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The Financial Times , a British business newspaper, annually nominates a Person of the Year to the person the newspaper has considered has demonstrated considerable influence in a given year. There appear to have been a number of instances (1971, 1979, 1995) when no person was nominated. [1]

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In 1999, John von Neumann was chosen as the FT Person of the Century. JohnvonNeumann-LosAlamos.gif
In 1999, John von Neumann was chosen as the FT Person of the Century.

Past recipients:

YearChoiceNotesRef.
1970 Jean Rey President of the European Commission [3]
1972 Henry Kissinger United States Secretary of State [3]
1973 Faisal King of Saudi Arabia [3]
1974 Harold Wilson Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [3]
1975 Helmut Schmidt Chancellor of Germany [3]
1976 Jimmy Carter President of the United States [3]
1977 Anwar Sadat President of Egypt [3]
1978 Deng Xiaoping Senior Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China [3]
1980 Lech Wałęsa Leader of the Solidarnosc movement [3]
1981 François Mitterrand President of France [3]
1982 George Shultz United States Secretary of State [3]
1983 John R. Opel CEO of IBM [3]
1984Albert Hall(Representative of) the Army of Unemployed [3]
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev Leader of the Soviet Union [3]
1986 Yasuhiro Nakasone Prime Minister of Japan [3]
1987 Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [3]
1988 Henry Kravis and George R. Roberts Founders of KKR & Co. Inc. [3]
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev Leader of the Soviet Union [3]
1990 Helmut Kohl Chancellor of Germany [3]
1991 James Baker United States Secretary of State [3]
1992 Deng Xiaoping Paramount leader of the People's Republic of China [3]
1993 Edouard Balladur Prime Minister of France [3]
1994 Bill Gates Co-founder and CEO of Microsoft [3]
1996 Rupert Murdoch Founder and CEO of News Corporation [3]
1997 Tony Blair Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [3]
1998 Alan Greenspan Chairman of the Federal Reserve [3]
1999 John von Neumann Polymath and inventor [3]
2000 Craig Venter Biochemist and entrepreneur [3]
2001 Howard Lutnick CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners [3]
2002 George W. Bush President of the United States [3]
2003 Jeffrey Immelt CEO of General Electric [3]
2004 Eliot Spitzer Attorney General of New York [3]
2005 Sergey Brin and Larry Page Founders of Google [4]
2006 Lakshmi Mittal CEO of ArcelorMittal [3]
2007 Jean-Claude Trichet President of the European Central Bank [5]
2008 Barack Obama President-elect of the United States [6]
2009 Lloyd Blankfein CEO of Goldman Sachs [3]
2010 Steve Jobs Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc [7]
2011 Mohamed Bouazizi Representative of the Arab youth in Arab Spring [8]
2012 Mario Draghi President of the European Central Bank [9]
2013 Jack Ma Founder of Alibaba Group [10]
2014 Tim Cook CEO of Apple Inc [11]
2015 Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany [12]
2016 Donald Trump President-elect of the United States [13]
2017 Susan Fowler Software engineer, formerly at Uber [14]
2018 George Soros Philanthropist [15]
2019 Satya Nadella CEO of Microsoft [16]
2020 Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci Founders of BioNTech and co-developers of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine [17]
2021 Elon Musk CEO of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX [18]
2022 Volodymyr Zelenskyy President of Ukraine [19]
2023 Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen CEO of Novo Nordisk [20]
2024 Donald Trump President-elect of the United States [21]

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