Person of the Year 2009
Runners-Up
People Who Mattered
- Neda Agha-Soltan
- Glenn Beck
- Lloyd Blankfein
- Rahm Emanuel
- Dr. Thomas Frieden
- Jon and Kate Gosselin
- Hamid Karzai
- Adam Lambert
- Jay Leno and David Letterman
- Bernie Madoff
- Alan Mulally
- Barack Obama
- Manny Pacquiao
- Sarah Palin
- Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart of Twilight
- Alex Rodriguez
- Olympia Snowe
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Chesley B. (Sully) Sullenberger III
- Taylor Swift
- The Twitter Guys
- Joe Wilson
- Tiger Woods
- Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti
- Zhou Xiaochuan
People Who Mattered Poll Results
Fond Farewells
- Corazon Aquino
- Bea Arthur
- Norman Borlaug
- David Carradine
- Marilyn Chambers
- Walter Cronkite
- Merce Cunningham
- Natalya Estemirova
- Farrah Fawcett
- Horton Foote
- John Hope Franklin
- Millard Fuller
- Larry Gelbart
- Paul Harvey
- Thomas Hoving
- John Hughes
- Maurice Jarre
- Michael Jackson
- Ingemar Johansson
- Jennifer Jones
- Stanley Kaplan
- Jack Kemp
- Ted Kennedy
- Willem J. Kolff
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Karl Malden
- Frank McCourt
- Ed McMahon
- Robert McNamara
- Brittany Murphy
- Robert Novak
- Les Paul
- Claiborne Pell
- Irving Penn
- Natasha Richardson
- Oral Roberts
- William Safire
- Soupy Sales
- Paul Samuelson
- Budd Schulberg
- Ron Silver
- Naomi Sims
- Helen Suzman
- Patrick Swayze
- George Tiller
- Mary Travers
- John Updike
- Andrew Wyeth
- Velupillai Prabhakaran
- John Mortimer
- Jeanne-Claude
- Shi Pei Pu
- Kim Dae Jung
Persons of Years Past
Person of the Year Videos
The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. How the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve prevented an economic catastrophe