In 1927 editorii revistei americane Time au constatat ca ultima saptamana a anului nu aduce prea multe evenimente, deci nici subiecte pentru revista. Astfel, a luat nastere rubrica: Person of the year. Iata mai jos cateva nume sonore pe care cei de la Time i-au distins cu titlul de omul anului.

1927: Charles Lindbergh

1930: Mahatma Gandhi

1938: Adolf Hitler
1939: Joseph Stalin
1940: Winston Churchill

1942: Joseph Stalin (2nd time)
1943: George Marshall

1949: Winston Churchill (2nd time)

1961: John F. Kennedy

1971: Richard Nixon
1972: Richard Nixon (2nd time)

1981: Lech Walesa
1982: The Computer

1987: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1989: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2nd time)
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

1998: Bill Clinton (2nd time)

2000: George W. Bush
2001: Rudolph Giuliani

2003: The American Soldier
2004: George W. Bush (2nd time)

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