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 1999 final poll produced an ordered list of 18 people, 12 of whom were males and 12 of whom were American citizens; the highest ranked non-American and non-male was (Saint) Mother Teresa, at #1.
As of 2024, at 77,
(the longest living person at 99) were all still living by the time the list was published, but they have since died.List
Source: [1]
Rank | Portrait | Name | Percentage | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mother Teresa (1910–1997) |
49% | [3] | |
2 | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) |
34% | [4] | |
3 | John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) |
32% | ||
4 | Albert Einstein (1879–1955) |
31% | ||
5 | Helen Keller (1880–1968) |
30% | ||
6 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) |
26% | [5] | |
7 | Billy Graham (1918–2018) |
26% | [5] | |
8 | Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) |
25% | [5] | |
9 | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) |
22% | [6] | |
10 | Winston Churchill (1874–1965) |
20% | [7] | |
11 | Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) |
18% | [7] | |
12 | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) |
18% | ||
13 | Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) |
18% | ||
14 | Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) |
17% | ||
15 | Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) |
17% | ||
16 | Henry Ford (1863–1947) |
15% | ||
17 | Bill Clinton (b. 1946) |
10% | ||
18 | Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) |
9% |
See also
References
- ^ a b 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.
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