<P> In 1949 , Winston Churchill was named `` Man of the Half - Century '' , and the last issue of 1989 named Mikhail Gorbachev as `` Man of the Decade '' . The December 31 , 1999 issue of Time named Albert Einstein the `` Person of the Century '' . Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi were chosen as runners - up . </P>
who has been designated as the man of the decade by the time magazine
Mikhail Gorbachev