New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the only Indianto feature on the top 10 list of 'most admired men' in the world, according toa survey conducted by UK-based market research firm YouGov.

PM Modi stood at sixth position on the list of world's 'mostadmired men' with his 'admiration' score settled on 4.8. PM Modi jumped to thesixth position from eighth in 2018 and is also the only Indian politician tofeature on the world ten list of 'most admired men'.

Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan stood at 12th position,Shah Rukh Khan at 16th and Salman Khan at 18th were the other Indians whofeatured in the top 20 'most admired men in the world' list. Bollywoodactresses including Deepika Padukone (rank 13), Priyanka Chopra (rank 14),Aishwarya Rai (rank 16) and Sushmita Sen (rank 17) also made it to the top 20'most admired women in the world' list.

The number one spot for the world's 'most admired man' wasretained by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, followed by former US PresidentBarack Obama at number two position and Chinese actor Jackie Chan at the thirdposition.

In the world's most admired women's list, American actressAngelina Jolie was replaced by Michelle Obama for number one spot. Jolie is nowplaced at the third place after US talk show host Oprah Winfrey came second onthe 2019 list.On India's most admired women's list, boxer Mary Kom took the topposition.