List of covers of Time magazine (1920s)

Last updated January 28, 2025

This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1920s. 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.

1923

March 3 – Joseph G. Cannon
March 10 – Warren G. Harding
March 17 – Hugo Stinnes
March 24 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
March 31 – Stephen Sanford
April 7 – Joseph Conrad
April 14 – Winston Churchill
April 21 – Samuel M. Vauclain
April 28 – Fuad I of Egypt
May 5 – James M. Beck
May 12 – John Barton Payne
May 19 – René Viviani
May 28 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
June 4 – John L. Lewis
June 11 – Herbert L. Pratt
June 18 – Burton K. Wheeler
June 25 – Edward M. House
July 2 – Andrew Mellon
July 9 – Mason M. Patrick
July 16 – James Couzens
July 23 – Roy Asa Haynes
July 30 – Eleanora Duse
August 6 – Benito Mussolini
August 13 – Samuel George Blythe
August 20 – F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
August 27 – Frederick G. Banting
September 3 – David Lloyd George
September 10 – Jack Dempsey
September 17 – Israel Zangwill
September 24 – J. P. Morgan Jr.
October 1 – Samuel Gompers
October 8 – H. H. Asquith
October 15 – Frank O. Lowden
October 22 – John W. Weeks
October 29 – Roy Chapman Andrews
November 5 – Giulio Gatti-Casazza
November 12 – Woodrow Wilson
November 19 – Erich Ludendorff
November 26 – Hugh S. Gibson
December 3 – Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
December 10 – Albert Baird Cummins
December 17 – Anton Lang
December 24 – George Bernard Shaw
December 31 – Anthony H. G. Fokker

1924

January 7 – William G. McAdoo
January 14 – Bishop William Lawrence
January 21 – Henry Cabot Lodge
January 28 – Herbert B. Swope
February 4 – Edward Eberle
February 11 – John Hessin Clarke
February 18 – Eleutherios Venizelos
February 25 – Bernard M. Baruch
March 3 – Reginald McKenna
March 10 – Warren Stanford Stone ^[1]
March 17 – Eugene O'Neill
March 24 – Raymond Poincaré
March 31 – George Eastman
April 7 – King George V
April 14 – George Fisher Baker
April 21 – Lou Henry Hoover
April 28 – Gelasio Caetani
May 5 – William E. Borah
May 12 – Homer Saint-Gaudens
May 19 – Henry Seidel Canby
May 26 – Sir James Craig
June 2 – Alfred von Tirpitz
June 9 – Carter Glass
June 16 – Pius XI
June 23 – Hiram W. Evans
June 30 – William Howard Taft
July 7 – James Stillman Rockefeller
July 14 – Alexey Rykov
July 21 – Gaston Doumergue
July 28 – William Sproule
August 4 – Queen Marie
August 11 – John J. Pershing
August 18 – Ramsay MacDonald
August 25 – Edith Cummings
September 1 – Adolph S. Ochs
September 8 – Wu Pei-fu
September 15 – Seymour Parker Gilbert
September 22 – Leo H. Baekeland
September 29 – Hiram Johnson
October 6 – William Allen White
October 13 – Glenn H. Curtiss
October 20 – Sir Patrick Hastings
October 27 – Sigmund Freud
November 3 – Sir Thomas Lipton
November 10 – Ethel Barrymore
November 17 – Frederick Huntington Gillett
November 24 – William R. Inge
December 1 – Chauncey M. Depew
December 8 – Plutarco Calles
December 15 – Dwight F. Davis
December 22 – King Alfonso XIII
December 29 – Charles Evans Hughes

1925

January 5 – Juan Belmonte
January 12 – Albert, Duke of York
January 19 – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
January 26 – Charles B. Warren
February 2 – Fritz Kreisler
February 9 – William Lyon Mackenzie King
February 16 – Harry S. New
February 23 – Owen D. Young
March 2 – Amy Lowell
March 9 – Nicholas Longworth
March 16 – Marshal Ferdinand Foch
March 23 – Edvard Beneš
March 30 – George Harold Sisler
April 6 – John Ringling
April 13 – Arthur Balfour
April 20 – Walter P. Chrysler
April 27 – James B. Hertzog
May 4 – Thomas J. Walsh
May 11 – Winston Churchill
May 18 – Leon Trotsky
May 25 – Thomas A. Edison
June 1 – Richard Swann Lull
June 8 – Miguel Primo de Rivera
June 15 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
June 22 – Charles Horace Mayo
June 29 – Theodore E. Burton
July 6 – Charlie Chaplin
July 13 – Alfred E. Smith
July 20 – George Gershwin
July 27 – Henry Ford
August 3 – Lincoln C. Andrews
August 10 – Stanley Baldwin
August 17 – Abd el-Krim
August 24 – F. Trubee Davison
August 31 – Bobby Jones
September 7 – Joseph Caillaux
September 14 – Zachary Lansdowne
September 21 – Harry Emerson Fosdick
September 28 – Frank B. Kellogg
October 5 – Red Grange
October 12 – Dwight W. Morrow
October 19 – Louis D. Brandeis
October 26 – Admiral William S. Sims
November 2 – Otto H. Kahn
November 9 – Paul Painlevé & Aristide Briand
November 16 – Herbert Hoover
November 23 – Gifford Pinchot
November 30 – Austen Chamberlain
December 7 – José R. Capablanca
December 14 – Charles G. Dawes
December 21 – Booth Tarkington
December 28 – James Wadsworth Jr.

1926

January 4 – Georges Clemenceau
January 11 – Jimmy Walker
January 18 – Arthur Capper
January 25 – Arturo Toscanini
February 1 – Henry Bérenger
February 8 – Alfred Stearns
February 15 – Lady Diana Manners
February 22 – Ellen Browning Scripps
March 1 – Marion N. Talley
March 8 – Robert Todd Lincoln
March 15 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
March 22 – Paul von Hindenburg
March 29 – Andrew J. Volstead
April 5 – Alanson B. Houghton
April 12 – Lord Irwin
April 19 – Leonard Wood
April 26 – Raquel Meller
May 3 – King Haakon VII
May 10 – John Hays Hammond
May 17 – Philip Albright Small Franklin
May 24 – Albert C. Ritchie
May 31 – Cardinal Mundelein
June 7 – Józef Piłsudski
June 14 – Carrie Chapman Catt
June 21 – A. Lawrence Lowell
June 28 – Kaiser Wilhelm
July 5 – Elbert Henry Gary
July 12 – Benito Mussolini
July 19 – Will Rogers
July 26 – Helen Wills
August 2 – Gaston Doumergue
August 9 – George E. Brennan
August 16 – Arthur Brisbane
August 23 – René Fonck
August 30 – Gene Tunney
September 6 – Pietro Mascagni
September 13 – Will H. Hays
September 20 – H. G. Wells
September 27 – Rudyard Kipling
October 4 – William H. "Big Bill" Edwards
October 11 – Ogden L. Mills
October 18 – Elihu Root
October 25 – George B. Harvey
November 1 – Giulio Gatti-Casazza
November 8 – Heihachiro Togo
November 15 – Henry Sloane Coffin
November 22 – Charles M. Schwab
November 29 – Samuel Insull
December 6 – Guglielmo Marconi
December 13 – Ralph A. Cram
December 20 – Charles Curtis
December 27 – Alfred P. Sloan Jr.

1927

January 3 – Leopold C. Amery
January 10 – James J. Davis
January 17 – Charles Copeland
January 24 – Richard Strauss
January 31 – Pierre S. du Pont
February 7 – Alice Roosevelt Longworth
February 14 – Mortimer L. Schiff
February 21 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
February 28 – Ray Lyman Wilbur
March 7 – James A. Reed
March 14 – Sinclair Lewis
March 21 – Paul Claudel
March 28 – Charles Dana Gibson
April 4 – Chiang Kai-shek
April 11 – Cornelius McGillicuddy
April 18 – Nellie Melba
April 25 – Robert Andrews Millikan
May 2 – Michael Arlen
May 9 – Charles Frederick Hughes
May 16 – Julius Klein
May 25 – André Tardieu
May 30 – George V & Queen Mary
June 6 – James A. Farrell
June 13 – John Joseph Kennedy
June 20 – Smedley Butler
June 27 – Nicholas Murray Butler & John McGraw
July 4 – Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
July 11 – Ion I. C. Brătianu
July 18 – Hugh S. Gibson
July 25 – Wallace Farrington
August 1 – Michael of Romania
August 8 – Prince Edward, Prince Henry & Prince George
August 15 – William Randolph Hearst
August 22 – Max Reinhardt
August 29 – Charles Henry Brent
September 5 – Devereux Milburn
September 12 – E. Phillips Oppenheim
September 19 – Roger Wolfe Kahn
September 26 – Howard Paul Savage
October 3 – Graham McNamee
October 10 – William M. Butler
October 17 – Nikita Balieff
October 24 – Bishop Freeman
October 31 – Alfred Hertz
November 7 – Knute Rockne
November 14 – Newton D. Baker
November 21 – Leon Trotsky
November 28 – Frank Orren Lowden
December 5 – Geraldine Farrar
December 12 – Robert M. La Follette Jr.
December 19 – Aristide Briand
December 26 – Stanley Baldwin

1928

January 2 – Charles Lindbergh
January 9 – Thomas Campbell
January 16 – Calvin Coolidge
January 23 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski
January 30 – Myron T. Herrick
February 6 – Vincent Astor
February 13 – Eugene O'Neill
February 20 – Charles Frederick Hughes
February 27 – Baby Basset Hound
March 5 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
March 12 – Bernard Baruch
March 19 – Robert Dollar
March 26 – Herbert Hoover
April 2 – Amadeo Giannini
April 9 – Harry F. Sinclair
April 16 – George Eastman
April 23 – Ruth Hanna McCormick
April 30 – Alfred E. Smith
May 7 – Robert McCormick & Joseph Medill Patterson
May 14 – Florenz Ziegfeld
May 21 – John D. Rockefeller
May 28 – Andrew W. Mellon
June 4 – John Dewey
June 11 – Charles G. Dawes
June 18 – Charles Curtis
June 25 – Joseph Taylor Robinson
July 2 – Feng Yuxiang
July 9 – Rogers Hornsby
July 16 – Julian Byng
July 23 – King Alfonso XIII
July 30 – Melvin A. Traylor
August 6 – Albert I
August 13 – Jean-Charles Worth
August 20 – Richard Evelyn Byrd
August 27 – Frank R. Kent
September 3 – Jed Harris
September 10 – Augustus John
September 17 – Grace Coolidge
September 24 – James William Good
October 1 – Alexander Meiklejohn
October 8 – William Howard Taft
October 15 – Harry F. Byrd
October 22 – Philip La Follette
October 29 – Lord Melchett
November 5 – The American people
November 12 – Maria Jeritza
November 19 – Emperor Hirohito
November 26 – Mikhail Kalinin
December 3 – Orville Wright
December 10 – Arthur W. Cutten
December 17 – Christ the Redeemer of the Andes
December 24 – William Henry O'Connell
December 31 – Henry Fairfield Osborn

1929

January 7 – Walter Chrysler
January 14 – Adolph Zukor
January 21 – James Simpson
January 28 – Afranio do Amaral
February 4 – Clarence C. Little
February 11 – King Alexander
February 18 – Albert Einstein
February 25 – J. P. Morgan Jr.
March 4 – Walter Hampden
March 11 – Henry L. Stimson
March 18 – Billy Barton
March 25 – Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Märtha
April 1 – Prince Edward
April 8 – Reed Smoot
April 15 – Edgar Wallace
April 22 – Myron C. Taylor
April 29 – Princess Elizabeth
May 6 – Harlan F. Stone
May 13 – Lou Henry Hoover
May 20 – Jimmy Walker
May 27 – Edward Dean Adams
June 3 – Francis Scott McBride
June 10 – Oil State Governors (Billy Adams, Dan Moody, Frank Emerson, Clyde M. Reed, John Edward Erickson, William Judson Holloway, George Dern, Richard C. Dillon, Clement Calhoun Young)
June 17 – Livingston Farrand
June 24 – Max Schmeling
July 1 – Helen Wills Moody
July 8 – Lawrence M. Judd
July 15 – David Sarnoff
July 22 – Alvan Macauley
July 29 – Jimmie Foxx
August 5 – Arthur M. Hyde
August 12 – Paul Shoup
August 19 – Montagu C. Norman
August 26 – Mabel Walker Willebrandt
September 2 – James William Good
September 9 – Graham Bethune Grosvenor
September 16 – Hugo Eckener
September 23 – Christian K. Cagle
September 30 – Ina Claire
October 7 – Ramsay MacDonald
October 14 – William Wrigley Jr.
October 21 – Harry Guggenheim
October 28 – Ivar Kreuger
November 4 – Samuel Insull
November 11 – Thomas W. Lamont
November 18 – Lewis Edward Lawes
November 25 – Eva Le Gallienne
December 2 – Robert Bridges
December 9 – Walter C. Teagle
December 16 – Nicholas Longworth
December 23 – Wendell Cushing Neville
December 30 – Pascual Ortiz Rubio

References

Notes

↑ "Warren S. Stone, Labor Leader, Dies. President of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Its $150,000,000 Interests". The New York Times . Associated Press. June 13, 1925. Retrieved October 29, 2012. Warren Stanford Stone, 65, labor leader and financier, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and all its far-reaching financial activities, in banks, trust companies and other business ventures, died in a hospital here late today from an acute attack of Bright's disease.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] "Warren S. Stone, Labor Leader, Dies. President of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Its $150,000,000 Interests". The New York Times . Associated Press. June 13, 1925. Retrieved October 29, 2012. Warren Stanford Stone, 65, labor leader and financier, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and all its far-reaching financial activities, in banks, trust companies and other business ventures, died in a hospital here late today from an acute attack of Bright's disease.

[1]

v t e Time
Covers	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Honors	Person of the Year You Time 100 Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century Canadian Newsmaker of the Year Heroes of the Environment 2007 2008 2009