Who will the next generations remember?

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Joey D
Tiger Woods - Yes
Roger Federer - No idea who he is.
Steve Irwin - Maybe
Peter Brock - No
AC/DC - Maybe
The guy with a Japanese name - No
Kevin Rudd - I don't think anyone knows about Australian prime ministers outside of your country. I don't think I could even name one.



For someone to be remembered by a generation as a whole they need to be known by several cultures all over the world.
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Never heard of Roger Federer? He's been world no.1 in tennis for a few years now and is supposedly the best player of the sport in history. Peter Brock will definitely be remembered, even if you don't know who he is. There's a whole museum dedicated to him even. I really hope Acca Dacca get remembered, they were great. And Steve Irwin it would be sad if people forgot- what a legend.

Edit: Can I ask anyone reading this thread, who knows who Peter Brock is?
 
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Never heard of Roger Federer? He's been world no.1 in tennis for a few years now and is supposedly the best player of the sport in history. Peter Brock will definitely be remembered, even if you don't know who he is. There's a whole museum dedicated to him even. I really hope Acca Dacca get remembered, they were great. And Steve Irwin it would be sad if people forgot- what a legend.
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If you say so but I'm telling you to be influential and remembered to a whole generation of people they need to have done some big and be iconic through out the world. Elvis is a good example of that because people know who he was even outside of America. If a person is only known by one area of the world I would not consider them someone who will be remembered by a generation as a whole.

I would ask people her if they knew who Peter Brock and they would look at me weird. No one here even knows what Australian Touring cars are. You can't be so ethnocentric when looking at this stuff.
 
Joey D
If you say so but I'm telling you to be influential and remembered to a whole generation of people they need to have done some big and be iconic through out the world. Elvis is a good example of that because people know who he was even outside of America. If a person is only known by one area of the world I would not consider them someone who will be remembered by a generation as a whole.

I would ask people her if they knew who Peter Brock and they would look at me weird. No one here even knows what Australian Touring cars are. You can't be so ethnocentric when looking at this stuff.
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Roger Federer would be known by millions upon millions of people all across the globe, more so than in Australia. If no one knew what Australian Touring Cars were than that would be the dombest thing ever. Australians know what DTM and JGTC and NASCAR are, even though for two of those there are no english websites for them (that I've found). I don't think the whole world has to remember anyway, history remembers when loads of people remember. I'd say millions remembering Peter Brock is enough to say he was remembered.

By the way: Dale Earnhardt Jnr. See, even I know a popular NASCAR racing car driver, but you don't know Peter Brock? Actually that scares me a little :scared: :dopey:

Edit: I'm going to do a little survey and ask some random people if they know who Peter Brock is, OK?
 
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Roger Federer would be known by millions upon millions of people all across the globe, more so than in Australia. If no one knew what Australian Touring Cars were than that would be the dombest thing ever. Australians know what DTM and JGTC and NASCAR are, even though for two of those there are no english websites for them (that I've found). I don't think the whole world has to remember anyway, history remembers when loads of people remember. I'd say millions remembering Peter Brock is enough to say he was remembered.
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I disagree with your statement, I've explained why.

By the way: Dale Earnhardt Jnr. See, even I know a popular NASCAR racing car driver, but you don't know Peter Brock? Actually that scares me a little :scared: :dopey:
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What scares me is you are thinking like a typical American thinking that just because you know who someone is means the rest of the world also must know. The only Nascar driver that I think will really be remembered outside of the Nascar community is Richard Petty and that's just be he endorses everything.

Edit: I'm going to do a little survey and ask some random people if they know who Peter Brock is, OK?
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More people will probably know who he is on this site since there is a big following of auto racing. Ask 100 random people off the street.
 
Joey D
More people will probably know who he is on this site since there is a big following of auto racing. Ask 100 random people off the street.
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That's funny you should say that, remember I am Australian and everyone will know who he is here. An entire generation does not have to remember a person for history to be remembered. Imagine how many millions will not know who Elvis is in the middle-east or Asia for language differences. If the billions (possibly an exaggeration) of motorsport fans around the world remember Brock then he is counted as being remembered in history.
 
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That's funny you should say that, remember I am Australian and everyone will know who he is here. An entire generation does not have to remember a person for history to be remembered. Imagine how many millions will not know who Elvis is in the middle-east or Asia for language differences. If the billions (possibly an exaggeration) of motorsport fans around the world remember Brock then he is counted as being remembered in history.
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We have friends from Hong Kong who know who Elvis is. He was pretty world wide and sold more then 500 million records. Also a friend of my lives in Tokyo right now and she's sang Jailhouse Rock karaoke there...I've seen the video of it.
 
Ram-Rod
David Grohl, imo. Most music people shouldn't forget him.
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I lol'd.

Bands/Musicians:
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix


Artists:
Andy Warhol
Banksy
Annie Leibovitz
Jim Marshall
Henri Cartier-Bresson
 
Joey D
We have friends from Hong Kong who know who Elvis is. He was pretty world wide and sold more then 500 million records. Also a friend of my lives in Tokyo right now and she's sang Jailhouse Rock karaoke there...I've seen the video of it.
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So the English speaking people know him, what of the people who can't speak English at all. There are famous Japanese bands that sing in Japanese we have never heard of because we don't speak Japanese. (Or at least I think there are)
 
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So the English speaking people know him, what of the people who can't speak English at all. There are famous Japanese bands that sing in Japanese we have never heard of because we don't speak Japanese. (Or at least I think there are)
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Not everyone from Hong Kong is a white, British citizen. Our friends are from Chinese decent and speak Cantonese fluently. But that is besides the points. There are a lot of famous bands that are world known and only sing in English. I have friends from all over Europe who's English is limited yet they love bads like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Metallica.

As for me I listen to bands from all over the world, some of the best music I have is in foreign languages.
 
Joey D
Not everyone from Hong Kong is a white, British citizen. Our friends are from Chinese decent and speak Cantonese fluently. But that is besides the points. There are a lot of famous bands that are world known and only sing in English. I have friends from all over Europe who's English is limited yet they love bads like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Metallica.

As for me I listen to bands from all over the world, some of the best music I have is in foreign languages.
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Yeah, so true so true. :)
Its all about preferences people. If you know that musician/band, your not the only one who likes it..... Actually, its pretty much everything! I don't even know who Peter Brock is until I read about him on Wikipedia!

F1GTR: You forgot Kurt Cobain and Nirvana :p
 
Joey D
Not everyone from Hong Kong is a white, British citizen.
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Never said they were, I said that not all people speak English. Anyway, the rest of the world won't remember Peter Brock by the sounds of it, but we will for ever and ever :p
 
Joey D
I honestly think he's more remembered for his death then his music.
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Yeah, I guess so. But remember, Nirvana did help popularize the grunge sub genre and until today, many bands and singers alike do have Nirvana as their influence. Their songs are pretty much amazing back then, nothing could ever come close to Smells Like Teen Spirit. Definitely would go down in history as a very influential song...... 👍

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Never said they were, I said that not all people speak English. Anyway, the rest of the world won't remember Peter Brock by the sounds of it, but we will for ever and ever :p
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Thats because your Australian..... :rolleyes:
 
I know it's great to remember great country men, but I am looking for the type of people that Joey D, is also understanding as fitting my criteria. I could list tons of people off the top of my head from the US that are famous.
  • John Wayne
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Henry Ford

But, these people will probably not even be known in half of the country's around the world even as great as they were in the US. I'm thinking about people that have made a big impact in their field, and thus will be known worldwide and for many years to come, not just those known to a few countries. That's my whole reasoning for this thread, because I was having a hard time thinking of people that can stand the test of time. I'm unfamiliar with over half of the names as posted so far, but it is interesting to search the unknown and see what they have done.
 
Some good ones here...some others that are just popular now, but not exactly iconic imo. Anyways, just to add to the list without repeating anything (and in no order other than that which they occurred to me), I expect these names will remain/become household over the next few decades:

Oprah Winfrey
Marilyn Monroe
Michael Schumacher (how has he not come up yet?)
James Dean
Bill Cosby
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
Likewise, the members of the first Mars mission
Craig Venter (sequenced the human genome)
Jacques Cousteau
Nelson Mandela
Mahatma Ghandi
Martin Luther King Jr
Muhammad Ali
WWII Figures: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goring, Heinrich Himler, Manfred von Richthofen, Winston Churchill, Mackenzie King, Franklin Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Joeseph Stalin, Francisco Franco (to a lesser extent),


edit: ya I know that a few of the figures I listed weren't around in 1950, this is like 1940-present.
 
Boundary Layer
Some good ones here...some others that are just popular now, but not exactly iconic imo. Anyways, just to add to the list without repeating anything (and in no order other than that which they occurred to me), I expect these names will remain/become household over the next few decades:

Oprah Winfrey
Marilyn Monroe
Michael Schumacher (how has he not come up yet?)
James Dean
Bill Cosby
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
Likewise, the members of the first Mars mission
Craig Venter (sequenced the human genome)
Jacques Cousteau
Nelson Mandela
Mahatma Ghandi
Martin Luther King Jr
Muhammad Ali
WWII Figures: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goring, Heinrich Himler, Manfred von Richthofen, Winston Churchill, Mackenzie King, Franklin Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Joeseph Stalin, Francisco Franco (to a lesser extent),


edit: ya I know that a few of the figures I listed weren't around in 1950, this is like 1940-present.
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Now there's a list...I can at least recognize 50% of the names.
 
People the next generations will remember, part 2

-Jack Canfield
-Joseph Bombardier (Canadian inventor; his name lives on in engineering company)
-Artem Mikoyan (the Russians will)
-Clarence "Kelly" Johnson (head designer at Lockheed Martin; designed SR-71 and U-2, among others)
-Vladislav Tretiak
-Ayn Rand (writer of bestselling intellectual landmark books)
-Agatha Christie (bestselling mystery author)
-Arthur Ashe (one of the first dominant black tennis players)
-LeBron James
-Yao Ming (first successful Chinese basketball player)
-Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues (shortest basketball player who was in the NBA)
-daan (we know)
-Sam Walton
-Loon (subject of a new meme)
-John F. Kennedy (truly an unfinished life)
-George Bush (infamously)
-Winston Churchill (for his work as the head of England during World War II)

More explanations and names to follow.
 
Boundary Layer
Michael Schumacher (how has he not come up yet?)
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Oh, come on.......... :grumpy:

Muzaffar Musa
Tim Berners-Lee
Michael Schumacher
Barack Obama?
The Rolling Stones

Well there could be a lot people that could be remembered, but it still depends whether who the future generations would look up to......
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Yeah, but other than that, I think your list is pretty much complete. ;)
 
Joey D
Agreed, except I believe I recognize all of the names except I don't know much about Craig Venter.
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He's the guy that promised to sequence the Human Genome quicker than anyone else. Of course he didn't actually do it by himself, he had a lot of cash, a team of great scientists, and a lot of extremely expensive equipment to help him out, but he'll be remembered for heading the team that did it. His latest claim is that he's been the first to create artificial life, after stripping a bacterium to the fewest number of genes required to sustain life, and then synthetically recreating them. Relatively cool, and yet somewhat scarey at the same time. :indiff:

Two of the most overlooked geniuses of our time, given the impact that the microchip has had on modern day life are Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, Kilby being an employee of Texas Instruments and winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2000.
Oddly Noyce being the more outgoing of the two and a Silicon Valley God is often the more recognised.

It's very difficult to overlook the achievements of Stephen Hawking, James Watson & Francis Crick in scientific terms, but then there's also a million and one other artists who're in the media eye a lot more and hence tend to be better looked upon and more publicised! It's a lot easier to sell tickets to a tickets to a Brittany Spears concert than it is to a lecture on Protein Folding and Cross-Sectional structure, although one has undoubtably more value to life than the other!!! :p
 
Jimi Hendrix
Bono
Bill Gates
George W(ar) Bush
Wayne Gretzky
Michael Jordan
Brad Pitt
Jennifer Lopez
Stephen Hawking
Bruce Lee
Ueshiba Morihei
Peter Jackson
Steven Spielberg
George Lucas
Queen Elizabeth II
Alexander Ovechkin
Sidney Crosby
Homer Simpson
Hirohito
John Lennon

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
 

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