Person of the Year

What Kamala Harris Brings to the White House

By Anna Deavere Smith

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Are TIME's 2020 Person of the Year

By Charlotte Alter

Why TIME Chose Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the 2020 Person of the Year

By Edward Felsenthal

Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Frontline Health Workers Are TIME's 2020 Guardians of the Year

By Jeffrey Kluger and Alice Park
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Eric Yuan Is TIME's 2020 Businessperson of the Year

When Milo McCabe’s daughter was born, he could see she had 10 fingers, 10 toes and dark swirls of hair; he could hear her piercing cry. But he couldn’t make out the color of her...

By Andrew R. Chow

BTS Performs 'Dynamite' in TIME's POY Special

BTS was named TIME's 2020 Entertainer of the Year

By Raisa Bruner

Porche Bennett-Bey, Assa Traoré and Racial-Justice Organizers Are TIME's 2020 Guardians of the Year

Guardians put themselves on the line to defend the ideals sacred to democracy. In 2020, they fought on many fronts. When George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May, it was proof—if anyone needed it—that...

By Justin Worland

LeBron James Is TIME's 2020 Athlete of the Year

Who is the 2020 TIME Person of the Year? Find out Thursday night during the first-ever TIME Person of the Year broadcast special on NBC at 10 p.m. ET. At 11:58 a.m. on June 8,...

By Sean Gregory

BTS Is TIME's 2020 Entertainer of the Year

Who is the 2020 TIME Person of the Year? Find out Thursday night during the first-ever TIME Person of the Year broadcast special on NBC at 10 p.m. ET. It’s late October, and Suga is...

By Raisa Bruner

Who Will Be TIME's Person of the Year for 2020?

The shortlist of candidates for TIME’s 2020 Person of the Year was announced Thursday morning during NBC’s Today show. Four candidates are being considered by TIME editors for this year’s selection of the person who...

By TIME Staff

Greta Thunberg on Fighting Climate Change During COVID-19

Like millions of other students around the world, Greta Thunberg is still getting used to attending school virtually. But on a Sunday morning in late November, the 17-year-old Swedish climate activist—named TIME’s Person of the...

By Suyin Haynes

2020 TIME Person of the Year Debates

Join us for a live debate on who should be TIME's 2020 Person of the Year.

By TIME Staff

Here's Who Won TIME's 2020 Person of the Year Reader Poll

Essential workers—the nurses, doctors, delivery people, grocery-store employees and many others who continue to risk their lives on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic—have won TIME’s 2020 Person of the Year reader poll.These heroes...

By TIME Staff

In the Year Since TIME Named Besieged Journalists the Person of the Year, the War Against Truth Has Continued Unabated

Governments worldwide have criminalized journalism

By Karl Vick

香港示威者在時代雜誌2019年年度風雲人物經讀者投票獲勝

過去六個月走上香港街頭的數以萬計的大部分年輕示威者是時代雜誌2019年年度風雲人物讀者投票的贏家。

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Hong Kong Protestors Win TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year Reader Poll

The choice of 30% of visitors to our online survey

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Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019

It began with a story line familiar to every parent of every generation in every corner of the globe: an indignant teenager and a sudden burst of rebellion. It became one of the most unlikely...

By Edward Felsenthal

Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year

Greta Thunberg sits in silence in the cabin of the boat that will take her across the Atlantic Ocean. Inside, there’s a cow skull hanging on the wall, a faded globe, a child’s yellow raincoat....

By Charlotte Alter , Suyin Haynes and Justin Worland

Why TIME Chose Greta Thunberg as the 2019 Person of the Year

It began with a story line familiar to every parent of every generation in every corner of the globe: an indignant teenager and a sudden burst of rebellion. It became one of the most unlikely...

By Edward Felsenthal

The Public Servants Are TIME's 2019 Guardians of the Year

There are 363,000 federal workers in the greater Washington, D.C., area. In the first week of September, history turned in the office of one of them. The intelligence analyst who blew the whistle on President...

By Massimo Calabresi , Vera Bergengruen and Simon Shuster
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