People goes with Chris Hemsworth, who I had barely heard of before this morning. If you're in the mood for a review, here's a list of all the previous winners.
1985 Mel Gibson
1986 Mark Harmon
1987 Harry Hamlin
1988 John Kennedy, Jr.
1989 Sean Connery
1990 Tom Cruise
1991 Patrick Swayze
1992 Nick Nolte
1993 Sexiest Couple: Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford
1995 Brad Pitt
1996 Denzel Washington
1997 George Clooney
1998 Harrison Ford
1999 Richard Gere
2000 Brad Pitt
2001 Pierce Brosnan
2002 Ben Affleck
2003 Johnny Depp
2004 Jude Law
2005 Matthew McConaughey
2006 George Clooney
2007 Matt Damon
2008 Hugh Jackman
2009 Johnny Depp
2010 Ryan Reynolds
2011 Bradley Cooper
2012 Channing Tatum
2013 Adam Levine
To do some demographic sorting, two of the men on this list have died (JFK, Jr. and Patrick Swayze,) three have appeared twice (Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Johnny Depp, plus Richard Gere, once as part of a couple and once by himself,) and only one, Denzel Washington, is black. Two, Gibson and Nolte, definitely haven't aged well. You can see all the actual covers here.
If you're interested in how People decides who gets the nod each year, and how that process has evolved, check out a great article at slate.com. I love their description of current and recent winners:
The Sexiest Man Alive of this moment is reliably white, straight, mid-30s, handsome to women, relatable to men, ideally suitable for both your grandmother’s coffee table and your niece’s Tumblr, mired in no known scandals, famous enough to have starred in a blockbuster film or high-rated television show in the past year, but desperate enough to agree to subject himself to a revealing shirtless pictorial and embarrassing psycho-sexual interview in People’s pages.
I had suggested Bill Cosby, Solange Knowles and Honey Boo Boo as possible sidebar stories, but people went with a Dead Blonde Girl, Diem Brown.
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