'Time' magazine's Person of the Year covers

US President-elect Donald Trump is the Person of the Year for Time magazine.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is featured on the cover of Time magazine. Merkel, who has ushered Europe through the continent's debt and migration crises, was named Time's 2015 Person of the Year.

This image provided by Time Magazine, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, announces the Ebola fighters as its Person of The Year for 2014. The title, according to the magazine, goes to an individual or group who has had the biggest impact on the news over the course of the previous year. The issue carries five covers, and here, shows Dr. Jerry Brown, the Liberian surgeon who turned his hospital's chapel into the country's first Ebola treatment center. (AP Photo/Time Magazine) ORG XMIT: NYR101

epa03986901 A handout image made available by Time Magazine on 11 December 2013 shows the 23 December 2013 Time Magazine cover image illustrating Time Magazine's Person of the Year, Pope Francis. Pope Francis is Time's 'Person of the Year,' the magazine said 11 December, describing him as the most influential figure of 2013. EPA/TIME MAGAZINE / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES/NO ARCHIVES ORG XMIT: MCX02

In this image released Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 in New York by Time Inc., President Barack Obama is Time Magazine's Person of the Year. The selection was announced Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show. The short list for the honor included Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head for advocating for girls' education. It also included Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Italian physicist Fabiola Giannati. Obama also received the honor in 2008, when he was President-elect. Last year, "The Protester" got the honor. (AP Photo/Time Magazine) ORG XMIT: NYR201

ORG XMIT: NYR101 This image released by Time Magazine shows the Person of the Year issue featuring "The Protester." The magazine on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 cited dissent across the Middle East that has spread to Europe and the United States, and says these protesters are reshaping global politics. (AP Photo/Time Magazine)

ORG XMIT: PRN14 TIME Names Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg 2010 TIME Person of the Year. (PRNewsFoto/TIME Magazine)

This photo released by Time Magazine Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 in New York, shows Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2009. (AP Photo/Time Magazine) ORG XMIT: NYR101

This image, supplied by Time magazine, shows Russian President Vladimir Putin on the cover after being named Time magazine's 2007 "Person of the Year," on Wednesday, Dec. 19,2007.(AP Photo/Time) ORG XMIT: NY112

** CORRECTS CAPTION TO REMOVE INCORRECT PHOTOGRAPHER CREDIT IN SIGNOFF, AND TO CLARIFY THAT THIS IS THE COVER OF THE PERSON OF THE YEAR ISSUE ** The cover of Time Magazine's Dec. 25, 2006 "Person of the Year" issue, shown in this image released by Time, Inc., in New York, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006, proclaims that "You" are Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." Time, citing the shift from institutions to individuals as part of the criteria for selecting their "Person of the Year," has named anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web as their 2006 winner. (AP Photo/Time, Inc.) **NO SALES** ORG XMIT: NYR104

In this handout photo provided by TIME Magazine, the annual Persons of the Year Issue featuring Bill Gates, left, U2 rocker Bono, and Melinda Gates, right, is shown. The Dec. 26, 2005 issue, which goes on sale, Monday, Dec. 19, honors the trio for their outstanding humanitarian efforts. (AP Photo/Courtesy of TIME Magazine) ORG XMIT: NY110

** EMBARGOED UNTIL 8 AM EDT, SUNDAY DEC. 19, 2004 ** In this photo released by Time Magazine on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004, Time Magazine's 2004 Person of the Year cover illustration of President Bush is shown. (AP Photo/Time Magazine) ORG XMIT: NY107

** ADDS MANDATORY CREDIT ** Time Magazine's cover for the Dec. 29- Jan. 5 issue shows three American military personnel representing the "Anonymous American Soldier" chosen by Time to be the magazine's 2003 Person of the Year. The American soldier, who bears the duty of ``living with and dying for a country's most fateful decisions,'' was named Sunday, Dec. 21, 2003 as Time's Person of the Year. The magazine's editors chose the nameless soldier to represent the 1.4 million men and women who make up theU.S. military, which led the invasion of Iraq nine months ago and scored big this month with the capture of deposed leader Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/James Nachtwey for Time) MANDATORY CREDIT: JAMES NACHTWEY FOR TIME ORG XMIT: NY107

This picture released 22 December, 2002 by Time Magazine shows Cynthia Cooper of Wordcom (L), Coleen Rowley of the FBI (C) and Sherron Watkins of Enron who have been named Persons of the Year by the magazine. According to Time, "they took huge professional and personal risks to blow the whistle on what went wrong at WorldCom, Enron and the FBI-and in so doing helped remind us what American courage and American values are all about." AFP PHOTO/TIME/GREGORY HEISLER ORG XMIT: DCA01

New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in this cover picture released on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2001. The magazine's editors chose Giuliani "for having more faith in us than we had in ourselves, for being brave when required and rude where appropriate and tender without being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shrinking from the pain all around him." (AP Photo/TIME, Inc.) ORG XMIT: NYR101

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc., appears on the cover of the December 1999, issue of Time magazine as the magazine's "Person of the Year" for 1999. "There were two great themes of the year, online shopping and dot-com mania, and the minute we thought of Bezos it was obvious that he embodied both" the magazine wrote. (courtesy of TIME Magazine via newsmakers) ORG XMIT: NM

Intel Chairman Andrew Grove, whose innovative use of microchip technology helped change the world, was named Saturday, Dec. 20, 1997, as Time magazine's ``Man of the Year.'' Grove, a Holocaust survivor who arrived in America a penniless refugee in 1956, earned the 71st annual honor for his work as chairman and CEO of Intel Corp. His company produces nearly 90 percent of the planet's personal computer microprocessors. (AP Photo/Time) ORG XMIT: NY111

EDS: EMBARGOED FOR 4:30 P.M. EST--AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho is seen in the Dec. 30, 1996 issue of Time magazine. Ho, who has pioneered a treatment for HIV infection that promises to beat back the deadly disease, is Time's 1996 Man of the Year. (AP Photo/Gregory Heisler/Time) ORG XMIT: NY133

House Speaker Newt Gingrich occupies the cover of Time Magazine Sunday, Dec. 17, 1995, as the magazine's Man of the Year. "Gingrich is our 1995 Man of the Year because his rise and partial fall were emblematic of an historic shift in Washington which will be felt for generations to come." the magazine wrote. The Republican leader is shown during a photo session last week in Washington. (AP Photo/Time Magazine, Gregory Heisler) ORG XMIT: NY135