Icons.

Keanu Reeves
Captain Sir Tom Moore
Elspeth Beard
Jon Bon Jovi

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

This is a nice thread.
John Lennon

James Dean?

Blossoming

Audrey Hepburn
Grace Kelly
Debbie Harry

Oh absolutely these three!

Eric Clapton
Elvis

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

Mary Portas
David Attenborough

Keith Richards.

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

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.

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

Princess Diana
Elvis
David Bowie

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

I don't really know what an icon is.
I think Lady Di was rated as one by many but it seems that ( most of? )those mentioned have feet of clay.
When Diana died, my husband suggested I ground myself for a couple of weeks in case I came across someone who did not share my views..... and might do me harm. I then discovered I had a friend in the same position and we drove around the countryside unmolested for a couple of weeks

I’d like to see a scientist.

Einstein, maybe?

Stephen Hawking, also

Princess Diana
Nelson Mandela

If people see others as icons, please can you say what you feel they are icons of - what they symbolically represent?

Some are more likely than others.
Presumably the Queen is an icon of royalty - maybe Leonardo da Vinci would be an icon of a polymath... I can think of a couple of potential Icons of the fashion world but some offerings above I can't quite see what they are icons of exactly.

I suppose Elvis! Others that are globally recognisable (or almost)
Martin Monroe
Cliff
Beatles
Stones
Her maj the Queen
Princess Diana.
Martin Luther king

#Marylin Monroe (not her lesser known little bro. Martin?)

David Attenborough
Even though very young... Greta Thunberg, inspirational for the young generation

I would describe someone as an icon, who has had a positive impact on society, how people think, and have affected positive change, like most already mentioned.
Nelson Mandela
Barack Obama
Bob Dylan
Joan Baez
David Attenborough
Greta Thunberg

The Yorkshire rowers 4 very brave ladies

Freddy Mercury

grannybuy

Freddy Mercury

Definitely!