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

[Brettthepei]

Hearsay

My 18 year old son was amazed when I told him GillianAnderson in Sex Education was in a cult TV show when I was in my early 20s and had never heard of David Duchovny.

Michael Fish.

Leslie Crowther ( crackerjack ) 😂

Keith Chegwin and Noel Edmonds

Mr. T

Johnny Morris
Brian Cant

Virtually every UK politician of the 20C except Churchill, Thatcher and Blair.

Virtually every world politician bar Gandhi (Mahatma), Mandela, JFK, Reagan, Stalin, Hitler.

Leif Garrett

Rowdy Yates (first TV crush when I was about 12)

Tribe of Toffs sang John Kettley is a Weatherman.

I have no idea why I know that.

Richard Stilgoe
David Bellamy
Hinge and Bracket
Maureen Lipman
Miriam Karlin

Les Dawson

Mike Yarwood

Gloria Vanderbilt

Dexter Fletcher.

Stu Francis 'Crackerjack!'

Jeremy Beadle

Michael fish

Maggie Philbin
Bill Hoskins
Simon Green
Mark Curry

Denis Healey and his eyebrows were big in our house.

Pythagorus.

My kids know of Heath Ledger (big Batman fans) and one watches Beavis & Butthead

Jasper is in The Archers so the youth of today have probably heard of him.

I don't any 'youth' that listen to the Archers! 😆

Katy Hill
Germaine Greer