The Most Admired Men And Women In World And U.S.

The YouGov Poll has released their annual list of the most admired men and women in the world, and in the United States.

Bill Gates was the most admired man in the world, followed closely by Barack Obama. Mr. Obama was the most admired in the United States.

Michelle Obama was the most admired women in both the world and the United States.

Methodology

In December YouGov gathered open-ended nominations from panelists across 41 countries, asking them simply: “Thinking about people alive in the world today, which [man or woman] do you most admire?” These nominations were then used to compile a list of the 20 men and 20 women who received the most nominations and were nominated in at least four countries. An additional 10 popular local figures were added to the lists for individual countries. 

In January we then used the lists to poll each of the 41 countries asking two questions: “who do you truly admire?”, where respondents could make multiple selections, and “who do you MOST admire?”, where they could only pick one. These two numbers were combined into a percentage share of admiration, displayed to the right of each name in the graphic above.