Person of the Year 2011
No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it would incite protests that would topple dictators and start a global wave of dissent. In 2011, protesters didn't just voice their complaints; they changed the world
Full List
Introduction
Cover Story
To Our Readers
Runners-Up
- William McRaven: The Admiral
- Ai Weiwei: The Dissident
- Paul Ryan: The Prophet
- Kate Middleton: The Princess
Videos
- Why TIME Chose 'The Protester'
- Why They Protest: Bahrain, Tunisia and Yemen
- Why They Protest: Egypt, Libya and Syria
- Why They Protest: American Movements
- The Making of 'The Protester' Portfolio
- The Media Messenger of Zuccotti Park
People Who Mattered
- Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshal
- Adele
- Al-Shabab
- Yukiya Amano
- Anonymous
- Casey Anthony
- Essam el-Erian and Rachid Ghannouchi
- Bashar Assad
- Michele Bachmann
- Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
- Silvio Berlusconi
- Jeff Bezos
- Anders Behring Breivik
- Warren Buffett
- Herman Cain
- David Cameron
- Eric Cantor
- Chile's Student Protesters
- Amy Chua
- Louis CK
- Hillary Clinton
- Tim Cook
- Jon Corzine
- Troy Davis
- Nafissatou Diallo
- Novak Djokovic
- Dr. Dieter Egli
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Fukushima 50
- Muammar Gaddafi and Sons
- Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara
- Gabrielle Giffords
- Vince Gilligan
- Newt Gingrich
- Dr. Robert Grant
- Alan Gross
- Vic Gundotra
- Reed Hastings
- Anna Hazare
- Kim Jong Il
- Lisa Jackson
- Mustafa Abdul Jalil
- Hu Jintao
- Kim Kardashian
- Hamid Karzai
- Gen. Ashfaq Kayani
- Salva Kiir
- Amanda Knox
- Osama bin Laden
- Julius Malema
- Nuri al-Maliki
- Sergio Marchionne
- George R.R. Martin
- Andrew Mason
- Bill McKibben
- Angela Merkel
- Lionel Messi
- Dr. Virginia A. Moyer
- Hosni Mubarak and Mohammed Hussein Tantawi
- Mike Mullen
- Richard Muller
- Rupert Murdoch
- Dr. Conrad Murray
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Dirk Nowitzki
- Barack Obama
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone
- Joe Paterno
- Rick Perry
- Vladimir Putin
- Aaron Rodgers
- Mitt Romney
- Dilma Rousseff
- Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Ingraffea, Robert Howarth
- Ali Abdullah Saleh
- Sheryl Sandberg
- Jerry Sandusky
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Charlie Sheen
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Tim Tebow
- Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani
- Scott Walker
- Elizabeth Warren
- Kristen Wiig
- Michael Woodford
- Daniel Yergin
Fond Farewells
- Nick Ashford
- Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz
- Sathya Sai Baba
- Seve Ballesteros
- John Barry
- Paul Baran
- Derrick Bell
- Elena Bonner
- Hugh Carey
- Warren Christopher
- Al Davis
- Basil D'Oliveira
- Lawrence Eagleburger
- Necmettin Erbakan
- Loulou de la Falaise
- Peter Falk
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Geraldine Ferraro
- Betty Ford
- Theodore J. Forstmann
- Joe Frazier
- Lucian Freud
- Sidney Harman
- Vaclav Havel
- Christopher Hitchens
- M.F. Husain
- Steve Jobs
- Franklin Kameny
- Shammi Kapoor
- Jack Kevorkian
- Jack LaLanne
- Jerry Leiber
- Sidney Lumet
- Wangari Maathai
- Anne McCaffrey
- Danielle Mitterand
- Harry Morgan
- Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu
- Norio Ohga
- Vang Pao
- Lana Peters
- Pete Postlethwaite
- Cliff Robertson
- Dorothy Rodham
- Andy Rooney
- Jane Russell
- Ken Russell
- Randy Savage
- William Donald Schaefer
- Bert Schneider
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Sargent Shriver
- Fred Shuttlesworth
- Duke Snider
- Sócrates
- John Stott
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Cy Twombly
- Szeto Wah
- Grete Waitz
- Nancy Wake
- Amy Winehouse
Profiles of Protesters
- Why I Protest: Dr. Arthur Chen of Oakland, Calif.
- Why I Protest: Chelsea Elliott of New York City
- Why I Protest: Olmo Gálvez of Spain
- Why I Protest: Ahmed Harara of Egypt
- Why We Protest: Natalia Klossa and Antonis of Greece
- Why I Protest: Wael Nawara of Egypt
- Why I Protest: Katerina Patrikarakou of Greece
- Why I Protest: Carmen Rodríguez of Spain
- Why I Protest: Javier Sicilia of Mexico
- The Martyr's Mother: An Interview with Mannoubia Bouazizi
- Mohamed Bouazizi's Unexpected Sequel: A Tunisian Soap Opera
Essay
Special Features:
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Introduction
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Person of the Year: The Protester
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A Year in the Making
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Runner-Up: William McRaven
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Runner-Up: Ai Weiwei
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Runner-Up: Paul Ryan
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Runner-Up: Kate Middleton
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People Who Mattered
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Fond Farewells
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Profiles of Protesters
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Crazy, Stupid, Cool
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Videos
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Photos: Peter Hapak's Profiles of Protesters Around the World
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Photos: My Year On Revolution Road by Yuri Kozyrev
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Photos: Kate Middleton's Best Fashion Moments of 2011
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Photos: Meet Loukanikos, Athens' Protest Dog
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Photos: Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin
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Ai Weiwei's Photographs
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Special Ops: A Photo History
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Photos: Sidi Bouzid, the Tunisian Town Where the Arab Spring Began
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Protests and Counterprotests in Russia
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OWS: Protests and Camp Shutdowns
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18 Days that Shook the World
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Graphic: TIME's Person of the Year, from 1927 to 2011
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