Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century
Gallup's List of People that Americans Most Widely Admired in the 20th Century is a poll published in December 1999 by The Gallup Organization to determine who around the world Americans admire most, in the 20th century[1].
Gallup has constructed a yearly Gallup's most admired man and woman poll list since 1948[2] but this poll cover the most notable figures of the entire century. They combined the results from the previous polls with a new preliminary poll to determine the 18 most admired people[1]. The final poll produced an ordered list of those 18. The ranking is as follows:
- Mother Teresa
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- John F. Kennedy
- Albert Einstein
- Helen Keller
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Billy Graham
- Pope John Paul II
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Winston Churchill
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Nelson Mandela
- Ronald Reagan
- Henry Ford
- Bill Clinton
- Margaret Thatcher
References
- Newport, Frank (December 31, 1999). "Mother Teresa Voted by American People as Most Admired Person of the Century". Gallup.
- Jones, Jeffrey M. (December 30, 2019). "Obama, Trump Tie as Most Admired Man in 2019". Gallup.
The Gallup Poll 1999. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc. 1999. pp. 248–249.
- Lists of the most admired people for any given year can be found in the respective volume.
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