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Financial Times Person of the Year

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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]


List

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In 1999, John von Neumann was chosen as the FT Person of the Century.[2]

Past recipients:

Year Choice Notes Ref.
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]
1984 Albert 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]

References

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  1. ^ "FT Person of the Year". ig.ft.com.
  2. ^ Jaeger, Lars (2022). The stumbling progress of 20th century science: how crises and great minds have shaped our modern world. Springer Nature. p. 160. ISBN 978-3-031-09618-1. OCLC 1346143050.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah "FT Person of the Year". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  4. ^ "The single-minded technologists". 12 December 2005.
  5. ^ "Trichet navigates choppy waters". 23 December 2007.
  6. ^ "Person of the Year: Barack Obama". 23 December 2008.
  7. ^ "Silicon Valley visionary who put Apple on top". 23 December 2010.
  8. ^ "A generation at last in ferment". 12 December 2011.
  9. ^ "FT Person of the Year: Mario Draghi". 13 December 2012.
  10. ^ "Person of the year: Jack Ma". 12 December 2013.
  11. ^ "Person of the Year: Tim Cook of Apple". 11 December 2014.
  12. ^ "Person of the Year: Angela Merkel – The transformation of a cautious chancellor". 13 December 2015.
  13. ^ "FT Person of the Year: Donald Trump". 12 December 2016.
  14. ^ Hook, Leslie (12 December 2017). "FT Person of the Year: Susan Fowler". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  15. ^ Hook, Leslie (19 December 2018). "FT Person of the Year: George Soros". Financial Times. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  16. ^ Waters, Richard (19 December 2019). "FT Person of the Year: Satya Nadella". Financial Times.
  17. ^ Miller, Joe; Cookson, Clive (16 December 2020). "FT People of the Year: BioNTech's Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci". Financial Times. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  18. ^ Waters, Richard (15 December 2021). "Elon Musk: Interview with FT's Person of the year". Financial Times. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  19. ^ "FT Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 'I am more responsible than brave'". Financial Times. 5 December 2022.
  20. ^ Hannah Kuchler, "FT Person of the Year: Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen of Novo Nordisk", Financial Times, 19 December 2023, accessed 6 January 2024
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