Who do you think is the most famous person in the world ever

Chief Whip

kfallon wrote: »

1. Jesus
2. Hitler
3. The Pope (in general not a specific one)
4. Michael Jackson
5. Pele

Anyone disagree?

The question is 'ever', not in our lifetime. So the list will largely consist of religious figures, as they will have been known about for hundreds of years, in some cases millennia.

People like Michael Jackson and Pele are just known about to some people in the west in recent years.

The list in my opinion would be

1. Jesus Christ.
2. The Virgin Mary
3. St Joseph
4. Simon Peter
5. St. John.

InTheTrees

kfallon wrote: »

1. Jesus
2. Hitler
3. The Pope (in general not a specific one)
4. Michael Jackson
5. Pele

Anyone disagree?

Given that there's what 1 billion people in india, and 2 billion in China alone, not to mention all the other countries in Asia.

Compare that to the paltry 700 million in all of europe and north america.

jesus may be in the top 10 perhaps. Mao is probably up there in the top five. Ghandi maybe. Or the Dali lama? there's film stars in india with fan bases larger than the entire population of europe and we've never even heard of them.

I doubt the pope would make the list. Or pele. Or hitler.

Cill Dara Abu

kfallon wrote: »

If it wasn't for the likes of Shergar, Azamour, Sinndar, Dalakhani & Zarkava nobody would know who "The Lager Can" is :pac:

That you Kieran? :pac:

barone

rocky

kfallon

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

That you Kieran? :pac:

Who the fook did you think it was :pac:

Cill Dara Abu

InTheTrees wrote: »

Given that there's what 1 billion people in india, and 2 billion in China alone, not to mention all the other countries in Asia.

Compare that to the paltry 700 million in all of europe and north america.

jesus may be in the top 10 perhaps. Mao is probably up there in the top five. Ghandi maybe. Or the Dali lama? there's film stars in india with fan bases larger than the entire population of europe and we've never even heard of them.

I doubt the pope would make the list. Or pele. Or hitler.

So who is in the top ten then?

Jordan?
Paris Hilton?
Brian Cowen?
Francis Black?
Paul McShane?
Ann Doyle?

kfallon

InTheTrees wrote: »

Given that there's what 1 billion people in india, and 2 billion in China alone, not to mention all the other countries in Asia.

I would imagine Michael Jackson had sold out concerts in Asia too......

Cill Dara Abu

kfallon wrote: »

Who the fook did you think it was :pac:

I'm honoured:D

AskMyChocolate

Taking everything into account, communication capabilities, education, world population distribution, politics and for how many generations of the world's population the person has been famous, with the possible exceptions of Jesus Christ, Mohammed and Buddha the most famous person in the world ever is almost certainly Genghis Khan.

starviewadams

Remember reading or watching something a while ago that said Paris Hilton and Jesus were the number 1 and 2 most searched names on Google,which is scary,and also funny because they're both really fake!

InTheTrees

Chief Whip wrote: »

1. Jesus Christ.
2. The Virgin Mary
3. St Joseph
4. Simon Peter
5. St. John.

Buddha would have to be high on that list. And he was around 600 years before jesus so had a lot longer to get known.

R P McMurphy

John Smith

kfallon

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

I'm honoured:D

Be at ease my child, I shall return to the spiritual home of racing in your great county soon to spare you all from the riding 'skills' of Pat Smullen :pac:

InTheTrees

kfallon wrote: »

I would imagine Michael Jackson had sold out concerts in Asia too......

I agree.

InTheTrees

starviewadams wrote: »

Remember reading or watching something a while ago that said Paris Hilton and Jesus were the number 1 and 2 most searched names on Google,which is scary,and also funny because they're both really fake!

Colonel Saunders too.

kfallon

InTheTrees wrote: »

Colonel Saunders too.

He used to sit at home with 10 others on laptops just googling his name constantly so he'd make the list :pac:

Yakult

InTheTrees wrote: »

Buddha would have to be high on that list. And he was around 600 years before jesus so had a lot longer to get known.

Yeah, in the 600 years before Jesus he would have gotten way more hits on the internet.

charlemont

Muhammad

Capt'n Midnight

Chairman Mao hasn't been mentioned yet :eek:

or Adam

redout

Satan.
Tom Cruise.
Whoever is the President of the United States.
Albert Einstein.
Mother Teresa.
George Washington.

partyatmygaff

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

There is something like 6 billion people on the planet,not everybody likes paedophiles.

Thank you for stating the obvious. I fail to see what this has to do with MJ though.

kfallon wrote: »

I would imagine Michael Jackson had sold out concerts in Asia too......

MJ has fans on every single continent. That aside, fans or not i'm quite sure that there are more people who know of him than those who do not.

tfitzgerald

Elvis wins this no problem

kfallon

redout wrote: »

George Washington.

Most famous people, not horses :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4QDBJblngs

Birroc

Kaiser Sose.

Daniel S

Yore ma!

kfallon

mtb_kng wrote: »

Yore ma!

Close the door on the way out. You can come back when you are ready to apologise you stupid, stupid boy :rolleyes:

partyatmygaff

mtb_kng wrote: »

Yore ma!

So is this what you call study for Paper II? :P

Daniel S

partyatmygaff wrote: »

So is this what you call study for Paper II? :P

:pac:

gerard65

A.N Other

Capt'n Midnight

FlawedGenius wrote: »

Mohammed Ali, fact!

Which one ?

take everything

That guy, he does the thing with the thing...
You know, the guy with the hair...

Badgermonkey

Nicky, Kian, Shane, eh.................

Napper Hawkins

Katt Williams.

Mr X11

Lenihan. The man behind the cheapest bailout in the history of the whole world.

Kevin Duffy

Neil Armstrong.

InTheTrees

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Neil Armstrong.

Yes, you win the tour de france that many times and you'd have to be well known.

Mr.Crinklewood

Julian, Dick, and Ann, George and Timmy.

AudreyHepburn

Jesus/God
Allah/Mohammed
The Pope (in general)
President of the United States(not any specific one)
Hitler

ItsAWindUp

M.Night Shyamalan

Show Time

Biggins wrote: »

1. Jesus
2. Mohammed
3. Buddha

4.Gandhi
5.Hitler
6.Stalin
7.Kennedy
8.Issac Newton
9.Einstein
10.Martin Luther

That would be my own top ten and in no particular order, But if i was to be realistic about it i think the carpenter from Nazareth who preached turning the other cheek nearly two thousand years before Gandhi would top the list.

tfitzgerald

Superman, spiderman , and dint forget Elvis

Where To

Hannibal



the elephant man not the man with the plan

elefant

I reckon... Titus Bramble.

Sandwlch

hinault wrote: »

Hitler would be infamous surely?

Depends which side you were on.

richymcdermott

Jesus :cool:
Freddie mercury
Michael jackson
Superman
Mickey mouse

barbarians

partyatmygaff wrote: »

You'd be extremely hard pressed to find a single person on the planet who hasn't heard of Michael Jackson.

These boyos mightn't know him too well.

Saila

Im betting we [in the western world? whatever the fcuk that means now] have never even heard of the top 10

General General

Recent poll in a magazine from my world/planet showed that the most well known people from Earth are as follows:

Walt Disney

Charlie Chaplin

JFK

Jesus

The One we called One Glove

The One you're not allowed to draw a picture of

Calvin Klein

Tommy Hilfiger

Ralph Lauren

Simon Cowell

knotknowbody

what about

Arthur Guinness

and

Jack Daniels

well known and go so well together.

ScummyMan

The Milky Bar Kid.