Only three of their kind have received this year-ending honour: the first in 1962, the second in 1994, and the third in 2013.
The last one, in doing so, was picked over an unlikely whistleblower, an unlikely activist, and a couple of extreme politicians.
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Pope Francis was picked as Time Magazine's Person of the Year; in doing so, he joined Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. Here's
the Time magazine story, and
CNN on the other contenders.