Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
 

I honestly could not recognise a single baseball / basketball / American football player in history. Michael Jordan? No idea. Tall muscular black guy I guess, but I can't put a face to him. Maybe if I googled him it'd look familiar, but I couldn't tell him from Magic Jordan (the other name I know). In fact with the exception of boxers and tennis players, the only American sportsmen I could recognise are OJ Simpson, Tiger Woods, Hulk Hogan, and - oh wait, a basketball player - Dennis Rodman because he was on the TV show Big Brother here in the UK, but I had no idea who he was at the start. These sports that are just big in the US don't mean [censored] to the rest of the world.

Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
 

You have the wrong MJ,

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u305/wdogg40/Mj.jpg

Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
 

Bush: known world wide
Beckham: known every where but the US and Canada and has some penetration there
Woods: Known any where that sports results are published, broadcast for major sporting events
The Pope: known to all Catholics and a proportion of non Catholics
Jordan: retired player of a minority sport
McCartney: stopped being culturally relevant thirty years ago

Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
 

Jordan and Woods are way on the bottom of the list. With Woods probably being ahead of Jordan.

Beckham and Bush are at the top, then the pope, then McCartney

Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
 

people are grossly underestimating how well known Tiger is.

Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
 

Aren't actual studies done on this?

I think Jordan, the US president, and Mickey Mouse always fared well. I'm remembering this from when I was 12.

Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
 

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Magic Jordan (the other name I know).

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Magic Johnson...

i remember hearing a study like this once, too... and i'm pretty sure michael jordan was more recognizable than abraham lincoln

Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
 

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Michael Schumacher - Everywhere else except US knows him


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I call BS. Schumacher isn't a household name in India, China, Africa.... I could go on and on. Yeah, he is huge in Europe but its not a global penetration at all.

Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
 

I'm pretty sure it's either Jordan or Bush at the top. If Bush wasn't completely worthless it'd be Jordan by a wiiiiiiiiiiiide margin.

Yugoslav

Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
 

Why are you putting Yao up there? Yeah there's a billion people in China, but I doubt the 600 million peasant farmers who have never looked at a tv or newspaper know who he is. And outside of the US basketball isn't even all that popular.