Who is the most famous person alive today?

[virgocatlover]

As in, well known world wide by face or name.

I would say the Queen was up there when she was alive but not sure Charles would make the top 10 now.

Trump, Putin or Elon Musk perhaps?

Obviously there are many famous Hollywood actors and singers but are any the most famous worldwide where English isn't the first language?

I still think Jackie Chan has a good shot.

I'm a good bit older than that, and he's a complete irrelevance to me.

If he was in any way relevant, surely it would be to someone who has grown up being reminded at every juncture just how amazing the Beatles were, but no. I have vague memories of some Wings stuff, Mull of Kintyre, that sort of thing, but apart from that he's the guy that everyone wheels out on entertainment specials, musician medleys and so on, because they want to feel good about themselves, but everyone else secretly wishes would just go into quiet retirement due to having no relevance to anything contemporary.

Cliff Richard "entertaining" Wimbledon vibes. The vast bulk sitting there thinking "sit down and behave you silly old fool", but cringing too hard to outwardly show it.

I guess it depends on how we are defining fame doesn't it. Some people are looking for those recognisable by the most people, while others are looking for names with the biggest reach.

Jesus Christ resurrected and is still alive today. Whether you believe in him or not, Jesus is the most famous person to have ever existed.

In his day, Julio Iglesias used to be the most famous singer/songwriter in the world even though he wasn't well known in the anglo-saxon world - he was HUGE in Spanish and other latin-speaking countries.

I think you will habe a hard time convincing much of the world he existed.

ChatGTP says Cristiano Ronaldo, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian (in that order). 🤔

Oprah maybe?

I'm pretty certain if he existed he didn't look anything like the representations used by the church, so this fails on the recognition test. Unless he was going to walk around with a neon halo and a big "I'm Jesus" flag.

A number of articles on Google say Cristiano Ronaldo. But a lot of them are taking net worth into their considerations too!

Considering their was a Facebook page dedicated to asking her to perform in India I don’t think this is true.

Jesus' official Twitter account has 873K followers.

Christiano Ronaldo has 113million.

It's also beyond doubt that Christiano Ronaldo is

1. Alive
2. Existed

Try again.

Probably a footballer. I don't know any but if you are looking at worldwide it will be a footballer. Ronaldo?

Steven Spielberg might be up there, for name recognition only.

Tom Cruise was my first thought

David Beckham

Su Pollard.

I don't think 5 counts as lots, there are another 49 that haven't been to.

I agree that King of England would be most cited as worlds most famous person if every person in the world was asked.

Even if people don't know what he looks like they all know 'King of England' just like they knew 'Queen of England'.

The people of the south pacific islands absolutely worshipped Duke of Ed, now they've moved onto his son, Charles

Susan Boyle