Person of the Year called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until [ 1 ] is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse The tradition of selecting a "Man of the Year" began privately in , with Time editors contemplating the news makers of the year after a series of "slow news days" leading up to New Year's Day.
The idea was also an attempt to remedy the editorial embarrassment earlier that year of not having aviator Charles Lindbergh on its cover following his historic transatlantic flight.
Before the online poll was instituted, "readers were invited to weigh in by mail. Since the list began, every serving president of the United States has been a Man or Person of the Year at least once, with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge in office at the time of the first issue , Herbert Hoover the subsequent president , and Gerald Ford the only president never to have been elected to the office of president or vice president.
Most were named Man or Person of the Year either the year they were elected or while they were in office; the only one to be given the title before being elected was Dwight D. Eisenhower , in , as Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion Force , eight years before his first election. He received the title again in while in office. Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first chosen US president and is the only person to have received the title three times, first as president-elect and later as the incumbent president and All countries' heads of state or government to have been chosen as Man, Woman, or Person of the Year arranged in chronological order by country name, from the most frequently selected are:.
Other classes of people recognized comprise both men and women, such as " Hungarian Freedom Fighters " , "U.
