Gallup's List of Widely Admired People
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gallup's List of Widely Admired People, a poll of United States citizens to volunteer the names of the individuals whom they most admire, is a list compiled annually by The Gallup Organization. This is the only question that Gallup has asked every year since its founding in the 1930s. In December 1999, they concatenated this information with their final survey for the 20th century, producing a list of eighteen people from the 20th century who are "most admired":
| “ | Now I'm going to read you a list of people who have lived this century. For each one, please tell me if you consider that person to be one of the people you admire most from this century; a person you admire, but not the most; a person you somewhat admire; or someone you do not admire at all... | ” |
- 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 Eisenhower
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Nelson Mandela
- Ronald Reagan
- Henry Ford
- Bill Clinton
- Margaret Thatcher
[edit] References
- (1999) The Gallup Poll 1999. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 248–249.
- Lists of the most admired people for any given year can be found in the respective volume.
- Frank Newport. "Mother Teresa Voted by American People as Most Admired Person of the Century: Top 5 list rounded out by Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein, and Helen Keller", The Gallup Poll, 1999-12-31. Retrieved on 2007-01-05.
- Greatest of the Century. Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll (Dec. 20-21, 1999). Retrieved on 2007-01-05.
