US Senator Hillary Clinton has narrowly beaten global television celebrity Oprah Winfrey in an annual poll to choose the woman Americans admire most.
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed overnight (AEDT) in Pakistan, made it onto the list for the first time, chosen by two per cent of respondents as the woman they admire most.
Mrs Bhutto had returned to Pakistan in October after several years in exile to contest a parliamentary election scheduled for next month.
Other women in the top 10 were US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (five per cent); actress Angelina Jolie and first lady Laura Bush, both with three per cent; and former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who had the same level of support as Mrs Bhutto.
US House of Representatives speaker, Nancy Pelosi, African-American author Maya Angelou and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II rounded off the list, all garnering one per cent of Americans' votes.
Mrs Clinton, who is the front-runner in the Democratic party's contest to choose a candidate to run for president in next November's election, was chosen by 18 per cent of Americans in the survey conducted earlier this month by USA Today newspaper and the Gallup polling agency, as the woman they admired the most.
It was the sixth year in a row that Mrs Clinton topped the annually compiled list of most admired women.
Mrs Winfrey, who has been actively campaigning for Mrs Clinton's rival for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama, was just two percentage points behind the former first lady, with 16 per cent of the vote.
The television presenter is becoming the eternal runner-up in the poll, having finished in second place every year since 1997, with the exception of 2001 when she was in third place behind Mrs Clinton and Laura Bush.
The poll, conducted on December 14-16, asked 1011 adults in the United States which man and woman "living today in any part of the world" they admired most.
President George W. Bush was voted the most admired man in this year's poll - narrowly beating his predecessor in the White House, Bill Clinton.
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En una encuesta llevada a cabo entre el 14 y el 16 de diciembre por 1.011 personas en los Estados Unidos y organizada por la organización de encuestas Gallup, el presidente estadounidense George W. Bush y la senadora estadounidense y pre-candidata presidencial Hillary Clinton fueron escogidos como el hombre y la mujer más admirados en dicho país.

La actriz Oprah Winfrey y el ex Presidente de Estados Unidos Bill Clinton estuvieron muy cerca a Bush y Hillary en la encuesta.

En otros puestos, estuvieron Al Gore, Barack Obama, Laura Bush y Angelina Jolie.

Además, la Reina Isabel II del Reino Unido estuvo entre las 10 mujeres más admiradas.