Financial Times Person of the Year


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 when no person was nominated.

List

Past recipients:
YearChoiceNotesRef.
1970President of the European Commission
1972United States Secretary of State
1973King of Saudi Arabia
1974Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1975Chancellor of Germany
1976President-elect of the United States
1977President of Egypt
1978Senior Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
1980Leader of the Solidarnosc movement
1981President of France
1982United States Secretary of State
1983CEO of IBM
1984 the Army of Unemployed
1985Leader of the Soviet Union
1986Prime Minister of Japan
1987Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1988 and Founders of KKR & Co. Inc.
1989Leader of the Soviet Union
1990Chancellor of Germany
1991United States Secretary of State
1992Paramount leader of the People's Republic of China
1993Prime Minister of France
1994Co-founder and CEO of Microsoft
1996Founder and CEO of News Corporation
1997Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1998Chairman of the Federal Reserve
1999Polymath and inventor
2000Biochemist and entrepreneur
2001CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners
2002President of the United States
2003CEO of General Electric
2004Attorney General of New York
2005 and Founders of Google
2006CEO of ArcelorMittal
2007President of the European Central Bank
2008President-elect of the United States
2009CEO of Goldman Sachs
2010Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc
2011Representative of the Arab youth in Arab Spring
2012President of the European Central Bank
2013Founder of Alibaba Group
2014CEO of Apple Inc
2015Chancellor of Germany
2016President-elect of the United States
2017Software engineer, formerly at Uber
2018Philanthropist
2019CEO of Microsoft
2020 and Founders of BioNTech and co-developers of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
2021CEO of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX
2022President of Ukraine
2023CEO of Novo Nordisk
2024President-elect of the United States
2025CEO of Nvidia