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Who Should Be TIME's Person of the Year?
As always, TIME's editors will choose the Person of the Year, but that doesn't mean readers shouldn't have their say. Cast your vote for the person you think...

Person of the Year 2003
They swept across Iraq and conquered it in 21 days. They stand guard on streets pot-holed with skepticism and rancor. They caught Saddam Hussein. They are the...

Person of the Year 2011
A year after a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself ablaze, dissent has spread across the Middle East, reaching Europe and the U.S., reshaping global politics and...

Person of the Century Nominations
TIME asks some of the world's politicians, stars, and other well-known figures to pick their choice for Person of the Century

Who Will Be Person of the Year 2008?
Barack Obama? Gordon Brown? Michael Phelps? Click through the pros and cons of our finalists for Person of the Year and vote for the candidates you think are...

Person of the Year 2007
His final year as Russia's President has been his most successful yet. At home, he secured his political future. Abroad, he expanded his outsize—if not always...

People of the Century
TIME has profiled those individuals who — for better or worse — most influenced the last 100 years. They are considered in five fields of endeavor, culminating...

Who Will Be Person of the Year?
A former Vice President turned green guru? The most popular, and powerful, man in Russia? How about a fiery Middle East leader, or the brains behind Harry...

Person of the Year Nominations
TIME asked past TIME 100 honorees whom they would choose for 2010. The nominations are in

Person of the Year 1999
The fast-moving Internet economy has a jungle of competitors. Here's the king...

Person of the Year 2010
For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing...

Person of the Year 2006
In 2006, the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter

Person of the Year: A Photo History
TIME looks back on its most compelling — and sometimes controversial — choices for Person of the Year

Person of the Year 2004
For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a...

Person of the Year 2009
The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. How the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve prevented an economic...

Who Will Be Person of the Year 2009?
Take a look at the candidates and give them your rating — though TIME's editors reserve the right to disagree

Person of the Year 2008
In one of the craziest elections in American history, Barack Obama overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who are political institutions and...


