People of the Year by Time

1935 Haile Selassie I. The first winner of the monarch; first African.





1939 Joseph Stalin. First Georgians, the first representative of the Soviet Union, Russia, the first communist.



1957 Nikita Khrushchev. The first Russian.



1963 Martin Luther King. The first African American.



1982 PC. "Machine of the Year"; first winner - an inanimate object.



1988 Earth (at risk). "Planet of the Year"; abstract concept.



1999 Albert Einstein. "Man of the Century"; the first person selected posthumously.



2007 Vladimir Putin. The first representative of post-Soviet Russia.



2010 Mark Zuckerberg. Developer and founder of the world's largest social network - website Facebook.



2012 Barack Obama has selected a second time.