This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1960s. 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.
Between 1961 and 1969, all of the dates had been issued on Friday instead of Monday scheduled time frame.
For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine.
1960
January 4 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Man of the Year
January 11 – Population Explosion
January 18 – U.S. Commuters
January 25 – Nobusuke Kishi
February 1 – Hubert H. Humphrey
February 8 – Rómulo Betancourt
February 15 – James Reston
February 22 – Pete Quesada
February 29 – Pat Nixon
March 7 – Tom Mboya
March 14 – Ingmar Bergman
March 21 – Caryl Chessman
March 28 – Jacques Cousteau
April 4 – Robert Menzies
April 11 – Bowman Gray Jr. April 18 – St. Paul by Lippo Memmi April 25 – Lyndon B. Johnson May 2 – Arnold Palmer May 9 – John H. Loudon May 16 – Francis Gary Powers May 23 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan, Charles de Gaulle & Nikita Khrushchev May 30 – Rodion Malinovsky June 6 – U.S. Satellites June 13 – Nikita Khrushchev June 20 – Suburban Wife June 27 – Douglas MacArthur II July 4 – William Shakespeare July 11 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Rose Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy & John F. Kennedy July 18 – Lyndon B. Johnson July 25 – Sherman Fairchild August 1 – Nelson Rockefeller & Richard Nixon August 8 – Che Guevara August 15 – Mort Sahl August 22 – Dag Hammarskjöld August 29 – Rafer Johnson September 5 – Margaret Chase Smith & Lucia M. Cormier September 12 – Shah of Iran September 19 – New Products September 26 – Henry Cabot Lodge October 3 – Cartoon by Herblock depicting Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Todor Zhivkov, Antonín Novotný, János Kádár, Mehmet Shehu, Valerian Zorin & Josip Broz Tito October 10 – Robert F. Kennedy October 17 – Clark Kerr October 24 – Paul Bagwell October 31 – Richard Nixon November 7 – John F. Kennedy November 14 – Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe November 16 – John F. Kennedy November 21 – Hong Kong November 28 – Sylvia Porter December 5 – Abubakar Balewa December 12 – John Courtney Murray December 19 – Franz Josef Strauss December 26 – Dean Rusk
1961
January 2 – U.S. Scientists (represented by George Beadle, Charles Draper, John Enders, Donald A. Glaser, Joshua Lederberg, Willard Libby, Linus Pauling, Edward Purcell, Isidor Rabi, Emilio Segrè, William Shockley, Edward Teller, Charles Townes, James Van Allen, and Robert Woodward), Men of the Year January 6 – Harry Felt January 13 – Ancel Keys January 20 – Jacqueline Kennedy January 27 – Kennedy Inauguration February 3 – John B. McKone & Bruce Olmstead February 10 – Samuel T. Rayburn February 17 – Oscar Robertson February 24 – Valerian Zorin March 3 – Walter W. Heller March 10 – Leontyne Price March 17 – Savang Vatthana March 24 – James M. Moran March 31 – Guilt and Anxiety (The Scream by Edvard Munch) April 7 – Robert S. McNamara April 14 – Jean Kerr April 21 – Yuri Gagarin April 28 – Jose Miro Cardona May 5 – Le Corbusier May 12 – Alan Shepard May 19 – The Faraway Places May 26 – Eugene Carson Blake June 2 – John Patterson June 9 – John F. Kennedy June 16 – Clint & John Murchison June 23 – Barry Goldwater June 30 – Jânio Quadros July 7 – Leonard Larson July 14 – Camping: Call of the Not So Wild July 21 – Bill Mauldin July 28 – Maxwell Taylor August 4 – Ngo Dinh Diem August 11 – Donald J.M. Russell August 18 – C. Douglas Dillon August 25 – Walter Ulbricht September 1 – Lawrence F. O'Brien September 8 – Nikita Khrushchev September 15 – J.D. Salinger September 22 – Arthur J. Goldberg September 29 – Mongi Slim October 6 – Jean Monnet October 13 – Creighton Abrams October 20 – Virgil Couch October 27 – Thomas V. Jones November 3 – Mary Bunting November 10 – Glenn T. Seaborg November 17 – John F. Enders November 24 – Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer December 1 – Li Fu-chun December 8 – Willem Visser't Hooft December 15 – Christmas Shopping December 22 – Moise Tshombe December 29 – Jackie Gleason