2023 - Singer-songwriter whose 2023–2024 Eras Tour became the highest-grossing concert tour of all time. The tour had a significant cultural and economic impact in 2023. The first woman to appear twice on a Person of the Year cover.

Taylor Swift

1978 - as Vice Premier, overthrew Hua Guofeng to assume de facto control over China in 1978, as Paramount leader.

Deng Xiaoping

1949 - Proclaimed as the "Man of the half-century", led Britain and the Allies to victory in WWII. In 1949, he was Leader of the Opposition.

Winston Churchill (2)

1954 - As United States Secretary of State in 1954 he was architect of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation.

John Foster Dulles

1950 - Representing US troops involved in the Korean War (1950–1953)

The American fighting-man

1997 - chairman and CEO of Intel, recognised as a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and taken as a representative of the Digital Revolution and the tech boom.

Andrew Grove

1941 - President during the attack on Pearl Harbor, declaration of war against Japan and resulting entry of the United States into World War II.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (3) - the editors had already chosen Dumbo as their "Mammal of the Year" before the Pearl Harbor attack, but quickly changed it to Roosevelt.

1931 - Prime Minister of France, popular in the American press for opposing the Hoover Moratorium, a temporary freeze on World War I debt payments.

Pierre Laval

1969 - Conservative, small-town Americans, also referred to as the silent majority. Time saw them as the driving force behind Richard Nixon's 1968 election win, the background of the Apollo 11 astronauts, and the conservative side of social issue debates such as school desegregation, prayer in public schools, sex ed and drugs policy.

The Middle Americans

1938 - oversaw the unification of Germany with Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938, after the Anschluss and Munich Agreement respectively.

Adolf Hitler - instead of a conventional portrait, the cover was an illustration by Rudolph von Ripper entitled 'From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate'.