Most Famous People of the Last 6,000 Years

[JulesMaximus]

Yeah, but where does Justin Bieber fall on this list?

 

[Gooberlx2]

Yeah, but where does Justin Bieber fall on this list?

#671

/shoots self

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I feel like Hitler should easily crack the top 10. Homer and Pythagoras have had a lot more time to be known, but there's more people alive today than there's ever been and I guarantee Hitler is more well known among living people than Homer or Pythagoras. Or Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Confucius or Archimedes for that matter.

 

[OCGuy]

Holy crap how could you not have this guy:

We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent.....'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Holy crap how could you not have this guy:

Because no one knows who said that? He's not really going to compare with thousands of years of people knowing who Plato is.

 

[OCGuy]

Because no one knows who said that? He's not really going to compare with thousands of years of people knowing who Plato is.

I understand the ignorance of the general public, but that doesn't mean I cant be sad about it every time I am reminded. :/

 

[Gooberlx2]

I feel like Hitler should easily crack the top 10. Homer and Pythagoras have had a lot more time to be known, but there's more people alive today than there's ever been and I guarantee Hitler is more well known among living people than Homer or Pythagoras. Or Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Confucius or Archimedes for that matter.

Maybe it's an issue of Wikipedia editors intentionally trying to avoid Godwin's Law?

 

[Kadarin]

Heavily skewed towards Western/European figures.

Because nobody gives a fuck about anybody who wasn't.

 

[Rakehellion]

No Bieber, no care.

 

[OCGuy]

No Bieber, no care.

Thanks. I seriously have "No Beiber, No care" to the tune of Bob Marley's "no woman, no cry" stuck in my head now.

Someone hide anything that goes bang or that is sharp from me :/

 

[Perknose]

Because no one knows who said that? He's not really going to compare with thousands of years of people knowing who Plato is.

First A-bomb explosion ever. I think it was Fermi who said that.

 

[Eug]

Homer is #9!

 

[bigi]

1. Ron Jeremy
2. Tracy Lords
3. Rocco Siffredi

 

[alkemyst]

Famous is relevant. I am Ålkemyst.

 

[Howard]

Famous is relevant. I am Ålkemyst.

You mean relative?

 

[alkemyst]

You mean relative?

Do not mock me infidel.

 

[alkemyst]

I wonder where Psy chalks up on this list.