See who (or what) has earned the title of TIME's Person of the Year over the last four decades.
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1988: The Endangered Earth
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1989: Mikhail Gorbachev
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1990: George H. W. Bush
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1991: Ted Turner
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1992: Bill Clinton
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1993: Nelson Mandela, center-left; F.W. de Klerk, center-right; Yitzhak Rabin, left; Yasser Arafat, right.
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1994: Pope John Paul II
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1995: Newt Gingrich
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1996: AIDS Researcher David Ho
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1997: Intel chairman and CEO Andy Grove was hailed by the mag as "the person most responsible for the amazing growth in the power and innovative potential of microchips."
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1998: Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton
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1999: Jeff Bezos
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2000: George W. Bush
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2001: Rudy Giuliani
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2002: Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley, and Sherron Watkins
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2003: The American Soldier
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2004: George W. Bush
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2005: Bill Gates, Bono, and Melinda Gates
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2006: Yes, you
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2007: Vladimir Putin
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2008: Barack Obama
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2009: Ben Bernanke
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2010: Mark Zuckerberg
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2011: "The Protester"
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2012: Barack Obama
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2013: Pope Francis
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2014: Ebola fighter Dr. Kent Brantly.
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2015: Angela Merkel
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2016: Donald Trump
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2017: The Silence Breakers
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2018: Jamal Khashoggi, Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, the Capital Gazette newspaper, and Maria Ressa.
