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Who is the most famous sports person of all time?

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Moze

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Interested to see answers.

Diego Maradona the most famous sports person of all time imo.

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RustyNails said:
GAF has spoken. Here is the list of answers so far:

Jordan 113
Ali 95
Pele 57
Beckham 23
Maradona 22
Tiger Woods 20
Ronaldo 14
Tyson 12
Messi 10
Schumacher 9
Gretzky 7
Babe Ruth 6
Tendulkar 6

Some answers I excluded which were ambiguous. Also excluded answers like "I'm American I dont know about any other sport so answer is Jordan lol"
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Sanjuro

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Why, it's Larry Bird.

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Creator of the Big 33 McDonalds sandwich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJCSYUv3pug
 
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Moze said:
Interested to see answers.

Diego Maradona the most famous sports person of all time imo.
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Probably not considering I had to say who before remembering he's a soccer dude. Isn't he the one who scored a goal with his hands in a world cup. Is that why he's famous?
 
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Acorn

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23qwerty said:
Probably not considering I had to say who before remembering he's a soccer dude. Isn't he the one who scored a goal with his hands in a world cup. Is that why he's famous?
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No because in the same game he scored one of the best individual goals of all time.

Coke and cheating helped but he's typically either called the goat or 2nd goat.
 
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No one says Gretsky, huh? I'm Canadian and from a certain generation, but I thought he'd be up there...
 
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Moze

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23qwerty said:
Probably not considering I had to say who before remembering he's a soccer dude. Isn't he the one who scored a goal with his hands in a world cup. Is that why he's famous?
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He is famous for being the greatest football player of all time.

Who is the most famous football player to you? Beckham?
 
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Night Hunter

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ITT: Americans who don't understand that nobody outside watches their sports

People outside of the US know Michael Jordan because of Space Jam. If they know him at all
Yes, I am exaggerating.
 
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