Most famous person in the world
 

Based on the Oprah vs fiddy thread. Who do you think is the most famous person in the world? ie picture or name recognition or the largest % of the entire worlds population. Answers for both real and fictional.

I'll propose Jesus, Mohammad, Tiger Woods, George Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Micheal Jackson, Ronald McDonald and Santa to get things started.

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I'm pretty sure Ronald scoops it, but I haven't seen much press on him in the last few years, so I could be living in the past.

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Jesus and it's not close. Make it the most famous person alive and there might be some room for discussion.

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Jesus, not close?

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Jesus FTW. He is a figure in the Qur'an as well as the Bible. Wouldn't this be a lot more interesting if we stuck with living people?

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jesus? are you serious? can we exclude people who nobody even knows what they might have looked like? the idea of including jesus is even more retarded because the image that most people associate with his name is clearly not even close to what he might have looked like if he did exist.

including jesus makes as much sense as including santa.

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Muhammad Ali > Tiger Woods

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jesus? are you serious? can we exclude people who nobody even knows what they might have looked like? the idea of including jesus is even more retarded because the image that most people associate with his name is clearly not even close to what he might have looked like if he did exist.

including jesus makes as much sense as including santa.

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I did include Santa, and also said we should have one for real and one for fictional, by which you can include Jesusif you wish.

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I think you guys might be underestimating the amount of hindu's etc in the world but ok we can take biblical characters as read if you wish.

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OFC it's jesus.. but sadly only the name and over sold megachurch cliche perception of him..

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Muhammad Ali > Tiger Woods

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For years it was definitely Ali, but I don't know if that still true. I wouldn't be suprised if it was now Woods.

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the pope?

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jesus? are you serious? can we exclude people who nobody even knows what they might have looked like? the idea of including jesus is even more retarded because the image that most people associate with his name is clearly not even close to what he might have looked like if he did exist.

including jesus makes as much sense as including santa.

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I did include Santa, and also said we should have one for real and one for fictional, by which you can include Jesusif you wish.

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Except Santa isn't fictional. The Jesus we know today has about as much common with the original Jesus as Santa has got to do with Saint Nicholas.

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And anyway, the correct answer to this is obviously Patrik Antonius.

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Op has named possibly the best ones but I'll throw in the following:

Kim Jong Ill, Saddam Hussain, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandella.

It probably comes back to Bush V Osama.

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Yao Ming.

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jesus? are you serious? can we exclude people who nobody even knows what they might have looked like? the idea of including jesus is even more retarded because the image that most people associate with his name is clearly not even close to what he might have looked like if he did exist.

including jesus makes as much sense as including santa.

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I did include Santa, and also said we should have one for real and one for fictional, by which you can include Jesusif you wish.

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Except Santa isn't fictional.

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I think you need to have a serious talk with your parents.

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The Jesus we know today has about as much common with the original Jesus as Santa has got to do with Saint Nicholas.

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Stop nitting up my thread.

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Hugh Heffner

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Muhammad Ali > Tiger Woods

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For years it was definitely Ali, but I don't know if that still true. I wouldn't be suprised if it was now Woods.

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I think golf is virtual non-entity in many parts of the world.

Every country has boxing and soccer.

At this point David Beckham is probably more famous world wide than Tiger Woods is.

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Yeah, Beckham's a good shout. The only place where he's not as massively famous as he is everywhere else is the US.

Arnold Schwarzenegger?

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http://www.funmunch.com/celebrities/...l_jordan_1.jpg

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I'm guessing Hitler.

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GSP!

superman punch

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it's jesus, no contest...as for living, prolly MJ...

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David Beckham.

Probably 50% of all OOT'ers won't even know who he is, but you're the minority. The rest of the world does.

Lol what a joke.

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MJ ofcourse, LBJ is sick huge in China atm, there is a nike ad with him in it on every tv channel atleast once or twice an hour every day. But hey probably doesn't have the worldwide accolations that MJ did. Beckham, Ronaldo are ofcourse huge. George Dubya must be up there. Mao Ze Dong is a fairly worldwide name (I guess). Then you have names like Leonardo Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Neil Armstrong.

Philosophers like Confucius, Plato, Socrates.

JC & Buddha are famous images of some representation of a person.

Cleopatra and Julius Ceasar.

Anyway i'm sidetracking on people who are well known as opposed to recognisable. This is undoubtably Michael Jackson. Even the communists like him.

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David Beckham.

Probably 50% of all OOT'ers won't even know who he is, but you're the minority. The rest of the world does.

Lol what a joke.

[/ QUOTE ]lol, I bet a ton know who beckham is. Saying 50% won't know is a joke. There was a big movie about him!

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Mao or Ghandi

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isnt beckham that indian chick in the childrens soccer movie? ive never heard anything about her beyond that one movie and i didnt watch that obviously

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When he was playing, Michael Jordan was tops.

Now, I'd say Dubya.

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isnt beckham that indian chick in the childrens soccer movie? ive never heard anything about her beyond that one movie and i didnt watch that obviously

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lol, do you get out much?

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http://images.usatoday.com/life/_pho...max-inside.jpg

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When he was playing, Michael Jordan was tops.

Now, I'd say Dubya.

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Michael Jordan more famous than Bill Clinton in the 90's? Lol

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When he was playing, Michael Jordan was tops.

Now, I'd say Dubya.

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Michael Jordan more famous than Bill Clinton in the 90's? Lol

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Yes he was.

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Neal Armstrong

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Walt Disney

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Walt Disney

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Good one.

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1. Ali
2. Pele
3. Jordan
4. Woods

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GOD; but he goes by many names