TIME's Man of the Year

Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." Though TIME's list is not an academic or objective study of the past, the list gives a contemporary viewpoint of what was important during each year. There are many interesting facts about the list:

* Charles Lindbergh (1927) was the first, and the youngest, person to receive the distinction. He was 25 years old.

* Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, the woman whom English King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry, was the first woman to receive the honor - 1936.

* Though a number of people have received the honor twice, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only person to have been named three times: 1932, 1934, and 1941.

* Adolf Hitler, the murderous leader of Nazi Germany, received the honor in 1938.

* A whole generation was named in 1966 - "Twenty-five and Under."

* In 1982, the computer became the first object ever to receive the distinction.

* There are several years where large groups of people were nominated: the American Fighting-Man (1950), the Hungarian Freedom Fighter (1956), U.S. Scientists (1960), Twenty-Five and Under (1966), the Middle Americans (1968), and American Women (1975).

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 Regan & 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