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.
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Past recipients:
Year Choice Notes Ref.1970 President of the European Commission1972 United States Secretary of State 1973King of Saudi Arabia1974 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom1975 Chancellor of Germany 1976President-elect of the United States1977 President of Egypt 1978 Senior Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China1980 Leader of the Solidarnosc movement1981 President of France 1982 United States Secretary of State 1983 CEO of IBM 1984 (Representative of) the Army of Unemployed1985 Leader of the Soviet Union1986 Prime Minister of Japan 1987 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom1988 and Founders of KKR & Co. Inc.1989 Leader of the Soviet Union1990 Chancellor of Germany 1991 United States Secretary of State1992 Paramount leader of the People's Republic of China1993 Prime Minister of France 1994Co-founder and CEO of Microsoft1996Founder and CEO of News Corporation1997Prime Minister of the United Kingdom1998Chairman of the Federal Reserve1999Polymath and inventor2000Biochemist and entrepreneur2001CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners2002President of the United States 2003CEO of General Electric2004Attorney General of New York2005 and Founders of Google2006CEO of ArcelorMittal2007President of the European Central Bank 2008President-elect of the United States2009CEO of Goldman Sachs2010Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc2011Representative of the Arab youth in Arab Spring2012President of the European Central Bank2013Founder of Alibaba Group2014CEO of Apple Inc2015 Chancellor of Germany 2016President-elect of the United States2017Software engineer, formerly at Uber2018Philanthropist 2019CEO of Microsoft2020 and Founders of BioNTech and co-developers of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine2021CEO of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX2022President of Ukraine2023CEO of Novo NordiskHannah Kuchler, "FT Person of the Year: Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen of Novo Nordisk", Financial Times, 19 December 2023, accessed 6 January 20242024President-elect of the United States2025CEO of Nvidia
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