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Good point.
Mohamed Ali
Mick Jagger
Paul McCartney
Michael Jordan
Michael Jackson
Oprah
Tiger Woods
other
Get over what you, or your fellow countrymen know. It is irrelevant. Compared to the world population, you guys are irrelevant.
You guys know Beckham because he is a pretty-boy that tabloids love to follow around . . . and he played in LA. Madonnar, I mean Maradona, is well-known all over the world.
Good point.
No. There are many others.
if Madonner died tomorrow, would his death be on the front page of papers across the country? the answer is no.
If Paul McCartney or Mick Jagger died tomorrow would it make the front page? Absolutely
that is the difference. Just like people in South America don't give a about Oprah, we don't give a about Madonner. Every country gives a about the Beatles
Yao is big.
He is ing huge!
Why does this thread say "world"? Who cares about people outside of America.
I think this is getting off topic. I'm talking about who crosses boarders the most, not who is known by the most people. See Yao is the biggest celeb in the biggest country, so be could be up there at the top- but if he went to Europe or Africa most people would just see a giant Chinese man. I'm talking about, who is just as important in their home country as they are everywhere else. The answer is Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. They could sell out the Garden or bum Egypt- doesn't matter. They are big not matter where they go
Actually, he was knocked back off, Bill Gates is back at #1, Buffet is #2, and Carlos is #3. I don't believe that net worth necessarily should be the number 1 (or even #2 deciding factor). If you want to go by that, then you really have to go back to the Pope, because after the problems caused in the middle ages by priests accepting land in the church's name for absolution, they changed the legal structure of the church. The pope is the technical legal owner of all church lands around the world. So he would *technically* be the richest man in the world. There are also 1 Billion Catholics around the world, so he has the numbers too. I think he is disqualified from this conversation though because it is about "biggest celebrity," which I cannot say he is. Maybe the John Paul the II was, but not this one.
As far as the reverence with which soccer players are held around the world, I cannot say except that in Europe they are held in very high esteem. Elsewhere I have no experience. I still think Jacko wins out, but that could be a little American-centric of me.
Like Paul McCartney or even Mick Jagger could hold a tour and hit every country and the point of the tour was to meet the stars- so you wouldn't need to go to 2 shows, just one would be sufficient. And if they did this, they would sell out every single show because they are important to that many people in different countries. Yao Ming and that soccer guy could draw mega crowds in their mainlands, but they couldn't cross boarders like McCartney, Jagger and Michael Jackson
If Yao Ming came and signed autographs at the boat show, I wouldn't go. If Paul McCartney did, I would go even though I hate boats and I would expect to wait in a long line- and I don't even really like the Beatles!
From Thunder Dan's list I would take: Jagger, Ali, and Jackson and add Maradona. Among those 4 we get without a doubt the biggest celebrity still alive.
McCartney IMO doesn't make the list 'cause he's too low profile.
If that is what you meant, why the did you include Oprah who is no more than a local celebrity.
I agree with jacko. PM is probably up there too.
I think you have to inlcude sports personalities. Even though you don't know who Maradona is, I can asure you he is huge everywhere. I was once vacatining in South East Asia and in places such as Cambodia or Indonesia, when people asked me where I was from, and I responded "Argentina", they would immediately would say "Argentina . . . Ahh, Maradona!"
Tiger and Federer are huge everywhere you go. And because of the Olympics, I would argue Michael Phelps (at least for a brief period last year) achived that kind of status.
JP II, when he was alive, has extremely well-known.
lol at getting mad over someone not including your ty soccer player on the list.
Again, in the front pages of US papers? probably not.
In front pages of any newspaper of the rest of the world? definitely yes.
Who's mad about that? If anyone's mad is Monosylab for realizing that Oprah isn't outside the US.
but that is what I'm saying. If McCartney died, there wouldn't be a newspaper it wouldn't be front page on
I just realized how bad TD butchered Ali's name.
TD, I am sending in the 10 bucks today.
I'm mad that neither Howard Stern nor Jerry Springer made the cut.
Those guys are well known in Buthan, Lesotho and Sarawak . . .
But in the rest of the world (with maybe the exception of England, and I'm not sure) if Maradona and McCartney die at the same time Maradona would get the biggest repercussion.
Have you read the last 3 pages of this thread? Butthurt argentina posters are mad about it.
The last thing I would say in this thread (for now) is that IMO Maradona is the biggest sport celebrity and Jagger the biggest musical one.
P/S: Brad Pitt would be the biggest movie star.
Not really.
I'm mad at ignorant posters who are only looking at their bellybotton . . .
Tom Cruise?
Pitt or DiCaprio are much bigger than that .
TD, excuse my bad handwriting. I just finished writing you're info and all that. Ima send it later on today. Hope it gets there before the Final 4 begin.
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