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2013: Pope Francis

2012: Barack Obama

2011: The Protester

2010: Mark Zuckerberg

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2008: Barack Obama

2007: Vladimir Putin

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2005: The Good Samaritans: Bill Gates, Bono, Melinda Gates

2004: President George W. Bush

2003: The American Soldier

2002: The Whistleblowers

2001: Rudy Giuliani

2000: President George W. Bush

1999: Jeff Bezos

1998: Kenneth Starr ad Bill Clinton

1997: Andrew Grove

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1994: Pope John Paul II

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1991: Ted Turner

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1989: Mikhail Gorbachev

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1987: Mikhail Gorbachev

1986: Corazon Aquino

1985: Deng Xiaoping

1984: Peter Ueberroth

1983: President Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov

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1981: Lech Wałęsa

1980: President Ronald Reagan

1979: Ayatollah Khomeini

1978: Deng Xiaoping

1977: Anwar Sadat

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1975: American Women

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1973: John Sirica

1972: President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger

1971: President Richard Nixon

1970: Willy Brandt

1969: The Middle Americans

1968: The Apollo 8 astronauts

1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson

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1965: William Westmoreland

1964: Lyndon B. Johnson

1963: Martin Luther King, Jr.

1962: Pope John XXIII

1961: President John F. Kennedy

1960: U.S. Scientists

1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower

1958: Charles de Gaulle

1957: Nikita Khrushchev

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1955: Harlow Curtice

1954: John Foster Dulles

1953: Konrad Adenauer

1952: Queen Elizabeth II

1951: Mohammad Mossadegh

1950: The American Fighting Man

1949: Winston Churchill

1948: President Harry S. Truman

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1946: James F. Byrnes

1945: President Harry S. Truman

1944: Dwight D. Eisenhower

1943: George Marshall

1942: Joseph Stalin

1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1940: Winston Churchill

1939: Joseph Stalin

1938: Adolf Hitler

1937: Chiang Kai-shek and Soong May-ling

1936: Wallis Simpson

1935: Haile Selassie

1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1933: Hugh S. Johnson

1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt

1931: Pierre Laval

1930: Mahatma Gandhi

1929: Owen D. Young

1928: Walter Chrysler

1927: Charles Lindbergh

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