Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999)[1] is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ...has done the most to influence the events of the year".[2] The Time website or a partner organization also runs an annual online reader's poll that has no effect on the selection, although no poll was held in 2023 or 2024.[3][4]
^Rothman, Lily (2023). Jacobs, Sam; Rothman, Lily; Benedict, Julie Blume; Cassidy, Catherine (eds.). "How Person of the Year Came to Be". Time. pp. 1–2.