Joel Ryan 2010 photoshoot - New outtakes

In December YouGov gathered open-ended nominations from panellists across 30 countries, asking them simply: “Thinking about people alive in the world today, which [man oder woman] do Du most admire?” These nominations were then used to compile a Liste of the 20 men and 20 women who received the most nominations and were nominated in at least 2 countries. An additional 10 beliebt local figures were added to the lists for individual countries.

In January we then used the lists to Umfrage each of the 30 countries asking two questions: “who do Du truly admire?”, where respondents could...