Mel Gibson played a sailor in 1984’s The Bounty.
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1986: Mark Harmon
Real men rock chest hair. Case in point: Mark Harmon.
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1987: Harry Hamlin
Something about this Harry Hamlin photo just says, “step into my office and let me solve all of your problems for you.”
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1988: John F. Kennedy Jr.
It takes a special man — a.k.a. John F. Kennedy Jr. — to look this hot in short shorts.
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1989: Sean Connery
How about you show us your gadgets, Bond?
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1990: Tom Cruise
Why exactly did Tom Cruise ever take off his Top Gun uniform?
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1991: Patrick Swayze
We’d practice our Dirty Dancing any time, anywhere for Mr. Patrick Swayze.
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1992: Nick Nolte
We’ll just leave this Nick Nolte photo here.
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1993 and 1999: Richard Gere
A young Richard Gere is just the thing to cure the rainy day blues.
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1995 and 2000: Brad Pitt
What we’d give to know what’s going on in Brad Pitt’s mind in this pic …
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1996: Denzel Washington
Shirts are so overrated, at least when Denzel Washington is involved.
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1997 and 2006: George Clooney
We love Amal, but George Clooney will always be our imaginary husband.
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1998: Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones can wrangle us any time.
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2001: Pierce Brosnan
The name’s Alive, Sexiest Man Alive.
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2002: Ben Affleck
Astronaut Affleck might just be the best Ben Affleck.
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2003 and 2009: Johnny Depp
So early ’90s in the best way possible.
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2004: Jude Law
Those eyes and that suit on Jude Law? It should come with a warning label, we’re just sayin’.
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2005: Matthew McConaughey
“All right” doesn’t even begin to cover how this photo of Matthew McConaughey makes us feel.
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2007: Matt Damon
Matt Damon will always be Jason Bourne in our hearts.
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2008: Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman has maybe gone to the gym, like, a couple times.
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2010: Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds cleans up nice, to say the least.
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2011: Bradley Cooper
Need to take a vacation? Short-term solution: Look at this photo of Bradley Cooper over and over again.
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2012: Channing Tatum
One word for this Channing Tatum snap: magical.
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2013: Adam Levine
This just in: There’s something really, really sexy about a plain white tee when it’s on Adam Levine.
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2014: Chris Hemsworth
Chris Hemsworth: god of thunder and of our hearts.
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2015: David Beckham
It’s impossible to pick the sexiest photo ever of David Beckham because every photo of him is the sexiest photo ever of Becks.
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2016: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
It’s a tough choice between the workout selfies and cute dad pics, but this smiley Baywatch shot of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a winner.
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2017: Blake Shelton
A guy like Blake Shelton + a guitar = the way to our hearts.
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2018: Idris Elba
Can we just do a whole gallery on him? (Oh wait, we did!)
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2019: John Legend
Sometimes wife Chrissy Teigen’s propensity to overshare on social media pays off, as it did when she gave us a glimpse of John Legend’s impressive rear view.
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2020: Michael B. Jordan
What we wouldn’t give to be on that yacht with Michael B. Jordan …
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2021: Paul Rudd
To be honest, it’s hard to pick a bad photo of that year’s Sexiest Man Alive, Chris Evans.
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2023: Patrick Dempsey
John Krasinski was another who had fans divided: Is he sexiest in floppy-haired, puppy-eyed mode as the romantic Jim Halpert, or in a sharp suit on the red carpet? Ultimately we had to split the difference and go with a rare abs-out moment from 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
