Person of the Decade

[OSR stands with Israel]

I would give it to Jeff Bezos as he is the face of this new tech and e commerce age , slightly over Zuckerburg .


For prior decades I would say this:

1930s: FDR
1940s: Churchill(I could give it to FDR for both decades though)
1950s: Probably Some leader of a Decolonization Movement
1960s: MLK
1970s: Literally no Idea
1980s: Ronald Reagan
1990s: Bill Gates
2000s: George W Bush

[Progressive Pessimist]

Sadly, it almost has to be Trump.

[Suburbia]

Barack Obama. First black president.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Sadly, it almost has to be Trump.

I would say, Bezos has had more impact than any politician this decade. Its either Bezos or Zuckerburg in my opinion for this contest

[HillGoose]

Juice WRLD

[The sturm und drang years]

Barack Obama. First black president.

This, obviously. The significance of Obama's presidency cannot be overstated. Anyone saying Trump is suffering from recency bias, and I shouldn't have to explain why it's not Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerburg.

[7,052,770]

Zuckerberg, as Facebook changed the world more than anything else. You could say that it got its start in 2004ish, but I think it was really this decade that it became a world changer.

Obama would be a good answer for like 2007-2016, but not 2010-2019 so much.

[Robert California]

These are based on importance, not on how much I like the person in question.

1910s: Gavrilo Princip or Kaiser Wilhelm. Distant runners up might include Vladimir Lenin and Woodrow Wilson.
1920s: Genuinely don't know, so I'll throw Vladimir Lenin in there again, as he began the decade trying to build and stabilize the first socialist state.
1930s: Adolf Hitler. I think this is self-explanatory. Stalin perhaps in second.
1940s: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as his foreign policy actions had much more important global reverberations than his domestic policy. Unlike other titans of the decade, Hitler and Stalin, Roosevelt's decisions were perhaps singularly responsible for the fate of East Asia in a way no other individual could have been.
1950s: In keeping with OSR's remark about it possibly being a leader from outside Europe & North America, I think possibilities would have to include Mao Zedong, Nasser, and Nehru.
1960s: King is an important answer for the United States, but I don't know whether or how he is emulated throughout the rest of the world. With that in mind, I will make a novel choice: Ho Chi Minh, and, with him, the Viet Cong. America's fight against communists in Vietnam rocked the globe in that New Left movements throughout the industrialized world looked to them either as objects of sympathy or as models. This became the age of New Left terrorism and fueled radical student movements. In the Third World, meanwhile, the Viet Cong heralded the potential of guerrilla warfare.
1970s: Being an American and a lover of Cold War history, Nixon and Brezhnev are the only names that spring readily to mind. If we may select organizations, I would choose OPEC.
1980s: Both major Cold War enders might have reason to be brought up here, but in the interest of fairness I feel I must grant this to Mikhail Gorbachev, rather than his American counterpart, though I feel Reagan is probably a good chance for second place. Part of me wants to throw John Paul II in there, but I can't speak with any historic authority on that.
1990s: I'll take the coward's way out and echo OSR's choice of Bill Gates. In many ways, this is important, in that it is the first non-political selection, a real change of pace from the Cold War.
2000s: Who else but Osama bin Laden? He was the face of the biggest terror attack in US history, a historic use of airplanes that had never before been contemplated. This drew the US into two seemingly ceaseless wars and undermined the world's first sole hegemon abroad and at home.
2010s: Tech giants like Bezos and Zuckerberg are worthy of consideration. Given the recency effect, I am genuinely undecided, but have a feeling that the current President will come to have a defining role in how we think of the 2010s, though I can't speak to his overall influence on the course of events.

Overall, this list is biased towards politics and as such includes several heads of state (FDR)/insurgent-terrorist leaders (Osama) or both (Lenin, Mao, Ho).

[Progressive Pessimist]

Sadly, it almost has to be Trump.

I would say, Bezos has had more impact than any politician this decade. Its either Bezos or Zuckerburg in my opinion for this contest

There is definitely a case that can be made for Zuckerberg. I might change my vote to him. Whether it's him or Trump though, the Person of the Decade is basically a super-villain.

Bezos meanwhile never really seemed relevant until the last five years or so. That's why I wouldn't choose him.

[OSR stands with Israel]

If I had to do Quarter of a Century this is what I would go with


1901-1925: Vladimir Lenin
1926-1950: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1950-1975: Ho Chi Minh
1976-2000: Ronald Reagan
2001-Present: George W Bush(This is probably a runaway while the rest have some competition)

[Morgan Kingsley]

Barack Obama. First black president.

But his inauguration was last decade

[Blue3]

If we're doing US Politics: Mitch McConnell
If we're doing the world in general: probably Bezos or Putin

[Leinad]

Sadly, it almost has to be Trump.

I would say, Bezos has had more impact than any politician this decade. Its either Bezos or Zuckerburg in my opinion for this contest

There is definitely a case that can be made for Zuckerberg. I might change my vote to him. Whether it's him or Trump though, the Person of the Decade is basically a super-villain.

Bezos meanwhile never really seemed relevant until the last five years or so. That's why I wouldn't choose him.

I mean Trump also increased in relevancy quite a bit in that period.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Sadly, it almost has to be Trump.

I would say, Bezos has had more impact than any politician this decade. Its either Bezos or Zuckerburg in my opinion for this contest

There is definitely a case that can be made for Zuckerberg. I might change my vote to him. Whether it's him or Trump though, the Person of the Decade is basically a super-villain.

Bezos meanwhile never really seemed relevant until the last five years or so. That's why I wouldn't choose him.

I mean Trump also increased in relevancy quite a bit in that period.

He was still relevant early in the decade though, especially with the Brither s***, which was his warm-up to being President the whole time.

[OSR stands with Israel]

2000s: Obama
Runner-up: Zuckerberg

2010s: Trump
Runner-up: Bezos

This is the correct answer.

Lol at 2000s being Obama, as Bush easily just easily had more impact on that decade then Obama. Heck even the 2010s , the events that have happened were shaped or a reaction to things that happened in the Bush years including Trump.

[brucejoel99]

Honestly, a real out-of-the-box write-in: Elon Musk.

At the start of 2010, he was just recovering with Tesla from the 2008 stock market crash, & SpaceX had just managed to revive their funding for cargo missions to the ISS. And look at him now, at the end of the decade: introducing the Cybertruck, Tesla actually starting to make a profit, & SpaceX being the dream which becoming a multiplanetary species is starting to be based around. Elon certainly isn't a hero or anything, but he's clearly the visionary of our time.