Askmen.com has unveiled its Top 49 Men of 2006 list.  The annual list is voted on by the readers of the website. Askmen.com has over 7 million world-wide readers.

AskMen.com readers were asked to name the “best representatives� of the male gender. After casting more than 1 million votes, they ranked George Clooney #1. Rap artist and mogul Jay-Z was the Top 49 runner-up and business pioneer and adventurer Richard Branson was ranked third. The rest of the top 10, in order, is cyclist and cancer-survivor Lance Armstrong, designer and style icon Tom Ford, movie and TV producer Jerry Bruckheimer, actor Johnny Depp, athlete David Beckham, real estate developer Jorge Perez, and former President Bill Clinton.

The Top 49 is an alternative to the common “Most Sexy” and “Most Beautiful” lists published elsewhere because it was decided by average men. AskMen.com polled its own readers to develop the inaugural Top 49 Men of 2006 list by asking them to nominate 100 “ambassadors of male-kind.â€? Readers were told to look beyond attributes like good looks, wealth and fame. After a month-long voting period, readers chose the Top 49 finalists who are admired for a variety of prized male traits like integrity, charisma and intelligence

Other notable names:

#12 Jon Stewart

#14 Denzel Washington 

#18 Lenny Kravitz 

#22 Lebron James 

#25 Rupert Murdoch 

#28 Justin Timberlake 

#29 Steve Jobs 

#31 Dane Cook 

#34 Pharrell 

#36 Ashton Kutcher 

#39 Tom Brady

#42 Ben Affleck