Meet Time magazine's 2017 Person of the Year candidates
Time magazine has announced its shortlist for its 2017 Person of the Year, which will be revealed Wednesday.
Here are the 10 candidates for the honor, which, since 1927, has, according to the magazine, "recognized the person or group of people who most influences the news during the past year, for better of for worse."
(Descriptions via Time.com)
JEFF BEZOS
The CEO and founder of Amazon became the richest man in the world this year.
Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, is illuminated by a display screen at the introduction of the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite in Santa Monica, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
PATTY JENKINS
"Wonder Woman" director became the first woman to direct a film that made more than $100 million in its opening weekend.
Patty Jenkins, director of "Wonder Woman," strikes a pose at the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute to Diane Keaton, at Dolby Theatre on Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
COLIN KAEPERNICK
Former 49ers quarterback launched a national protest against racism and police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem.
Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers arrives at the 3rd annual NFL Honors at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision for NFL/AP Images)
KIM JONG UN
North Korean leader has renewed the threat of nuclear war in the minds of Americans.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at parade participants at the Kim Il Sung Square on Tuesday, May 10, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans celebrated the country's newly completed ruling-party congress with a massive civilian parade featuring floats bearing patriotic slogans and marchers with flags and pompoms. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
DONALD TRUMP
The President of the United States was Time's 2016 Person of the Year.
President Donald Trump is introduced to speak to U.S. military troops at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Saturday, May 27, 2017, in Sigonella, Italy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
ROBERT MUELLER
The special counsel is investigating potential involvement of the Trump campaign in Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller smiles as he speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, during his farewell ceremony. Mueller is stepping down in September after 12 years heading the agency. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
XI JINPING
The President of China was given a second five-year term this year, reinforcing his status as the country’s most powerful leader in decades.
China's President Xi Jinping shakes hands with other ministers at the opening ceremony of the fifth regular foreign ministers' meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Pool Photo via AP)
MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN
The 32-year-old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, the son of King Salman, recently led a crackdown on businessmen and members of the royal family accused of corruption — a purge seen by many as a move to consolidate power.
This May 30, 2017 file photo, shows Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman, in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia. Egypt faces high expectations from Saudi Arabia and its other Gulf Arab benefactors that it will have their back as tensions rise with their rival Iran. But Egypt clearly has no desire to be dragged into a military conflict and that reluctance could lead to frictions between Cairo and Riyadh. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool, File)
THE DREAMERS
The thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. by their parents when they were children face uncertain futures if the DACA program is ended.
FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2017 file photo, Loyola Marymount University student and dreamer Maria Carolina Gomez joins a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, outside the Edward Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit Monday, Sept. 11, against the Trump administration over its decision to end a program that protects young immigrants from deportation who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or by parents who overstayed visas. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)