Person of the Year 2007
His final year as Russia's President has been his most successful yet. At home, he secured his political future. Abroad, he expanded his outsize—if not always benign—influence on global affairs
Full List
Person of the Year 2007
- Choosing Order Before Freedom
- A Tsar Is Born
- A Bible, But No E-mail
- In Search of Russia's Big Idea
- And Moscow Makes Me Sing And Shout
- Kissinger on Putin: "He Thinks He is a Reformer"
- His Place in History
- Russia Needs Putin
- Putin's Future: Less KGB, More MBA
- Putin Q&A: Full Transcript
Runners-Up
- Al Gore
- The Gore Interview
- J.K. Rowling
- Rowling Answers 10 Questions About Harry
- Hu Jintao
- David Petraeus
People Who Mattered
- Judd Apatow
- Eduardo Arias
- Wesley Autry
- Billiam the YouTube Snowman
- Barry Bonds
- Burmese Monks
- David Chase
- Hugo Chavez
- Miley Cyrus
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Robert Gates
- Alberto Gonzales
- Conn and Hal Iggulden
- Don Imus
- The Jena 6
- Bobby Jindal
- Angela Merkel
- Yue Minjun
- Angelo Mozilo
- Rupert Murdoch
- Obama and Clinton
- Ron Paul
- Erik Prince
- Radiohead
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- John Smeaton
- Britney Spears
- Junying Yu, James Thomson and Shinya Yamanaka
Fond Farewell
- Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007
- Liz Claiborne 1929-2007
- Jerry Falwell 1933-2007
- Steve Fossett 1944-2007
- Robert Goulet 1933-2007
- Merv Griffin 1925-2007
- David Halberstam 1934-2007
- Lady Bird Johnson 1912-2007
- Yolanda King 1955-2007
- Evel Knievel 1938-2007
- Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007
- Norman Mailer 1923-2007
- Marcel Marceau 1923-2007
- Tammy Faye Messner 1942-2007
- Luciano Pavarotti 1935-2007
- Phil Rizzuto 1917-2007
- Max Roach 1924-2007
- Anita Roddick 1942-2007
- Arthur Schlesinger 1917-2007
- Sidney Sheldon 1917-2007
- Beverly Sills 1929-2007
- Anna Nicole Smith 1967-2007
- Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007
- Kurt Waldheim 1918-2007
- Bill Walsh 1931-2007
- Boris Yeltsin 1931-2007
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