Famous Figures

[ankimo]

Can someone provide me with some ideas or a list of famous legendary figures from different areas in recent 1-200 years (no political-related figures and scientists)?
Ex: Bear Grylls, Bob Ross, Stanley Matthews

[NYAD]

Vincent Van Gogh, Lucille Ball, Pablo Escobar

[Tyrion44]

Mother Teresa, Maximilian Kobe, Schindler

[Fibonacci]

18th century
https://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous-people-eighteenth-century.html
19th century
https://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous/nineteenth-century.html
20th century
https://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous-twentieth-century.html

[Maydup]

Queen Elizabeth II
Neil Armstrong
Oscar Wilde

[Buenchico]

Pele, Muhammad Ali, Shane Warne, Ian Botham, Muttiah Muralitharan, Dennis Lillee, Malcolm Marshall, Sir Garfield Sobers, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Auguste Escoffier, Fanny Cradock, Gordon Ramsay, Ken Hom, Dr Christiaan Barnard, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, Judi Dench, Sean Connery, Alec Guinness, Miranda Richardson, Peter Seller, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood, John Cleese, John Constable, L S Lowry, Banksy, J M W Turner, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Bailey, Walker Evans, Martin Parr, Henry Moore, Rudolf Nureyev, Dame Ninette de Valois, Dame Margot Fonteyn, David Livingstone, Henry M Stanley, Jacques Brel, Édith Piaf, Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Woody Allen, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Stephen Fry, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Humphrey Lyttelton, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt, Elvis Costello, Elton John, Olivia Newton-John, Ozzie Osbourn, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Mary Quant, Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Vivienne Westwood, Pierre Cardin, Calvin Klein, Sir Alan Sugar, Antoni Gaudi, Le Corbusier, Norman Foster.

[elliemay1]

Wow, that's some list Chris, how long did it take you to compile it?

[jno]

I don't know about that, elliemay, it hasn't got Nicolas Cage or Mata Hari on it.

[Chairman2001]

Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Lord Voldemort (Ooops, he who must not be named), Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, Robin Hood, all famous and legendary.

[lankeela]

Now that would be some dinner party Chris!

[jno]

Christopher Robin was real and did not like being in the books

[Barsel]

Did nobody mention Sir Winston Churchill?

[Barsel]

Whoops, just saw No political related figures.

[Barsel]

Richard Dimbelby, Norman Hartnell, Vidal Sassoon, Mary Quant.
Billy Butlin, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, James Dean, Elvis Presley.

[tomus42]

Jimmy Tarbuck.

[Barsel]

Torville and Dean, Astaire and Rogers, Frank Sinatra, Harry Selfridge, George Best, Matt Busby, Dick Whittington, Henry 8th, Agatha Christie.

[jno]

Henry 8th, Barsel? Long gone, thank goodness.

[Barsel]

jno, I got a bit carried away didn't I? :-)

[Buenchico]

^^^ Dick Whittington lived over 100 years before Henry XIII !

As Barsel has included an author in her list, perhaps at least some of the following should be included?

Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, Stephen King, Arthur C Clarke, John Betjeman, H G Wells, George Orwell, Harper Lee, John Steinbeck, Graham Greene, Roald Dahl, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Conan Doyle, P G Wodehouse, John Keats, Lord Byron, Carol Ann Duffy, Harold Pinter, Noël Coward, Joe Orton, Alan Ayckbourn, Georges Faydeau.

[Buenchico]

^^^ I'm not too sure when Henry the Thirteenth lived though ;-)

Typo! 'Henry VIII' !!!

[Chairman2001]

Mr & Mrs Vardy, Mr & Mrs Rooney