Person of the Year 2010
For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year
Full List
Person of the Year 2010
Essays
Runners-Up
Videos
- An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg
- Working at Facebook: A Day with the Profile Team
- Behind the Scenes: Bringing a Tea Party to Life
- One Minute on Facebook
- The History of Social Networking: An Odd Todd Cartoon
- Photographing the Chilean Miners
- Can $100 Million Save Newark's Public Schools?
People Who Mattered
- Thad Allen
- Anwar al-Awlaki
- Omar al-Bashir
- Nouri al-Maliki
- Glenn Beck
- Pope Benedict
- Ben Bernanke
- Justin Bieber
- John Boehner
- David Boies and Ted Olson
- Sandra Bullock
- Felipe Calderón
- David Cameron
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Jonathan Franzen
- Lady Gaga
- Robert Gates
- The Glee Cast
- Davis Guggenheim
- The Haitian People
- Margaret Hamburg
- Tony Hayward
- Gen. Ashfaq Kayani
- Hu Jintao
- Kim Jong Un
- Lisa Jackson
- LeBron James
- The Jersey Shore Cast
- Steve Jobs
- Stanley McChrystal
- Hosni Mubarak
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Conan O'Brien
- Barack Obama
- Sarah Palin
- Nancy Pelosi
- David Petraeus
- Andimithu Raja
- Feisal Abdul Rauf
- Harry Reid
- Derrick Rossi
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
- The Unemployed American
- J. Craig Venter
- Michael Vick
- Betty White
- Elizabeth Warren
- Kanye West
- Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton
- Winter Olympians
- World Cup Winners and Losers
- Liu Xiaobo
Fond Farewells
- Louis Auchincloss
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Barbara Billingsley
- Tom Bosley
- Louise Bourgeois
- Solomon Burke
- Robert Byrd
- Claude Chabrol
- Gary Coleman
- Tony Curtis
- Dino De Laurentiis
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Jaime Escalante
- Ayatollah Fadlalah
- Eddie Fisher
- Ernest Fleischmann
- John Forsythe
- Daryl Gates
- Peter Graves
- Bob Guccione
- Alexander Haig
- Dorothy Height
- Richard Holbrooke
- Dennis Hopper
- Lena Horne
- Tony Judt
- Elaine Kaufman
- Néstor Kirchner
- Girija Prasad Koirala
- Satoshi Kon
- Lolita Lebron
- Herman Leonard
- Art Linkletter
- Wilma Mankiller
- Rue McClanahan
- Kate McGarrigle
- Alexander McQueen
- Mitch Miller
- John Murtha
- Patricia Neal
- Leslie Nielsen
- Fess Parker
- Harvey Pekar
- Teddy Pendergrass
- Arthur Penn
- Lynn Redgrave
- Éric Rohmer
- Dan Rostenkowski
- J.D. Salinger
- Juan Antonio Samaranch
- Jose Saramago
- Stephen Schneider
- Alan Sillitoe
- Jean Simmons
- Ted Sorensen
- Joseph Stein
- George Steinbrenner
- Ted Stevens
- Gloria Stuart
- Joan Sutherland
- Bobby Thomson
- Charlie Wilson
- Norman Wisdom
- John Wooden
- Umaru Yar'Adua
- Howard Zinn
15 Minutes of Fame
- Steven Slater
- Anna Chapman
- Old Spice Guy
- Jim Joyce
- Paul "Double Rainbow" Vasquez
- Alvin Greene
- Vuvuzelas
- Times Square Street Vendors
- Cat-Bin Lady
- Torry Hansen
- Oksana Grigorieva
- Eyjafjallajokull
- Terry Jones
- Gray Powell and Jason Chen
- Larry "Pants on the Ground" Platt
To Our Readers
Special Features:
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Essays
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To Our Readers
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Photos: Portraits: Mark Zuckerberg
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Photos: A Zuckerberg Family Album
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Photos: Around the World with Facebook
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Inside a Facebook Server Farm
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Photos: Life Inside Facebook's Headquarters
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Video: An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg
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Video: Working at Facebook: A Day with the Profile Team
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Runner-Up: The Tea Party
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Runner-Up: Julian Assange
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Runner-Up: Hamid Karzai
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Runner-Up: The Chilean Miners
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Photos: Inside the Mine with Edison Peña
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Photos: The Chilean Miners
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People Who Mattered
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Fond Farewells
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15 Minutes of Fame
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LIFE.com: Person of the Year — Through the Years
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Video: Bringing a Tea Party to Life
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Video: Photographing the Chilean Miners
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Video: Can $100 Million Save Newark's Public Schools?
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Video: One Minute on Facebook
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Video: The History of Social Networking
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Graphic: TIME's Person of the Year 1927-2009
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