Persons of the Decade.

[JohnFKennedy]

To prove my point, I invite you to watch this.  It's part of Schama's A History of Britain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ0O8NAVzTo

I wouldn't really cite Schama to prop up a point on twentieth-century history, but then again I don't think I'd every really cite Schama except to argue with him.

I'll give the topic some thought, the only one I am certain of at the moment is Keynes for the 1930s.

[dead0man]

1900's-Teddy
1910's- Georges Clemenceau
1920's-Al Capone
1930's-Hitler
1940's-Stalin
1950's-Krushchev
1960's-LBJ
1970's-Nixon
1980's-Gorbachev
1990's-Bill Gates
2000's-Osama bin Laden

[Erc]

1900's: T. Roosevelt
1910's: Lenin
1920's: Ataturk
1930's: Hitler
1940's: Stalin
1950's: Mao
1960's: de Gaulle
1970's: Khomeini (a bit late for the decade, but whatever)
1980's: Reagan
1990's: Bill Gates (?)
2000's: Putin

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Roughly..

1900s: Five Way between Einstein, Freud, Marconi and the Wright Brothers. I think I was going to throw Nelson Rockefeller and Thomas Edison in as well, but he would be more 1880s-90s. Probably the toughest.
1910s: Vladimir Illich Lenin (The only one of which I'm sure of)
1920s: Henry Ford, Edward Bernays, Walter Gropius.. Another toughie.
1930s: Joseph Goebbels, John Maynard Keynes
1940s: Robert Oppenheimer
1950s: Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, Crick & Watson
1960s: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. (This is also very hard)
1970s:
1980s: Milton Friedman
1990s: Tim Berners Lee
2000s: Osama Bin Laden (Will probably change once the long lasting fashions separate from the fads and a clear historical perspective begins to emerge.)

I'm stuck on the 70s (and I really don't want to pick Nixon or Kissinger, though I have no US president in there and if I was pick one it would probably be Nixon - or Wilson but Lenin is already taken.).. I'm trying to think of cultural stuff, but that was never embodied by one person (where to begin would be another problem.. the 70s was a bonzanza of cultural icons but not one 'big one') , don't know lots about the science of this period.. Other problems aswell. And yes I know I didn't pick Hitler or Stalin I must be the only one.

[The Mikado]

Glad to see I'm not the only one sticking up for John Manyard Keynes.

[Orser67]

00's:  Wilhelm II  (navy buildup in this decade precipitated war in the next)
10's:  Lenin  (changed a country's and a continent's future)
20's:  Yat-Sen  (may have prevented fragmentation of China, laid groundwork for Communists) 
30's:  Hitler  (no explanation needed)
40's:  FDR  (helped get America into the war, and managed the war effort well)
50's:  Nehru  (led India into becoming a unified non-aligned, democratic socialist country)
60's:  Mao  (Set China back for years with failed programs, split with USSR)
70's:  Nixon (Vietnam and a lot of little things, plus weak competitors)
80's:  Gorbachev  (no story bigger than the attempted reform and demise of the USSR on his watch)
90's:  Mandela  (showed how a revolution should be done, gave freedom to millions)
00's:  Bush  (I can't wait for the backlash against his policies)

[Јas]

Atlas Persons of the Decade Results

1900s: Albert Einstein, Theodore Roosevelt & the Wright Brothers [33% each]
1910s: Vladamir Ilich Lenin [40%]
1920s: Henry Ford [33%]
1930s: Adolf Hitler [61%]
1940s: Josef Stalin [48%]
1950s: Francis Crick & James Watson [25%]
1960s: Martin Luther King Jr. [24%]
1970s: Richard Nixon [37%]
1980s: Mikhail Gorbachev & Ronald Reagan [38.5% each]
1990s: Bill Gates [39.1%]
2000s: George W. Bush [66.7%]

[DownWithTheLeft]

With 2000s remaining, I vote for the guys who started YouTube (idk their names)

[Wakie]

I think to be person of the decade you really should have to do something that had dramatic impact that no one else would have been able to do.  I'm always shocked to see Hitler get votes.  He just happened to be the right psycho in the right place.  If it hadn't been him it would have been another Nazi psychopath.

[Хahar 🤔]

With 2000s remaining, I vote for the guys who started YouTube (idk their names)

No nominations for that, so too bad.

[Јas]

Atlas Persons of the Decade Results

1900s: Albert Einstein, Theodore Roosevelt & the Wright Brothers [33% each]
1910s: Vladamir Ilich Lenin [40%]
1920s: Henry Ford [33%]
1930s: Adolf Hitler [61%]
1940s: Josef Stalin [48%]
1950s: Francis Crick & James Watson [25%]
1960s: Martin Luther King Jr. [24%]
1970s: Richard Nixon [37%]
1980s: Mikhail Gorbachev & Ronald Reagan [38.5% each]
1990s: Bill Gates [39.1%]
2000s: George W. Bush [66.7%]

All done!

I agree with the first half of the list more than the latter half, which seems too Amero-centric (10 Americans overall, incl. 4 Presidents) which I suppose though is to be expected here.

A heavy focus on political leaders (again, I suppose to be expected here) rather than scientists, economists, philosophers or other thinkers.

[UpcomingYouthvoter]

1900s: Albert Einstein, Theodore Roosevelt, John D Rockefeller and Wright Brothers

1910s: Vladamir Lenin

1920s: Al Capone and Henry Ford

1930s: Adolf Hitler and  FDR

1940s:   Adolf Hitler, FDR, Joseph Stalin and Churchill 

1950s: Francis Crick & James Watson, Joe McCarthy, Ike, Khrushchev, and Elvis
 
1960s: Hippies, Beatles, Apollo 11 crew( Neil Armstrong,Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin)  Martin Luther King Jr. and the entire civil right movement, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson and Mao Zedong

1970s: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Ruhollah Khomeini, Anwar Sadat, Pinochet and disco

1980s: Mikhail Gorbachev, Milton Friedman, Michael Jackson, Margaret Thacher, Deng Xiaoping and  Ronald Reagan

1990s: Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, the internet and Nelson Mandela 

2000s: Bush 43, Osama Bib Laden, Myspace/Facebook, Itunes and Barack Obama

[Phony Moderate]

1900's - Theodore Roosevelt
1910's - Vladamir Lenin
1920's - Henry Ford
1930's - Adolf Hitler
1940's - Winston Churchill
1950's - Joesph McCarthy
1960's - Martin Luther King
1970's - Richard Nixon
1980's - Mikhail Gorbachev
1990's - Nelson Mandela
2000's - George W. Bush

[allnjhaugh]

1900-1910: JP Morgan
1910-1920: Henry Ford
1920-1930: Albert Einstein
1930-1940: Adolf Hitler vs. FDR
1940-1950: Mao Zedong
1950-1960: Douglas MacArthur
1960-1970: JFK vs. The Beatles
1970-1980: Richard Nixon
1980-1990: Reagan/ Gorbachev
1990-2000: Tim Berners-Lee
2000-2010: George Bush vs. Steve Jobs
2010-2020: John Boehner (For the moment)

This list is terrible.