Time Person of the Year
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Person of the Year, called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999, is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for bette
Charles Lindbergh Time cover 1928
Owen D. Young on TIME Magazine, January 6, 1930
Gandhi Time cover 1931
Pierre Laval TIME 1932
Greta Thunberg
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Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg is a Swedish activist known for pressuring governments to address climate change and social issues. She gained global attention in 2018, at age 15, after starting
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…Rowley, and Sherron Watkins) in 2002; Melinda Gates (jointly with Bill Gates and Bono) in 2005; Angela Merkel (2015); "The Silence Breakers" (2017); Greta Thunberg (2019); Kamala Harris (jointly with Joe Biden) in 2020; Taylor Swift (2023); and "The Architects of AI" (among whom Fei-Fei Li and Lisa Su) in 2025…
Thunberg in 2025
Thunberg in front of the Swedish parliament, holding a "Skolstrejk för klimatet" (School Strike for the Climate) sign, Stockholm, August 2018
Bicycle in Stockholm with a reference to Thunberg: "The climate crisis must be treated as a crisis! The climate is the most important election issue!" (11 September 2018)
Sign in Berlin, 14 December 2018