Who is your 3 most famous sportspeople of all time.?

Great thread.

Mo ali
Pele
Tendulkar

Best thread opener on the forum by a country mile. Beware imposters.

Ali
Pele
Yashin

Michael Jordan
Leighton Aspell
Hulk Hogan

Schumacher?

Ali
Tiger Woods
Pele

Can't believe I missed out Lester so now -

Ali
Pele
Piggott

Messi
Federer
Woods

Jimmy White
Seve Ballesteros
Lionel Messi

Just had a look at the old dictionary, favourite doesnt mean the same as famous apparently - I've revisited my answers..

Tiger Woods
Ali
Pele

Lester
Tefilio Stevenson
Bjorn Borg

rocket ronnie
alex higgins
muhammed ali

Big Daddy
Andy Fordham
Carlton Palmer

C B Fry
Francis Ouimet
Donald Bradman

here is my second three.
1=Henry Cooper
2=Gary Sobers
3=Basil Butcher.

Muhammad Ali
David Beckham
Usain Bolt

AP McCoy

Jimmy White

John McEnroe

some great contenders but haven't got a clue , tend to forget them from year to year

Think I'll swap McEnroe for IIie Nastase

MoHAMMID ALI
PELE
USAIN BOLT

Ronnie o Sullivan
Roger Federer
Colin Mcrae

There must have been a famous woman at sometime but I can not think of anyone.

1. Himself
2. Himself
3. Himself

Zola Budd brassneck.

oh yes,thats the runner that tripped Mary Decker in a race.

Cathy Cook

Most of the people on this thread aren't even the most famous sportsmen in their own kitchens.

Mohammed Ali
Peke

Deffo the top 2 of all time

Pele ...even

Ali
Tyson
Woods

Eddy Merckx
AP McCoy
Ali

1) Annie Power
2) Annie Power
3) Annie Power

Ali
Pele
Usain Bolt

Geoff m ,wins,nobody could give a better three,his selections are unique,a gold cup winner 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020.

Most FAMOUS, imo:

Muhammad Ali
Pele
David Beckham

lance armstrong
rafa nadal
ben johnson.

Fame seems to be short lived these days.


Robin Hood ...Archery

Spartacus ...Mixed Martial Arts

Achilles ... Fencing

In that case then surely Ben Hur although I'm sure the race was fiixed.

1=the father
2= the son
3=the holy ghost

Ben Hur is just a story.

Eric says anyone can be a famous legend in their own lunchtime but not everyone can indulge everyday with brunch at Claridges

1=Muhammad Ali = cheat, used to hold on behind the neck, then thump opponant while holding on.
2=Micheal Schumacher, ? just had a faster car
3=Diego Maradonna.= cheat, hand of god

ALI

PELE

ANOTHER

Ali
Pele
Beckham

Rocky Balboa
Bobby Fischer
Eric Bristow

Bolt
Messi
Rory

Now day greats

Old day greats

Ail
Pele
Mick the miller

1. Lester Piggott 2. Seve. 3. Martina Navratilova.

Dont get the Ali fixation. Not even the best heavyweight of all time.

Blackrock    28 Jan 15 11:31 
1. Lester Piggott 2. Seve. 3. Martina Navratilova.

Dont get the Ali fixation. Not even the best heavyweight of all time.


All about opinions, I could say Seve was far from being the best Golf player of all time, but your entitled to your opinion like anyone else.

ali\piggott\botham

Most famous are going to be current - and in events that are known across the world.

Messi
Ronaldo
Bolt

Dont get the Ali fixation. Not even the best heavyweight of all time.

Fred is for most famous, not necessarily best.

AL Oerter
Muhhamed Ali
Steve the rower

thought W G should have got a mention somewhere ...but no

W G?

Have the Americans heard of him? The Chinese?

W G Grace .....

1. Johan Cruyff
2. Lester Piggott
3. Peter Snell

spellingandgrammarchecker

noticed you had bobby fischer in your 3 - good call

did you realise that he is buried on North American land?

When Muhammed Ali and Pele were famous, the world's population was literally half what it is now and so was the world's media outlets, and then some.....45 years later with a population increase of 3.5 billion along with mass media...makes today's sportsman much more famous as there are more people aware of them at their height, we know more about them than we did about stars of the 60's and 70's, people today are obviously aware of Pele and Ali, but their level of fame is nowhere near the same level of intensity that the likes of Usain Bolt and Messi receive because of how much they are exposed mainly due to the huge growth and accessibility of global television, they are more famous now and will be when they are long since retired and the next generation grow up without even have seen pele/ali alive,....in the distant future when the population is 14 billion and people are having to climb over each other to get to the shops, the next band of high profile sportsman will be the most famous.