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.

For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine.

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 and Queen Mary November 3 – Emperor 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 – Pope 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 Lippmann 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 and 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 and David Lloyd George September 14 – Patrick Jay Hurley September 21 – Ross S. Sterling September 28 – Pierre Laval and Aristide Briand October 5 – Primo Carnera October 12 – Baron Kijuro Shidehara October 19 – William Green October 26 – Chiang Kai-shek and 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 and 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 and page August 1 – Ellsworth Vines August 8 – Norman M. Thomas August 15 – Groucho, Harpo, Chico and 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 and Joseph V. McKee October 30 – Maxime 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 and Charlotte Henry)

1934

January 1 – Hugh S. Johnson, Man of the Year January 8 – Walter P. Chrysler January 15 – Elmer Thomas and 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 – Reza 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 and 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 and 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 and 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, Puyi, Joseph Stalin and 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 and 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 and Carl Hubbell October 12 – Lord Linlithgow October 19 – Eugenio Pacelli October 26 – Thomas Parran Jr. November 2 – Joseph M. Patterson and 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