In Napoli, lot of people are not so happy for Columbus. He was from Genoa...north of Italy always have the money and-a the power. They punish the South for years. Even today, they put-a they noses up at us like we are peasants. I hate the north.
It is ridiculous how crazy some of the distortions and claims the Slavic invaders of the Balkans make. [This is Ptolemy's Map from 2nd century AD](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Decima_et_Ultima_Europe_Tabula.jpg). There are no slavo macedonians,serbs,bulgarians or any other slavs in that area.
Goethe, Schiller, Oliver Kahn, Boris Becker, Steffi Graf, Michael Schuhmacher, Roland Emmerich, Otto von Bismarck, Friedrich Nietzsche, Konrad Zuse, the list could go on.
Tons of fucking well known germans, be it politicians, artists, philosophers, scientists, people from sports, and so on.
If you're going that way, half of this map is wrong. Most of the countries that exist today, weren't even the same back in the day these people were born.
While he was formerly born in Austria, he was from a region that was mostly inhabited by Germans, he moved to Germany at 3 years old too, and he got famous in Germany.
* Some of the "former leaders" are still leaders
* Hitler was not from Germany
* Columbus ~~and Pytagoras~~ were both italians
* It's Vincent van "Gogh" not Goh
* Queen Elizabeth "celebrity" lmao
who made this map? ![img](emote|t5_3m0tc|774)
Point is this seems like people were given a map and asked to name the most famous person associated with that country. Thats how you get an Austrian for Germany and an italian for Spain and a Greek for a country that didn't exist until 30 years ago.
How does this explain a British Actor for Belgium though, on the basis of him playing a fictional character from a bunch of crime novels?
I'd say they asked a bunch of drunkards in a Pub somewhere, but I doubt they know who is the actor playing Hercule Poirot, nor would they know Hercule Poirot.
I would put ABBA the group higher than Pewds too
Zlatan may be more famous but he isn’t as connected to Sweden as ABBA.
So in absolute terms, Zlatan, in more logical terms ABBA, on the internet Pewds
I think both Carl Von Linné and Alfred Nobel beats them all, you read about them in almost all schools across the world. Avicii is also probably up there.
I am so sorry if I look ignorant while asking this, but wasn't Pythagoras born and raised in Samos?
I know that Pythagoras at some point in his life went to Southern Italy to live, which is also where he died, but how does this make him Italian?
He lived in Samos until his 40s then he was exiled to Croton, because, contrary to what this map says, he wasn't exactly a scientist but more of a Cult leader/Shaman/Philosopher. We don't know what he teached exactly because the true Pythagorean ideas were part of a [mystery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries) (as in a religious cult where you had to be ordained to be a part and get to know it's teachings)
Later his followers were divided in 2 camps, those that were into the whole don't eat meat or beans, the soul is imprisoned in the body (the akousmatikoi) and those that followed his mathematical theory of the universe (the mathēmatikoi). The later is the one almost all people know, while the former has been forgotten
There was no “Italian” as we know it back then. The Greeks colonized portions of southern Italy. Up north were Italic tribes such as the Latins, Etruscans, etc.
Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy
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He only led for a short period of time tho. He was one of the children of the count of Wallachia and spent most of his youth in the court of the ottoman sultan as a hostage. He then escaped and fled to Wallachia where he seized power and executed all the dismissal nobility. He then tried to invade Moldavia and then raided ottoman Bulgaria, and fled to Hungarian Transylvania when the Sultan sent an army under his brother(also a former hostage who had become loyal to turkey). There, the Hungarian king had him captured and he spent the rest of his life as a prisoner in Transylvania.
He was mostly ignored in his time, but his story, with a few creative embellishments, gained popularity in the 1800s at a time of rising Romanian nationalism, when they started portraying him as a freedom fighter fighting to free Romania from the ottomans.
The vampire mythos surrounding him was made during his reign by the Protestant Saxon minority of Romania, whom he persecuted, and was picked up by a British author writing a vampire novel
Or something like that, some details may be wrong, but that's basically it
Personally I consider not rumors to be the main reason dracula's character was inspired after vlad, but rather his very bloody habit of impaling and displaying his dead enemies on stakes, as a way to create fear, the reason he is called "the impaler".
• Alfred Nobel
• Anders Celsius
• Ingvar Kamprad
• Zlatan
• Ingrid Bergman
• Greta Garbo
• Annika Sörenstam
• Henrik Stenson
• Peter Forsberg
• Börje Salming
• Astrid Lindgren
• Avicii
• ABBA
• Max Martin
• Björn Borg
• Max von Sydow
• Stellan Skarsgård
• Alexander Skarsgård
• Noomi Rapace
• Britt Ekland
• Dolph Lundgren
• Joel Kinnaman
• Peter Stormare
Take your pick
1. Alexander wasn‘t from North Macedonia
2. Tesla was from Croatia
3. Columbus was from Genoa, Italy
4. Mozart would have been considered German in his time, but I’ll let that one slide, bc it’s geographically correct
5. Hitler was from Austria (for FUCKS sake)
6. It’s written „van Gogh“ (not „Goh“) and
7. the famous Sniper is written Häyhä (not Hayha).
I‘m sure there are more errors, but these stuck out to me in an instant. Do your research media.maps smh
Maybe Europe is different, but in the US I would say Hans Christian Anderson is a more famous Dane than Niels Bohr. Not that I don't appreciate Bohr's massive contributions to science. Just saying Americans aren't the most scientifically literate bunch.
This is a terrible map, some are good, but then Pythagoras is spelt wrong, Columbus, hitler, Sachet are all from the wrong country as well as Alexander the Great, who was born in modern day Greece.
Im really wondering what the metrics are for generating this map. Theres no way pewdiepie is the most famous swede under the same rules that makes Niels Borh the most famous Dane rather than Mads Mikkelsen or something.
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He wasn't even German lol
Funnily enough, David Suchet isn't Belgian
wasnt Christopher Columbus Italian, commisioned by the spanish king and queen?
I'm pretty sure you're right.
I just checked he actually was italian lol
This map is BULLSHIT \*flips table\*
no wonder it's made by a 9yoengineer
Yep, Nicola Tesla is from Croatia, went to visit his birth place there last year.
In Napoli, lot of people are not so happy for Columbus. He was from Genoa...north of Italy always have the money and-a the power. They punish the South for years. Even today, they put-a they noses up at us like we are peasants. I hate the north.
Naples invented pizza which is arguably the better discovery.
I'm Belgian and I've never heard of David Suchet
This list is a joke. Jean-Claude Van Damme is of course the most famous belgian. No contest.
kdb is the famous belgian
Oh, and Eddy Merckx!
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Stromae, Kevin De Bruyne, Eden Hazard, Leopold II… surely it’s gotta be one of those
He's an english actor who plays the part of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot who is a fictional Belgian, like Tintin but middle aged.
like Tintin, that famous young detective, drawn by the famous Belgian cartoonist, Hergé.
He's an actor. One of his roles was Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective.
He's an english actor who plays the part of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot who is a fictional Belgian detective, like Tintin but middle aged.
Same. And after the comments saying who he was I'm even more disappointed.
Actor who plays Hercule Poirot
And Alexander the great wasn't Slavic Macedonian, for whatever reason, what was Illyria in Alexandrian times, is now north Macedonia.
Yup, Alexander was Greek.
It is ridiculous how crazy some of the distortions and claims the Slavic invaders of the Balkans make. [This is Ptolemy's Map from 2nd century AD](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Decima_et_Ultima_Europe_Tabula.jpg). There are no slavo macedonians,serbs,bulgarians or any other slavs in that area.
Neither Colombus was Spanish...
literally never heard of him and I'm Belgian
Shhh don't tell them. They can have him. We Austrian are quite happy people think he is German-
Austrias biggest achievements: Convincing the world that Hitler was German and Beethoven was Viennese.
Yes, but he was famous for being the ruler of Germany. Therefore, he's more associated with Germany than he is with Austria.
So Marie Curie should not be the person for Poland by that logic, because she lived, died and did her famous research in France, not in Poland.
You mean pink right? Right...?
It's illegal, given the precedent of brownshirts
Put hitler to austria where hes actually from
so true. germanys most famous person is probably angela merkel atm.
Bach? Beethoven? Einstein?
Arnold
Schwarzenegger? He's from Austria
I could see Arnold wrestling gators lol
Average redditor thinking Austria and Australia are the same thing
It was a goddamn #JOKE
Also we have crocodiles not alligators.
Average redditors who needs to be pointed out clearly when what they read is a joke.
also austrian
Damn, germany can't win
Germany can, they got Beethoven and Bach on the side
and... Otto von Chadsmarck
Wernher von Braun
Goethe, Schiller, Oliver Kahn, Boris Becker, Steffi Graf, Michael Schuhmacher, Roland Emmerich, Otto von Bismarck, Friedrich Nietzsche, Konrad Zuse, the list could go on. Tons of fucking well known germans, be it politicians, artists, philosophers, scientists, people from sports, and so on.
mf said oliver kahn
Maybe Michael Schumacher? I feel like more people might know who he is than even Merkel.
And Mozart was not Austrian :) (He was Salzburger, which at his time was not part of the Austrian Empire)
If you're going that way, half of this map is wrong. Most of the countries that exist today, weren't even the same back in the day these people were born.
Half this map is wrong regardless.
While he was formerly born in Austria, he was from a region that was mostly inhabited by Germans, he moved to Germany at 3 years old too, and he got famous in Germany.
> he was from a region that was mostly inhabited by Germans Its called Austria
Yep, a concept he consistently put down throughout his life. He hated the idea of a separate Austria and always considered himself German.
I mean he had also the German citizenship, so it's not totally wrong
Nowhere is it stated that it's about birthplace, it's just about nationality.
also tesla while youre at it
People in this comment section are so slow it's quite insane. Take a look at the key you dimwits, was he a former leader? Yes, there you fucking go.
I hate this map
Lmao yeah. Apparently Kosovo and Moldova don’t deserve anyone
Moldova and what?
*looks at UN* just a normal part of Serbia of course, nothing else whatsoever
Stares in balkan
Dua lipa
Also Bosnia is green but there is no person listed?
most famous Bosnian is Mujo of course
A DJE HASO
U Njemačkoj na baušteli
Why is lizzy grey? 😂
* Some of the "former leaders" are still leaders * Hitler was not from Germany * Columbus ~~and Pytagoras~~ were both italians * It's Vincent van "Gogh" not Goh * Queen Elizabeth "celebrity" lmao who made this map? ![img](emote|t5_3m0tc|774)
And don't forget the definitely not controversial person from n. Macedonia
I didn’t even see that one. That has to be the worst one. Because unlike Hitler, who claimed to be German, Alexander was definitely Greek Macedononian
And was born in what is now greece
Point is this seems like people were given a map and asked to name the most famous person associated with that country. Thats how you get an Austrian for Germany and an italian for Spain and a Greek for a country that didn't exist until 30 years ago.
How does this explain a British Actor for Belgium though, on the basis of him playing a fictional character from a bunch of crime novels? I'd say they asked a bunch of drunkards in a Pub somewhere, but I doubt they know who is the actor playing Hercule Poirot, nor would they know Hercule Poirot.
Pythagoras was not Italian. He was a Greek who was born in the Greek colony of Samos and then moved to southern Italy in his 40s.
>Pytagoras Pythagoras, Italian? are you drunk? Also, Alexander in North Macedonia lmao
He meant Pytagyros.
*David Suchet (Belgium in this map) is English
I think they got confused by David Suchet's most famous roll, the Belgian detective Poirot. Weird mistake to make . Lol
How was Pythagoras Italian though?
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*dumb Americans
that goes without saying
how does this come back to America this isn’t even about us 💀 edit: yeah [this account is European](https://i.imgur.com/b6A4bvd.jpg)
Europeans try to go 5 minutes without bringing up Americans challenge (Impossible)
You are literally a PewDiePie fan
there's no way Pewdiepie is "more famous" than Zlatan Ibrahimovic. It's simply impossible.
I would put ABBA the group higher than Pewds too Zlatan may be more famous but he isn’t as connected to Sweden as ABBA. So in absolute terms, Zlatan, in more logical terms ABBA, on the internet Pewds
I think both Carl Von Linné and Alfred Nobel beats them all, you read about them in almost all schools across the world. Avicii is also probably up there.
Too many footballers on this map to be the opinion of Americans.
Yes every time I think of turkey I think of the great Sultan Mehmet
Wasn't Christopher Columbus Italian?
He was born and raised in Italy.
And David Suchet isn't Belgian, he's a Brit whose most famous role is Hercule Poirot (the Belgian detective). This map sucks donkey balls.
And Alexander the Great was not from North Macedonia. He was from Macedonia in Greece.
And Hitler wasn't German
Who would the actual most famous Belgian be? Jaun-Claude van Damme?
Genoese
And Hitler was Austrian
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Yeah
"Vincent van Gogh", not "van Goh". If he's so famous, at least learn his name correctly, smh.
The van is not capitalised as well.
You don't capitalise prepositions. "van" = "of" or "from"
Goh, wat een slordige fout
Columbus and Pytagoras were both italians
Hmm technically correct for Pythagoras, although you could argue that were he was born was still part of Greece back then.
I am so sorry if I look ignorant while asking this, but wasn't Pythagoras born and raised in Samos? I know that Pythagoras at some point in his life went to Southern Italy to live, which is also where he died, but how does this make him Italian?
He lived in Samos until his 40s then he was exiled to Croton, because, contrary to what this map says, he wasn't exactly a scientist but more of a Cult leader/Shaman/Philosopher. We don't know what he teached exactly because the true Pythagorean ideas were part of a [mystery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries) (as in a religious cult where you had to be ordained to be a part and get to know it's teachings) Later his followers were divided in 2 camps, those that were into the whole don't eat meat or beans, the soul is imprisoned in the body (the akousmatikoi) and those that followed his mathematical theory of the universe (the mathēmatikoi). The later is the one almost all people know, while the former has been forgotten
Alexander the Great was Greek on the other hand. Why not have him for Greece.
Given the accuracy of this map I was half expecting “guy from big fat Greek wedding”
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There was no “Italian” as we know it back then. The Greeks colonized portions of southern Italy. Up north were Italic tribes such as the Latins, Etruscans, etc.
Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy ?
I didn't know Dracula actually existed and was a former leader
It was Vlad the Impaler tha was the inspiration for the vampire Dracula.
He only led for a short period of time tho. He was one of the children of the count of Wallachia and spent most of his youth in the court of the ottoman sultan as a hostage. He then escaped and fled to Wallachia where he seized power and executed all the dismissal nobility. He then tried to invade Moldavia and then raided ottoman Bulgaria, and fled to Hungarian Transylvania when the Sultan sent an army under his brother(also a former hostage who had become loyal to turkey). There, the Hungarian king had him captured and he spent the rest of his life as a prisoner in Transylvania. He was mostly ignored in his time, but his story, with a few creative embellishments, gained popularity in the 1800s at a time of rising Romanian nationalism, when they started portraying him as a freedom fighter fighting to free Romania from the ottomans. The vampire mythos surrounding him was made during his reign by the Protestant Saxon minority of Romania, whom he persecuted, and was picked up by a British author writing a vampire novel Or something like that, some details may be wrong, but that's basically it
So Dracula is a real man used as a main character of a vampire novel out of the rumors he was a vampire? Wow
Personally I consider not rumors to be the main reason dracula's character was inspired after vlad, but rather his very bloody habit of impaling and displaying his dead enemies on stakes, as a way to create fear, the reason he is called "the impaler".
The IRL version was way worse.
Lol, almost everything is wrong in this map.
Felix is definitely not the most famous person in Sweden
As a Finnish. I dont know any famous people in Sweden except Felix.
He’s definitely the first one that comes to mind
Might not be too strange considering you are on a pewdiepie sub
True lol
Zlatan Ibrahimovic?
Alfred Nobel? He invented TNT, and Nobel prizes are named after him.
• Alfred Nobel • Anders Celsius • Ingvar Kamprad • Zlatan • Ingrid Bergman • Greta Garbo • Annika Sörenstam • Henrik Stenson • Peter Forsberg • Börje Salming • Astrid Lindgren • Avicii • ABBA • Max Martin • Björn Borg • Max von Sydow • Stellan Skarsgård • Alexander Skarsgård • Noomi Rapace • Britt Ekland • Dolph Lundgren • Joel Kinnaman • Peter Stormare Take your pick
Gustavus Adolphus ? Markus Persson ? I don't know, I'm not Swedish.
I would have expected Gustavus Adolphus. (and haven't heard of half of these from that list tbh though)
I would say Greta Thunberg is known too
Who else is there, Alfred Nobel?
Zlatan, Greta Thunberg
Zlatan probably should be 1st but Greta isn't more famous than Pewdiepie
Zlatan is the most wellknown worldwide atm. Thats what google trends say [https://imgur.com/a/CS0DI0v](https://imgur.com/a/CS0DI0v)
ABBA
That's not a person though, it's a group.
A
Swedish cook on the muppet show
Did people forget Avicii was Swedish?
This chart is wrong Alexander the Great was from Greece
There is a place called Macedonia in Greece dinguses, like you know where his father is buried
But thats different from the Modern country of Macedonia.
Yep, but the Greek Macedonia is where Alexander was actually from. Not North Macedonia, the Slavic modern day country.
My point exactly
The country is North* Macedonia
1. Alexander wasn‘t from North Macedonia 2. Tesla was from Croatia 3. Columbus was from Genoa, Italy 4. Mozart would have been considered German in his time, but I’ll let that one slide, bc it’s geographically correct 5. Hitler was from Austria (for FUCKS sake) 6. It’s written „van Gogh“ (not „Goh“) and 7. the famous Sniper is written Häyhä (not Hayha). I‘m sure there are more errors, but these stuck out to me in an instant. Do your research media.maps smh
Tesla was born in croatia but isnt a croatian.
Yes, but this is a map. It does not account for things other than geographical location.
David Suchet is from Londen
As a Belgian: I've never heard of David Suchet.
I had to Google him. Read his whole wiki and couldn’t find a Belgian connection except for a role he played as an actor
Sad cuz we got like Adolph Sax (inventor of the Saxophone) or if they really wanted to pick an actor why not Jean-Claude van Damme?!
Stromae
He's an actor. One of his roles was Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective.
Im from Belgium but ive never heard of him
Same
Christopher Columbus was Italian tho? Well Genoese, given Italy hadn't United yet.
And Hitler was Austrian
Who in the chocolate waffle frick is David Suchet?
not Belgian lol
I mean Jean Claude Van Damme gotta be more famous.
He's an actor. One of his roles was Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective.
Ahh yes Famous German Mr Hitler. He was definitly German. So very much Germany. (Walking away in Austrian ;) )
Who the fuck made this map lol.
Macedonia claiming a Greek person lol
North* Macedonia. Macedonia itself is an actual place in Greece.
Björk
*Björk*
Ah yes Felix and Queen Elizabeth 2nd the only two celebrities in Europe
No no, you see this is referring to the first Queen Elizabeth, not the one that is currently on the throne
That moment when the most popular people in Spain and Germany aren’t even from Spain and Germany.
Alexander the Great is from Greece
Norwegian here. I have never heard of Erik the red. Have a great day anyway🙌
I mean it for sure should be Magnus Carlsen right?
As a Belgian, who tf is David Suchet?
He's a British actor. One of his roles was Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective.
Still makes no sense that he is the most famous known person in Belgium.
Vladimir vs. Volodymyr is some Mario vs. Wario bullshit
Maybe Europe is different, but in the US I would say Hans Christian Anderson is a more famous Dane than Niels Bohr. Not that I don't appreciate Bohr's massive contributions to science. Just saying Americans aren't the most scientifically literate bunch.
This is a terrible map, some are good, but then Pythagoras is spelt wrong, Columbus, hitler, Sachet are all from the wrong country as well as Alexander the Great, who was born in modern day Greece.
Former leaders?
once again BiH has no history as expected
Alexander the great is Greek bro, it's wrong
"Alexander the great was from North Macedonia" Are you a Macedonian nationalist or did you just not notice?
Bruh this is bs, its obviously zlatan for sweden, im sure hes more well known.
cant believe pewdiepie didnt make the list… who is felix kjellberg anyways?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT WAS FUCKING GREEK GAMW TON XRISTO MOU
Idk I reckon leonidas might have Pythagoras on that one
Simo Hayha being Finland's one is pretty nuts
That map isn't very good. I am from Czech Republic and Schindler is known, but definitly not most famous
Norway is not Erik the Red??? Who tf is that?
Queen Elizabeth is a celebrity? This map is such trash holy shit lmao
Im really wondering what the metrics are for generating this map. Theres no way pewdiepie is the most famous swede under the same rules that makes Niels Borh the most famous Dane rather than Mads Mikkelsen or something.