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
editSource: [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] |
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|
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% | |
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|
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) |
9% |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c Kohanik, Eric (August 10, 2007). "Evangelist in the Spotlight". Nanaimo Daily News. ProQuest 361630057.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Mother Teresa Tops List of Century's Most Admired". The Catholic Advance. January 14, 2000. Retrieved March 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.