Person of the Century Nominations

TIME asks some of the world's politicians, stars, and other well-known figures to pick their choice for Person of the Century More »

Adolf Hitler & Mohandas Gandhi

Steve Jobs chimes in with his person of the century nominee More »
Franklin D. Roosevelt & Anwar Sadat

Andy Grove, chairman of Intel, and former U.S. president Gerald Ford talk about why they picked who they did More »
Harry Truman & Hirohito

Nominee picks from Condoleezza Rice and Prime Minister of Japan Keizo Obuchi More »
Charles De Gaulle & Dwight D. Eisenhower

French President Jacques Chirac and former U.S. Senator Bob Dole list their nominations More »
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin & Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

John Keegan and Tom Wolfe choose their nominations for TIME's Person of the Century More »
Albert Einstein

Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State, talks about why he thinks Albert Einstein should be named TIME's Person of the Century More »
Nelson Mandela & Martin Luther King Jr.

Kofi Annan and Rev. Jesse Jackson pick and explain their choices More »
Winston Churchill & Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politicians George W. Bush, John McCain and Al Gore discuss their reasons for nominating who they did More »
Andrei Sakharov & Nelson Mandela

Picks from Boris Yeltsin and Donna E. Shalala More »
Person of the Century

Albert Einstein was the pre-eminent scientist in a century dominated by science. Now, when we think of genius, we see his face More »