Time magazine named Jamal Khashoggi and other killed and imprisoned journalists as its “person of the year” for 2018. Last year Time recognized “The Silence Breakers,” the women (and some men) who broke silence on sexual harassment and abuse. A look back at the last years of Time Magazine's Person of the Year - in this gallery by TASS.
Time magazine’s Person of the Year: Past winners and this year's choice
Time magazine named Jamal Khashoggi and other killed and imprisoned journalists as its “person of the year” for 2018
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Time magazine named Jamal Khashoggi and other killed and imprisoned journalists as its “person of the year” for 2018
© Middle East Monitor/Handout via REUTERS Time magazine's 2017 Person of the Year is "The Silence Breakers," those who came forward with their stories about being victims of sexual harassment
© time.com US President Donald Trump was named Time magazin's Person of the Year 2016. Trump had just become president-elect after stunning the nation by winning the White House race
© Nadav Kander for TIME Angela Merkel was named Time magazin's Person of the Year 2015
© 2015 TIME "Ebola fighters" were named Time's People of the Year 2014. The photograph of Dr. Jerry Brown, the medial director and general surgeon at the Eternal Love Winning Africa Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia was put in the center of the cover
© 2015 TIME Pope Francis was named Time's person of the year 2013. He was followed by former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
© Portrait by Jason Seiler for TIME Barack Obama was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2012. The publication called Obama "the architect of this new America"
© Cover Photograph by Nadav Kander for TIME "The Protester" was the choice for the year 2011, referring to many global protest movements, the Arab Spring, Occupy Movement, as well as protests in Greece, India, Russia, among others
© SHEPARD FAIREY FOR TIME In 2010 Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was named Person of the Year. Zuckerberg was honoured "for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives"
© PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARTIN SCHOELLER FOR TIME In 2009 Time named Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as its Person of the Year, calling him "the most powerful nerd on the planet. Bernanke was the head of the US central banking system during the financial crisis of 2007–08
© 2015 TIME Time's 2008 Person of the Year was named Barack Obama. In 2008, Obama was elected President of the United States, becoming the first African-American US President
© 2015 TIME