What famous people would 9yr olds know?

[MavisTheMonkey]

Planning a sleepover party for DD with five of her friends, all aged 9 / 10 and I am prepping a bunch of games.

One of the games is Who Am I where you stick the name of someone famous on their forehead and then they have to guess who they are by asking yes or no questions to the rest of the group.

I'm struggling to think of people and characters they will all know! So far I have:
Taylor Swift
Harry Potter
Ed Sheeran
Elsa from Frozen
The King
Dwayne the Rock Johnson
Their teacher
Donald Trump

I need around 10-15 more names where there is a good chance most of them will know who it is - all suggestions gratefully received.

Olivia Rodrigo 😀

Ant and dec
Harry styles
Prince William
Super Mario
Donald trump
SpongeBob SquarePants

Their teacher…?
the current prime minister
royal family members
jennifer Lawrence
harry styles
what ever movies they watch and music they listen to really…

sabrina carpenter
ed Sheeran

Are they into football?

Authors:
Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
David Walliams
Roald Dahl

Royal Family:
King Charles
Prince William
Princess Catherine

Zendaya
Tom Holland
Ariana Grande
Ronaldo
Messi

Don't use their teacher, it could turn into mean or rude descriptions of them.

I'd focus on fictional characters in TV, Books or films.

Simon Cowell
Harry Kane
David Attenborough

Ariana Grande

Winston Churchill, isambard Brunel, j k Rowling, Roald dahl , david Walliams

Anyone from paw patrol or peppa pig.
if a close group and you’re playing the game where you identify different people, other parents? Pets?

Queen Victoria (or other monarch recently covered at school)

Some great suggestions, thank you all so much!
Will definitely be adding lots of these in.

Different Harry Potter characters but easy ones

Santa Claus
King Henry VIII
Beethoven
Guy Fawkes
Simon Cowell
David Beckham
Victoria Beckham

Ancient Egyptians, like Tutankhamen or Cleopatra.but that could just be my grandson

Interesting and weirdly tricky. There's lots of people here my 8 and 10 year old wouldn't know at all.

Historical
Henry 8th
Neil Armstrong
Queen Elizabeth (1 or 2)

My kids are weirdly obsessed with
Jeffery Bezos
Elon Musk
Bear Grylls

CBBC people
Mr maker?
Steve Backshall

Other fictional characters
Moana
Ariel etc
The BFG
Matilda
Batman etc

Goodness me Ive produced a depressingly stale, male, pale list!

Paddington!

Historical figures on the school curriculum:
Mary Anning
Mary Seacole
Samuel Pepys
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra

You could use cartoon characters or Disney characters too

Hitler
Superhero characters such as iron man, hulk, Spider-Man etc
Ariana grande

YouTube-ers? Those JJ & Mikey individuals seem popular.

Surely part of the fun of that game is thinking up the name to stick on your friend's head?
Just let the kids think of the names themselves, maybe with one or two suggestions from you to get them started.