TIME 100 -- Nominations

The Person of the Century Nominations

Leading up to the TIME is asking a select group to tell us whom they would pick for person of the century. Click on their names at right to see more nominations.

NOMINEE: Mohandas Gandhi
NOMINATED BY:Steve Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer Inc.

Mohandas Gandhi is my choice for Person of the Century because he showed us a way out of the destructive side of our human nature. He demonstrated that we can force change and justice through moral acts of aggression instead of physical acts of aggression. Never has our species needed this wisdom more. -- Steve Jobs

Read the TIME 100 profile of Mohandas Gandhi

Helping TIME Decide

Boris Yeltsin
President of Russia

Donna E. Shalala
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

George W. Bush
Governor of Texas

John McCain
U.S. Senator from Arizona

Al Gore
Vice President of the U.S.

Kofi A. Annan
Secretary-General, U.N.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
founder and president, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Tom Wolfe
author

John Keegan
historian

Henry A. Kissinger
former U.S. Secretary of State

Jacques Chirac
President of France

Bob Dole
Former U.S. Senator

Keizo Obuchi
Prime Minister, Japan

Condoleezza Rice
Provost, Stanford University

Andy Grove
Chairman of Intel

Gerald R. Ford
Former President of the U.S.

Richard Holbrooke
U.S. Ambassador-designate to the United Nations

Steve Jobs
Co-founder, Apple Computer

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Chair of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University

Benjamin Netanyahu
Former Prime Minister of Israel