[LibWhacker]

The Man of the Year Winners

1927 Charles Augustus Lindbergh
1928 Walter P. Chrysler
1929 Owen D. Young
1930 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1931 Pierre Laval
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933 Hugh Samuel Johnson
1934 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1935 Haile Selassie
1936 Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson
1937 Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek
1938 Adolf Hitler
1939 Joseph Stalin
1940 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1942 Joseph Stalin
1943 George Catlett Marshall
1944 Dwight David Eisenhower
1945 Harry Truman
1946 James F. Byrnes
1947 George Catlett Marshall
1948 Harry Truman
1949 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1950 American Fighting-Man
1951 Mohammed Mossadegh
1952 Elizabeth II
1953 Konrad Adenauer
1954 John Foster Dulles
1955 Harlow Herbert Curtice
1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957 Nikita Krushchev
1958 Charles De Gaulle
1959 Dwight David Eisenhower
1960 U.S. Scientists
1961 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1962 Pope John XXIII
1963 Martin Luther King Jr.
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson
1965 General William Childs Westmoreland
1966 Twenty-Five and Under
1967 Lyndon B. Johnson
1968 Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell
1969 The Middle Americans
1970 Willy Brandt
1971 Richard Milhous Nixon
1972 Nixon and Kissinger
1973 John J. Sirica
1974 King Faisal
1975 American Women
1976 Jimmy Carter
1977 Anwar Sadat
1978 Teng Hsiao-P’ing
1979 Ayatullah Khomeini
1980 Ronald Reagan
1981 Lech Walesa
1982 The Computer
1983 Ronald Reagan & Yuri Andropov
1984 Peter Ueberroth
1985 Deng Xiaoping
1986 Corazon Aquino
1987 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1988 Endangered Earth
1989 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1990 The Two George Bushes
1991 Ted Turner
1992 Bill Clinton
1993 The Peacemakers
1994 Pope John Paul II
1995 Newt Gingrich
1996 Dr. David Ho
1997 Andy Grove
1998 Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
1999 Jeff Bezos
2000 George W. Bush
2001 Rudolph Giuliani
2002 The Whistleblowers
2003 The American Soldier
2004 George W. Bush
2005 Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono
2006 You
2007 Vladimir Putin
2008 Barack Obama

I think they should generalize it even more and call it ‘Life Form of the Year’

[TChris]

I think they should generalize it even more and call it ‘Life Form of the Year’

Would that cover "The Computer", "Endangered Earth" and even "Bill Clinton"?

[Plutarch]

1988 Endangered Earth

I wondered what specifically endangered the earth in 1988? That was before Global Warming was invented, wasn't it?

[napscoordinator]

Obama won’t win this year. I see that they have picked every President in recent history. I am sorta surprised that they picked Reagan and Bush. Maybe it is a bipartisan magazine. I never read the thing...I am too young to be reading Time. That is a Baby boomer Mag.

[Cyber Liberty]

i remember “The Computer” and still chuckle often when I think of the “You” issue. Some kind of attempted mirror for a cover.

[Squantos]

2003 they got it right........

[Ciexyz]

They could actually give it to 'Planet Earth' and still be topical.

[ntnychik]

Who knew? I won the Man of the Year honors in 1966 and 2006, despite not being male. If Time would like to sell copies, they should name Sarah Palin for the honor.

[SkyPilot]

1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933 Hugh Samuel Johnson 1934 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1935 Haile Selassie 1936 Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson 1937 Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek 1938 Adolf Hitler 1939 Joseph Stalin 1940 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1942 Joseph Stalin

My gosh, Time sure does loves communists, socialists, dictators, and scum. I noticed that at least they tried to break it up by putting a real man, Winston Churchill in there, in 1940.

He was probably the greatest politician in 1,000 years, but I am sure the editors of Time had a sour taste in their mouths. They came roaring back though with another "double play" the next two years, putting FDR that Socialist and Stalin the Communist right back on the covers.