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Subject: Three times we have asked and three times we have been told: Bill Gates is the most admired man in the world
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Three times we have asked and three times we have been told: Bill Gates is the most admired man in the world. Since 2015, when we first begun to test the most admired men and women separately, Angelina Jolie has also come out on top both times. So in the third installation of YouGov's massive international study of personality admiration, it's safe to say the global public values humanitarianismover politics
This year the story is in the movement further down the ranks. Thanks in part to a rise from 9th place to 4th (excluding local celebrities) in China, which makes up almost a third of the population of the 30 countries we've polled, Russian President Vladimir Putin is the biggest riser since 2015, moving from 11th to fifth overall
Stephen Hawking, boosted by box office hit biopic The Theory of Everything, rises to 5th place from 9th worldwide and is the most admired man overall in Britain – even including local celebrities such as David Attenborough
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