Who is the most globally recognized athelete?

LeBron? Kobe? Messi?

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cristiano ronaldo

Jordan or Ronaldo

It's Messi or Ronaldo. Undoubtedly one of the two.

jordan

Shaq

>lebron
>globally recognized
hah

1. Ronaldo
2. Messi
3. Jordan

it's not from any sport except soccer. how could you possibly think otherwise

Michael Jordan

usain bolt probs
95% of sports fans don't know who messi or ronaldo are

messi by a massive margin, then about ten other footballers, then usain bolt, then a cricketer, then lebron

Actually, Jordan could probably take #1

ESPN just did a thing about this. They said:
1. Penaldo
2. LeBeta
3. Messi
Thing is, they heavily factored social media into it, and it's well known that Penaldo has millions of fake social media accounts which follow and like him, so Penaldo's position is not legitimate.

>implying Jordan isn't in the top 5 most known athletes

You have to go back.

Good lord, can indians fans learn what is and isn't a homerun?
Every fly ball ever
"OOOOOOOOO"

I can honestly tell you right now most British people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Jordan and another black basketball player. Fuck, I don't even think I could, and I've been on Sup Forums for like four years and had far more exposure to American sports than most Europeans.

David Beckham has to be up there.

kobe or messi

prob messi

absolutely not

i'm not saying I support it, but thinking otherwise is just flat out retarded.

lebron is just as famous in the China, philippines and USA as any cricket player is in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, England, Aus, RSA. Get out of your own ass, friend.

Rex Grossman

Fucking lol.

All niggers look the same. I couldnt tell the difference between kobe, lebron, or my cocaine dealer (all niggers)

More importantly who is the most recognizable athlete in America?

papa john

Ronaldo and it's not close

Amongst normies it's probably actually someone like Tiger Woods or Roger Federer. No one here has a fucking clue who Messi is, I assume that's the same in the US.

Wrong its Kobe

Its still MJ

David Beckham still probably lamao

Depends on popular definition

Ronaldo for most Internet searched
If you are talking about fans that's easy it's Lebron
Insanely popular in Asia with around 2 billion people recognizing him immediately according to studies in Asia (not including India) alone. Roughly 2/3 the world recognizes him in pictures

Ronaldo is popular in Europe and South America but otherwise most people don't give a shit.

You underestimate the power of American business and advertising

>Who is the most globally recognized athelete?
Probably a soccer player.

I don't typically watch soccer but I know who the TSU guy and Messi are. But I don't know if the typical American would recognize them (Assuming they were the most recognizable in the world).

This. It's a weird ego thing with soccer fans. I'm not a basketball fan but it's kind of obvious when you realize there are 2.5 billion in east Asia people who don't give a shit at all about soccer but love basketball

Kobe. He is well known everywhere

>2.5 billion in East Asia who don't give a shit about football
Absolute kek. They bandwagon European football teams religiously

Kobe
no contest

an horse

Its westbrook aka kobe aka bledsoe aka chad guy from the suns

The typical American has probably at least heard Messi and Ronaldo's names, if they don't recognize them. I assume LeBron and Kobe are popular overseas.

This tbqh. If not for spuh the only soccer players I would know would be David Beckham, Pele, and Hope Solo

same

I used to think Beckham was like a super model or something

Haha it's funny how much of an echo chamber you all occupy. To think that it would be a soccer player is laughable, even Serena Williams would rank above any of them.

Your answer is Tiger Woods, maybe Federer. Ten years ago it would have been Jordan.

Beckham, you can ask anyone. they know who beckham is.

>NZ
>knowing about anything relevant

by sheer amount of people it's yao ming

Someone mentioned this in another thread. Yelling messi could actually save your life and allow you to escape a situation in some countries. Imagine that. So prolly messi. Maybe ronaldo. Then i guess lebron or something or another soccer player. Its hard to say because soccer is so popular i dont know if other players are so well known maybe neymar?

hamilton

Only soccer player I can name

No one thinks Usain Bolt?

I change my opinion this is probably right unless jordan is really fat now or something

>The Most Famous People of All Time
*descending*
Elvis Presley
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Martin Luther King
Walt Disney
Michael Jackson
Spider Man
Albert Einstein
Leonardo Da Vinci
Benjamin Franklin
Darth Vader
William Shakespeare
Bill Gates
Gandhi
Michael Jordan
Neil Armstrong
Dr. Seuss
Marilyn Monroe
Mother Teresa
Thomas Jefferson
George W. Bush
Charlie Brown
Christopher Columbus
Napoleon
Thomas Edison
Cleopatra
Tom Cruise
John F. Kennedy
Vincent Van Gogh
Ludwig van Beethoven
Isaac Newton
Michelangelo
Paul McCartney
Pablo Piccaso
Mohammad Ali

>jesus not #1

For sure

businessinsider.com/most-famous-athletes-2016-5

According to this thing, it's Ronaldo, followed by Lebron.

But we have to consider shit like other countries. Sure soccer isnt big in the usa or aus, but baseball and cricket players could walk down the streets of ny or syndney and not be recognized by anyone. Im starting to think its gotta be a soccer player, start athlete from a huge country like china, or some random guy who is known for sports and other stuff like being Yao Ming and fucking gigantic. Globally recognized is confusing as maybe im thinking about globally recognizable? like you could see yao in the street and know its yao.

How the fuck is Spider Man there but not Superman or Batman?

Lmao when you see tom cruise on that list and you realize its actually prolly true and he is one of the most famous people ever

cristiano or messi. it couldn't be an american

>literally who?: the list

Ur prolly missing pele, steve jobs, and hitler

1. Jesus of Nazareth
2. Adolf Hitler
3. Caesar

is objectively correct

Also Lennon is more famous than McCartney.

Mohammad is probably up there too.

>Spider Man

prophet mohammad third above caesar now that you mention it

>famous people
>fiction character
wew

Usain Bolt

wtf kind of shit list is this

This list is actually pretty good, There is a debate to be had here, we only know what caesar and jesus look like from paintings and sculptures, and in that regard jesus wins by default. Which makes me thing the whole muslim and no depiction of muhammed thing means muhammed would prolly be number 2 but isntead he is actually way way down the list like in the thousands

Refer to my comment, is he recognizable other than cartoon caricatures that all muslims do not accept. Christians at least accept that jesus is depicted in some way

This was literally produced yesterday. The 100 most famous athletes in the world.

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isn't the fact that half the globe knows who mohammad is despite no physical depiction a testament to his recognizability ?

Does anything other than literary depiction and word of mouth matter? Perhaps there could be problems in that there were multiple prohpets (akin to the Homeric problem), but it was all attributed to one guy.

Dis

How the fuck is Durantula more famous than Kobe?

I mean recognizable is not necessarily who is the most famous. Its part of it. But i had a comment above that mentioned other things making you recognizable. For example china is fucking huge and I would imagine they would figure out kobe is kobe, maybe they wouldnt know who messi is if he was just walking around without an entourage.

Well im thinking of recognized as recognizable. I honestly dont know what recognized means. Does op mean it as in you recognize the face immediately or does he mean something else like people are aware of their existence even without knowing what they look like?? This is my problem with the question

>ESPN's director of sports analytics, devised a formula that combines salary and endorsements with social media following and Google search popularity to create the ESPN World Fame 100 rankings.

I don't know how accurate a list based on fucking social media can be. For one thing, people were famous before the internet, and people can still be famous in shitty places without internet.

Awareness of existence is what I assumed

Well yea in that case its gotta be
Jesus
Mohammed
someone else
I think this all depends on whether more indians and chinese know muhammed or jesus

A bunch of religious figures would be up there. Buddha would also probably fit into the top 5, Confucious top 15

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>KD
>Neymar more famous than Federer, or even in the top 20 for that matter
>Hamez
>some random cricketer
>Mickelson
>Ozil
>arguably Bale
>Bolt that low
>Suarez
>Rousey
>Aguero
>Falcao
>Fabregas
>Melo
>DRose
>Cam

this list of greentext is getting too large

What a garbage list

Beckham & Ronaldo.

Mike Vick

Fucking goose lipped canucks really think their backwards-world offhand knowledge is somehow superior to advanced analytical analysis based on hard data reflecting people's preferences and current, up to date interests and the actual financial footprint athletes have. I love this site.

Very good call, buddha would be 3 at best 5 at worst, but who could you imagine being number 4 regardless of buddha? Has to be a massive political figure. The chinese have their classical leaders and may not necessarily know caesar in large numbers. This is why india and china fuck everything up, because we have to consider their retarded populations. Excluding china and india I genuinely think that number 4 spot would be someone like gandhi or hitler, or maybe even whoever the current us president is?

Not everyone is as retarded as you.

anyway the first semi-modern sports figure I think would be highest on list of most recognized people ever would probably be pele. I mean, my parents literally dont know who messi or ronaldo are but they know pele. I know its anecdotal but most older americans have heard of pele. Id imagine its similar in most countries

Are there sports figures of legend of which there are only illustrations and historical anecdotes?

>Curry
>34

I'll take my backwards-world offhand knowledge thanks

Bo Jackson

but this is on video
youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3l_L-VJ3w

Curry has been a hot topic for under 2 seasons, give him time and he'll start to garner some legitimate worldwide attention.

>thinking cuckhoop fags are relevant

jesus christ his legs are insane

Not famous ones, possibly early baseball and soccer players. Before that maybe games that arent played anymore. But certainly roman Colosseum games if u consider those sports, are documented by illustration and anecdote pretty heavily. The person who answered bo jackson is actually kinda right in a way. Because although theres pictures and videos there is probably more mythology surrounding him than any other modern sports figure, and im talking internationally

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Cool, will watch