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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: Winston Churchill
NOMINATED BY: John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona
Like all of us, Churchill had his flaws. But like few other men, he was a man discerning enough to recognize a cause bigger than himself and honorable enough to devote his life to it. He saved not just Britain but Western civilization itself. And in doing so, he earned for himself the tribute he paid to the fighters of the Royal Air Force in 1940: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." --John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona

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

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
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