Icons.

I agree with a lot of these

I'd add Freddie Mercury

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.

Diego Maradona

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

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

Frank Sinatra
Freddie Mercury
Prince

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

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 …

Anne Frank (God rest her dear soul)

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.

Our present Queen
Amy Johnson
Edith Cavell
Nelson Mandela

Unless of course FannyCornforth disagrees.

Humphrey Bogart - ‘we’ll always have Paris’

Ingrid Bergman

Sophia Loren
Mother Theresa

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

Queen Elizabeth I

Captain Sir Tom Moore

Audrey Hepburn
Grace Kelly
Debbie Harry

Pavarotti
Maria Callas
Pele
Karl Marx, and his brother Groucho

Princess Diana
Marilyn Monroe
Fred Astaire
John Wayne
Martin Luther King
Nelson Mandela

Jimi Hendrix

Anniebach

Didn’t realise this thread was set up to agree or disagree who are icons

It's under chat
I was chatting

Didn’t realise this thread was set up to agree or disagree who are icons

Sparkling I'm surprised that noone had mentioned Elvis yet

That was supposed to be a smile, not a grin!

Mandela
Elvis
Marilyn
Jesus

I don't think that Rosa Parks is an icon. A hero yes.
I think that an icon needs to be instantly recognisable.
These are just my musings - I'm not after an argument, honest