Angela Merkel has been announced as TIME Magazine's Person Of The Year 2015 - but not everyone would necessarily have chosen her.
After last year's selection of Ebola fighters, this year's selection is a rather different choice.
The idea of the selection is that it is a person who has - for better or for worse - been highly influential over the events of the year.
Angela Merkel's decision to open Germany's borders to refugees was a huge milestone in the European crisis although it divided opinion
Germany took more refugees than any other European country, with some 80,000 expected to arrive there.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken a firm stance on migration - making it clear she feels it is her country's duty to help those genuinely claiming asylum from war-torn countries like Syria, and calling on Europe to step up and share responsibility for the huge number of people moving across the region.
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Angela Merkel(61) joins an eclectic list of former winners, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon.
Angela Merkel is only the 4th woman since 1927 to be named an individual winner outright and the first in 29 years.
The other individual women to win were Wallis Simpson (1936), Queen Elizabeth II (1952) and Corazon Aquino (1986)
Soong Mei-ling won jointly with her husband Chiang Kai-shek in 1937, three women won as Whistleblowers in 2002 and the award went generically to American Women in 1975.
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named runner-up and third place went to US presidential hopeful Donald Trump
After last year's selection of Ebola fighters, this year's selection is a rather different choice.
The idea of the selection is that it is a person who has - for better or for worse - been highly influential over the events of the year.
Germany took more refugees than any other European country, with some 80,000 expected to arrive there.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken a firm stance on migration - making it clear she feels it is her country's duty to help those genuinely claiming asylum from war-torn countries like Syria, and calling on Europe to step up and share responsibility for the huge number of people moving across the region.
Note
Angela Merkel(61) joins an eclectic list of former winners, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon.
Angela Merkel is only the 4th woman since 1927 to be named an individual winner outright and the first in 29 years.
The other individual women to win were Wallis Simpson (1936), Queen Elizabeth II (1952) and Corazon Aquino (1986)
Soong Mei-ling won jointly with her husband Chiang Kai-shek in 1937, three women won as Whistleblowers in 2002 and the award went generically to American Women in 1975.
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named runner-up and third place went to US presidential hopeful Donald Trump
Time Person of the Year 2015
- Angela Merkel - German chancellor since the 2005 election, leader of the CDU
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - head of the Islamic State militant group
- Donald Trump - business magnate seeking Republican nomination as US presidential candidate
- Black Lives Matter - activist group campaigning against violence towards black people, notably in the US
- Hassan Rouhani - president of Iran since 2013
- Travis Kalanick - US entrepreneur, founder of the Uber transportation network firm
- Caitlyn Jenner - born Bruce Jenner, became 1976 Olympic decathlon champion, officially changed name and gender in 2015
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