Time: Person of the year. Persona dell'anno

Ieri Barack Obama è diventato persona dell'anno del 2009.
Vediamo chi lo ha preceduto sulla copertina della rivista Time da quando è stata istituito questo riconoscimento (inizialmente chiamato uomo dell'anno e poi cambiato nel più corretto persona dell'anno):

1927 Charles Lindbergh
1928 Walter Chrysler
1929 Owen D. Young
1930 Mahatma Gandhi
1931 Pierre Laval
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933 Hugh Samuel Johnson
1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt
1935 Haile Selassie I
1936 Wallis Simpson
1937 Chiang Kai-shek, Soong May-ling
1938 Adolf Hitler
1939 Joseph Stalin
1940 Winston Churchill
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt
1942 Joseph Stalin
1943 George Marshall
1944 Dwight D. Eisenhower
1945 Harry S. Truman
1946 James F. Byrnes
1947 George Marshall
1948 Harry S. Truman
1949 Winston Churchill
1950 The American Fighting-Man
1951 Mohammad Mossadeq
1952 Elisabetta II
1953 Konrad Adenauer
1954 John Foster Dulles
1955 Harlow Curtice
1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957 Nikita Khrushchev
1958 Charles de Gaulle
1959 Dwight D. Eisenhower
1960 Scienziati statunitensi (Rappresentati da George Beadle, Charles Draper, John Enders, Donald A. Glaser, Joshua Lederberg, Willard Libby, Linus Pauling, Edward Purcell, Isidor Rabi, Emilio Segrè, William Shockley, Edward Teller, Charles Townes, James Van Allen, e Robert Woodward)
1961 John F. Kennedy
1962 Papa Giovanni XXIII
1963 Martin Luther King, Jr.
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson
1965 William Westmoreland
1966 The Generation Twenty-Five and Under
1967 Lyndon B. Johnson
1968 Gli astronauti dell'Apollo 8 (William Anders, Frank Borman, e Jim Lovell)
1969 The Middle Americans
1970 Willy Brandt
1971 Richard Nixon
1972 Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger
1973 John Sirica
1974 Faysal dell'Arabia Saudita
1975 American women (Rappresentate da Susan Brownmiller, Kathleen Byerly, Alison Cheek, Jill Conway, Betty Ford, Ella Grasso, Carla Hills, Barbara Jordan, Billie Jean King, Carol Sutton, Susie Sharp, e Addie Wyatt)
1976 Jimmy Carter
1977 Anwar Sadat
1978 Deng Xiaoping
1979 Ayatollah Khomeini
1980 Ronald Reagan
1981 Lech Wałęsa
1982 Il Computer
1983 Ronald Reagan, Yuri Andropov
1984 Peter Ueberroth
1985 Deng Xiaoping
1986 Corazón Aquino
1987 Mikhail Gorbachev
1988 The Endangered Earth
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev
1990 George H. W. Bush
1991 Ted Turner
1992 Bill Clinton
1993 The Peacemakers (Rappresentati da Yasser Arafat, F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, and Yitzhak Rabin)
1994 Papa Giovanni Paolo 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 (Rappresentati da Cynthia Cooper, WorldCom; Coleen Rowley, FBI; e Sherron Watkins, Enron)
2003 The American Soldier
2004 George W. Bush
2005 The Good Samaritans (Rappresentati da Bono, Bill Gates, e Melinda Gates)
2006 You
2007 Vladimir Putin
2008 Barack Obama