List of covers of Time magazine (1930s)

Last updated November 21, 2023

This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1930s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles about the topic.

1930

January 6 – Owen D. Young
January 13 – Domingo Ugalde
January 20 – André Tardieu
January 27 – William D. Mitchell
February 3 – Maria Montessori
February 10 – Ray Lyman Wilbur
February 17 – Charles Evans Hughes
February 24 – Cyrus S. Eaton
March 3 – Pointer Mary Blue
March 10 – Royal Cortissoz
March 17 – Queen Mary
March 24 – Al Capone
March 31 – Mahatma Gandhi
April 7 – Heber Jedediah Grant
April 14 – William H. Welch
April 21 – Philip Snowden
April 28 – Leopold Stokowski
May 5 – Julius H. Barnes
May 12 – Alois Lang
May 19 – Yan Xishan
May 26 – Edward G.V. Stanley
June 2 – William Adams Delano
June 9 – Joseph Stalin
June 16 – William C. Procter
June 23 – Julio Prestes
June 30 – Lucrezia Bori
July 7 – Louis D. Brandeis
July 14 – Herbert Hoover Jr.
July 21 – David A. Reed
July 28 – Richard B. Bennett
August 4 – Alexander Legge
August 11 – Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York
August 18 – Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock (Louise Eustis Hitchcock)
August 26 – Wilbert Robinson
September 1 – Lord Dawson
September 8 – Augusto B. Leguía
September 15 – Harold S. Vanderbilt
September 22 – Bobby Jones
September 29 – Dwight W. Morrow
October 6 – Harry Emerson Fosdick
October 13 – Sergei Koussevitsky
October 20 – Henri Matisse
October 27 – King George V & Queen Mary
November 3 – Haile Selassie
November 10 – Jouett Shouse
November 17 – Football's Public
November 24 – Robert Bulkley
December 1 – James J. Davis
December 8 – King Haakon VII
December 15 – Mary Garden
December 22 – Elsa Einstein
December 29 – Pius XI

1931

January 5 – Mahatma Gandhi
January 12 – James Ewing
January 19 – Gerardo Machado
January 26 – William Borah
February 2 – George Wickersham
February 9 – Charlie Chaplin
February 16 – Joseph Deems Taylor aka Deems Taylor
February 23 – Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
March 2 – David S. Ingalls
March 9 – Charles R. Crane
March 16 – Oswald Mosley
March 23 – John F. Curry
March 30 – Walter Lippman
April 6 – King Alfonso XIII
April 13 – Roy W. Howard
April 20 – King Prajadhipok
April 27 – Mrs. Nanaline Duke
May 4 – Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
May 11 – Hubert Lyautey
May 18 – Kenkichi Kagami
May 25 – Walter Coffey, John Humber & Grace Hammond Conners
June 1 – Samuel R. McKelvie
June 8 – David Starr Jordan
June 15 – Heinrich Brüning
June 22 – Morton Downey
June 29 – Cyril Alington
July 6 – Betty Nuthall
July 13 – Ogden L. Mills
July 20 – Nikola Tesla
July 27 – Paul Von Hindenburg
August 3 – Willa Cather
August 10 – Paul W. Litchfield
August 17 – Samuel Seabury
August 24 – Albert H. Wiggin
August 31 – Winthrop W. Aldrich
September 7 – Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin & David Lloyd George
September 14 – Patrick Jay Hurley
September 21 – Ross S. Sterling
September 28 – Pierre Laval & Aristide Briand
October 5 – Primo Carnera
October 12 – Baron Kijuro Shidehara
October 19 – William Green
October 26 – Chiang Kai-shek & Mme. Chiang
November 2 – Eugene O'Neill
November 9 – Rosa Ponselle
November 16 – Dino Grandi
November 23 – Barry Wood
November 30 – Walter Runciman
December 7 – John Nance Garner
December 14 – James H. Breasted
December 21 – Adolf Hitler
December 28 – Ki Inukai

1932

January 4 – Pierre Laval
January 11 – Daniel Willard
January 18 – Errett Lobban Cord
January 25 – Philip Barry
February 1 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
February 8 – Hugh S. Gibson
February 15 – Nicholas M. Butler
February 22 – Yehudi Menuhin
February 29 – William Murray
March 7 – John Barrymore & Lionel Barrymore
March 14 – Clarence Young
March 21 – John A. Simon
March 28 – Gabby Street
April 4 – Robinson Jeffers
April 11 – Éamon de Valera
April 18 – The Circus
April 25 – Neville Chamberlain
May 2 – Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.
May 9 – Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman
May 16 – Édouard Herriot
May 23 – Newton D. Baker
May 31 – Eugene Meyer
June 6 – Emperor Hirohito
June 13 – Walter F. Brown
June 20 – Carlos Dávila
June 27 – Alfred E. Smith
July 4 – Franz von Papen
July 11 – Ben Eastman
July 18 – Pauline Sabin
July 25 – Earl of Bessborough, First lady & page
August 1 – Ellsworth Vines
August 8 – Norman M. Thomas
August 15 – Groucho, Harpo, Chico & Zeppo Marx
August 22 – Kurt von Schleicher
August 29 – William G. McAdoo
September 5 – Yasuya Uchida
September 12 – Henry L. Stevens Jr.
September 19 – Jacob Ruppert
September 26 – Edward Dickinson Duffield
October 3 – Huey P. Long
October 10 – King George V
October 17 – Lily Pons
October 24 – Rufus D. Isaacs
October 31 – James Farley
November 7 – Common Citizens
November 14 – Howard Jones
November 21 – Melvin A. Traylor
November 28 – T.E. Lawrence
December 5 – Charles Curtis
December 12 – Norman H. Davis
December 19 – Henry T. Rainey
December 26 – Katharine Cornell

1933

January 2 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Man of the Year
January 9 – Charles F. Kettering
January 16 – Lawrence Tibbett
January 23 – Sadao Araki
January 30 – Noël Coward
February 6 – Carter Glass
February 13 – Richard Leigh
February 20 – William W. Atterbury
February 27 – Pat Harrison
March 6 – Sara Delano Roosevelt
March 13 – Adolf Hitler
March 20 – William H. Woodin
March 27 – John Hay Whitney
April 3 – Pope Pius XI
April 10 – Henry A. Wallace
April 17 – Cordell Hull
April 24 – Maxim Litvinov
May 1 – William R. Hearst
May 8 – Raymond Moley
May 15 – Gerardo Machado
May 22 – Rufus C. Dawes
May 29 – Édouard Daladier
June 5 – Frank Aydelotte
June 12 – Ferdinand Pecora
June 19 – Neville Chamberlain
June 26 – Italo Balbo
July 3 – Hugh S. Johnson
July 10 – Joseph Goebbels
July 17 – Curtis Bok
July 24 – Harold L. Ickes
July 31 – Juan Trippe
August 7 – Marie Dressler
August 14 – Frances Perkins
August 21 – Hermann Göring
August 28 – Edward J. Kelly
September 4 – Jack Crawford
September 11 – Gertrude Stein
September 18 – George F. Zook
September 25 – Engelbert Dollfuss
October 2 – John L. Lewis
October 9 – George M. Cohan
October 16 – Percy S. Straus
October 23 – Fiorello LaGuardia, John P. O'Brien & Joseph V. McKee
October 30 – Maxim Weygand
November 6 – George Peek
November 13 – Football
November 20 – Eleanor Roosevelt
November 27 – George F. Warren
December 4 – Seton Porter
December 11 – Chiang Kai-shek
December 18 – Eugene Luther Vidal
December 25 – Alice in Wonderland (Alec B. Francis & Charlotte Henry)

1934

January 1 – Hugh S. Johnson, Man of the Year
January 8 – Walter P. Chrysler
January 15 – Elmer Thomas & Charles Coughlin
January 22 – Jesse H. Jones
January 29 – James Joyce
February 5 – James B. Conant
February 12 – Kliment Voroshilov
February 19 – Harry L. Hopkins
February 26 – Richard Whitney
March 5 – Puyi
March 12 – Gaston Doumergue
March 19 – Robert F. Wagner
March 26 – George Arliss
April 2 – Arturo Toscanini
April 9 – Vincent Astor
April 16 – Sir Arthur Eddington
April 23 – Errett Lobban Cord
April 30 – Robert Lee Doughton
May 7 – Edward R. Bradley
May 14 – Samuel Insull
May 21 – Kōki Hirota
May 28 – Irving Berlin
June 4 – Joseph M. Reeves
June 11 – Thomas Mann
June 18 – Harold Willis Dodds
June 25 – Rexford G. Tugwell
July 2 – Riza Shah Pahlevi
July 9 – Vernon Gomez
July 16 – Paul von Hindenburg
July 23 – Joseph B. Poindexter
July 30 – James Farley
August 6 – Kurt Schmitt
August 13 – Elsa Schiaparelli
August 20 – Cavalcade
August 27 – Cecil B. DeMille
September 3 – Fred Perry
September 10 – Donald Richberg
September 17 – Henry Morgenthau
September 24 – Louis Barthou
October 1 – Henry Noble MacCracken
October 8 – Helen Rogers Reid & Friends
October 15 – Reverend James Perry
October 22 – Upton Sinclair
October 29 – Roscoe Turner
November 5 – Henry P. Fletcher
November 12 – Joseph C. Grew
November 19 – Robert M. La Follette Jr.
November 26 – Benjamin N. Cardozo
December 3 – Lázaro Cárdenas
December 10 – Maxwell Anderson
December 17 – White House Staffers (Marguerite LeHand, Louis Howe, Gus Gennerich, Marvin Hunter McIntyre)
December 24 – Thomas Hart Benton
December 31 – Herbert H. Lehman

1935

January 7 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Man of the Year
January 14 – Henry Ford
January 21 – John Thomas Taylor
January 28 – Kathleen Norris
February 4 – Pierre-Étienne Flandin
February 11 – Lorne Chabot
February 18 – Lotte Lehmann
February 25 – Samuel Clay Williams
March 4 – Richard B. Harrison
March 11 – Frank J. Hogan
March 18 – Wang Jingwei
March 25 – General Douglas MacArthur
April 1 – Huey P. Long
April 8 – Anthony Eden & Sir John Simon
April 15 – Dizzy Dean
April 22 – Joseph W. Byrns
April 29 – John Francis Neylan
May 6 – King George V
May 13 – Harry F. Byrd
May 20 – Hirosi Saito
May 27 – Miriam Hopkins
June 3 – John Nance Garner
June 10 – Emanuel Libman
June 17 – Stanley Baldwin
June 24 – Robert M. Hutchins
July 1 – John Cowles
July 8 – Joseph Lyons
July 15 – Joseph T. Robinson
July 22 – Joseph P. Kennedy
July 29 – Harlow Shapley
August 5 – J. Edgar Hoover
August 12 – Queen Wilhelmina
August 19 – Jean Harlow
August 26 – Hugo L. Black
September 2 – Donald Budge
September 9 – Clyde L. Herring
September 16 – Alexis Carrel
September 23 – Sir Samuel Hoare
September 30 – Cardinal Hayes
October 7 – Mickey Cochrane
October 14 – Herbert C. Hoover
October 21 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
October 28 – Bruno Mussolini, Benito Mussolini & Vittorio Mussolini
November 4 – James A. Macauley
November 11 – Football Spectators
November 18 – Mark Sullivan
November 25 – Manuel L. Quezon
December 2 – Edwin C. Musick
December 9 – William Phillips
December 16 – Alexei Stakhanov
December 23 – Kirsten Flagstad
December 30 – Helen Hayes

1936

January 6 – Haile Selassie, Man of the Year
January 13 – Arthur H. Compton
January 20 – J. P. Morgan Jr.
January 27 – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
February 3 – George Santayana
February 10 – Marriner S. Eccles
February 17 – Leni Riefenstahl
February 24 – Hirohito, Pu Yi, Joseph Stalin & Chiang Kai-shek
March 2 – Emil Hurja
March 9 – Léon Blum
March 16 – Martin W. Clement
March 23 – Isaiah Bowman
March 30 – William Borah
April 6 – Daniel W. Hoan
April 13 – Adolf Hitler
April 20 – Frank N.D. Buchman
April 27 – Shirley Temple
May 4 – Torkild Rieber
May 11 – Franz Boas
May 18 – Alfred Landon
May 25 – Joseph DeLee
June 1 – Pat Harrison
June 8 – James V. Allred
June 15 – James R. Angell
June 22 – French strikers
June 29 – Sir Samuel Hoare
July 6 – John L. Lewis
July 13 – Joe DiMaggio
July 20 – Benito Mussolini
July 27 – Leroy Miner
August 3 – Charles Phelps Taft II
August 10 – John Dos Passos
August 17 – William L. Clayton
August 24 – Francisco Franco, Emilio Mola & Manuel Azaña
August 31 – Clark Gable
September 7 – Eugene Talmadge
September 14 – Helen Hull Jacobs
September 21 – John D. M. Hamilton
September 28 – James B. Conant
October 5 – Lou Gehrig & Carl Hubbell
October 12 – Lord Linlithgow
October 19 – Eugenio Pacelli
October 26 – Thomas Parran Jr.
November 2 – Joseph M. Patterson & Robert R. McCormick
November 9 – Chiang Kai-shek
November 16 – Anthony Grzebyk
November 23 – Edward F. McGrady
November 30 – Marlene Dietrich
December 7 – Cordell Hull
December 14 – Salvador Dalí
December 21 – Edward Johnson
December 28 – Emperor Hirohito

1937

January 4 – Wallis Warfield Simpson, Woman of the Year
January 11 – George Norris
January 18 – William S. Knudsen
January 25 – Leon Trotsky
February 1 – Thomas E. Dewey
February 8 – John J. Pelley
February 15 – Cardinal Dougherty
February 22 – Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII
March 1 – Charles E. Hughes
March 8 – King George VI
March 15 – Joseph E. Davies & his wife Marjorie Merriweather Post
March 22 – Clarence Little
March 29 – Clyde Beatty
April 5 – Harry B. Housser
April 12 – Virginia Woolf
April 19 – Bob Feller
April 26 – Fulgencio Batista
May 3 – Billy and Bobby Mauch
May 10 – Matt Winn
May 17 – King Christian X
May 24 – Cosmo Gordon Lang
May 31 – Dionne Quintuplets
June 7 – Sidney Howard
June 14 – Paul van Zeeland
June 21 – Morris Fishbein
June 28 – Ethel du Pont & Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
July 5 – George Earle III
July 12 – James E. West
July 19 – Harry Bridges
July 26 – Fumimaro Konoe
August 2 – Fiorello LaGuardia
August 9 – King Farouk I
August 16 – Paul Muni
August 23 – Alben Barkley
August 30 – Mitsumasa Yonai
September 6 – Francisco Franco
September 13 – Gottfried von Cramm
September 20 – Mitchell Hepburn
September 27 – Walter Lippman
October 4 – William Green
October 11 – William O. Douglas
October 18 – Ernest Hemingway
October 25 – Wallace Wade
November 1 – Ernest O. Lawrence
November 8 – Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne
November 15 – Louis Brandeis
November 22 – King Leopold III
November 29 – William B. Bankhead
December 6 – Jean Sibelius
December 13 – Colby M. Chester, Chairman of General Foods
December 20 – Joseph Stalin
December 27 – Walt Disney

1938

January 3 – Chiang Kai-shek & Mme. Chiang, Couple of the Year
January 10 – Wesley W. Stout
January 17 – Frank Lloyd Wright
January 24 – Walter F. White
January 31 – Roswell Magill
February 7 – John L. Lewis
February 14 – Sebastián Pozas Perea
February 21 – John G. Bates
February 28 – James Roosevelt
March 7 – Subhas Chandra Bose
March 14 – Dave Kerr
March 21 – Kurt von Schuschnigg
March 28 – Bette Davis
April 4 – Albert Einstein
April 11 – Joe Martin
April 18 – Lewis Mumford
April 25 – Reza Shah Pahlavi
May 2 – Claude Pepper
May 9 – Orson Welles
May 16 – Frank R. McNinch
May 23 – Donald W. Douglas
May 30 – Earl Browder
June 6 – Johnny Goodman
June 13 – Charles A. Lindbergh & Alexis Carrel
June 20 – Robert W. Wood
June 27 – Edvard Beneš
July 4 – Otway H. Chalkley
July 11 – Walter Winchell
July 18 – Harry L. Hopkins
July 25 – Richard Strauss
August 1 – Albert B. Chandler
August 8 – Frank Capra
August 15 – William McChesney Martin Jr.
August 22 – Louis A. Johnson
August 29 – Lázaro Cárdenas
September 5 – Holger Cahill
September 12 – Thomas Corcoran & Benjamin V. Cohen
September 19 – William S. Paley
September 26 – Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
October 3 – William L. Bragg
October 10 – Sergei Koussevitzky
October 17 – Neville Chamberlain
October 24 – Sheridan Downey
October 31 – Frederick L. Redefer
November 7 – André Malraux
November 14 – Henry Grady Weaver
November 21 – Elmer F. Andrews
November 28 – Lord Beaverbrook
December 5 – Clifford Odets
December 12 – Prince Paul
December 19 – Henry A. Wallace
December 26 – Charlot's 'Nativity'

1939

January 2 – Adolf Hitler, Man of the Year
January 9 – Oscar Riddle
January 16 – Julius P. Heil
January 23 – William Faulkner
January 30 – Henry E. Sigerist
February 6 – Robert Fechner
February 13 – Pablo Picasso
February 20 – Charles Edison
February 27 – Ignace J. Paderewski
March 6 – Josef Beck
March 13 – William R. Hearst
March 20 – John Nance Garner
March 27 – Francisco Franco
April 3 – Lewis H. Brown
April 10 – Ginger Rogers
April 17 – Eleanor Roosevelt
April 24 – Heinrich Himmler
May 1 – Grover A. Whalen
May 8 – James Joyce
May 15 – George VI
May 22 – Nelson Rockefeller
May 29 – Glenn L. Martin
June 5 – Édouard Daladier
June 12 – Dorothy Thompson
June 19 – Charles A. Lindbergh
June 26 – Sigmund Freud
July 3 – Edwin G. Conklin
July 10 – Paul V. McNutt
July 17 – Sonja Henie
July 24 – Edda Ciano
July 31 – Wendell L. Willkie
August 7 – William Woodward
August 14 – Maurice Gamelin
August 21 – Eleanor Holm
August 28 – Frank Murphy
September 4 – Winston Churchill
September 11 – Edward Rydz-Śmigły
September 18 – Joseph P. Kennedy
September 25 – Walther von Brauchitsch
October 2 – Arthur Vandenberg
October 9 – Queen Elizabeth
October 16 – Kaufman T. Keller
October 23 – Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall
October 30 – King Gustav V
November 6 – Tom Harmon
November 13 – King Carol II
November 20 – George S. Kaufman
November 27 – Queen Wilhelmina
December 4 – Carl Sandburg
December 11 – Nelson T. Johnson
December 18 – Herbert Hoover
December 25 – Vivien Leigh

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