TIME magazine 'Person of the Year' recipients through the years

Christina Gregg
Updated

TIME magazine unveiled their Person of the Year for 2017 on Wednesday, naming "The Silence Breakers" as the group receiving the cover-worthy title.

TIME has been granting the annual honor to recipients since 1927 when Charles Lindbergh was given the award. Since then, high-profile men and women have been named as a calendar year's most notable person -- but general groups have also been named by the publication as well.

"The Good Samaritans,""The Middle Americans,""Ebola fighters,""The Whistleblowers" -- each of these groups has been named "Person of the Year" in the past as an attempt to raise the profile of a general storyline that captured global attention in a given year.

Click through for a full look back at TIME's Person of the Year recipients:

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