Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Women of the Year

Status Most Admired Gallup

Missing: * Sister Elizabeth Kenney (1951)

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28

1946

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

29

1947

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

30

1948

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

31

1949

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

32

1950

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

65

1951

Elizabeth Kenny

Nurse

0% (0 of 1 votes)

33

1952

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

34

1953

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

35

1954

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

36

1955

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

37

1956

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

38

1957

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

39

1958

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

40

1959

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

41

1960

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

42

1961

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

50

1962

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

First Lady

42.06% (45 of 107 votes)

51

1963

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

First Lady

42.06% (45 of 107 votes)

52

1964

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

First Lady

42.06% (45 of 107 votes)

53

1965

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

First Lady

42.06% (45 of 107 votes)

54

1966

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

First Lady

42.06% (45 of 107 votes)

49

1968

Ethel Kennedy

Celebrity's Relative

44.44% (68 of 153 votes)

63

1969

Mamie Eisenhower

First Lady

0% (0 of 0 votes)

64

1970

Mamie Eisenhower

First Lady

0% (0 of 0 votes)

60

1971

Golda Meir

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

1

1972

Patricia Nixon

First Lady

83.33% (5 of 6 votes)

61

1973

Golda Meir

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

62

1974

Golda Meir

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

58

1976

Betty Ford

First Lady

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

9

1977

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady

53.04% (61 of 115 votes)

59

1978

Betty Ford

First Lady

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

10

1979

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady

53.04% (61 of 115 votes)

4

1980

Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Religious Figure

57.52% (88 of 153 votes)

11

1980

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady

53.04% (61 of 115 votes)

55

1981

Nancy Davis Reagan

First Lady

32.53% (27 of 83 votes)

43

1982

Margaret Thatcher

World Leader

46.81% (44 of 94 votes)

44

1983

Margaret Thatcher

World Leader

46.81% (44 of 94 votes)

45

1984

Margaret Thatcher

World Leader

46.81% (44 of 94 votes)

5

1986

Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Religious Figure

57.52% (88 of 153 votes)

56

1987

Nancy Davis Reagan

First Lady

32.53% (27 of 83 votes)

46

1988

Margaret Thatcher

World Leader

46.81% (44 of 94 votes)

47

1989

Margaret Thatcher

World Leader

46.81% (44 of 94 votes)

48

1990

Margaret Thatcher

World Leader

46.81% (44 of 94 votes)

2

1991

Barbara Bush

First Lady

59.01% (95 of 161 votes)

3

1992

Barbara Bush

First Lady

59.01% (95 of 161 votes)

27

1993

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

6

1994

Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Religious Figure

57.52% (88 of 153 votes)

7

1995

Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Religious Figure

57.52% (88 of 153 votes)

8

1996

Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Religious Figure

57.52% (88 of 153 votes)

16

1997

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

17

1998

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

18

1999

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

19

2000

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

57

2001

Laura Bush

First Lady

23.08% (3 of 13 votes)

20

2002

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

21

2003

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

22

2004

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

23

2005

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

24

2006

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

25

2007

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

26

2008

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

12

2009

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

13

2010

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

14

2011

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

15

2012

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)