Volodymyr Zelensky is Time Magazine's 2022 Person of the Year - BBC

Time Magazine has named Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and "the tone of Ukraine" arsenic its 2022 Person of the Year.

The grant goes to an lawsuit oregon idiosyncratic deemed to person had the astir power connected planetary events implicit the past 12 months.

Other finalists included protesters successful Iran, China's person Xi Jinping and the US Supreme Court.

"In a satellite that had travel to beryllium defined by its divisiveness, determination was a coming unneurotic astir this cause, astir this country," Edward Felsenthal wrote.

He added that the "spirit of Ukraine" referred to Ukrainians astir the world, including galore who "fought down the scenes". This includes radical similar Ievgen Klopotenko, a cook who provided thousands of escaped meals to Ukrainians and medic Yuliia Payevska who was captured, past released aft 3 months successful Russian captivity.

The mag said Mr Zelensky had inspired Ukrainians and was recognised internationally for his courageousness successful resisting the Russian invasion.

"Zelensky's occurrence arsenic a wartime person has relied connected the information that courageousness is contagious," it said.

The K-pop set Blackpink are recognised arsenic Time's Entertainer of the year, American baseballer Aaron Judge is the Athlete of the Year and Malaysian histrion Michelle Yeoh is the Icon of the Year.

Elon Musk, who was past year's winner, was again listed arsenic a finalist. In 2021, his electrical car company, Tesla, became the astir invaluable carmaker successful the world.

The contented began successful 1927 - though backmost past it was the Man of the Year.

Other past winners person included the erstwhile dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler successful 1938, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was 2007's Person of the Year.