Orest Starzec voted up Ancient Hippy's answer 12/10/2015 Time magazine's person of the year for 2015 is Angela Merkel, German chancellor. Runner-up is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIS. Third is Donald Trump, US embarrassment. How do YOU feel about those? What criteria are used for the selections? Time profiles a person, group, idea or object that "for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year".