TIME Announces 2016 Person of the Year Shortlist

[-:Undertaker:-]

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TIME Announces 2016 Person of the Year Shortlist

Meet the 11 finalists

The shortlist of candidates for the 2016 Person of the Year—TIME’s annual selection of the person who most influenced the news, for better or for worse—was revealed Monday morning on NBC’s Today.

In alphabetical order, the 11 candidates chosen by TIME magazine’s editors are:

Simone Biles

Making her Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro, the talented 19-year-old gymnast earned four gold medals and one bronze, leading her “Final Five” team to victory and affirming her status as the best in the world.

Hillary Clinton

The former First Lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State became the first woman to receive the U.S. presidential nomination of a major political party, going on to lose the election but win the popular vote—the culmination of a hard-fought, divisive presidential race.

CRISPR Scientists

These scientists have developed a groundbreaking new technology that can edit DNA, a technique that has the potential to transform science and the human experience, as it could be used to find and remove mutations responsible for incurable diseases.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

After an attempted military coup failed in July, the Turkish president has tightened control over the country, arresting political opponents, firing thousands of state employees and shutting down news organizations.

Nigel Farage

As head of the U.K. Independence Party, Farage was a face of the successful campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, positioning the referendum as the start of a global populist wave against the political establishment.

The Flint Whistleblowers

Local residents, along with civil-engineering professor Marc Edwards and local pediatrician Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, blew the whistle on the lead-poisoned water in Flint, Mich., drawing national attention to an environmental crisis that still has yet to be fully resolved.

Beyoncé Knowles

With a headline-worthy Super Bowl halftime performance, a world tour and a powerful second visual album, Lemonade, Beyoncé continued to surprise and provoke a global audience, using her platform to speak out about racial injustice, police violence and feminism.

Narendra Modi

At the head of a powerful government, the Indian Prime Minister has guided his country’s economy into position as the “emerging-market world’s most positive story.” Late in the year, however, he also stoked concern when he unexpectedly banned 500- and 1,000-rupee bills—a move that aimed to curb untaxed wealth but now threatens to slow the country’s economic growth.

Vladimir Putin

The Russian president made headlines this year with his country’s intervention in Syria and evidence showing that Russian operatives were responsible for the hack of Democratic National Committee servers.

Donald Trump

After campaigning as an anti-establishment, populist candidate, Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States—a stunning end to a presidential bid that repeatedly broke with political precedent.

Mark Zuckerberg

In the year that Facebook surpassed the 1 billion mobile daily users mark, the social-media titan has an unprecedented global reach. The CEO has also faced pressure to take responsibility for the site’s role in spreading fake or misleading news, amid criticism that those stories influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.

The 2016 Person of the Year will be unveiled on Today on Wednesday morning, when the news will also be shared on Time.com.

I voted in early stages so not sure how it is decided now.

It's got to be Nigel. Easy.

wbu

[dbgtz]

Pretty sure at least half of those nominations exist simply as some kind of click bait.

[scottish]

Pretty sure at least half of those nominations exist simply as some kind of click bait.

Yeah I just assumed most of these entries were trolling..

Trump.. Farage.. Putin..

[-:Undertaker:-]

Yeah I just assumed most of these entries were trolling..

Trump.. Farage.. Putin..

Isn't that just you continuing to make the false assumption that everybody agrees with your view?

Trolling would surely be Clinton, Cameron and Alex Salmond. All of them/their causes rejected in the past couple of years.

[David]

Isn't that just you continuing to make the false assumption that everybody agrees with your view?

same as you thinking nigel farage is going to get it?

[-:Undertaker:-]

same as you thinking nigel farage is going to get it?

what

we're talking about nominations hun

[Cerys]

Putin bae < 3


I spose you don't have to be good and beneficial to win person of the year so

[David]

what

we're talking about nominations hun

no we're talking about false assumptions, hun

[-:Undertaker:-]

no we're talking about false assumptions, hun

are you for real. like can't you follow the context of a convo

we're talking about who's nominated and it seems people like scott and yourself seem to have a hard time understanding that whilst you may not like trump, farage, putin or modi whatever - an awful lot of people do like them or that they've had a big impact on the world in 2016 for good or bad, so simply saying "lols trolling" is pretty close-minded. that's why they're on the list sweetie.

IE a lot of people like Putin - myself included - because of his actions in Syria. you can disagree but at least understand there's broad and dissenting opinion from what you read on the social media bubble and on the BBC rolling stock at the bottom of the screen.

nothing to do with assuming the eventual winner because i don't have a **** clue who'll win

[David]

who said i didn't like trump or putin

sounds like an assumption x