--- description: From Kim Kardashian to Pope Francis, cast your vote for the person you think most influenced the news this year for better or worse. title: Face-Off: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year? #TIMEPOY image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04eb5a86df6df852/6987695af887dcb3c6e886ed/time-person-of-the-year-poll-01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Face-Off: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year? by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 19, 2014 6:38 PM CUT  AP (1); Getty Images (3); Reuters (2) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 19, 2014 6:38 PM CUT 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 most influenced the news this year for better or worse. Here you’ll find some of the year’s most provocative newsmakers paired head-to-head with similar movers and shakers. You can also vote in our [yes/no poll](http://time.com/3562179/time-person-of-the-year-poll/ "undefined"). Read more about the voting methodology [here](http://time.com/3562152/about-person-of-the-year-poll/ "undefined"). Voting closes at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 6, and the combined winner of our reader polls will be announced on Dec. 8\. TIME’s Person of the Year will be announced Dec. 10. _Read next:_ [_Vote Now: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year?_](http://time.com/3562179/time-person-of-the-year-poll/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3562166/time-person-of-the-year-face-off-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3562166/time-person-of-the-year-face-off-poll/"},"headline":"Face-Off: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year?","datePublished":"2014-11-19T18:38:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:16:46.542Z","description":"From Kim Kardashian to Pope Francis, cast your vote for the person you think most influenced the news this year for better or worse.","url":"https://time.com/3562166/time-person-of-the-year-face-off-poll/","keywords":["Person of the Year topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04eb5a86df6df852/6987695af887dcb3c6e886ed/time-person-of-the-year-poll-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04eb5a86df6df852/6987695af887dcb3c6e886ed/time-person-of-the-year-poll-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIME Person of the Year Poll 01","caption":"TIME Person of the Year Poll 01","creditText":"AP (1); Getty Images (3); Reuters (2)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3562166/time-person-of-the-year-face-off-poll/","name":"Face-Off: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year?"}}]}] ```