List of covers of Time magazine (1950s)

This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1950s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles.

For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine.

1950

January 2 – Winston Churchill, Man of the Half-Century January 9 – Carol Channing January 16 – Paul Douglas January 23 – Mark III computer January 30 – Charles W. Sawyer February 6 – Clement Attlee February 13 – Glenn McCarthy February 20 – Kenneth Oberholtzer February 27 – Arthur Godfrey March 6 – T. S. Eliot March 13 – Forrest Sherman March 20 – Georgi Malenkov March 27 – Clarence Streit April 3 – Bhumibol Adulyadej April 10 – Ted Williams April 17 – Eddie Rickenbacker April 24 – Betty Hutton May 1 – Gian-Carlo Menotti May 8 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger May 15 – Coca-Cola May 22 – Harry S. Truman May 29 – Bảo Đại June 5 – Wall Street Bull June 12 – Darryl F. Zanuck June 19 – Charles F. Brannan June 26 – Pablo Picasso July 3 – William Levitt July 10 – Douglas MacArthur July 17 – Joseph Stalin July 24 – Omar Bradley July 31 – Walton Walker August 7 – K. C. Wu August 14 – Edward A. Craig August 21 – Yakov Malik August 28 – Irving Langmuir September 4 – Curtis LeMay September 11 – Arthur Radford September 18 – Ernst Reuter September 25 – Oliver P. Smith October 2 – Lucius D. Clay October 9 – Robert Frost October 16 – Syngman Rhee October 23 – Edward Almond October 30 – Robert A. Taft November 6 – Al Capp, Li'l Abner November 13 – George and John Hartford November 20 – Christopher Fry November 27 – Hopalong Cassidy December 4 – Frank Stanton December 11 – Mao Zedong December 18 – William H. Tunner December 25 – Fred Meyer's The Gift

1951

January 1 – American Fighting Man, Man of the Year January 8 – Dean Acheson January 15 – Rudolf Bing January 22 – Paul Douglas January 29 – Lester Lum Colbert February 5 – Warren Austin February 12 – Dwight D. Eisenhower February 19 – Charles E. Wilson February 26 – Margaret Truman March 5 – Matthew Ridgway March 12 – Estes Kefauver March 19 – Michael DiSalle March 26 – Henry Knox Sherrill April 2 – Vincent Auriol April 9 – Barbara Bel Geddes April 16 – Crawford Greenewalt April 23 – Harry S. Truman April 30 – Douglas MacArthur May 7 – Jawaharlal Nehru May 14 – James Van Fleet May 21 – Juan Perón and Eva Perón May 28 – Frederick Rentschler June 4 – Mohammad Mosaddegh June 11 – Alfred Whitney Griswold June 18 – Zhou Enlai June 25 – Sugar Ray Robinson July 2 – The Pentagon July 9 – James Thurber July 16 – Matthew Ridgway July 23 – David Sarnoff July 30 – King Baudouin I August 6 – Mario Lanza August 13 – John Foster Dulles August 20 – Vasily Stalin August 27 – Dick Savitt September 3 – Ava Gardner September 10 – King Farouk I September 17 – Kremlin Courier September 24 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny October 1 – Bert Lahr October 8 – William M. Boyle October 15 – Louis Finkelstein October 22 – Joseph McCarthy October 29 – Graham Greene November 5 – Winston Churchill November 12 – Benjamin F. Fairless November 19 – Dick Kazmaier November 26 – Ramon Magsaysay December 3 – Patrice Munsel December 10 – Lila Bell Wallace and DeWitt Wallace December 17 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. December 24 – Madonna and Child in Chartres Cathedral December 31 – Groucho Marx

1952

January 7 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Man of the Year January 14 – Gordon Dean January 21 – Andrea Mead Lawrence January 28 – Adlai Stevenson II February 4 – C. D. Howe February 11 – Anthony Eden February 18 – Queen Elizabeth II February 25 – Robert E. Wood March 3 – John Wayne March 10 – U.S. Taxpayer March 17 – Mortimer Adler March 24 – Estes Kefauver March 31 – Charles Laughton April 7 – Eleanor Roosevelt April 14 – Fulton J. Sheen April 21 – Fulgencio Batista April 28 – Eddie Stanky May 5 – D. F. Malan May 12 – Hoyt Vandenberg May 19 – Richard Russell May 26 – Lucille Ball June 2 – Robert A. Taft June 9 – Kurt Schumacher June 16 – Dwight D. Eisenhower June 23 – Harry Manning of SS United States June 30 – John S. Fine July 7 – Mark W. Clark July 14 – Media coverage of political conventions July 21 – Bob Mathias July 28 – Alben W. Barkley August 4 – Philip Murray August 11 – John Sparkman August 18 – George W. Merck August 25 – Richard Nixon September 1 – Katharine Hepburn September 8 – Muhammad Naguib September 15 – G. Mennen Williams September 22 – Wallace Harrison September 29 – Allan Shivers October 6 – Joseph Stalin and Georgy Malenkov October 13 – John Williams October 20 – Joyce Cary October 27 – Adlai Stevenson II November 3 – Dwight D. Eisenhower November 10 – Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon November 17 – Claire Bloom November 24 – Lemuel Shepherd December 1 – Alfred Jacobsen December 8 – Space Pioneer December 15 – Gerald Templer December 22 – Antoine Pinay December 29 – Francis Henry Taylor

1953

January 5 – Elizabeth II, Woman of the Year January 12 – Thornton Wilder January 19 – Mamie Eisenhower January 26 – George M. Humphrey February 2 – Harold Sines Vance February 9 – Kwame Nkrumah February 16 – Herbert Brownell February 23 – Rosemary Clooney March 2 – Gwilym A. Price March 9 – Syngman Rhee March 16 – Joseph Stalin March 23 – Georgy Malenkov March 30 – Rosalind Russell April 6 – F. K. Otto Dibelius April 13 – Ezra Taft Benson April 20 – Viacheslav Molotov April 27 – Bill Bridgeman May 4 – Oveta Culp Hobby May 11 – Vinoba Bhave May 18 – William, Benson and Henry Ford May 25 – Alcide De Gasperi June 1 – Charles Erwin Wilson June 8 – 3-D movies June 15 – Mickey Mantle June 22 – Lyndon B. Johnson June 29 – James H. Kindelberger July 6 – George Washington July 13 – Walter Ulbricht July 20 – Lavrenty Beria July 27 – Cornelius Shields August 3 – Allen Dulles August 10 – Shirley Booth August 17 – Christian Herter August 24 – Alfred Kinsey August 31 – Konrad Adenauer September 7 – Audrey Hepburn September 14 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines September 21 – Lewis Strauss September 28 – Henri Navarre October 5 – Neil H. McElroy October 12 – John Foster Dulles October 19 – William Jansen October 26 – Frederica November 2 – Amateur photographer November 9 – Johnny Lattner November 16 – Igor Sikorsky November 23 – Harry Dexter White November 30 – Nikita Khrushchev December 7 – William F. Dean December 14 – Pope Pius XII December 21 – Earl Warren December 28 – Grandma Moses

1954

January 4 – Konrad Adenauer, Man of the Year January 11 – Hyman Rickover January 18 – Richard Nixon January 25 – George Balanchine February 1 – Harry J. Grant February 8 – Nathan Twining February 15 – Heinrich Nordhoff February 22 – Paul Magloire March 1 – Nathan M. Pusey March 8 – Joseph McCarthy March 15 – Jack Webb March 22 – G. David Schine and Roy Cohn March 29 – Jonas Salk April 5 – Rab Butler April 12 – H-bomb mushroom cloud April 19 – Henry P. Van Dusen April 26 – Briggs Cunningham May 3 – Harry W. Morrison May 10 – Zhou Enlai May 17 – Ray Jenkins May 24 – Clinton Murchison May 31 – Native Dancer June 7 – Humphrey Bogart June 14 – J. Robert Oppenheimer June 21 – Sam Snead June 28 – Jacobo Árbenz July 5 – John Sherman Cooper July 12 – Pierre Mendès France July 19 – William McPherson Allen July 26 – Willie Mays August 2 – Do-It-Yourself August 9 – Joseph William Martin Jr. August 16 – Gina Lollobrigida August 23 – Douglas McKay August 30 – U Nu September 6 – Geoffrey Fisher September 13 – Alicia Patterson September 20 – Clement Attlee September 27 – David Riesman October 4 – Arthur Watkins October 11 – Marlon Brando October 18 – Clifford Case October 25 – Billy Graham November 1 – Harlow Curtice November 8 – Dave Brubeck November 15 – George M. Leader November 22 – Ho Chi Minh November 29 – Bobby Layne December 6 – Café Filho December 13 – Ernest Hemingway December 20 – Benjamin W. Chidlaw December 27 – Walt Disney

1955

January 3 – John Foster Dulles, Man of the Year January 10 – Bull market January 17 – Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neuberger January 24 – Joseph Dodge January 31 – Grace Kelly February 7 – Alfred M. Pride February 14 – Carl Jung February 21 – Nikita Khrushchev February 28 – Marcos Pérez Jiménez March 7 – George N. Craig March 14 – Ichiro Hatoyama March 21 – George Meany March 28 – Thomas Watson Jr. April 4 – Ngo Dinh Diem April 11 – Mother Mary Columba April 18 – Chiang Kai-shek April 25 – Walter George May 2 – Claire McCardell May 9 – Georgy Zhukov May 16 – Lee A. Dubridge May 23 – Anthony Eden May 30 – Goodwin Knight June 6 – Josip Broz Tito June 13 – Gwen Verdon June 20 – Walter Reuther June 27 – Dag Hammarskjöld July 4 – Dwight D. Eisenhower July 11 – Gussie Busch July 18 – André Malraux July 25 – Nikolai Bulganin August 1 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Anthony Eden, Nikolai Bulganin, Edgar Faure August 8 – Roy Campanella August 15 – Willard Libby August 22 – Carmine De Sapio August 29 – Frank Sinatra September 5 – Herman Wouk September 12 – John Stapp September 19 – Thurgood Marshall September 26 – Gamal Abdel Nasser October 3 – Casey Stengel October 10 – Richard Nixon October 17 – Ed Sullivan October 24 – Joe Moore October 31 – Irvine H. Page November 7 – Princess Margaret November 14 – W. Averell Harriman November 21 – Keith Funston November 28 – Julie Harris December 5 – Theodore F. Adams December 12 – Louis Marx December 19 – LeRoy Collins December 26 – Virgin and Child by Fra Angelico

1956

January 2 – Harlow Curtice, Man of the Year January 9 – Sherman Adams January 16 – David Ben-Gurion January 23 – Rowland Hughes January 30 – The Missile February 6 – Alfred Gruenther February 13 – Juscelino Kubitschek February 20 – Frank Lausche February 27 – William Holden March 5 – Luo Ruiqing March 12 – Leonard W. Hall March 19 – Pierre Poujade March 26 – James Eastland April 2 – Hussein bin Talal April 9 – Ralph Reed April 16 – Philip Graham April 23 – Sigmund Freud April 30 – Nikita Khrushchev May 7 – Ezra Taft Benson May 14 – Marilyn Monroe May 21 – Arleigh Burke May 28 – Robin Roberts June 4 – Charles Erwin Wilson June 11 – Jacques Barzun June 18 – Dwight D. Eisenhower June 25 – Eugene R. Black Sr. July 2 – Eero Saarinen July 9 – David J. McDonald July 16 – Adlai Stevenson II July 23 – Rex Harrison July 30 – Jawaharlal Nehru August 6 – Stavros Niarchos August 13 – Harry S. Truman August 20 – Duke Ellington August 27 – Gamal Nasser September 3 – Arthur Langlie September 10 – William McChesney Martin September 17 – Estes Kefauver September 24 – John D. Rockefeller Jr. October 1 – Robert F. Wagner Jr. October 8 – Duffy Daugherty October 15 – Herman Talmadge October 22 – Leo Hoegh October 29 – Maria Callas November 5 – Richard Nixon November 12 – Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon November 19 – Anthony Eden November 26 – Dag Hammarskjöld December 3 – Parry O'Brien December 10 – Wladyslaw Gomulka December 17 – Carl-Gustaf Rossby December 24 – Edward Hopper December 31 – Paul A. Siple

1957

January 7 – Hungarian Patriot, Man of the Year January 14 – William Knowland January 21 – Harold Macmillan January 28 – Saud February 4 – Leonard Bernstein February 11 – Charles Van Doren February 18 – Martin Luther King February 25 – Arthur Radford March 4 – Christian Dior March 11 – David Ben-Gurion March 18 – Carrol M. Shanks March 25 – Charles Bailey April 1 – Bernard Schriever April 8 – Dave Beck April 15 – The Dead Sea Scrolls April 22 – Mohammed V April 29 – Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge May 6 – Hussein bin Talal May 13 – Herbert Brownell May 20 – Stefan Wyszynski May 27 – John McClellan June 3 – Pedro Aramburu June 10 – Henry Heald June 17 – Nuri as-Said June 24 – Monster Machines July 1 – Earl Warren July 8 – Birdie Tebbetts July 15 – Norman Chandler July 22 – Nikita Khrushchev July 29 – Kim Novak August 5 – John Diefenbaker August 12 – Richard Russell Jr. August 19 – Alfried Krupp August 26 – Althea Gibson September 2 – James Cozzens September 9 – Jimmy Hoffa September 16 – Anastas Mikoyan