World's Most Admired People 2018: Bill Gates and Angelina Jolie Top the List Once Again
There are people from the entertainment field in the women's list while the males have business leaders and athletes. Politics takes a lower rank in this list.
YouGov is an online community from UK which shares their views and opinions around the country. An annual study conducted by them gave a list of world's most admired man and woman. It is a list of public figures which the people all around look up to. In the 2018 list, Bill Gates and Angelina Jolie are the world's most admired man and woman. Gates has always won the top spot every time such a survey has been conducted.
Gates and Jolie have left behind the likes of Obamas, Pope Francis, Queen Elizabeth II and Oprah. The survey was conducted in people from 35 countries and interviewed more than 37,000 people. The survey conducted in the US had their former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama topping the list. The list has 20 men and 20 women the people look up to the most. Among the top five women are Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Queen Elizabeth II and Hillary Clinton. In the top five men are Barack Obama, Jackie Chan, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese business investor and philanthropist Jack Ma.
Check out the entire list of World's Most Admired People 2018:
There are people from the entertainment field in the women's list while the males have business leaders and athletes. Politics takes a lower rank in this list with Russian President Vladimir Putin in sixth place and American President Donald Trump at No. 17. From the entertainment field, there is Taylor Swift, Madonna, Priyanka Chopra, Liu Yifei and Gal Gadot. In the men's list, there is Elon Musk, Christiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Warren Buffet and David Beckham.
Emma Watson took a plunge of 7 and ranked at number 6 from number 13 in the year 2016. Taylor Swift went from 14th position to 9th. There are different categories in which the list is divided. Among the other people in the list are Dalai Lama, Malala Yousafzai, Elizabeth Warren, Imran Khan. Bollywood's Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone have also secured a place in this list. It is good to see Bollywood celebrities making a mark among the other influentials.
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