Person of the Year

TIME Person of the Year Reader’s Poll — Updating Results

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Person of the Year 2015: The Choice

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Person of the Year 2015: Angela Merkel

 [time-ad size="large"] By Karl Vick / Berlin with Simon ShusterPhotograph by Steffen Kugler   Fairy tales are where you find them, but any number seem to begin in the dark German woods where Angela Merkel...

Person of the Year 2015 Runner-Up: Caitlyn Jenner

By Katy SteinmetzPhotograph by Sebastian Kim for TIME Perched on a stool inside New York City’s Trump Hotel, 15 floors above Central Park, Caitlyn Jenner is cracking jokes as assistants brush her dark hair and...

Person of the Year 2015 Runner-Up: Travis Kalanick

 [time-ad size="large"] By Rana ForooharPhotograph by Balazs Gardi for TIME    The avatar you see when Travis Kalanick tweets doesn’t depict the 39-year-old’s puckish grin but an engraving of Alexander Hamilton. The CEO and...

Person of the Year 2015 Runner-Up: Black Lives Matter

 [time-ad size="large"] By Alex AltmanPhotograph by Devin Allen   Sometimes the toughest tests for a public uprising take place in private. The Black Lives Matter movement faced one such moment in October, inside a turreted...

Person of the Year 2015 Runner-Up: Donald Trump

By Michael Scherer Photograph by Martin Schoeller for TIME   While a fearful nation watched the terrorists attack again, striking the cafés of Paris and the conference rooms of San Bernardino, Calif., Donald J. Trump...

Person of the Year 2015 Runner-Up: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Massimo CalabresiIllustration by Piotr Lesniak for TIME   They rallied to his call: the violent and the suicidal, the lawless and the fanatical, gathering in cyberspace from around the world to pledge allegiance to...

Watch U.S. Ebola Survivors Describe Fighting the Deadly Virus

"I saw his eyes and they had been red from crying, and I knew immediately"

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The Coolest Person of the Year

For the first time in this column’s five-year history, we actually consult an expert

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White House Salutes TIME's Person of the Year

"The president, could not be prouder of the brave men and women who’ve committed themselves to this effort in a foreign land"

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Until 2014, This Man Was TIME's Only Medical Person of the Year

For 2014, the Ebola Fighters have been selected. In 1996, the Man of the Year was AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho

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I Never Guess TIME's Person of the Year Either

Another year, another opportunity to choose wrong

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TIME’s Person of the Year: The Ebola FightersDoctors who wouldn’t quit even as their colleagues fell ill and died; nurses comforting patients while standing in slurries of mud, vomit and feces. The Ebola Fighters are...

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How John Moore Covered the Ebola Outbreak

Getty Images photographer John Moore was covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia from the onset

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See what @TIME users have to say about the Ebola fighters being selected as the 2014 Person of the Year.

How Person of the Year Was Born

A dearth of news gave rise to TIME's best-known franchise

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