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Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
There's someone who's obviously in the top two most famous for face recognition worldwide, alongside Bush:
Osama Bin Laden I don't think you can argue about that, really. Bin Laden is known everywhere: for sure all the US, Europe, Africa, Pakistan and India, probably the former Soviet Union, for sure in Japan. Also, how about people who aren't so well known in the US but are huge elsewhere, like some Indian or Chinese politician... |
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Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
The only ones I'd recognise would be Beckham, Woods and Bush and possibly Mccartney, Jordan is the only basketball player who's even vaguely known worldwide except for that guy Rodman who was on big brother but he's more famous for being on big brother, had never heard of him before that. Absolutely no american footballers or baseball players are famous worldwide, I could not name one.
Beckham is very popular in Asia so I'd say he's more famous than Jordan who's mainly famous in America. If you had a line of 5 people dressed in religious looking clothing, I doubt very many people at all could pick out which one was the pope. Bush is the most famous American by far, Michael Jordan is not even close. I think that Jordan is more famous than Michael Jordan. [ QUOTE ] Ranked by number of pages via web search: George Bush 353,000,000 Michael Jordan 122,000,000 David Beckham 82,500,000 Tiger Woods 78,200,000 Paul McCartney 61,200,000 Pope Benedict 8,130,000 Other notables: Michael Jackson 222,000,000 Britney Spears 202,000,000 Bill Clinton 169,000,000 Lindsay Lohan 124,000,000 Tom Cruise 96,000,000 Tony Blair 89,800,000 Madonna 68,800,000 Oprah 30,000,000 Tom Hanks 25,300,000 Queen Elizabeth II 11,000,000 (without the II is 68 mil but a lot of those are Elizabeth I) [/ QUOTE ] That's inaccurate as most of the Jordan results are for Jordan not Michael Jordan, you have to put the whole name in quotes eg. "Michael Jordan" So: Bin Laden 26 million George Bush 17.2 million Ronaldinho 16.3 million Tiger Woods 12.5 million Michael Jackson 11.6 million David Beckham 4.8 million (Victoria Beckham 3.1 million) Tom Hanks 2.8 million Lewis Hamilton 2.5 million Michael Schumacher 2.5 million Michael Jordan 2.4 million Queen Elizabeth 2 million Daniel Negreanu 742,000 |
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Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
I change my answer:
1. Osama 2. Bush ............ |
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Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
Why are people clining on to Jordan's fame which faded a decade ago? Thats a whole new generation of people who have no idea who he is.
Give it a couple of years and Beckham will single handedly raise the profile of "soccer" in America to become one of the most biggest sports. And unfortunatley for the wrong reasons the most recognized person in Europe at the moment is Madeline Mccann. |
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Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
here´s another top 5
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Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
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here´s another top 5 [/ QUOTE ] Hmmm, not sure how well known he is in China, India or the ex USSR... and that's about 3 billion people. |
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Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
I only know Michael Jordan from that kids movie i seen when i was like 10. He isn't famous outside of the US really. No American Sports figure is well known worldwide. Your sports like American Football, baseball, basketball and hockey basically just don't exist in Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. (obv a few exceptions for some of those sports in some countries) When i was in Asia i seen so many things about David Beckham like the fake shirts with his name on the back and stuff like that worn by soooooooooo many people. Plenty of other names like Ronaldinho too on shirts. So definitely Beckham is more of a worldwide name than Jordan.
George Bush is most recognizable face in the world IMO. Also searching the internet doesn't mean much for people being most recognizable. I know much more about Beckham than Michael Jordan but i would have much more of a chance of googling Michael Jordan's name just because i want to find out information on him. |
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Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
Just out of interest I tried Googling - obviously this is a tangeant, because thread is about global face recognition, so this only tells us how well known someone is in the west, not if they'd be recognised in a marketplace in Mali. Anyway:
Results 1 - 10 of about 63,200,000 for "george w bush" Results 1 - 10 of about 57,000,000 for madonna Results 1 - 10 of about 34,000,000 for "bin laden" Results 1 - 100 of about 33,600,000 for beckham Results 1 - 10 of about 31,300,000 for putin Results 1 - 100 of about 19,700,000 for oprah Results 1 - 10 of about 12,800,000 for schwarzenegger. Results 1 - 10 of about 12,400,000 for "michael jackson" Results 1 - 100 of about 7,770,000 for musharraf Results 1 - 100 of about 3,920,000 for jintao. Results 1 - 10 of about 2,390,000 for "michael jordan" (no good searching just his surname - he isn't mentioned until the 65th result) Results 1 - 17 of 17 for luckyjimm |
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Re: Who is most recognizable worldwide?
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Results 1 - 17 of 17 for luckyjimm [/ QUOTE ] Lol |
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