Time Persons of the Year

When Time named Barack Obama its 2008 Person of the Year, the president-elect joined an august if occasionally startling list of winners.

Charles Lindbergh won the first-ever award in 1927. Franklin D. Roosevelt was honored on three different occasions. Winston Churchill won twice, as did George W. Bush and Richard Nixon.

Over the years, the magazine has valued “doing” over “doing good.” That probably explains the back-to-back victories of Adolph Hitler (1938) and Joseph Stalin (1939).

Here’s the full list:

1927: Charles Lindbergh
1928: Walter Chrysler
1929: Owen D. Young
1930: Mahatma Gandhi
1931: Pierre Laval
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933: Hugh Samuel Johnson
1934: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1935: Haile Selassie I
1936: Wallis Simpson
1937: Chiang Kai-shek/Soong May-ling
1938: Adolf Hitler
1939: Joseph Stalin
1940: Winston Churchill
1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1942: Joseph Stalin
1943: George Marshall
1944: Dwight D. Eisenhower
1945: Harry S. Truman
1946: James F. Byrnes
1947: George Marshall
1948: Harry S. Truman
1949: Winston Churchill
1950: The American Fighting Man
1951: Mohammed Mossadegh
1952: Elizabeth II
1953: Konrad Adenauer
1954: John Foster Dulles
1955: Harlow Curtice
1956: Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957: Nikita Khrushchev
1958: Charles de Gaulle
1959: Dwight D. Eisenhower
1960: U.S. Scientists
1961: John F. Kennedy
1962: Pope John XXIII
1963: Martin Luther King, Jr.
1964: Lyndon B. Johnson
1965: William Westmoreland
1966: The Generation Twenty-Five and Under (Baby Boomers)
1967: Lyndon B. Johnson
1968: Apollo 8 astronauts (William Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell)
1969: The Middle Americans
1970: Willy Brandt
1971: Richard Nixon
1972: Richard Nixon/Henry Kissinger
1973: John Sirica
1974: King Faisal
1975: American women
1976: Jimmy Carter
1977: Anwar Sadat
1978: Deng Xiaoping
1979: Ronald Reagan
1981: Lech Wałęsa
1982: The Computer – Machine of the Year
1983: Ronald Reagan/Yuri Andropov
1984: Peter Ueberroth
1985: Deng Xiaoping
1986: Corazon C. Aquino
1987: Mikhail Gorbachev
1988: The Endangered Earth: Planet of the Year
1989: Mikhail Gorbachev
1990: George H. W. Bush
1991: Ted Turner
1992: Bill Clinton
1993: The Peacemakers (Yasser Arafat, F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, and Yitzhak Rabin)
1994: Pope John Paul II
1995: Newt Gingrich
1996: David Ho
1997: Andy Grove
1998: Bill Clinton/Kenneth Starr
1999: Jeffrey P. Bezos
2000: George W. Bush
2001: Rudolph Giuliani
2002: The Whistleblowers (Cynthia Cooper, WorldCom; Coleen Rowley, FBI; and Sherron Watkins, Enron)
2003: The American Soldier
2004: George W. Bush
2005: The Good Samaritans (Bono, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates)
2006: You
2007: Vladimir Putin
2008: Barack Obama

Source: Time