TIME Magazine Person of the Year archives Complete list of every winner of TIME Magazine's Person of the Year award since it was started in 1927. 1927: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, American Aviator 1928: Walter P. Chrysler, American Automobile Manufacturer 1929: Owen D. Young, Board Chairman of General Electric 1930: Mohandas Gandhi, Nationalist/Spiritual Leader 1931: Pierre Laval, French Politician 1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President 1933: Hugh Samuel Johnson, American Army Officer/Politician 1934: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President 1935: Haile Selassie, Ethiopian Emperor 1936: Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor 1937: Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek, Chinese General and his Wife 1938: Adolf Hitler, German Politician and Leader 1939: Joseph Stalin, Soviet Political Leader 1940: Winston Churchill, British Statesman 1941: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President 1942: Joseph Stalin, Soviet Political Leader 1943: George Catlett Marshall, American Army Officer/Statesman 1944: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President 1945: Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. President 1946: James F. Byrnes, American Politician 1947: George Catlett Marshall, American Army Officer/Statesman 1948: Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. President 1949: Winston Churchill, British Statesman 1950: American Fighting-Man 1951: Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian Politician 1952: Elizabeth II, Queen of England 1953: Konrad Adenauer, German Politician 1954: John Foster Dulles, American Lawyer and Diplomat 1955: Harlow Herbert Curtice, President of General Motors 1956: Hungarian Freedom Fighter 1957: Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Dictator 1958: Charles De Gaulle, President of France 1959: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President 1960: U.S. Scientists 1961: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th U.S. President 1962: Pope John XXIII, Head of the Roman Catholic Church 1963: Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Activist 1964: Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. President 1965: William Childs Westmoreland, U.S. General 1966: Twenty-Five and Under 1967: Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. President 1968: Anders, Borman and Lovell, American Astronauts 1969: The Middle Americans 1970: Willy Brandt, German Politician 1971: Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th U.S. President 1972: Nixon and Kissinger, U.S. President and his Security Advisor 1973: John J. Sirica, U.S. Federal Judge 1974: King Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia 1975: American Women 1976: Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President 1977: Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President 1978: Teng Hsiao-P'ing, China's Vice Premier 1979: Ayatullah Khomeini, Leader of Iran 1980: Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. President 1981: Lech Walesa, Polish Freedom Fighter/President 1982: The Computer 1983: Reagan & Yuri Andropov, U.S. President & Soviet Politician 1984: Peter Ueberroth, Olympic Organizer 1985: Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Politician 1986: Corazon Aquino, Philippino Leader and Revolutionary 1987: Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union 1988: Endangered Earth 1989: Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union 1990: The Two George Bushes, 41st U.S. President 1991: Ted Turner, Media Mogul 1992: Bill Clinton, 42nd U.S. President 1993: The Peacemakers 1994: Pope John Paul II, Head of the Roman Catholic Church 1995: Newt Gingrich, U.S. Speaker of the House 1996: Dr. David Ho, AIDS Researcher 1997: Andy Grove, CEO of Intel 1998: Clinton/Starr, U.S. President & Special Counsel 1999: Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com 2000: George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. President 2001: Rudolph Giuliani, Mayor of New York City 2002: The Whistleblowers Person of the 20th Century: Albert Einstein