Can you name the people who have been Time Magazine's Person of the Year for every letter in the alphabet?

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Letter	Person of the Year
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
J
K
L
M

Letter	Person of the Year
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
W
X
Y
Z

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Time Person of the Year per Letter Quiz

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Created Mar 28, 2011 in History
Featured Apr 15, 2011
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	midnightdj:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 16:22 GMT		10 points
	WOW! Good tough quiz. Maybe say when the Time Person of the Year started to gauge how far back to consider...

	pika:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 16:24 GMT		29 points
	I hope you know that for X, Deng is his last name and Xiaopeng is his first name

	kristifree:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 16:30 GMT		2 points
	Out of all of the historically relevant people I DID get, I missed Obama. Going to hide in a corner now.

	isildur:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 16:38 GMT		7 points
	I tried Deng but got no credit :(

	tateofkumquat:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 16:40 GMT		15 points
	Deng Xiaopeng should be changed. His surname is Deng. Unless, of course, you want to put Mark Zuckerberg in the M's....

	rockgolf:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 16:44 GMT		18 points
	This would have worked better if it went with the individuals shown on the cover, rather than the generic and sometimes arbitrary names assigned. For example, the American Scientists of 1960, including Linus Pauling, Edward Teller & James van Allen, the actual astronauts on Apollo 8: Lovell (also of Apollo 13), Borman & Anders, the representative American women of 1975, including Betty Ford and Billie Jean King. Also Arafat, Rabin, Mandela & deKlerk instead of "The Peacemakers", and Bill & Melinda Gates and Bono instead of "Good Samaritans". Heck, even the 3 long-forgotten whistleblowers.

	kcostell:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 17:20 GMT		15 points
	Every president since FDR has been a Man of the Year, except one. Poor Gerald Ford.

	Hejman:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 17:23 GMT		12 points
	Hmm... the two letters I didn't get were F and U. I probably shouldn't take that personally.

	iskandar:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 17:53 GMT		4 points
	The same mix-up on Chinese naming convention goes for Song Meiling, or Soong May-Ling if you please. Regardless, she should be under S, not M.

	agstilp:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 18:06 GMT		0 points
	Whither Ben Bernanke?

	Kicking222:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 18:06 GMT		6 points
	I couldn't agree more with rockgolf- it's ridiculous to only have grouped names, especially for the Gates/Bono example. Also, why do we need ten minutes for 23 answers? The quiz for naming EVERY "Time" Person of the Year (http://www.sporcle.com/games/timepersonoty.php) only gives you ten minutes! Sorry, this idea isn't bad, but the execution is.

	sc00:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 19:34 GMT		3 points
	This was a fun quiz, but some of these problems should have been worked out before publishing. This has no source. I am sorry but "time.com" is not a real link to a source. Additionally, the fact that Deng and Soong were not caught before publishing is really sad.

	Edelweiss:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 20:01 GMT		3 points
	Neither Queen Elizabeth 2 nor Queen Elizabeth II nor Elizabeth 2 nor QE2 worked. I'm really surprised that this quiz was published.

	Swingo:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 20:32 GMT		1 point
	Also, it's spelled Deng Xiaoping. But, great quiz.

	lollerskates:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 20:51 GMT		2 points
	luther king =/= luther king jr. :-/

	YRUasking:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 21:22 GMT		3 points
	You gotta love the sour grapes involved that Luce made Soong Meiling person of the year and never made Mao the person of the year. Also how the hell did Nelson Mandela never make it?

	Dezotell:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 22:34 GMT		3 points
	this quiz could have the alternate title of name the US presidents of the last 75 years or so

	barnztormre:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 22:54 GMT		3 points
	For laughs I was going to buy a copy of the 2006 issue, autograph it, and put it on eBay as "Signed by the Man of the Year". Never did, would have been interested to see if it got a bid. :)

	leviper:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 01:11 GMT		1 point
	I know for a fact that I put MLKJ and Ben Bernanke as answers. Where the Hell are they?

	cheesetoasted:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 02:10 GMT		1 point
	@rockgolf: Thanks for the extra info. I was really puzzled as to why Nelson Mandela wasn't on here. Also, I was really pulling for Zookeepers, but no dice.

	cocky:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 03:02 GMT		6 points
	The system is reading Jr. as King's last name, so you need to put King as an alternate answer.

	deadperson21:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 05:46 GMT		3 points
	You should include the names of individuals. I really don't think there is any reason not to. I gave up when Gates and Bono didn't work.

	Tahnan:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 07:39 GMT		3 points
	Mandela did make it, YRUasking, he just made it under the collective name "The Peacemakers" (see rockgolf's comment above). After reading the comments, I have to agree that this is a good idea, poorly executed.

	scotttenorman:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 08:03 GMT		3 points
	"king" should work for mlk

	RonB:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 12:45 GMT		1 point
	Now I know why I read Newsweek all these years. All I got were the presidents and Ayatollah Khomeini!

	Q_Pheevr:	Apr 17th, 2011 at 02:21 GMT		7 points
	kcostell: Every president since FDR has been a Man of the Year, except one. It's also true that every president since FDR has been elected, except one. I happen to think Ford was a better man than, say, Nixon, but he wasn't quite as much of a newsmaker as any of the rest of the lot. Another note on the Chinese surnames issue: Chiang Kai-Shek gave me a K, when he should have been a C.

	Q_Pheevr:	Apr 17th, 2011 at 02:36 GMT		4 points
	Oh, and here's something odd: Deng Xiaoping was man of the year twice, and Time switched romanization systems somewhere in the interval. So the man of the year for 1986 was Deng Xaioping (who should, of course, show up under D), but the man of the year for 1979 was Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who should probably show up under T. The 1986 cover: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19860106,00.html The 1979 cover: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19790101,00.html And if you think it's a rare honour to be man of the year in two different years, how about this one: George H.W. Bush was actually two "men of the year" at the same time in 1991: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19910107,00.html (and no, that's not Bush père et fils, those are both GHWB).

	Q_Pheevr:	Apr 17th, 2011 at 02:53 GMT		10 points
	Sorry, one last thing. Can we at least have an honourable mention for Albert Einstein, who may not have made it to "man of the year," but who was named "person of the century" in 1999? http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19991231,00.html This is a really great idea for a quiz; unfortunately, it's also a very hard one to implement exactly right, what with all the different "x of the year" categories, singular and plural, the different surname conventions, the frustrating limitations of not being able to display all of the answers in some cases, and so on. This is a commendable effort, but I wish it had been edited a bit more before being published.

	backguy:	Apr 18th, 2011 at 06:21 GMT		3 points
	I'm surprised by the lack of Inanimate Carbon Rod.

	KirkMack:	Sep 27th, 2011 at 10:09 GMT		0 points
	Go Hitler

	bud_79:	Nov 25th, 2011 at 23:49 GMT		1 point
	some class acts in there: Hitler, Stalin, Khomeini and Bush

	JohnnyFlak:	Nov 30th, 2011 at 14:05 GMT		1 point
	i am surprised Xerxes never won

	mag721:	Dec 30th, 2011 at 17:52 GMT		2 points
	Is Gandhi not an accepted answer for Mohandas Ghandi?? Also, I agree with the Queen Elizabeth comment...needs a few more accepted answers. And, I swear I put Martin Luther King Jr. but it was not accepted...thankfully, I guessed Kennedy for a K! Otherwise, a nice quiz :D

	Avedeltrueno:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 17:33 GMT		1 point
	Nah, Ned Flanders was man of the century.

	staucody:	Jan 9th, 2013 at 21:28 GMT		1 point
	I guess I need to know what you are accepting for Martin Luther King, Jr., since I typed every iteration of his name I could think of.

	dlwickham:	Apr 21st, 2013 at 16:49 GMT		1 point
	I couldn't remember Nixon???