amsemp
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This fella on Twitter has generated a lot of discussion over his top 10 most famous athletes in the world list. He’s American (in case you didn’t realise from his list!).
Interested to know others take on what the list should be. It’s so hard to measure. People have pointed to Instagram followers where Cristiano Ronaldo has 20 times the amount of followers as Tom Brady. Indian cricketer Virat Kohli is also up there but I would argue isn’t as globally recognisable.
I think I would define famous as who would be able to identify them if you were to show them a picture. I reckon you could pick 10 countries in the world at random and show someone a picture of Ronaldo or Messi and they would be immediately identified most of the time. Tom Brady or Steph Curry? Absolutely not.

Interested to know others take on what the list should be. It’s so hard to measure. People have pointed to Instagram followers where Cristiano Ronaldo has 20 times the amount of followers as Tom Brady. Indian cricketer Virat Kohli is also up there but I would argue isn’t as globally recognisable.
I think I would define famous as who would be able to identify them if you were to show them a picture. I reckon you could pick 10 countries in the world at random and show someone a picture of Ronaldo or Messi and they would be immediately identified most of the time. Tom Brady or Steph Curry? Absolutely not.
