Previous Time people of the year:

Adolf Hitler (1938) – For the unification of Germany with Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938.

Joseph Stalin (1939) – Oversaw the signing of a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany before invading eastern Poland.

Winston Churchill (1940) – Oversaw the Dunkirk evacuation and the Battle of Britain.

Elizabeth II (1952) – For becoming Queen.

Martin Luther King Jr (1963) – Delivered his famous I Have A Dream speech that year.

Ayatollah Khomeini (1979) – Led the Iranian Revolution.

Mikhail Gorbachev (1987) – Leader of the Soviet Union that oversaw Perestroika political reforms.

Bill Clinton (1998) – Impeached following the Lewinsky scandal.

Vladimir Putin (2007) – President of Russia.

Mark Zuckerberg (2010) – Facebook founder.