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

  • 06-06-2012 09:50AM
    #1
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭


    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..


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  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


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


  • #3
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


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


  • #4
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    Jedward


  • #5
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


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


  • #6
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,646 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


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


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  • #7
    actuallylike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    Mark Zuckerberg


  • #9
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


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


  • #10
    AeoNGriM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭AeoNGriM


    Albert Einstein


  • #11
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭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!


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  • #12
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    dmcronin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭dmcronin


    Julius Caesar


  • #14
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


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


  • #15
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Hitler and the queen.

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


  • #16
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Barack Osama Bin Laden.


  • #17
    Vicar in a tutu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    Samantha mumba


  • #18
    gent9662
    Closed Accounts Posts: 697 ✭✭✭gent9662


    Elvis


  • #19
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,397 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


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


  • #20
    Ms.M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭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. :o

    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:


  • #21
    GavRedKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    The Pope?


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  • #22
    Nu-Centz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭Nu-Centz


    Kim Kardashian


  • #23
    Ms.M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭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. :(


  • #24
    Jimmy Iovine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    Demba Ba


  • #25
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭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 ?


  • #26
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Brendan Kilkenny


  • #27
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭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


  • #28
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭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?


  • #29
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Chuck Norris


  • #30
    Vicar in a tutu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    Oprah winfrey
    bono
    obama


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  • #31
    BunShopVoyeur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭BunShopVoyeur


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

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


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