List of covers of Time magazine (1930s)

This is a list of people appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1930s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading newsmagazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of a person's notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles about the person.

For other decades, see Lists of people on the cover of Time magazine.

1930

Cover for 3 November 1930 with Haile Selassie

6 Jan – Owen D. Young
13 Jan – Domingo Ugalde
20 Jan – André Tardieu
27 Jan – William D. Mitchell
3 Feb – Maria Montessori
10 Feb – Ray Lyman Wilbur
17 Feb – Charles Evans Hughes
24 Feb – Cyrus S. Eaton
3 Mar – Pointer Mary Blue
10 Mar – Royal Cortissoz
17 Mar – Queen Mary
24 Mar – Al Capone
31 Mar – Mahatma Gandhi
7 Apr – Heber Jedediah Grant
14 Apr – William H. Welch
21 Apr – Philip Snowden
28 Apr – Leopold Stokowski
5 May – Julius H. Barnes
12 May – Alois Lang
19 May – Yen Hsi-shan
26 May – Edward G.V. Stanley
2 Jun – William Adams Delano
9 Jun – Joseph Stalin
16 Jun – William C. Procter
23 Jun – Julio Prestes
30 Jun – Lucrezia Bori
7 Jul – Louis D. Brandeis
14 Jul – Herbert Hoover Jr.
21 Jul – David A. Reed
28 Jul – Richard B. Bennett
4 Aug – Alexander Legge
11 Aug – Duchess of York
18 Aug – Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock (Louise Eustis Hitchcock)
26 Aug – Wilbert Robinson
1 Sep – Lord Dawson
8 Sep – Augusto B. Leguía
15 Sep – Harold S. Vanderbilt
22 Sep – Bobby Jones
29 Sep – Dwight W. Morrow
6 Oct – Harry Emerson Fosdick
13 Oct – Sergei Koussevitsky
20 Oct – Henri Matisse
27 Oct – King George V & Queen Mary
3 Nov – Haile Selassie
10 Nov – Jouett Shouse
17 Nov – Football's Public
24 Nov – Robert Bulkley
1 Dec – James J. Davis
8 Dec – King Haakon VII
15 Dec – Mary Garden
22 Dec – Elsa Einstein
29 Dec – Pius XI

1931

Cover for 20 July 1931 with Nikola Tesla

5 Jan – Mahatma Gandhi
12 Jan – James Ewing
19 Jan – Gerardo Machado
26 Jan – William Borah
2 Feb – George Wickersham
9 Feb – Charlie Chaplin
16 Feb – Joseph Deems Taylor aka Deems Taylor
23 Feb – Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
2 Mar – David S. Ingalls
9 Mar – Charles R. Crane
16 Mar – Oswald Mosley
23 Mar – John F. Curry
30 Mar – Walter Lippman
6 Apr – King Alfonso XIII
13 Apr – Roy W. Howard
20 Apr – King Prajadhipok
27 Apr – Mrs. Nanaline Duke
4 May – Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
11 May – Hubert Lyautey
18 May – Kenkichi Kagami
25 May – Walter Coffey, John Humber & Grace Hammond Conners
1 Jun – Samuel R. McKelvie
8 Jun – David Starr Jordan
15 Jun – Heinrich Brüning
22 Jun – Morton Downey
29 Jun – Cyril Alington
6 Jul – Betty Nuthall
13 Jul – Ogden L. Mills
20 Jul – Nikola Tesla
27 Jul – Paul Von Hindenburg
3 Aug – Willa Cather
10 Aug – Paul W. Litchfield
17 Aug – Samuel Seabury
24 Aug – Albert H. Wiggin
31 Aug – Winthrop W. Aldrich
7 Sep – Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin & David Lloyd George
14 Sep – Patrick Jay Hurley
21 Sep – Ross S. Sterling
28 Sep – Pierre Laval & Aristide Briand
5 Oct – Primo Carnera
12 Oct – Baron Kijuro Shidehara
19 Oct – William Green
26 Oct – Chiang Kai-shek & Mme. Chiang
2 Nov – Eugene O'Neill
9 Nov – Rosa Ponselle
16 Nov – Dino Grandi
23 Nov – Barry Wood
30 Nov – Walter Runciman
7 Dec – John Nance Garner
14 Dec – James H. Breasted
21 Dec – Adolf Hitler
28 Dec – Ki Inukai

1932

Cover for 15 August 1932 with the Marx Brothers

4 Jan – Pierre Laval
11 Jan – Daniel Willard
18 Jan – Errett Lobban Cord
25 Jan – Philip Barry
1 Feb – Franklin D. Roosevelt
8 Feb – Hugh S. Gibson
15 Feb – Nicholas M. Butler
22 Feb – Yehudi Menuhin
29 Feb – William Murray
7 Mar – John Barrymore & Lionel Barrymore
14 Mar – Clarence Young
21 Mar – John A. Simon
28 Mar – Gabby Street
4 Apr – Robinson Jeffers
11 Apr – Éamon de Valera
18 Apr – The Circus
25 Apr – Neville Chamberlain
2 May – Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.
9 May – Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman
16 May – Édouard Herriot
23 May – Newton D. Baker
31 May – Eugene Meyer
6 Jun – Emperor Hirohito
13 Jun – Walter F. Brown
20 Jun – Carlos Dávila
27 Jun – Alfred E. Smith
4 Jul – Franz von Papen
11 Jul – Ben Eastman
18 Jul – Pauline Sabin
25 Jul – Earl of Bessborough
1 Aug – Ellsworth Vines
8 Aug – Norman M. Thomas
15 Aug – Groucho, Harpo, Chico & Zeppo Marx
22 Aug – Kurt von Schleicher
29 Aug – William G. McAdoo
5 Sep – Yasuya Uchida
12 Sep – Henry L. Stevens Jr.
19 Sep – Jacob Ruppert
26 Sep – Edward D. Duffield
3 Oct – Huey P. Long
10 Oct – King George V
17 Oct – Lily Pons
24 Oct – Rufus D. Isaacs
31 Oct – James Farley
7 Nov – Common Citizens
14 Nov – Howard H. Jones
21 Nov – Melvin A. Traylor
28 Nov – T.E. Lawrence
5 Dec – Charles Curtis
12 Dec – Norman H. Davis
19 Dec – Henry T. Rainey
26 Dec – Katharine Cornell

1933

Cover for 11 September 1933 with Gertrude Stein

2 Jan – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Man of the Year
9 Jan – Charles F. Kettering
16 Jan – Lawrence Tibbett
23 Jan – Sadao Araki
30 Jan – Noël Coward
6 Feb – Carter Glass
13 Feb – Richard Leigh
20 Feb – William W. Atterbury
27 Feb – Pat Harrison
6 Mar – Sara Delano Roosevelt
13 Mar – Adolf Hitler
20 Mar – William H. Woodin
27 Mar – John Hay Whitney
3 Apr – Pope Pius XI
10 Apr – Henry A. Wallace
17 Apr – Cordell Hull
24 Apr – Maxim Litvinov
1 May – William R. Hearst
8 May – Raymond Moley
15 May – Gerardo Machado
22 May – Rufus C. Dawes
29 May – Édouard Daladier
5 Jun – Frank Aydelotte
12 Jun – Ferdinand Pecora
19 Jun – Neville Chamberlain
26 Jun – Italo Balbo
3 Jul – Hugh S. Johnson
10 Jul – Joseph Goebbels
17 Jul – Curtis Bok
24 Jul – Harold L. Ickes
31 Jul – Juan Trippe
7 Aug – Marie Dressler
14 Aug – Frances Perkins
21 Aug – Hermann Göring
28 Aug – Edward J. Kelly
4 Sep – Jack Crawford
11 Sep – Gertrude Stein
18 Sep – George F. Zook
25 Sep – Engelbert Dollfuss
2 Oct – John L. Lewis
9 Oct – George M. Cohan
16 Oct – Percy S. Straus
23 Oct – Fiorello LaGuardia, John P. O'Brien & Joseph V. McKee
30 Oct – Maxim Weygand
6 Nov – George Peek
13 Nov – Football
20 Nov – Eleanor Roosevelt
27 Nov – George F. Warren
4 Dec – Seton Porter
11 Dec – Chiang Kai-shek
18 Dec – Eugene Luther Vidal
25 Dec – Alice in Wonderland

1934

Cover for 15 January 1934 with Elmer Thomas and Charles Coughlin

1 Jan – Hugh S. Johnson, Man of the Year
8 Jan – Walter P. Chrysler
15 Jan – Elmer Thomas & Charles Coughlin
22 Jan – Jesse H. Jones
29 Jan – James Joyce
5 Feb – James B. Conant
12 Feb – Klimentiy Voroshilov
19 Feb – Harry L. Hopkins
26 Feb – Richard Whitney
5 Mar – Puyi
12 Mar – Gaston Doumergue
19 Mar – Robert F. Wagner
26 Mar – George Arliss
2 Apr – Arturo Toscanini
9 Apr – Vincent Astor
16 Apr – Sir Arthur Eddington
23 Apr – Errett Lobban Cord
30 Apr – Robert Lee Doughton
7 May – Edward R. Bradley
14 May – Samuel Insull
21 May – Koki Hirota
28 May – Irving Berlin
4 Jun – Joseph M. Reeves
11 Jun – Thomas Mann
18 Jun – Harold Willis Dodds
25 Jun – Rexford G. Tugwell
2 Jul – Riza Shah Pahlevi
9 Jul – Vernon Gomez
16 Jul – Paul von Hindenburg
23 Jul – Joseph B. Poindexter
30 Jul – James Farley
6 Aug – Kurt Schmitt
13 Aug – Elsa Schiaparelli
20 Aug – Cavalcade
27 Aug – Cecil B. DeMille
3 Sep – Fred Perry
10 Sep – Donald Richberg
17 Sep – Henry Morgenthau
24 Sep – Louis Barthou
1 Oct – Henry MacCracken
8 Oct – Helen Rogers Reid & Friends
15 Oct – Reverend James Perry
22 Oct – Upton Sinclair
29 Oct – Roscoe Turner
5 Nov – Henry P. Fletcher
12 Nov – Joseph C. Grew
19 Nov – Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
26 Nov – Benjamin N. Cardozo
3 Dec – Lázaro Cárdenas
10 Dec – Maxwell Anderson
17 Dec – White House Staffers
24 Dec – Thomas Hart Benton
31 Dec – Herbert H. Lehman

1935

Cover for 14 January 1935 with Henry Ford

7 Jan – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Man of the Year
14 Jan – Henry Ford
21 Jan – John Thomas Taylor
28 Jan – Kathleen Norris
4 Feb – Pierre-Étienne Flandin
11 Feb – Lorne Chabot
18 Feb – Lotte Lehmann
25 Feb – Samuel Clay Williams
4 Mar – Richard B. Harrison
11 Mar – Frank J. Hogan
18 Mar – Wang Ching-wei
25 Mar – General Douglas MacArthur
1 Apr – Huey P. Long
8 Apr – Anthony Eden & Sir John Simon
15 Apr – Dizzy Dean
22 Apr – Joseph W. Byrns
29 Apr – John Francis Neylan
6 May – King George V
13 May – Harry F. Byrd
20 May – Hirosi Saito
27 May – Miriam Hopkins
3 Jun – John Nance Garner
10 Jun – Emanuel Libman
17 Jun – Stanley Baldwin
24 Jun – Robert M. Hutchins
1 Jul – John Cowles
8 Jul – Joseph Lyons
15 Jul – Joseph T. Robinson
22 Jul – Joseph P. Kennedy
29 Jul – Harlow Shapley
5 Aug – J. Edgar Hoover
12 Aug – Queen Wilhelmina
19 Aug – Jean Harlow
26 Aug – Hugo L. Black
2 Sep – Donald Budge
9 Sep – Clyde L. Herring
16 Sep – Alexis Carrel
23 Sep – Sir Samuel Hoare
30 Sep – Cardinal Hayes
7 Oct – Mickey Cochrane
14 Oct – Herbert C. Hoover
21 Oct – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
28 Oct – Bruno Mussolini, Benito Mussolini & Vittorio Mussolini
4 Nov – James A. Macauley
11 Nov – Football Spectators
18 Nov – Mark Sullivan
25 Nov – Manuel L. Quezon
2 Dec – Edwin C. Musick
9 Dec – William Phillips
16 Dec – Alexei Stakhanov
23 Dec – Kirsten Flagstad
30 Dec – Helen Hayes

1936

Cover for 17 February 1936 with Leni Riefenstahl

6 Jan – Haile Selassie, Man of the Year
13 Jan – Arthur H. Compton
20 Jan – J. P. Morgan, Jr.
27 Jan – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
3 Feb – George Santayana
10 Feb – Marriner S. Eccles
17 Feb – Leni Riefenstahl
24 Feb – Hirohito, Pu Yi, Joseph Stalin & Chiang Kai-shek
2 Mar – Emil Hurja
9 Mar – Léon Blum
16 Mar – Martin W. Clement
23 Mar – Isaiah Bowman
30 Mar – William Borah
6 Apr – Daniel W. Hoan
13 Apr – Adolf Hitler
20 Apr – Frank N.D. Buchman
27 Apr – Shirley Temple
4 May – Torkild Rieber
11 May – Franz Boas
18 May – Alfred Landon
25 May – Joseph DeLee
1 Jun – Pat Harrison
8 Jun – James Allred
15 Jun – James R. Angell
22 Jun – French strikers
29 Jun – Sir Samuel Hoare
6 Jul – John L. Lewis
13 Jul – Joe DiMaggio
20 Jul – Benito Mussolini
27 Jul – Leroy Miner
3 Aug – Charles P. Taft
10 Aug – John Dos Passos
17 Aug – William L. Clayton
24 Aug – Francisco Franco, Emilio Mola & Manuel Azaña
31 Aug – Clark Gable
7 Sep – Eugene Talmadge
14 Sep – Helen Hull Jacobs
21 Sep – John D. M. Hamilton
28 Sep – James B. Conant
5 Oct – Lou Gehrig & Carl Hubbell
12 Oct – Lord Linlithgow
19 Oct – Eugenio Pacelli
26 Oct – Thomas Parran, Jr.
2 Nov – Joseph M. Patterson & Robert R. McCormick
9 Nov – Chiang Kai-shek
16 Nov – Anthony Grzebyk
23 Nov – Edward F. McGrady
30 Nov – Marlene Dietrich
7 Dec – Cordell Hull
14 Dec – Salvador Dalí
21 Dec – Edward Johnson
28 Dec – Emperor Hirohito

1937

4 Jan – Wallis Warfield Simpson, Woman of the Year
11 Jan – George Norris
18 Jan – William S. Knudsen
25 Jan – Leon Trotsky
1 Feb – Thomas E. Dewey
8 Feb – John J. Pelley
15 Feb – Cardinal Dougherty
22 Feb – Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII
1 Mar – Charles E. Hughes
8 Mar – King George VI
15 Mar – Joseph E. Davies
22 Mar – Clarence Little
29 Mar – Clyde Beatty
5 Apr – Harry B. Housser
12 Apr – Virginia Woolf
19 Apr – Bob Feller
26 Apr – Fulgencio Batista
3 May – Billy and Bobby Mauch
10 May – Matt Winn
17 May – King Christian X
24 May – Cosmo Gordon Lang
31 May – Dionne Quintuplets
7 Jun – Sidney Howard
14 Jun – Paul van Zeeland
21 Jun – Morris Fishbein
28 Jun – Ethel du Pont & Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
5 Jul – George Earle III
12 Jul – James E. West
19 Jul – Harry Bridges
26 Jul – Fumimaro Konoe
2 Aug – Fiorello LaGuardia
9 Aug – King Farouk I
16 Aug – Paul Muni
23 Aug – Alben Barkley
30 Aug – Mitsumasa Yonai
6 Sep – Francisco Franco
13 Sep – Gottfried von Cramm
20 Sep – Mitchell Hepburn
27 Sep – Walter Lippman
4 Oct – William Green
11 Oct – William O. Douglas
18 Oct – Ernest Hemingway
25 Oct – Wallace Wade
1 Nov – Ernest O. Lawrence
8 Nov – Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne
15 Nov – Louis Brandeis
22 Nov – King Leopold III
29 Nov – William B. Bankhead
6 Dec – Jean Sibelius
13 Dec – Colby M. Chester
20 Dec – Joseph Stalin
27 Dec – Walt Disney

1938

3 Jan – Chiang Kai-shek & Mme. Chiang, Couple of the Year
10 Jan – Wesley W. Stout
17 Jan – Frank Lloyd Wright
24 Jan – Walter F. White
31 Jan – Roswell Magill
7 Feb – John L. Lewis
14 Feb – Sebastián Pozas Perea
21 Feb – John G. Bates
28 Feb – James Roosevelt
7 Mar – Subhas Chandra Bose
14 Mar – Dave Kerr
21 Mar – Kurt von Schuschnigg
28 Mar – Bette Davis
4 Apr – Albert Einstein
11 Apr – Joe Martin
18 Apr – Lewis Mumford
25 Apr – Reza Shah Pahlavi
2 May – Claude Pepper
9 May – Orson Welles
16 May – Frank R. McNinch
23 May – Donald W. Douglas
30 May – Earl Browder
6 Jun – Johnny Goodman
13 Jun – Charles A. Lindbergh & Alexis Carrel
20 Jun – Robert W. Wood
27 Jun – Edvard Beneš
4 Jul – Orway H. Chalkley
11 Jul – Walter Winchell
18 Jul – Harry L. Hopkins
25 Jul – Richard Strauss
1 Aug – Albert B. Chandler
8 Aug – Frank Capra
15 Aug – William McChesney Martin, Jr.
22 Aug – Louis A. Johnson
29 Aug – Lázaro Cárdenas
5 Sep – Holger Cahill
12 Sep – Thomas Corcoran & Benjamin V. Cohen
19 Sep – William S. Paley
26 Sep – Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
3 Oct – William L. Bragg
10 Oct – Sergei Koussevitzky
17 Oct – Neville Chamberlain
24 Oct – Sheridan Downey
31 Oct – Frederick L. Redefer
7 Nov – André Malraux
14 Nov – Henry Grady Weaver
21 Nov – Elmer F. Andrews
28 Nov – Lord Beaverbrook
5 Dec – Clifford Odets
12 Dec – Prince Paul
19 Dec – Henry A. Wallace
26 Dec – Charlot's 'Nativity'

1939

Cover for 17 July 1939 with Sonja Henie

2 Jan – Adolf Hitler, Man of the Year
9 Jan – Oscar Riddle
16 Jan – Julius P. Heil
23 Jan – William Faulkner
30 Jan – Henry E. Sigerist
6 Feb – Robert Fechner
13 Feb – Pablo Picasso
20 Feb – Charles Edison
27 Feb – Ignace J. Paderewski
6 Mar – Josef Beck
13 Mar – William R. Hearst
20 Mar – John Nance Garner
27 Mar – Francisco Franco
3 Apr – Lewis H. Brown
10 Apr – Ginger Rogers
17 Apr – Eleanor Roosevelt
24 Apr – Heinrich Himmler
1 May – Grover A. Whalen
8 May – James Joyce
15 May – George V
22 May – Nelson Rockefeller
29 May – Glenn L. Martin
5 Jun – Édouard Daladier
12 Jun – Dorothy Thompson
19 Jun – Charles A. Lindbergh
26 Jun – Sigmund Freud
3 Jul – Edwin G. Conklin
10 Jul – Paul V. McNutt
17 Jul – Sonja Henie
24 Jul – Edda Ciano
31 Jul – Wendell L. Willkie
7 Aug – William Woodward
14 Aug – Maurice Gamelin
21 Aug – Eleanor Holm
28 Aug – Frank Murphy
4 Sep – Winston Churchill
11 Sep – Edward Rydz-Śmigły
18 Sep – Joseph P. Kennedy
25 Sep – Walther von Brauchitsch
2 Oct – Arthur Vandenberg
9 Oct – Queen Elizabeth
16 Oct – Kaufman T. Keller
23 Oct – Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall
30 Oct – King Gustav V
6 Nov – Tom Harmon
13 Nov – King Carol II
20 Nov – George S. Kaufman
27 Nov – Queen Wilhelmina
4 Dec – Carl Sandburg
11 Dec – Nelson T. Johnson
18 Dec – Herbert Hoover
25 Dec – Vivien Leigh

References

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