Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1981]

Status Most Admired Gallup

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3

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Richard Milhous Nixon

U.S. President

58.51% (275 of 470 votes)

6

0

Andrew Young, Jr.

U.S. Congressman

44.44% (4 of 9 votes)

11

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Muhammad Ali

Boxer

31.93% (53 of 166 votes)

13

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Walter Cronkite

Commentator

29.68% (46 of 155 votes)

15

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Burt Reynolds

Actor

13.04% (3 of 23 votes)

16

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Walter Mondale

Politician

5.71% (2 of 35 votes)

5

1

Ronald Reagan

U.S. President

48.60% (243 of 500 votes)

14

2

Pope John Paul II

Religious Figure

26.32% (10 of 38 votes)

2

3

James Earl Carter

U.S. President

60.11% (315 of 524 votes)

10

4

Billy Graham

Religious Figure

34.00% (17 of 50 votes)

12

5

Ted Kennedy

U.S. Senator

31.65% (213 of 673 votes)

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6

Menachem Begin

World Leader

77.78% (28 of 36 votes)

8

7

Bob Hope

Comedian

37.21% (32 of 86 votes)

4

8

Gerald Ford

U.S. President

56.80% (71 of 125 votes)

7

9

Henry Kissinger

U.S. Secretary of State

42.06% (135 of 321 votes)

9

10

Jesse Jackson

Advocate

35.36% (93 of 263 votes)