Icons.

I agree with all of them but especially Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly.

Sophia Loren
Mother Theresa

Humphrey Bogart - ‘we’ll always have Paris’

Ingrid Bergman

Our present Queen
Amy Johnson
Edith Cavell
Nelson Mandela

Unless of course FannyCornforth disagrees.

Anniebach Oh I was watching Casablanca yesterday. Here’s looking at you,kid.
Humphrey Bogart
Lauren Bacall
Ingrid Bergman
Gregory Peck
James Cagney
Betty Davis

Clearly, my mind runs to old Hollywood movie stars when I think of icons.

Anne Frank (God rest her dear soul)

Meson Mandela
Martin Luther
Elvis
Why can’t Rosa Parks be an icon
I would think she completely fits this explanation
a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere a civil rights icon an actor and fashion icon …

That’s Nelson I ve just changed his name bless him

Frank Sinatra
Freddie Mercury
Prince

Percy Shaw (inventor of the cat's eye)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Lord Baden Powell

sodapop

Our present Queen
Amy Johnson
Edith Cavell
Nelson Mandela

Unless of course FannyCornforth disagrees.

I apologise for my remark, it was ill considered.
I'd appreciate it if you weren't rude to me please sodapop

Diego Maradona

Could an icon be classed as someone recognisable by using only one of their names?
E.g. Monroe, Mandella, Diana, Pele.
I am just chatting by the way, before the thread police jump in to say that is not what I should be talking about on this thread.

I agree with a lot of these

I'd add Freddie Mercury

I do think an icon has to be something significant in a particular area, maybe Mother Theresa? Yes, ilovecheese Maradona is maybe a footballing icon.

Sorry FannyCornforth didn't realise you were the only one allowed to be critical.

Callistemon on the other thread said Icon meaning someone who is idolised
I don’t think many of these would be idolised - but maybe I think too literally….
Icons are generally symbols of something I think.

sodapop

Sorry FannyCornforth didn't realise you were the only one allowed to be critical.

You've really got it in for me haven't you.

I'm just wondering if you have be dead to be an Icon?
For example I thought of John Lennon, then I wondered about Paul McCartney (although JL was always my favourite) or should it just be The Beatles?
Michael Cane
Margaret Atwood
Mo Mowlam

Sorry, Fanny, my third go ... addicted

Twiggy
Muhammad Ali

Tanni Grey Thompson

Nelson Mandella by a long shot.

Icons - No, Admiration for someone -Yes

The Queen

Florence Nightingale/Mary Seacote
Marie Currie
Indira Gandhi
The Pankhursts
Mrs Goldameyer
All women determined to be heard or work in the man's world they lived in.
Martin Luther King,
Gandhi
Nelson Mandela