Who was a famous name when you were growing up that young people today wouldn't have heard of?

[Brettthepei]

Hearsay

Nana Maskouri.

Buzz Aldrin
Robert Maxwell
Audrey Hepburn (most 20's year olds do not recognise her name)
Patrick Macnee
Raymond Baxter
Patrick Moore
Gerald Ratner
Anna Ford
Jean Shrimpton
Dennis Hopper
Isabella Rosellini
Grace Jones
Iman
Tommy Cooper
Mary Whitehouse
Paul Daniels
Topov
Bryan Ferry
Clive Sinclair
John Stonehouse
Sir John Harvey-Jones
Fanny Craddock
Marjorie Proops
Terry Waite

And.......Saffron Walden. OK, ok....I now know it is a place, but years ago there was a By-Election and the name kept coming up on the wireless radio that much and I thought Mr Walden was a famous sort of name.

I am also pretty sure not one of the above has ever:

Taken a selfie
Had Botox
Trout-pouted

Like Brian Walden? Who also belongs on this thread I suspect.

Sarah greene
never again seen after she went under the stairs with Pipes

Linda Lussardi

Percy Thrower

And the dog woman,..... what's her name.

Used to do the siiii-iiit command and fold her arm up. God it's annoying I can't think of her damn name

Barbara Woodhouse:
"Sit!"
"Heel" 🐶

@Thunderpunt
That's mad, I posted at the same time, without reading your post 😂

at least you remembered her name! So funny thinking back to how stern she was!

Five Star
Lenny Kravitz
Bill Crosby
Floella Benjamin
Amanda de Cadinet
Anneka Rice
Dot Cotton
Morten Harkett
Patrick Swazee

Totally

George Michael 😢
Prince 😢

@Brettthepei You aren't very old, given that both the examples on this thread and the other one are from this century.

I give you Victor Borge, Max Wall and Stanley Baxter.

Barbara Woodhouse! I was thinking of her when I saw the thread title but couldn't remember her name.

Walkies!

Mixu Paatelainen

Billy Idol

Noddy Holder
Gina Lollobrigida
Kathy Kirby
Oliver Reed and Alan Bates (Women in Love)

Big Daddy
Giant Haystacks
Jockey Wilson
Nadia Komanech
Olga Korbett

Samantha Fox

Did anyone mention Clive James yet?

Fingermouse

Hardly a household name

Sarah Greene