Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, made the TIME 100 this year. In September, TIME Magazine ran a cover story featuring e-cigarettes with the headline “The New American Addiction: How Juul Hooked Kids and Ignited a Public Health Crisis.” Adam Bowen and James Monsees founded Juul and made TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2018. The CEOs of Disney, Facebook, Amazon and Juul Also Made the List The question now seems less about what the royal family might do for Markle, than what she might do for them,” TIME wrote.Ĥ.
A significant variation, though, is that our heroine is a self-made career woman and an avowed feminist. “Like all fairy tales, this story has a familiar arc: the prince, the romance, a ride in a horse-drawn carriage. Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, was a runner up for the magazine’s honor in 2018. But she’s also a mother, an entrepreneur, an activist, a designer, a beauty icon, a philanthropist and a producer,” wrote actress Kerry Washington. “She’s the first Latina actor to earn over $1 million for a film and the first woman to have a No. Jennifer Lopez was named one of TIME Magazine’s Most Influential People in 2018.
Taylor Swift was part of the group recognized in 2017 for their roles in the #MeToo movement. “Keanu is the most wholesome person alive, make him the person of the year! Keanu has secretly donated millions of his earnings to children’s hospitals and other charities, and has done amazing things for people in public while ask for nothing in return,” the petition says. Keanu Reeves, who is best known for his roles in The Matrix, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and John Wick, has a petition with nearly 200,000 signatures. Politicians and World Leaders Dominated the List Including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, former Vice President Joe Biden, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Here’s what you need to know about TIME Magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year.ġ. The magazine named its first Man of the Year in 1927, honoring Charles Lindbergh for making the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean that year. TIME Magazine changed the name of the award from Man or Woman of the Year to Person of the Year in 1999. In 2017, the magazine honored those who spoke up in the #MeToo movement. In 2018, TIME Magazine honored several journalists they dubbed “The Guardians,” for “taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths, for the imperfect but essential quest for facts that are central to civil discourse, for speaking up and for speaking out.” They included Jamal Khashoggi, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Maria Ressa and the Capital Gazette newspaper staff in Annapolis, Maryland. Taylor Swift and Jennifer Lopez were on the list, along with Robert Mueller and Rudy Giuliani. The candidates came from the world of politics, entertainment, sports, business and groups that represent causes and people like climate change, Syrian Kurds and the Hong Kong protestors. is TIME's 2019 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY /SWALBfeGl6