NEW YORK, December 6. /TASS/. US singer Taylor Swift has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2023.

"This is the proudest and happiest I’ve ever felt, and the most creatively fulfilled and free I’ve ever been," Swift told the magazine.

Apart from Swift, this year’s shortlist for the award included Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, King Charles III of Great Britain, ChatGPT developer Sam Altman, US Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell, as well as prosecutors in the case of former US President Donald Trump, strikers in Hollywood and Barbie, the protagonist in this year’s highest-grossing movie.

Since 1927, the magazine has announced a person of the year in its end-of-year issue. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky won the title in 2022, in 2021 - entrepreneur Elon Musk.

American pilot Charles Lindbergh, who was the first person in history to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic, was the inaugural winner of this title in 1927. More than 70 political and public figures have been named man of the year. They include Mahatma Gandhi (1930), Winston Churchill (1940, 1949), Elizabeth II (1952), Charles de Gaulle (1958), Martin Luther King (1963), Henry Kissinger (1972), Deng Xiaoping (1978, 1985), Ayatollah Khomeini (1979), Lech Walesa (1981), Popes John Paul II (1994) and Pope Francis (2013), Angela Merkel (2015). All American presidents since Franklin Roosevelt, with the exception of Gerald Ford, have received the title. Franklin Roosevelt was the only one to be honored with the title three times: in 1932, 1934, and 1941. Five Soviet/Russian leaders have held the title: Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942), Nikita Khrushchev (1957), Yury Andropov (1983, jointly with US President Ronald Reagan), Mikhail Gorbachev (1987, 1989) and Vladimir Putin (2007).