| 1927: Charles Lindbergh | 1928: Walter Chrysler | 1929: Owen Young | 1930: Mahatma Gandhi | 1931: Pierre Laval | 1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1933: Hugh Johnson | 1934: Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1935: Haile Selassie | 1936: Wallis Simpson | 1937: Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong May-ling | 1938: Adolf Hitler | 1939: Joseph Stalin | 1940: Winston Churchill | 1941: Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1942: Joseph Stalin | 1943: George Marshall | 1944: Dwight Eisenhower | 1945: Harry Truman | 1946: James F. Byrnes | 1947: George Marshall | 1948: Harry Truman | 1949: Winston Churchill | 1950: The American Fighting-Man | 1951: Mohammed Mossadegh | 1952: Queen Elizabeth II | 1953: Konrad Adenauer | 1954: John Dulles | 1955: Harlow Curtice | 1956: Hungarian Freedom Fighter | 1957: Nikita Khrushchev | 1958: Charles De Gaulle | 1959: Dwight Eisenhower | 1960: U.S. scientists (represented by Linus Pauling, Isidor Rabi, Edward Teller, Joshua Lederberg, Donald A. Glaser, Willard Libby, Robert Woodward, Charles Draper, William Shockley, Emilio Segrè, John Enders, Charles Townes, George Beadle, James Van Allen and Edward Purcell) | 1961: John F. Kennedy | 1962: Pope John XXIII | 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. | 1964: Lyndon Johnson | 1965: William Westmoreland | 1966: Twenty-Five and Under | 1967: Lyndon Johnson | 1968: The Astronauts (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders) | 1969: The Middle Americans | 1970: Willy Brandt | 1971: Richard Nixon | 1972: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger | 1973: John Sirica | 1974: King Faisal | 1975: American Women (represented by Betty Ford, Carla Hills, Ella Grasso, Barbara Jordan, Susie Sharp, Jill Conway, Billy Jean King, Susan Brownmiller, Addie Wyatt, Kathleen Byerly, Carol Sutton and Alison Cheek) | 1976: Jimmy Carter | 1977: Anwar Sadat | 1978: Deng Xiaoping | 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini | 1980: Ronald Reagan | 1981: Lech Wałęsa | 1982: The Computer | 1983: Ronald Reagan, Yuri Andropov | 1984: Peter Ueberroth | 1985: Deng Xiaoping | 1986: Corazón Aquino | 1987: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | 1988: Endangered Earth | 1989: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | 1990: George H. W. Bush | 1991: Ted Turner | 1992: Bill Clinton | 1993: The Peacemakers; Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin | 1994: Pope John Paul II | 1995: Newt Gingrich | 1996: David Ho | 1997: Andy Grove | 1998: Bill Clinton, Kenneth Starr | 1999: Jeffrey P. Bezos | 2000: George W. Bush | 2001: Rudolph Giuliani | 2002: The Whistleblowers; Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom, Sherron Watkins of Enron, Coleen Rowley of the FBI | 2003: The American Soldier | 2004: George W. Bush | 2005: The Good Samaritans; Bono, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates | 2006: You (& the Social Web) |
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