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

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Person of the Year 2007

  1. Choosing Order Before Freedom
  2. A Tsar Is Born
  3. A Bible, But No E-mail
  4. In Search of Russia's Big Idea
  5. And Moscow Makes Me Sing And Shout
  6. Kissinger on Putin: "He Thinks He is a Reformer"
  7. His Place in History
  8. Russia Needs Putin
  9. Putin's Future: Less KGB, More MBA
  10. Putin Q&A: Full Transcript

Runners-Up

  1. Al Gore
  2. The Gore Interview
  3. J.K. Rowling
  4. Rowling Answers 10 Questions About Harry
  5. Hu Jintao
  6. David Petraeus

People Who Mattered

  1. Judd Apatow
  2. Eduardo Arias
  3. Wesley Autry
  4. Billiam the YouTube Snowman
  5. Barry Bonds
  6. Burmese Monks
  7. David Chase
  8. Hugo Chavez
  9. Miley Cyrus
  10. Elizabeth Edwards
  11. Robert Gates
  12. Alberto Gonzales
  13. Conn and Hal Iggulden
  14. Don Imus
  15. The Jena 6
  16. Bobby Jindal
  17. Angela Merkel
  18. Yue Minjun
  19. Angelo Mozilo
  20. Rupert Murdoch
  21. Obama and Clinton
  22. Ron Paul
  23. Erik Prince
  24. Radiohead
  25. Nicolas Sarkozy
  26. John Smeaton
  27. Britney Spears
  28. Junying Yu, James Thomson and Shinya Yamanaka

Fond Farewell

  1. Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007
  2. Liz Claiborne 1929-2007
  3. Jerry Falwell 1933-2007
  4. Steve Fossett 1944-2007
  5. Robert Goulet 1933-2007
  6. Merv Griffin 1925-2007
  7. David Halberstam 1934-2007
  8. Lady Bird Johnson 1912-2007
  9. Yolanda King 1955-2007
  10. Evel Knievel 1938-2007
  11. Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007
  12. Norman Mailer 1923-2007
  13. Marcel Marceau 1923-2007
  14. Tammy Faye Messner 1942-2007
  15. Luciano Pavarotti 1935-2007
  16. Phil Rizzuto 1917-2007
  17. Max Roach 1924-2007
  18. Anita Roddick 1942-2007
  19. Arthur Schlesinger 1917-2007
  20. Sidney Sheldon 1917-2007
  21. Beverly Sills 1929-2007
  22. Anna Nicole Smith 1967-2007
  23. Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007
  24. Kurt Waldheim 1918-2007
  25. Bill Walsh 1931-2007
  26. Boris Yeltsin 1931-2007

Photos

  1. Person of the Year: Photos

Videos

  1. TIME's Interview with Vladimir Putin
  2. A Russian Roadtrip

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