People (originally called People Weekly) is a weekly American Magazine of Celebrity and Human-interest Stories, published by Time Inc.and with a readership of 46.6 million adults, People has the largest audience of any American magazine.

• People's website, People.com, focuses exclusively on celebrity news

• People is perhaps best known for its yearly special issues naming -

                                                              Most Beautiful People

                                 The Best Dressed

 

                                                                 The Sexiest Man Alive

• The annual feature the "Sexiest Man Alive" is billed as a benchmark of male attractiveness and typically includes only famous people and celebrities.

• As of 2012,John F Kennedy Jr in 1999 and Patrick Swayze(won the award in 1991) in 2009 are the only winners to have died since winning. 

• John F. Kennedy, Jr. was the only Non-Actor to win the award in 1988

• Sean Connery at the age of 59 in 1989 was the Oldest Person to win the award,first Scottish winner and first to have portrayed as James Bond

• Richard Gere was the first two-time winner(won in 1993 along with Cindy Crawford as Sexiest Couple and in1999 as solo-winner)

• Brad Pitt was the first two-time solo-winner(won in 1995 and 2000)

• Jude Law was the first English winner when he won the award in 2004

• George Clooney has won the award twice(in 1997 and 2006)

• Johnny Depp has won the award twice(in 2003 and 2009)

People Magazine's 10 'Sexiest Men Alive' in 2012 

 

1)Channing Tatum(DOB April 26,1980) has been named the sexiest man alive by People magazine

 

2)Blake Shelton is a 3-time Grammy-nominated American country singer-songwriter
3)Chris Hemsworth is best known for portraying Thor in the Marvel Studios films Thor (2011) and Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
4)Max Greenfield is an American actor best known for his roles on Veronica Mars as Leo D'Amato
5)Ben Affleck
6)Richard Gere
7)Matt Bomer is an American film, stage and television actor, best known as the star of the series White Collar
8)Oscar Pistorius, a South African runner, became the first double-amputee sprinter to compete at the 2012 London Olympics
9)Denzel Washington
10)Damian Lewis