The Gallup - USA Today poll, asked respondents what man and woman, living anywhere in the world, they most admired with the queen coming sixth behind Sarah Palin, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama and Condoleezza Rice.
Secretary of State and former US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton placed first in the poll for the ninth year in a row.
Meanwhile, previously unseen childhood portraits of the queen and her sister the late Princess Margaret from the late Queen Mother's personal collection are to go on public display for the first time next year.
The photographs - dating from 1926 to 1956- which include some of the most informal studio portraits ever taken of the princesses with their parents, are among more than 100 prints to be displayed at The Queen's Gallery in Edinburgh.
One of the earliest photographs is of the three-year-old Princess Elizabeth cuddling her father, the then Duke of York, in 1929.
The exhibition, which opens on February 25 and runs until June, also includes childhood portraits of the Prince of Wales and Princess Royal.
