List of covers of Time magazine (1970s)

This is a list of people appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1970s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading newsmagazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of a person's notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles about the person.

For other decades, see Lists of people on the cover of Time magazine.

1970

5 Jan – Middle Americans, Time Persons of the Year
12 Jan – The Band
19 Jan – Najeeb Halaby
26 Jan – Biafra: End of a Rebellion
2 Feb – Barry Commoner
9 Feb – The American Indian
16 Feb – Jane, Henry & Peter Fonda
23 Feb – Anita Caspary & James Shannon
2 Mar – Japan's Expo '70
9 Mar – Integration
16 Mar – Heroin Hits the Young
23 Mar – Inefficient America
30 Mar – U.S. Postal Strike
6 Apr – Jesse Jackson
13 Apr – Günter Grass
20 Apr – Richard Nixon
27 Apr – Astronauts Lovell, Haise & Swigert
4 May – Leonid Brezhnev
11 May – Cambodian Invasion
18 May – U.S. Student Protest
25 May – William Masters & Virginia Johnson
1 Jun – Arthur Burns
8 Jun – Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, John N. Mitchell, John Ehrlichman & H. R. Haldeman
15 Jun – Mike Nichols
22 Jun – Middle East Turmoil
29 Jun – Edward Heath
6 Jul – Fight over the Flag
13 Jul – Jerry Vernon Wilson
20 Jul – Henry Ford II
27 Jul – Alaska
3 Aug – Aged in America
10 Aug – William P. Rogers
17 Aug – Generation Gap
24 Aug – Howard Stein
31 Aug – Kate Millett
7 Sep – Elliott Gould
14 Sep – John Fairchild
21 Sep – Skyjacking
28 Sep – The Arab Guerillas
5 Oct – Richard Nixon
12 Oct – Gamal Abdel Nasser
19 Oct – Salvador Allende
26 Oct – Battle for the Senate
2 Nov – The Urban Guerillas
9 Nov – Blue Collar Power
16 Nov – Adlai Stevenson III, John V. Tunney, James L. Buckley & Bill Brock
23 Nov – Big Bird
30 Nov – Martha Mitchell
7 Dec – American POW's
14 Dec – U.S. Inflation
21 Dec – Elmo Zumwalt
28 Dec – The U.S. Family

1971

4 Jan – Willy Brandt, Time Person of the Year
11 Jan – Ali MacGraw
18 Jan – U.S. Prisons
25 Jan – Philip & Daniel Berrigan
1 Feb – Carl Albert
8 Feb – The Welfare Maze
15 Feb – Creighton Abrams
22 Feb – The Cooling of America
1 Mar – James Taylor
8 Mar – Joe Frazier & Muhammad Ali
15 Mar – Suburbia
22 Mar – George C. Scott
29 Mar – Konstantin Katushev, Kirill Mazurov, Leonid Brezhnev, Alexander Shelepin & Dmitry Polyansky
5 Apr – Aerospace Industry
12 Apr – William Calley
19 Apr – The New Genetics
26 Apr – Yanks in Peking
3 May – Alexis Smith
10 May – Akio Morita
17 May – Anwar Sadat
24 May – The Graduate, 1971
31 May – Jimmy Carter
7 Jun – Dick Cavett
14 Jun – Eddie Cox and Tricia Nixon
21 Jun – The Jesus Revolution
28 Jun – The Pentagon Papers
5 Jul – Daniel Ellsberg
12 Jul – Joe Colombo
19 Jul – Lee Trevino
26 Jul – Henry Kissinger & Richard Nixon
2 Aug – Pakistan Refugees
9 Aug – David Scott, James Irwin & Alfred Worden
16 Aug – George Shultz & Arthur Burns
23 Aug – Vida Blue
30 Aug – Richard Nixon
6 Sep – George Meany
13 Sep – Edmund Muskie
20 Sep – B. F. Skinner
27 Sep – Attica Prison Riots
4 Oct – Emperor Hirohito
11 Oct – The New Spy
18 Oct – John Connally
25 Oct – Jesus Christ Superstar
1 Nov – William Rehnquist & Lewis Powell, Jr.
8 Nov – Chou En-lai
15 Nov – Battle over Busing
22 Nov – Beverly Sills
29 Nov – Edward Kennedy
6 Dec – Indira Gandhi & Yahya Khan
13 Dec – Space Exploration
20 Dec – Birth of Bangladesh
27 Dec – The Good Samaritan (stained glass depiction by Leandro Velasco)

1972

3 Jan – Richard Nixon, Time Person of the Year
10 Jan – IRA Fighter
17 Jan – Roger Staubach & Bob Griese
24 Jan – Howard Hughes
31 Jan – Flip Wilson
7 Feb – Henry Kissinger
14 Feb – Robert Coles
21 Feb – Clifford Irving
28 Feb – Liza Minnelli
6 Mar – Nixon in China
13 Mar – Is the U.S. Going Broke?
20 Mar – The American Woman
27 Mar – George Wallace
3 Apr – Jack Anderson
10 Apr – What It Means to be Jewish
17 Apr – Viet Nam
24 Apr – Gang War
1 May – Richard Nixon
8 May – George McGovern
15 May – Vo Nguyen Giap
22 May – Haiphong Harbor
29 May – Leonid Brezhnev
5 Jun – Moscow Summit
12 Jun – Kemmons Wilson
19 Jun – The Occult Revival
26 Jun – Edwin Land
3 Jul – Woody Allen
10 Jul – Johnny Bench
17 Jul – Kenneth Elstein
24 Jul – George McGovern & Thomas Eagleton
31 Jul – Boris Spassky & Bobby Fischer
7 Aug – Thomas Eagleton
14 Aug – Sargent Shriver & George McGovern
21 Aug – Sex and the Teenager
28 Aug – Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew
4 Sep – Global War on Heroin
11 Sep – Mark Spitz
18 Sep – Murder at the Olympics
25 Sep – Redd Foxx, Bea Arthur & Carroll O'Connor
2 Oct – Richard Nixon & George McGovern
9 Oct – Pat Nixon & Eleanor McGovern
16 Oct – Joe Namath
23 Oct – Campaign Financing
30 Oct – Henry Kissinger
6 Nov – The Shape of Peace
13 Nov – Richard Bach
20 Nov – Richard Nixon
27 Nov – Ernest and Julio Gallo
4 Dec – Liv Ullmann
11 Dec – Don Shula
18 Dec – Nutrition
25 Dec – Skiing

1973

1 Jan – Henry Kissinger & Richard Nixon, Time Men of the Year
8 Jan – The Bombing Question
15 Jan – Crisis in Congress
22 Jan – Marlon Brando
29 Jan – Nixon's Second Term
5 Feb – Vietnam Cease-Fire
12 Feb – Ian Anderson, Roberta Flack, Harry Nilsson & Carole King
19 Feb – POW Families
26 Feb – George Shultz
5 Mar – Carlos Castaneda
12 Mar – Europe
19 Mar – Robert A. Good
26 Mar – L. Patrick Gray
2 Apr – Muammar Gaddafi
9 Apr – Food Prices
16 Apr – Sam Ervin
23 Apr – Pedro Arrupe
30 Apr – The Watergate Scandal
7 May – Georg Solti
14 May – Richard Nixon
21 May – John Mitchell
28 May – Watergate Revelations
4 Jun – Richard Nixon
11 Jun – Secretariat
18 Jun – The U.S. Economy
25 Jun – Leonid Brezhnev
2 Jul – John Dean
9 Jul – John Dean & Richard Nixon
16 Jul – Marilyn Monroe & Norman Mailer
23 Jul – John Mitchell
30 Jul – Richard Nixon & Sam Ervin
6 Aug – Constitutional Challenge
13 Aug – Wendell Anderson
20 Aug – Spiro Agnew & Richard Nixon
27 Aug – Nixon's Problems
3 Sep – Henry Kissinger
10 Sep – Bobby Riggs
17 Sep – Hamburger Empire
24 Sep – Salvador Allende
1 Oct – Spiro Agnew
8 Oct – Spiro Agnew
15 Oct – Middle East War
22 Oct – Gerald Ford
29 Oct – Archibald Cox & Richard Nixon
5 Nov – Richard Nixon
12 Nov – Nixon's Jury: The People
19 Nov – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
26 Nov – Peter Falk
3 Dec – The Big Freeze
10 Dec – Rose Mary Woods
17 Dec – Gerald & Betty Ford
24 Dec – The Child's World: Christmas 1973
31 Dec – The Big Car

1974

7 Jan – John Sirica, Man of the Year
14 Jan – Inside the Brain
21 Jan – William E. Simon
28 Jan – The Telltale Tape
4 Feb – Tip O'Neill
11 Feb – James Schlesinger
18 Feb – Exxon
25 Feb – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4 Mar – The Psychics
11 Mar – Leon Jaworski
18 Mar – Robert Redford & Mia Farrow in The Great Gatsby
25 Mar – James D. St. Clair
1 Apr – Henry Kissinger
8 Apr – World Inflation
15 Apr – Richard Nixon
22 Apr – Alcoholism
29 Apr – Patty Hearst
6 May – Merle Haggard
13 May – Richard Nixon
20 May – Nixon's Collapsing Presidency
27 May – Mid-East Massacres
3 Jun – Reggie Jackson
10 Jun – Henry Kissinger
17 Jun – Middle-Class Blacks
24 Jun – Richard Nixon & Anwar Sadat
1 Jul – Richard Nixon & Leonid Brezhnev
8 Jul – The Press: Fair or Foul
15 Jul – Leadership in America
22 Jul – Nixon & The Supreme Court
29 Jul – Republicans & Impeachment
5 Aug – Peter W. Rodino
12 Aug – Jack Nicholson
19 Aug – Gerald Ford
26 Aug – Gerald Ford
2 Sep – Nelson Rockefeller
9 Sep – The Economy
16 Sep – Richard Nixon
23 Sep – Gerald Ford
30 Sep – William Colby
7 Oct – Betty Ford, Joan Kennedy & Pat Nixon
14 Oct – Gerald Ford
21 Oct – Jerry Brown
28 Oct – Mary Tyler Moore & Valerie Harper
4 Nov – Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
11 Nov – Yasser Arafat
18 Nov – David L. Boren, Jerry Brown, Dale Bumpers, Hugh Carey, Michael Dukakis, John Glenn, Ella Grasso & Gary Hart
25 Nov – Peter Falk
2 Dec – Yitzhak Rabin
9 Dec – The Recession
16 Dec – Joni Mitchell
23 Dec – The American Pet
30 Dec – Biblical Magi

1975

6 Jan – Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Man of the Year
13 Jan – Dr. John Laragh
20 Jan – Gerald Ford
27 Jan – The Economy
3 Feb – Chou En-Lai
10 Feb – Rebates and Smaller Cars
17 Feb – Henry M. Jackson
24 Feb – Bernie Parent
3 Mar – The World Arms Trade
10 Mar – American Jews & Israel
17 Mar – Cher
24 Mar – Indochina
31 Mar – Vietnam
7 Apr – America & the World
14 Apr – Vietnam
21 Apr – Gerald Ford
28 Apr - Jimmy Connors
5 May - North Vietamese Victory
12 May - Ho Chi Minh
19 May - Mikhail Baryshnikov
26 May - Mayaguez Incident
2 Jun - Old Age: How to help our parents
9 Jun - Anwar Sadat
16 Jun - Margaux Hemingway
23 Jun - Scene from Jaws
30 Jun - Crime
7 Jul - Elton John
14 Jul - Adam Smith
21 Jul - U.S. & Soviet hands shaking
28 Jul - The Ford family in the White House
4 Aug - Gerald Ford & Leonid Brezhnev
11 Aug - Lisbon's Troika: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Vasco dos Santos Goncalves & Francisco da Costa Gomes
18 Aug - Charles O. Finley
25 Aug - Yitzhak Rabin, Henry Kissinger & Anwar Sadat
1 Sep - Earthquakes
8 Sep - Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich
15 Sep - Lynette Alice Fromme
22 Sep - Busing Battle
29 Sep - Patricia Hearst, alias Tania
6 Oct - Gerald Ford
13 Oct - The Maharishi
20 Oct - Abraham Beame
27 Oct - Bruce Springsteen
3 Nov - Juan Carlos
10 Nov - Sarah Caldwell
17 Nov - Donald Rumsfeld, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford & Henry Kissinger
24 Nov - Ronald Reagan
1 Dec - Bloomingdale's shoppers
8 Dec - L.C. Greenwood, Dwight White, Ernie Holmes & Joe Greene
15 Dec - Marisa Berenson
22 Dec - J. Edgar Hoover
29 Dec - Mother Teresa

1976

5 Jan – Alison Cheek, Billie Jean King, Carla Hills, Jill Ker Conway, Betty Ford, Susie Sharp, Barbara Jordan, Ella Grasso, Addie L. Wyatt, Susan Brownmiller, Carol Sutton & Kathleen Byerly (Women of the Year)
12 Jan - Susan Seaforth Hayes
19 Jan - Teng Hsiao-ping
26 Jan - Pat Moynihan
2 Feb – Dorothy Hamill
9 Feb – Doonesbury/Garry Trudeau
16 Feb - F. Lee Bailey & Patty Hearst
23 Feb - Lockheed Scandal
1 Mar – Gore Vidal
8 Mar – Jimmy Carter
15 Mar - Americans on the Move
22 Mar - Carol Gustafson
29 Mar - Dustin Hoffman & Robert Redford
5 Apr – The Porno Plague
12 Apr - The Mideast in Agony
19 Apr - Howard Hughes
26 Apr - Yankee Stadium & Babe Ruth
3 May – Queen Elizabeth II, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, King Juan Carlos, Princess Margrethe of Denmark, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands & Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
10 May - Jimmy Carter
17 May - Gerald Ford & Ronald Reagan
24 May - U.S. Catholicism: A Church Divided
31 May - Paul McCartney
7 Jun - What Price Honor?: The West Point Scandal
14 Jun - Enrico Berlinguer
21 Jun - Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan & Gerald Ford
28 June - Travel '76: Rediscovering America
4 Jul - Thomas Jefferson
5 Jul - Birthday Issue (1776-1976)
12 Jul - a cicada-killer wasp
19 Jul - 1976 Democratic national Convention
26 Jul - Jimmy Carter (and daughter Amy), Walter Mondale (with family)
2 Aug - Nadia Comaneci
9 Aug - Gerald Ford
16 Aug - Disease Detectives: Tracing the Philly Killer
23 Aug - The Plight of the G.O.P.
30 Aug -Gerald Ford & Bob Dole
6 Sep - Sex & Tennis: The New Battleground
13 Sep - Campaign Kickoff
20 Sep - Mao Zedong
27 Sep - The South Today: Carter Country and Beyond
4 Oct - Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter
11 Oct - Ian Smith
18 Oct - Gerald Ford
25 Oct - King Kong & Jessica Lange
1 Nov - Voting Your Pocketbook
8 Nov - Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter
15 Nov - Jimmy Carter
22 Nov - Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith & Kate Jackson
29 Nov - Robert Rauschenberg
6 Dec - Ga,bling Goes Legit
13 Dec - Howard Hughes
20 Dec - The Great Talent Hunt - Drawings (Jordan, Mondale and Carter) & Photos (Bergland, Jordan, Califano, Blumenthal, Brown, Andrus, Dunlop, Pfeiffer, Shclesinger & Schultze)
27 Dec - Stars: Where Life Begins

1977

3 Jan - Jimmy Carter, Man of the Year
10 Jan - The Super Bowl: the Great American Spectacle - Two football players from Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings
17 Jan - Rupert Murdoch
24 Jan - America's Mood
31 Jan - The Big Freeze
7 Feb - Amy Carter & her dog
14 Feb - Alex Haley & two Roots miniseries characters
21 Feb - Andrei Sakharov
28 Feb - Linda Ronstadt
7 Mar - Idi Amin
14 Mar - Marabel Morgan
21 Mar - Chiang Ching & Mao Zedong
28 Mar - Lily Tomlin
4 Apr - James Schlesinger
11 Apr - Air Travel: How Safe?
18 Apr - DNA Furor - Tinkering with Life
25 Apr - Jimmy Carter
2 May - Uncle Sam character
9 May - Richard Nixon & David Frost
16 May - Mafia
23 May - Harold Brown
30 May - Menachem Begin
6 Jun - Jody Powell & Hamilton Jordan
13 Jun - Peter Frampton, Steve Cauthen, Wally Amos & Colleen McCullough
20 Jun - James Earl Ray
27 Jun - Adolfo Suárez
4 Jul - Summer
11 Jul - Youth Crime
18 Jul - Rod Carew
25 Jul - Blackout '77: Once More With Looting
1 Aug - Sociobiology: A new theory of behavior
8 Aug - Jimmy Carter, Leonid Brezhnev, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Hua Kuo-feng & Helmut Schmidt
15 Aug - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
22 Aug - Panama Canal & Uncle Sam
29 Aug - The Underclass
5 Sep - Fred Silverman
12 Sep - Sky-High Housing
19 Sep - Bert Lance & Jimmy Carter
26 Sep - Diane Keaton
3 Oct - John le Carré
10 Oct - Revolt of the Old: The Battle Over Forced Retirement
17 Oct - Jimmy Carter & Moshe Dayan
24 Oct - Mstislav Rostropovich
31 Oct - Hanns Martin Schleyer, Jürgen Schumann, woman terrorist, returned hostages
7 Nov - Richard Leakey & a Homo Habilis
14 Nov - High School in Trouble
21 Nov - John Vorster
28 Nov - Anwar Sadat
5 Dec - After Houston: What Next for Women
12 Dec - Dixy Lee Ray
19 Dec - The Cooking Craze
26 Dec - Jesus and various faithfuls

1978

2 Jan - Anwar Sadat, Man of the Year
9 Jan - Burt Reynolds & Clint Eastwood
16 Jan - Super Bowl XII
23 Jan - Robert Byrd
30 Jan - Michael Blumenthal
6 Feb - Stansfield Turner
13 Feb - Pierre Trudeau & René Lévesque
20 Feb - The Computer Society
27 Feb - Muhammad Ali
6 Mar - Cheryl Tiegs
13 Mar - Socialism
20 Mar - Coal Crisis
27 Mar - Menachem Begin & Yasser Arafat
3 Apr - John Travolta
10 Apr - Lawyers
17 Apr - The Fantastic World of Steinberg - Saul Steinberg drawings
24 Apr - Cyrus Vance
1 May - Gelsey Kirkland
8 May - Attack on the Navy
15 May - Prince Charles
22 May - Prince Fahd
29 May - Steve Cauthen
5 Jun - Politics of Africa
12 Jun - Joseph Califano
19 Jun - Howard Jarvis
26 Jun - Women in Sports
3 Jul - Warren Beaty
10 Jul - What Bakke Means
17 Jul - G. William Miller
24 Jul - Anatoli Shcharansky
31 Jul - The Test-Tube Baby: Birth Watch in Britain
7 Aug - Lobbyists
14 Aug - New Era in the Air: Cheap Fares, Crowded Flights
21 Aug - Baggio, Willebrands, Bertoli, Pignedoli & Pironio
28 Aug - Mario Puzo
4 Sep - John Paul I
11 Sep - Menachem Begin
18 Sep - Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
25 Sep - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat
2 Oct - Jimmy Carter
9 Oct - John Paul I
16 Oct - Hispanic Americans
23 Oct - Elections '78: The Tax Shelters
30 Oct - John Paul II
6 Nov - Pat Benedict
13 Nov - To the Rescue: The battered Dollar
20 Nov - Big Winners: Adding Up the Results - Brown, Bradley, Carey, Kassebaum, Cochran and Thompson
27 Nov - Letitia Baldrige
4 Dec - Cult of Death (Jonestown deaths)
11 Dec - Michel Bergerac
18 Dec - Convention Fever
25 Dec - Jimmy Carter, Teng Hsiao-ping & Menachem Begin

1979

1 Jan - Teng Hsiao-ping, Man of the Year
8 Jan - Philip Johnson
15 Jan - Crescent of Crisis: Troubles Beyond Iran
22 Jan - Leonid Brezhnev
29 Jan - Colombian Connection: Billions in Pot & Coke
5 Feb - Teng Hsiao-ping
12 Feb - Ayatollah Khomeini
19 Feb - Albert Einstein
26 Feb - Iran: Anarchy and Exodus
5 Mar - Communists at War: China and Vietnam War
12 Mar - Robin Williams
19 Mar - Jimmy Carter
26 Mar - Mideast Peace: Its Risks and Rewards
2 Apr - Psychiatry's Depression
9 Apr - Nuclear Nightmare: Three Mile Island
16 Apr - Islam: The Militant Revival
23 Apr - How gay Is gay: Homosexuality in America
30 Apr - Woody Allen
7 May - The Oil Game
14 May - Margaret Thatcher
21 May - Now The Great Debate: SALT II
28 May - Medical Costs: Seeking the Cure
4 Jun - Russell Baker
11 Jun - Helmut Schmidt
18 Jun - John Paul II
25 Jun - Jimmy Carter & Leonid Brezhnev
2 Jul - The Energy Mess
9 Jul - The World Over a Barrel: OPEC's Tightening Oil Squeeze
16 Jul - Here Come Skylab!
23 Jul - Jimmy Carter
30 Jul - Now What?: Carter's Cabinet Purge
6 Aug - Leadership in America: 50 Faces For the Future
13 Aug - Diane Lane
20 Aug - Judging the Judges: An Outsize Job - and Getting Bigger
27 Aug - The Topsy-Turvy Economy: New Ideas to Set It Right
3 Sep - Ansel Adams
10 Sep - John Connally
17 Sep - Cyrus Vance & Fidel Castro
24 Sep - Luciano Pavarotti
1 Oct - Henry Kissinger
8 Oct - José López Portillo
15 Oct - John Paul II
22 Oct - Paul Volcker
29 Oct - David C. Jones
5 Nov - Edward Kennedy
12 Nov - Starvation: Deathwatch in Cambodia
19 Nov - Blackmailing the U.S.
26 Nov - Ayatollah Khomeini & Jimmy Carter
3 Dec - Attacking America: Fury in Iran, Rescue in Pakistan
10 Dec - Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Shah
17 Dec - The Who
24 Dec - The Cooling of America
31 Dec - Going... Going... Gone!: The Art and Antique Boom

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