See All the Past Women Named TIME's Person of the Year

  • 1936: Wallis Simpson
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  • 1937: Chiang Kai-shek and Soong May-ling
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  • 1952: Queen Elizabeth II
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  • 1966: Men and Women 25 and Under
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  • 1969: The Middle Americans
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  • 1975: American Women
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  • 1986: Corazon Aquino
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  • 2002: The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins
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  • 2005: The Good Samaritans: Bill Gates, Bono, Melinda Gates
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  • 2006: You
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  • 2011: The Protester
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  • 2014: The Ebola Fighters (left: Salome Karwah; right: Ella Watson-Stryker)
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