German Chancellor Angela Merkel is ‘Time Person of the Year’, ISIS leader Baghdadi, Donald Trump are runner-ups

In this image provided by Time Magazine, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is featured as Time's Person of the Year. (Time Magazine via AP)

Time magazine praises Angela Merkel's leadership on everything from Syrian refugees to the Greek debt crisis (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Feared leader of the Islamic State, Ab Bakr-al-Baghdadi, was short-listed for the title but lost out to Merkel. According to TIME, Baghdadi 'transformed the breakaway al-Qaeda group from a battlefield force operating in the chaos of Syria and Iraq into a transnational terrorist franchise killing civilians in more than a dozen countries around the world.'

US Republican presidential candidate Donad Trump, who currently heads poll ratings, was adjudged number 3 in the shortlist. According to the magazine, 'toughness was Trump's brand, and in a tumultuous political season, transgression his method.' (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)

Black Lives Matter protesters who marched from City Hall to Elsie Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, where there was to be a police fundraiser demanded answers in the death of Jamar Clark. Black Lives Matter activists were placed in the fourth position in the shortlist. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, left, was placed in the fifth position in the Time list. The president has been battling hardliners to end his country's isolation, according to Time (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Travis Kalanick, the CEO of popular app-based taxi hailing network, comes up in the sixth position in the shortlist. According to Time, he has changed the nature of work with his $62.5 billion startup (Reuters photo)

Caitlyn Jenner, for the uninitiated, is probably the most famous transgender person in the world. An Olympic gold medallist, Jenner this year revealed her gender identification as a gender woman (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)