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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #35 on: July 30, 2012, 08:59:32 PM »
Messi?   Mark Tremeloti?   Who the hell are these people?   

I'm glued to media at least 3-4 hours a day and these names are alien to me.

McCartney...definitely...
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #36 on: July 30, 2012, 09:12:04 PM »
Messi is known all around South America, which is not the case of many people named in this thread, like Paul McCartney...

EDIT : Well, maybe Christiano Ronaldo is more famous. He has 47M likes on his FB page.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #37 on: July 30, 2012, 09:23:11 PM »
A considerable proportion of the world does not have Facebook, and you can't reliably use Facebook likes to gauge how many people who don't use Facebook have heard of him.

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« Reply #38 on: July 30, 2012, 09:25:46 PM »
A considerable proportion of the world does not have Facebook, and you can't reliably use Facebook likes to gauge how many people who don't use Facebook have heard of him.

Messi is huge.

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« Reply #39 on: July 30, 2012, 09:27:11 PM »
A considerable proportion of the world does not have Facebook, and you can't reliably use Facebook likes to gauge how many people who don't use Facebook have heard of him.

Messi is huge.


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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #40 on: July 30, 2012, 09:27:49 PM »
I loathe soccer and couldn't tell you anything about it. Other than Messi

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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #41 on: July 30, 2012, 09:31:47 PM »
Mickey Mouse.

Is he alive?

Probably something like David Beckman, Bill Gates or Julian Assange.

I doubt most people in 3rd world countries have a clue who any of those people are .

Bill Gates has probably done more to help people in 3rd world countries than many of their governments have...
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #42 on: July 30, 2012, 09:32:08 PM »
A considerable proportion of the world does not have Facebook, and you can't reliably use Facebook likes to gauge how many people who don't use Facebook have heard of him.
But being one of the most, if not the most popular person on FB gives a good idea of who's more famous.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #43 on: July 30, 2012, 09:34:36 PM »
J.K. Rowling, maybe.

From England to the whole world I think she is mostly loved by many, including adults. And I think, Messi is a valid answer as well.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #44 on: July 30, 2012, 09:35:47 PM »
Good luck finding someone who hasn't heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #45 on: July 30, 2012, 09:44:37 PM »
My first thought when I saw the thread title was Paul McCartney. I think Bill Gates and Lionel Messi are also good calls as far as most famous person.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #46 on: July 30, 2012, 09:48:44 PM »
I had to look up who Lionel Messi is.

I don't think sports heroes are the right candidates for this sort of thing. Same with musicians. I think it's pretty obvious that the most known person currently alive throughout the entire world would have to be Obama.

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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #47 on: July 30, 2012, 09:49:10 PM »
Good luck finding someone who hasn't heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger.


For most of his life, tough rugged L.A. cop Jack Slater had never heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger. And even when he did, he couldn't get his last name right.
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« Reply #48 on: July 30, 2012, 09:50:48 PM »
I'm a sports fan...I follow football, baseball, basketball and hockey...and even mildly follow my local MLS team.   

I have never heard of Lionel Messi until this moment.    Which sport does he play?

EDIT: I'm guessing soccer since I follow that a little less than the others.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #49 on: July 30, 2012, 09:52:05 PM »
I think Christiano Ronaldo is more famous than Messi though.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #50 on: July 30, 2012, 10:09:27 PM »
Queen Elizabeth II

The first person that popped in my mind.

Correct. It is the Queen. Or so I have read :P

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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #51 on: July 30, 2012, 10:41:52 PM »
Me.

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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #52 on: July 30, 2012, 10:43:11 PM »
Queen Elizabeth II

The first person that popped in my mind.

Correct. It is the Queen. Or so I have read :P


The OP clearly stipulated that the character in question has to be a PERSON. Not a woman.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #53 on: July 31, 2012, 12:09:44 AM »
The Queen of England
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« Reply #54 on: July 31, 2012, 12:37:39 AM »
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl...
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #55 on: July 31, 2012, 12:38:44 AM »
Queen Elizabeth II

The first person that popped in my mind.

Correct. It is the Queen. Or so I have read :P
This was my first thought as well, can't see who else it could be.

The OP clearly stipulated that the character in question has to be a PERSON. Not a woman.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #56 on: July 31, 2012, 12:48:43 AM »
Why does Great Britain still have a royal family  :facepalm: 

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« Reply #57 on: July 31, 2012, 02:04:16 AM »
The OP clearly stipulated that the character in question has to be a PERSON. Not a woman.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #58 on: July 31, 2012, 02:34:32 AM »
Yar, I'd say the queen. Only person in the world who does not require a passport.

Now that's pretty famous, right?
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #59 on: July 31, 2012, 04:06:51 AM »
How about Nelson Mandela?  Dalai Lama?  Oprah Winfrey?

This is probably the best answer I've seen so far.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #60 on: July 31, 2012, 04:33:08 AM »
Adami, I want a serious answer from you. Especially because I didn't consider that much of the non-Western world probably might not know who Gill Bates or Paul McCartney are (although I would contend that the latter is more likely, since the Beatles toured literally almost everywhere in the world).
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #61 on: July 31, 2012, 04:46:29 AM »
Messi?   Mark Tremeloti?   Who the hell are these people?   

I've never heard of them either. Never even seen the names before this thread.

I guess it's hard for people to think globally when we're surrounded by our own relatively narrow culture. I'd think people like the Queen and the Pope would be really well known, although again I see this being limited to certain areas of the world.
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« Reply #62 on: July 31, 2012, 05:05:52 AM »
Actually yeah, the Pope probably stands a good chance. I know his reach certainly extends to the Third World.
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #63 on: July 31, 2012, 05:14:39 AM »
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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #64 on: July 31, 2012, 05:19:04 AM »
Adami. I think we have to rule out what ... about 1-2 Billion people who have little/no access to media or print?  Clearly, there isn't going to be a single individual who's famously known to that collective demographic.

That doesn't mean they don't know some people.  You can't just ignore them.  The question is about the most famous person in the world, and ignoring 20% of the people in the world defeats that purpose.

But you can.  If 20% of the world don't know any one individual consistently, then the "most" famous person will be the one that the rest of the 80% do know.  That would still make them the most famous person in the world.

I like the Pope suggestion.
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« Reply #65 on: July 31, 2012, 06:15:50 AM »
Pope, Queen Elizabeth or Obama.

And seriously at people in here that don't even RECOGNIZE the name Messi? what?

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« Reply #66 on: July 31, 2012, 06:29:48 AM »
How about Nelson Mandela?  Dalai Lama?

I thought about these two too.

So, is Messi the most famous soccer player around these days? A famous soccer player is a good answer, because soccer is the biggest sport in the whole world. But are Péle or Diego Maradona even more famous? Or that overrated Beckham?

Obama is of course famous, maybe I'll go with him. Putin is a pretty good choice also, I think, but I don't know, who is leading China now.

Or actually I know. The ghost of Mao Zedong.


Carly Rae Jepsen

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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #67 on: July 31, 2012, 06:31:48 AM »
Messi is Messi.

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« Reply #68 on: July 31, 2012, 06:35:20 AM »
Who the hell is messi? If that question has to be asked by anyone they can't be the most famous person in the world. Honestly It would probably be George Bush. If you think about it... there probably isn't anyone on the planet that hasn't heard his name.

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Re: The Most Famous Person Alive
« Reply #69 on: July 31, 2012, 06:36:32 AM »
Who the hell is messi? If that question has to be asked by anyone they can't be the most famous person in the world. Honestly It would probably be George Bush. If you think about it... there probably isn't anyone on the planet that hasn't heard his name.

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