Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1966]

Status Most Admired Gallup

Missing: * Henry Cabot Lodge * Jimmy Brown * Ludwig Erhard * Ralph Bunche * Dean Rusk (15))

This Category is Ranked. Sort by Ranking Based on Votes by clicking on Vote Ranking. Sort by the Collection's Ranking by clicking on List Ranking.

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1

0

Arthur Godfrey

Radio Personality

100% (3 of 3 votes)

4

0

Hugh Downs

TV Personality

96.15% (25 of 26 votes)

5

0

Art Linkletter

TV Personality

75.00% (15 of 20 votes)

7

0

David Ben-Gurion

World Leader

58.06% (54 of 93 votes)

11

0

John Glenn

Astronaut

42.31% (55 of 130 votes)

12

0

Mickey Mantle

Baseball Player

39.35% (85 of 216 votes)

13

0

Bob Hope

Comedian

37.21% (32 of 86 votes)

14

0

Bing Crosby

Vocalist

36.00% (9 of 25 votes)

15

0

J. Edgar Hoover

Crime Fighter

34.21% (13 of 38 votes)

17

0

Arnold Palmer

Golfer

33.33% (5 of 15 votes)

21

0

Joseph P. Kennedy

Entrepreneur

30.88% (319 of 1033 votes)

22

0

Walter Cronkite

Commentator

29.68% (46 of 155 votes)

24

0

Mark Hatfield

U.S. Senator

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

27

0

John V. Lindsay

Mayor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

28

0

David Brinkley

Commentator

0% (0 of 1 votes)

29

0

John Connally

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

30

0

Dick Gregory

Comedian

0% (0 of 2 votes)

32

0

Chet Huntley

Commentator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

33

0

Chiang Kai-shek

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

34

0

Cary Grant

Actor

0% (0 of 10 votes)

38

0

Ed Brooke

U.S. Senator

0% (0 of 1 votes)

39

0

Charles De Gaulle

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

40

0

Frank Borman

Astronaut

0% (0 of 1 votes)

41

0

Konrad Adenauer

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

42

0

Linus Pauling

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

43

0

Willy Brandt

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

10

1

Lyndon Baines Johnson

U.S. President

45.00% (9 of 20 votes)

18

2

Dwight David Eisenhower

U.S. President

33.33% (60 of 180 votes)

19

3

Robert Francis Kennedy

U.S. Attorney General

31.70% (97 of 306 votes)

16

4

Billy Graham

Religious Figure

34.00% (17 of 50 votes)

3

5

Pope Paul VI

Religious Figure

100% (1 of 1 votes)

31

6

U Thant

U.N. Secretary General

0% (0 of 1 votes)

26

7

Everett Dirksen

U.S. Senator

0% (0 of 1 votes)

36

8

George W. Romney

U.S. Governor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

6

9

Richard Milhous Nixon

U.S. President

58.51% (275 of 470 votes)

8

10

Ronald Reagan

U.S. President

48.60% (243 of 500 votes)

25

11

Hubert H. Humphrey

U.S. Vice President

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

20

12

Ted Kennedy

U.S. Senator

31.65% (213 of 673 votes)

23

13

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Advocate

29.61% (106 of 358 votes)

35

14

Robert S. McNamara

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

37

16

Fulton J. Sheen

Religious Figure

0% (0 of 2 votes)

9

17

Harry S Truman

U.S. President

45.00% (9 of 20 votes)

2

18

George Wallace

Politician

100% (12 of 12 votes)