Icons.

OP Who would I class as an icon?
HM The Queen
Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King
Adela Pankhurst
Marilyn Monroe and Doris Day
Margaret Thatcher
Alistair Brownlee

Princess Diana
Elvis
David Bowie

It depends on your defintion of an icon.. I don't know any.

A lot of people I would have named - such as Elvis, Mandela, Marilyn, Che, Mohammed Ali, etc - have been already been mentioned but I would add Charlie Chaplin to the list. I'm not a big fan of slapstick but I think that he was culturally significant and instantly recognisable.

Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
Tom Petty
Johnny Cash
Margaret Thatcher ( though I couldn’t stand her or what she stood for )

Keith Richards.

Mary Portas
David Attenborough

Why have a go at Fanny? It’s a chat. Bit pointless if everyone just lists icons with no reactions allowed

Eric Clapton
Elvis

Blossoming

Audrey Hepburn
Grace Kelly
Debbie Harry

Oh absolutely these three!

James Dean?

This is a nice thread.
John Lennon

George Michael, beautiful voice and kind heart.
David Attenborough for showing us a wonderful world

Keanu Reeves
Captain Sir Tom Moore
Elspeth Beard
Jon Bon Jovi

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

The Queen

Icons - No, Admiration for someone -Yes

Nelson Mandella by a long shot.

Tanni Grey Thompson

Sorry, Fanny, my third go ... addicted

Twiggy
Muhammad Ali

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

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.

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.

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

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.