Person of the Year 2010 Runners-Up: Chilean Miners

Edison Peña, 34, electrician
The long-distance runner, who passed time running through the mine's miles of tunnels listening to an iPod full of Elvis songs, became a star in the U.S. when he sang Suspicious Minds on the Late Show with David Letterman. "Thank you to the world," says Peña, who ran the New York City marathon in November, "for believing we were alive."

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