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Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century

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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 covers 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 78, Bill Clinton is the only surviving person on the list. Previously, Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, and Billy Graham (the longest living person at 99) were all still living by the time the list was published, but they have since died.

List

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Source: [1]

List of winners of the Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century poll
Rank Portrait Name Percentage Ref.
1 Photographic portrait of Mother Teresa Mother Teresa
(1910–1997) 		49% [3]
2 Photographic portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929–1968) 		34% [4]
3 Photographic portrait of John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy
(1917–1963) 		32%
4 Photographic portrait of Albert Einstein Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) 		31%
5 Photographic portrait of Helen Keller Helen Keller
(1880–1968) 		30%
6 Photographic portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882–1945) 		26% [5]
7 Photographic portrait of Billy Graham Billy Graham
(1918–2018) 		26% [5]
8 Photographic portrait of Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II
(1920–2005) 		25% [5]
9 Photographic portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884–1962) 		22% [6]
10 Photographic portrait of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill
(1874–1965) 		20% [7]
11 Photographic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890–1969) 		18% [7]
12 Photographic portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
(1929–1994) 		18%
13 Photographic portrait of Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi
(1869–1948) 		18%
14 Photographic portrait of Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela
(1918–2013) 		17%
15 Photographic portrait of Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan
(1911–2004) 		17%
16 Photographic portrait of Henry Ford Henry Ford
(1863–1947) 		15%
17 Photographic portrait of Bill Clinton Bill Clinton
(b. 1946) 		10%
18 Photographic portrait of Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher
(1925–2013) 		9%

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Newport, Frank (December 31, 1999). "Mother Teresa Voted by American People as Most Admired Person of the Century". Gallup.
  2. ^ Jones, Jeffrey M. (December 30, 2019). "Obama, Trump Tie as Most Admired Man in 2019". Gallup.
  3. ^ Yang, Shih-ying; Kuo, Ben C. H.; Lin, Song-po (2022). "Wisdom, Cultural Synergy, and Social Change: A Taiwanese Perspective". New Ideas in Psychology. 64: 2. doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2021.100917. ISSN 0732-118X. S2CID 239493805 – via ResearchGate.
  4. ^ Terry, Brandon M.; Shelby, Tommie, eds. (2018). To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Harvard University Press. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-674-98075-4. Retrieved March 1, 2022 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ a b c Kohanik, Eric (August 10, 2007). "Evangelist in the Spotlight". Nanaimo Daily News. ProQuest 361630057.
  6. ^ Bennington, J. Bret; DaSilva, Zenia Sacks; D'Innocenzo, Michael; Pugliese, Stanislao G., eds. (2016). The 1930s: The Reality and the Promise. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. xi. ISBN 978-1-4438-8528-7. Retrieved March 1, 2022 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ a b "Mother Teresa Tops List of Century's Most Admired". The Catholic Advance. January 14, 2000. Retrieved March 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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