This year's title-holder was announce on Wednesday morning in New York
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel has been named the 2015 TIME magazine person of the year.
The prestigious title was announced both on TIME's website and NBC’s Today Show in New York on Wednesday.
The title is awarded to an individual who has influenced the year’s news for either positive or negative reasons and is decided by the editors of the influential magazine. Last year the title went to ebola fighters and the year before that, Pope Francis.
Merkel leads the way, coming before Isis leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in second place and Republican candidate Donald Trump in third.
Nancy Gibbs, the editor of TIME wrote that the Chancellor was awarded the title for "asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply".