Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine and website puck (known as time before 1946) featuring a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year".
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Year | Image | Choice | Life time | Notes | Nationality |
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1927 | Charles Lindbergh | First solo-flight transatlantic flight | American | ||
1928 | Gutzon Borglum | Started the construction of Mount Rushmore | American | ||
1929 | The Starving Americans | The Great Depression | American | ||
1930 | Mahahma Gandhi | Led the Salt Satyagraha in India to impose
tax on salt |
British | ||
1931 | John J, Raskob | Builder of the Empire State Building | American | ||
1932 | Franklin Roosevelt | 32nd President of the United States | American | ||
1933 | John Nance Garner | Vice President of Franklin Roosevelt | American | ||
1934 | Abraham Lincoln and
Jessie Lincoln |
Jessie Lincoln is the Grand Daughter of Abe
Lincoln which celebrates 70 years of Lincolns 1864 election |
American | ||
1935 | Halie Selassie | Emperor of Ethiopia during the
Italo-Ethiopian War |
Ethiopian | ||
1936 | Jesse Owens | Winning the 1936 Olympics and outraged
Hitler |
American | ||
1937 | John D. Rockefeller | Mourning his death in 1937 | American | ||
1938 | Adolf Hitler | Unified Austria and Czechia in 1938 under
German rule |
German | ||
1939 | Gerd von Rundstedt | Mastermind of the German Invasion of Poland | German | ||
1940 | Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Britain and saved the nation
from the Germans |
British | ||
1941 | Franklin Roosevelt(2) | Declared war on the Axis Powers and let US
in World War II |
American | ||
1942 | Harold Alexander | Prevented the Axis Powers in El Alamein | British | ||
1943 | George C. Marshall | United States Army Chief of Staff in 1943, | American | ||
1944 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Mastermind of the Normandy Invasion | American | ||
1945 | Douglas MacArthur | Captured Kyushu in Operation Downfall | American | ||
1946 | Mao Zedong | Leader of the CCP | Chinese | ||
1947 | Alan Turing | Created the first Computer | British | ||
1948 | Ove Arup | Built the Cross Australian Canals | Australian | ||
1949 | Trygve Lie | brought peace in the Greek Civil war after the 2 hours | Norwegian | ||
1950 | Dixiecrat Party | First 3rd Party to be elected since 1860 | American | ||
1951 | Strom Thurmond | Established the 4th German Reich in 1951 | American | ||
1952 | Queen Elizabeth II | Became Queen of England in 1952 | British | ||
1953 | Konrad Adenauer | First President of the Fourth German Reich in 1951 | German | ||
1954 | Clarence R. Magney | Created the first break away state in US history,
the Arrowhead State |
American | ||
1955 | Lester B. Pearson | Drafted the NATO treaty | Canadian | ||
1956 | Hungarian Fighters | Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | Hungarian | ||
1957 | Qian Xuesen | Created the Chinese Space Program | Chinese | ||
1958 | De Gaulle | Became Prime Minister in France in 1958 | FrenchFile:France Flag.png | ||
1959 | Explorer 1 | First Satellite in space | (not a person but in theory American ) | ||
1960 | The Computer | Created for the military now for incoming Nukes and
incoming attacks to save American soil |
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