New/old picture of Emma Watson on set of Harry Potter

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 или woman] do Ты most admire?” These nominations were then used to compile a Список of the 20 men and 20 women who received the most nominations and were nominated in at least 2 countries. An additional 10 Популярное local figures were added to the lists for individual countries.

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