Time Person of the Year

Person of the Year
Person of the Year
	1927 Man of the Year Charles Lindbergh, the award's inaugural winner
Country	United States
Presented by	Time
Formerly called	Man of the Year; Woman of the Year;
First award	1927
Final award	Donald Trump (2024)
Website	www.time.com/poy

Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999)^[1] is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ...has done the most to influence the events of the year".^[2] The Time website or a partner organization also runs an annual online reader's poll that has no effect on the selection, although no poll was held in 2023 or 2024.^[3]^[4]

^ Gray, Eliza (June 26, 2015). "Inside the Love Story That Changed the Gay Marriage Battle". Time. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015.
^ Person of the Year: 75th Anniversary Celebration (Special Collector's ed.). New York: Time Books. 2002. OCLC 52817840.
^ "Here's Who Won Time's 2019 Person of the Year Reader Poll". Time. Archived from the original on December 12, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
^ Rothman, Lily (2023). Jacobs, Sam; Rothman, Lily; Benedict, Julie Blume; Cassidy, Catherine (eds.). "How Person of the Year Came to Be". Time. pp. 1–2.

[1] Gray, Eliza (June 26, 2015). "Inside the Love Story That Changed the Gay Marriage Battle". Time. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015.

[2] Person of the Year: 75th Anniversary Celebration (Special Collector's ed.). New York: Time Books. 2002. OCLC 52817840.

[3] "Here's Who Won Time's 2019 Person of the Year Reader Poll". Time. Archived from the original on December 12, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2021.

[:0-4] Rothman, Lily (2023). Jacobs, Sam; Rothman, Lily; Benedict, Julie Blume; Cassidy, Catherine (eds.). "How Person of the Year Came to Be". Time. pp. 1–2.

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