Nazis in World War II; executed for treason.
- 1931 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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John Paul II (born 1920)
Polish clergyman who was elected to the papacy in 1978, becoming the first non-Italian pope in 455 years. Original name: Karol Wojtyla.
- 1994 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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John XXIII (born 1881, died 1963)
Pope who convened the Second Vatican Council as part of his mission to modernize and reform the Church. Original name: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli.
- 1962 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Richard M. Nixon (born 1913, died 1994)
Thirty-seventh President of the U.S. The Watergate scandal led to his being the first U.S. President to resign from office.
- 1971, 1972 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Robert B. Woodward (born 1917)
American chemist known for his work in organic synthesis.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Ronald Reagan (born 1911)
American film and TV actor who became 40th President of the United States.
- 1980, 1983 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Deng Xiaoping (born 1904)
Chinese political figure who emerged as the dominant leader after the death of Mao.
- 1978, 1985 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Walter P. Chrysler (born 1875, died 1940)
American industrialist and automobile manufacturer. Founded the Chrysler Corporation.
- 1928 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Willard F. Libby (born 1908, died 1980)
American chemist who devised the carbon-14 dating technique used in archaeology and geology.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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William Westmoreland (born 1914)
U.S. Army general; commander of American forces in Vietnam.
- 1965 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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William Shockley
American physicist who helped develop the transistor.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Willy Brandt (born 1913, died 1992)
West German chancellor who worked for East-West detente. Original name: Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm.
- 1970 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (born 1874, died 1965)
British statesman, author and historian. Led the United Kingdom through much of World War II.
- 1940, 1949 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Yasser Arafat (born 1929)
Palestinian patriot and politician who negotiated a peace agreement with Israel in 1993.
- 1993 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Yitzhak Rabin (born 1922, died 1995)
Israeli statesman. Assassinated by a Jewish extremist because of his policy of negotiating with the Palestinians.
- 1993 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Yuri Andropov (born 1914, died 1984)
Soviet leader who succeeded Brezhnev.
- 1983 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Newt Gingrich (born 1943)
American legislator.
- 1995 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Frank Borman (born 1928)
American astronaut; later president of Eastern Airlines.
- 1968 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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James A. Lovell, Jr.
American astronaut.
- 1968 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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William A. Anders (born 1933)
American astronaut.
- 1968 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Edward Teller (born 1908)
Hungarian-American physicist who helped develop the hydrogen bomb.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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James A. Van Allen (born 1914)
American physicist.
- 1960 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Lech Walesa (born 1943)
Polish union organizer and statesman.
- 1981 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Ted Turner (born 1938)
Television industry executive; founder of the Cable News Network.
- 1991 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Kenneth Starr (born 1946)
Whitewater special prosecutor
- 1998 Time Magazine Man of the Year
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Jeffrey (Jeff) T. Bezos (born 1964)
American entrepreneur
- 1999 Man of the Year, nicknamed King of Cybercommerce
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George Walker Bush (born 1946)
Son of the 41st President of the United States of America, George Bush,
- Time Magazine Man of the Year 2000
