John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), This person should be considered Person of the Year because of his charitable giving began early at a young age of sixteen, he had a job working as a bookkeeper. He gave six percent of his earnings to charity. Rockefeller is good person because of his helped fund scientific breakthroughs vaccine for yellow fever. He helped discovery DNA also helped fund Education for college for free black slaves. This is why John D. Rockefeller should be considered for Person of the Year. The first thing that John D. Rockefeller did that made him a inspirational person his he funded the vaccine for the yellow fever . The rockefeller foundation yellow fever was formed by now - Surgeon general