Mark Zuckerberg — Person of the Year 2010

Martin Schoeller for TIME

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The son of a dentist and a psychiatrist who left her profession to work in her husband's office, Zuckerberg grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New York and famously came up with the idea for Facebook while studying at Harvard.

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