Icons.

The Beatles

Jesus

Bowie & Jaggar. Singing together is even better!!

"Karl Marx and his brother Groucho."
Proper lol

David Attenborough
Florence Nightingale
Gareth Southgate ( and I don’t even like football !)

George Best

Elvis

Bowie, Now and Forever !

Especially today, may I add Nye Bevan , founder of the NHS: what a legacy .

Monroe ? Have you ever read or seen a documentary about her ? Hardly icon material. She wasn’t even very professional about her job and was a nightmare to work with though she did have other talents, apparently. If we’re dealing with that era ... Doris Day , Olivia De Haviland, Virginia Mayoh .

Nelson Mandela
George Michael
Sir Tom Moore
Rosa Parks
Emmeline Pankhurst

My icons would be mostly from history, I think, being a bit of a nerd!
How about Elizabeth I for starters? A strong monarch in a man’s world. She absolutely would not share her power!
So too Catherine the Great of Russia. Ruthless, yes, but necessary to her time especially as she was a foreigner! She also helped popularise the smallpox vaccination by accepting it for herself and her son, so personally brave too.
Queen Isabella of Castile (mother of Catherine of Aragon). Her marriage to Ferdinand, King of Aragon unified Spain but she was the senior as Castile was a larger, richer kingdom. And she knew it!
I have many more….!

Maggi Thatcher
Fred Astaire
Pavarotti
Jonah Lomu
Prince
Muhammed Ali

The Queen an example to us all
Colonel sir tom Moore

grannybuy

Freddy Mercury

Definitely!

Freddy Mercury

The Yorkshire rowers 4 very brave ladies

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

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

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

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

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.

Princess Diana
Nelson Mandela

I’d like to see a scientist.

Einstein, maybe?

Stephen Hawking, also

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