Top 10 Famous Faces in the World
1. Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was arguably the most dominant figure ever in the music industry. His 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album of all time, and his music videos
Beat It,
Billie Jean and
Thriller were credited with transforming the medium into an art and made him a staple on MTV and every other music and video outlet. Jackson’s death triggered a global outpouring of grief, and as many as one billion people around the world reportedly watched his public memorial service on live television.
2. Albert Einstein
Einstein is another father of modern science. While his most famous theory is his theory of relativity, he put forward a number of new theories that formed the foundation of modern physics and paved the way for the Atomic Age. His theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how our universe works. Thanks to his frazzled hair and the chalkboard in the background of all his pictures, it’s hard not to identify Einstein as the father of science. He died in 1955 of heart failure
3. Adolf Hitler
I’m pretty sure this is the only place on the internet that you’ll find Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler listed right next to each other in a ranking. But they’re certainly both famous in their own way. Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. Hitler’s racially motivated policies resulted in the systematic annihilation of as many as 17 million civilians during the Holocaust, including an estimated 6 million Jews. He committed suicide in 1945.
4. Michael Jordan
Considered by many to be the best basketball player ever, Michael Jordan dominated the sport from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He led the Chicago Bulls to six national championships as well as earned the NBA Most Valuable Player Award five times. He is an Olympic Gold Medalist and the founder of the Jordan brand (built in essence of his image), which has become one of the most successful branches of Nike. In every corner of the Earth, kids wanna “Be like Mike”.
5. Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African-American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator in Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama can be easily identified as one of the most iconic figures in American and world history.
7. Tiger Woods
Eldrick (Tiger) Woods, now 35 years of age, has had an unprecedented career since becoming a professional golfer in the late summer of 1996. He has won 95 tournaments, 71 of those on the PGA Tour. His achievements rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World’s Number 1, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world (he earned an estimated $90.5 million from winnings and endorsements in 2010). On December 11, 2009, Woods announced he would take an indefinite leave from professional golf after multiple infidelities were revealed by over a dozen women. This scandal only increased his popularity throughout many worldwide media sources.
8. Bob Marley
Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley was a legendary Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. We remember the brilliant and evocative music Bob Marley gave the world. His music stretches back over nearly two decades, and during that time his growing style encompassed every aspect in the rise of Jamaican music, from ska to contemporary reggae. His growth was also well reflected in the maturity of the Wailers’ music. Marley has been called the first
Third World Superstar and a
Rasta Prophet, as well as a revolutionary and a visionary. These accolades were not mere hyperbole. Marley was one of the most charismatic and challenging performers of our time. He died in 1981.
9. Muhammad Ali
Ali was a three-time heavyweight World Champion in boxing, and the center of global fascination and frenzied controversy after winning his first title, changing his name from Cassius Clay in support of his Islamic faith, and then later boycotting the Vietnam war. His personality was endlessly mesmerizing with his float-like-a-butterfly, sting-like-a-bee ring style. He was called “the greatest of all time” so often that the words became almost an official designation. The sight of his flawless face and the sound of his confident-beyond-dispute voice have made him one of the most iconic figures in world history.
Ali was a three-time heavyweight World Champion in boxing, and the center of global fascination and frenzied controversy after winning his first title, changing his name from Cassius Clay in support of his Islamic faith, and then later boycotting the Vietnam war. His personality was endlessly mesmerizing with his float-like-a-butterfly, sting-like-a-bee ring style. He was called “the greatest of all time” so often that the words became almost an official designation. The sight of his flawless face and the sound of his confident-beyond-dispute voice have made him one of the most iconic figures in world history.
10. John Lennon
was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. On December 8th 1980, as Lennon was returning to his New York apartment, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
