Who Do You Think Is The Most Famous person in the world

Stiffler2

Who Do You Think Is The Most Famous person in the world :

Exemptions :

Jesus
Santa
"Actually, all fictional characters..."


Rules:

cannot be a fictional character - eg - Santa, Jesus, easter bunny etc...
they don't have to be alive right now, so could be Elvis

Please say who you think and give a reason

For example they say that the Coca Cola sign is known by 99% of humans, 1% will not recognise the symbol. I am wondering if products are more famous than people these days

I am going to say Hitler because I think everyone knows who he is, across the whole world but I am unsure if the far east would know who he is at all.

Anyway - thoughts..

Biggins

Sadly at the mo', Beiber is up there somewhere in the list.

My name is URL

You do know that Jesus wasn't a fictional character? Well, according to most modern historians anyway.

Neeson

Jedward

flutterflye

Yeah, I'm going to still go with Jesus.
Fairly sure he was a real person.

Vicxas

Bill Gates - Everyone knows Bill gates, Even if you dont know hes retired for years everyone knows that Bill runs Microsoft.

actuallylike

Instead of someone who's really well known somewhere, maybe someone who's just regularly famous everywhere. Isn't someone like Jackie Chan real famous all over Asia as well as the West? So is that it? Jackie Chan? The most famous person in the world? Good to know.

But what about Africa? Who's famous there that's famous here? John Fashanu maybe? He presents Deal or No Deal Nigeria you know.

Neeson

Mark Zuckerberg

Mr Benevolent

I am the most famous person in my world. End of.

AeoNGriM

Albert Einstein

sbsquarepants

Definitely Hitler.

Apart from him, of those famous for less vile reasons the odds would suggest some chinese or indian movie star or similar who we've most likely never heard of. That or jedward!

Duggy747

Ryan Tubridy.

They'll be talking about him for a millenia, especially how he accidently initiated the robot uprising of 2017 and doomed mankind.

The bastard.

dmcronin

Julius Caesar

TeddyTedson

Jesus. He was a real person. Whether or not he was really the son of "God" though is a different matter.

shopaholic01

Hitler and the queen.

I think KeithM89 is a legend in the cyberworld of boards:D

mike65

Barack Osama Bin Laden.

Vicar in a tutu

Samantha mumba

gent9662

Elvis

MarkR

Your ma. Every time I go online I keep reading about her and her exploits.

Ms.M

If they had to be a living person it would be a very tough question.

I agree with Hitler, Stalin; all the baddies get remembered.
Mother Teresa not so much.

Jesus and Muhammad are the most famous goodies.
Though baddies use them to justify things a lot.

Demonstrates the dangers of fame. Someday people will die for Lady Gaga. She's like, totally inspirational and completely life-changing. She's like, changed the world. :cool:

GavRedKing

The Pope?

Nu-Centz

Kim Kardashian

Ms.M

actuallylike wrote: »

Instead of someone who's really well known somewhere, maybe someone who's just regularly famous everywhere. Isn't someone like Jackie Chan real famous all over Asia as well as the West? So is that it? Jackie Chan? The most famous person in the world? Good to know.

But what about Africa? Who's famous there that's famous here? John Fashanu maybe? He presents Deal or No Deal Nigeria you know.

I've been to Kenya, where they play Westlife CDs in shopping centres and have never heard of anything by U2.

Jimmy Iovine

Demba Ba

Stiffler2

actuallylike wrote: »

Instead of someone who's really well known somewhere, maybe someone who's just regularly famous everywhere. Isn't someone like Jackie Chan real famous all over Asia as well as the West? So is that it? Jackie Chan? The most famous person in the world? Good to know.

But what about Africa? Who's famous there that's famous here? John Fashanu maybe? He presents Deal or No Deal Nigeria you know.

Nelson Mandella ?

frag420

Brendan Kilkenny

Stiffler2

gavredking wrote: »

The Pope?

That word "The Pope" is famous

& the only reason I know his name is because he has had the same name for the last 1000 years.

It's as if you can't be pope if your name isn't benedict

frag420

actuallylike wrote: »

Instead of someone who's really well known somewhere, maybe someone who's just regularly famous everywhere. Isn't someone like Jackie Chan real famous all over Asia as well as the West? So is that it? Jackie Chan? The most famous person in the world? Good to know.

But what about Africa? Who's famous there that's famous here? John Fashanu maybe? He presents Deal or No Deal Nigeria you know.

Drogba?? Desmond Tutu? Mugabe? Gadaffi? Mogly from the Jungle Book?

jester77

Chuck Norris

Vicar in a tutu

Oprah winfrey
bono
obama

BunShopVoyeur

In fairness, it's surely the Queen of England.

However this is After Hours so...Rick Astley.

SEPT 23 1989

Mao Zedong and Joe Duffy

Temaz

Gotta be Hitler.

ball

BunShopVoyeur wrote: »

In fairness, it's surely the Queen of England.

She's probably just known in English speaking countries. I only found out the other day that there's a king of Spain.

What about the Dalai Lama? Or your man Kim Jong Il.
No, maybe still, Michael Jackson

Funglegunk

Most famous living person has got to be Obama.

westendgirlie

Colonel Saunders
Mr Muscle
Uncle Ben
Ronald McDonald

Tigger

The queen of England has had her face on British stamps coins etc for 60 years and is accepted to be the most recognisable person in the world. Certainly that's alive today.

Cookie_Monster

flutterflye wrote: »

Yeah, I'm going to still go with Jesus.
Fairly sure he was a real person.

but it's the myth surrounding him that's famous, not the person himself. The actual person clearly was not the son of god and clearly did not rise from the grave, turn his blood into wine etc.
On that basis I'd disallow him as the fictional element of his character are far far more famous than the actual flesh and blood person.

by sheer volume of numbers it must be someone who's massively famous in Asia, if anyone is equally know and famous in China and India there's a third of the worlds pop covered.

Probably the American president though, whoever he may be at the time. Every region seems to have some reason to know who he is, 1st world is a given, middle east as the tyrannical evil leader of the west, India/China etc as evil corporate consumerism capitalism icon and so forth

My name is URL

Stiffler2 wrote: »

That word "The Pope" is famous

& the only reason I know his name is because he has had the same name for the last 1000 years.

It's as if you can't be pope if your name isn't benedict

lol, where do you get this stuff from?

darragh16

Adolf Hitler

Everyone knows Hitler, it always comes back to Hitler.

SunnyDub1

100% barack obama

Ficheall

shopaholic01 wrote: »

I think KeithM89 is a legend in the cyberworld of boards:D

Never heard of him.

flutterflye

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

but it's the myth surrounding him that's famous, not the person himself. The actual person clearly was not the son of god and clearly did not rise from the grave, turn his blood into wine etc.
On that basis I'd disallow him as the fictional element of his character are far far more famous than the actual flesh and blood person.

He's still famous though, nonetheless.
I'm sure there are fictitious stories surrounding many famous people.
Granted, maybe not quite so many.
But still, it doesn't stop Jesus from being famous - whatever he did or didn't do.

Jester252

General Mao

livinsane

Mr Bean.

BunShopVoyeur

Jester252 wrote: »

General Mao

Chairman?

Stiffler2

My name is URL wrote: »

lol, where do you get this stuff from?

Hey - what was the pope's name before the current pope took over, and the one before that, and before that

Benedict the 947th
Benedict the 946th
Benedict the 945th

and so on


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murpho999

Amazing how people pick their own culture to think of the most famous.

The Pope....famous in Christian circles but would he be in islamic countries? THe leader of Islam is not famous here.

Speak to Indians and they have never heard of U2 or know any Elvis songs.

My wife had never heard of John Wayne.

I think unfortunately that England's Queen might be the most famous (for doing nothiing!) living person as well as Barack Obama.

Hitler I'd say is most famous dead person.

Kolido

gavredking wrote: »

The Pope?

ball wrote: »

She's probably just known in English speaking countries. I only found out the other day that there's a king of Spain.

What about the Dalai Lama? Or your man Kim Jong Il.
No, maybe still, Michael Jackson

These are not people's name, so which ones?

Currantly living I would say the most recognisable face is probably Queen Elizabeth II

Other possibilities, Elvis, Jacko, Sinatra, Bin Laden, Arnie?

CrabRevolution

[QUOTE=Cookie_Monster;79053293]but it's the myth surrounding him that's famous, not the person himself. The actual person clearly was not the son of god and clearly did not rise from the grave, turn his blood into wine etc.
On that basis I'd disallow him as the fictional element of his character are far far more famous than the actual flesh and blood person.

by sheer volume of numbers it must be someone who's massively famous in Asia, if anyone is equally know and famous in China and India there's a third of the worlds pop covered.

Probably the American president though, whoever he may be at the time. Every region seems to have some reason to know who he is, 1st world is a given, middle east as the tyrannical evil leader of the west, India/China etc as evil corporate consumerism capitalism icon and so forth[/QUOTE]

So Jesus isn't famous because it's only what others made of him that's famous, not the person himself, but the position of the US president somehow does count, without even naming the individual?

You say Jesus isn't famous as a person, but because of his 'supposed' deeds, then how does the US president count as famous for his 'supposed' deeds as a tyrant, consumerist icon etc. ?

Stiffler2

Kolido wrote: »

These are not people's name, so which ones?

Currantly living I would say the most recognisable face is probably Queen Elizabeth II

Other possibilities, Elvis, Jacko, Sinatra, Bin Laden, Arnie?

Yeah - that's a good list, I like Arnie as well.

also :

Nelson Mandella

Al Pacino
- ?

but the question here is who is the most famous ?