Top 5 Most Famous People in the WORLD

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Top 5 Most Famous People in the WORLD

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I started this thread in another forum and it quickly turned into a massive debate over who makes the top 5 list. Thought I would bring it here and see what the bright people of the DevNetwork Forums say about their top 5 list.

As far as pure name-recognition... who would you say makes the top 5 list of most famous LIVING people in the WORLD? Rank them in numerical order.
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1. Bill Gates.
2. George W.
3. Oprah.
4. Donald Trump.
5. Me..

LOL this is just off the top of my head.
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1. Michael Jordan
2. Michael Jackson
3. Mohammed Ali
4. Madonna
5. George W. Bush
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personally, or as a society/culture/human (last I checked)?
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The Governator. (Arnold) :wink:
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feyd wrote:personally, or as a society/culture/human (last I checked)?
Huh... it's simple... most famous in the world. If you took a poll all over the world asking folks which person they recongized by their name... who would make the top 5. Don't complicate it - think simple :) .
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Osama Bin Ladin too.
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1. Jacko
2. Bush
3. Osama
4. Oprah
5. Bill Gates
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People like Oprah and Donald Trump simply aren't well known outside of the west. If you add up the population of Europe, North America, South America .. you're only just approaching the populations of India or China. Also, you have to bear in mind that large amounts of the world still rely on newspapers and cinema .. people famous through television aren't going to get their message to a wide international audience.

My list:

1. George Bush
2. Hu Jintao (Thats the president of China if you don't know)
3. Manmohan Singh (President of India)
4. Bill Gates
5. Elizabeth Winsor (Queen of the UK)
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Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa :P
And feyd, world #1 poster :P
Of course we cannot forget Vin Diesel and Chuck Norris :) - (reference: http://www.4q.cc/
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Most famous first, least famous last.

Saddam Hussain
George W.
Madonna
Michael Jackson
The Queen (Elizabeth)
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Rasmus Lerdorf
Carl E. Hewitt
Grady Booch
Steve Wozniak
Grace Hopper <-- Dead only to those who aren't geeks.
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Post by phpScott »

onion2K i think you mean Elizabeth Windsor, dont want to upset any royalists out there.

As for my list
1)Saddam Hussain
2)George W.
3)Pele
4)Muhammad, Jesus, Buddha,
5)Any number of sikh prophets

There was no mention of living or dead
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3. Oprah.
Who is it?
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Post by pickle »

phpScott wrote:There was no mention of living or dead
seodevhead wrote:top 5 list of most famous LIVING people in the WORLD
My list is pretty much just like ~onion2k's
  1. Bush
  2. Hu Jintao
  3. Manmohan Singh
  4. Queen Elizabeth (I'd bet a lot of people don't know her as Elizabeth Windsor)
  5. Is John Wayne still alive? If so he's my 5th.
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