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

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