Who doesn’t like lists? Whether they’re people or places or businesses. Even if we now have too many too often put out for self-promotional purposes. They still get our attention.
And then there’s always the (relatively) venerable Gallup Poll, the one listing Americans’ choices for the Most Admired Man and the Most Admired Woman in the world since 1948. For the record, Harry Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt topped the lists that first year.
Typically, the U.S. president finishes first–and this is no exception in 2015 with Barack Obama. And Hillary Clinton made it for the 14th year in a row.
But what is always perversely interesting is who all is in the hunt. Let’s just say that were we not talking Gallup, it’s highly unlikely that Hillary Clinton, Queen Elizabeth, Sarah Palin and Ellen DeGeneres would wind up in the same sentence. Ditto for the men with Barack Obama, Pope Francis, The Dalai Lama and Donald Trump.
BTW, the oddest pairing had to be 1995: Bill Clinton and Mother Teresa.