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Who's the person known to the most people in the world today, do you think - in terms of people being able to identify that person from being shown their picture?
For this purpose we have to imagine that people's pictures would be plain portraits; so no regal or papal clues for kings and popes, etc. to cue people in on who they are.
Is it George W. Bush, Bill Clinton? A guy like Pelé, or maybe some other sports personality? Pope Benedict XVI is an unlikely candidate I think, too new on the job for him to be the most well-known face out there. Neil Armstrong, sadly, is not known to too many people these days, not even by name only, or so I'm afraid.
And one has to remember that for a person to be known by (possibly) billions, they'd have to have made themselves known in a wide range of cultures, not just the "Western" one that we're familiar with.
I think I'll go with Queen Elizabeth II. On the throne since 1952, nominal head of the Commonwealth of Nations, and portrayed in so many contexts and for such an extended period of time, I say she is the one that most people would recognize.
Let's have your suggestions.
For this purpose we have to imagine that people's pictures would be plain portraits; so no regal or papal clues for kings and popes, etc. to cue people in on who they are.
Is it George W. Bush, Bill Clinton? A guy like Pelé, or maybe some other sports personality? Pope Benedict XVI is an unlikely candidate I think, too new on the job for him to be the most well-known face out there. Neil Armstrong, sadly, is not known to too many people these days, not even by name only, or so I'm afraid.
And one has to remember that for a person to be known by (possibly) billions, they'd have to have made themselves known in a wide range of cultures, not just the "Western" one that we're familiar with.
I think I'll go with Queen Elizabeth II. On the throne since 1952, nominal head of the Commonwealth of Nations, and portrayed in so many contexts and for such an extended period of time, I say she is the one that most people would recognize.
Let's have your suggestions.
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