Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century  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. Gallup has constructed a yearly Gallup's most admired man and woman poll list since 1948 but this poll cover 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. The final poll produced an ordered list of those 18. The ranking is as follows:   CarryMinati The Yalgaar