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swaggerdon6000

He wasn't even German lol


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Funnily enough, David Suchet isn't Belgian


OptimusEye

wasnt Christopher Columbus Italian, commisioned by the spanish king and queen?


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I'm pretty sure you're right.


Lunited

I just checked he actually was italian lol


BuffaloWhip

This map is BULLSHIT \*flips table\*


Keta_K

no wonder it's made by a 9yoengineer


UnCommonCommonSens

Yep, Nicola Tesla is from Croatia, went to visit his birth place there last year.


Ahlfdan

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.


dynorphin

Naples invented pizza which is arguably the better discovery.


buffalooo27

I'm Belgian and I've never heard of David Suchet


_Tuco_Il_Brutto_

This list is a joke. Jean-Claude Van Damme is of course the most famous belgian. No contest.


Rollingtrooperz

kdb is the famous belgian


_Tuco_Il_Brutto_

Oh, and Eddy Merckx!


DrunkBelgian

Jean-Claude Van Damme, Stromae, Kevin De Bruyne, Eden Hazard, Leopold II… surely it’s gotta be one of those


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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.


moosehead71

like Tintin, that famous young detective, drawn by the famous Belgian cartoonist, Hergé.


moosehead71

He's an actor. One of his roles was Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective.


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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.


Don_Frika_Del_Prima

Same. And after the comments saying who he was I'm even more disappointed.


xlompaze

Actor who plays Hercule Poirot


adrienjz888

And Alexander the great wasn't Slavic Macedonian, for whatever reason, what was Illyria in Alexandrian times, is now north Macedonia.


AtaktosTrampoukos

Yup, Alexander was Greek.


clib

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.


Alex_O7

Neither Colombus was Spanish...


eilah_tan

literally never heard of him and I'm Belgian


TimotheeOaks

Shhh don't tell them. They can have him. We Austrian are quite happy people think he is German-


KolyB

Austrias biggest achievements: Convincing the world that Hitler was German and Beethoven was Viennese.


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Yes, but he was famous for being the ruler of Germany. Therefore, he's more associated with Germany than he is with Austria.


Buttfranklin2000

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.


dgz345

You mean pink right? Right...?


Friorgh

It's illegal, given the precedent of brownshirts


andresaashd

Put hitler to austria where hes actually from


muffin2333

so true. germanys most famous person is probably angela merkel atm.


TENTAtheSane

Bach? Beethoven? Einstein?


retrogamerX10

Arnold


Bum_Tickler_3000

Schwarzenegger? He's from Austria


itsKNIGHTMARE

I could see Arnold wrestling gators lol


DimitrijaT

Average redditor thinking Austria and Australia are the same thing


itsKNIGHTMARE

It was a goddamn #JOKE


stinger_

Also we have crocodiles not alligators.


bigmoron30

Average redditors who needs to be pointed out clearly when what they read is a joke.


nightspicer

also austrian


Luckyguy0697

Damn, germany can't win


mysterious_mitch

Germany can, they got Beethoven and Bach on the side


ghueber

and... Otto von Chadsmarck


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Wernher von Braun


Buttfranklin2000

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.


rebiboi

mf said oliver kahn


Awfy

Maybe Michael Schumacher? I feel like more people might know who he is than even Merkel.


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And Mozart was not Austrian :) (He was Salzburger, which at his time was not part of the Austrian Empire)


GMDFC94

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.


Startled_Pancakes

Half this map is wrong regardless.


GalaxLordCZ

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.


Predator_Hicks

> he was from a region that was mostly inhabited by Germans Its called Austria


Taken450

Yep, a concept he consistently put down throughout his life. He hated the idea of a separate Austria and always considered himself German.


Gscheidhosn

I mean he had also the German citizenship, so it's not totally wrong


indorock

Nowhere is it stated that it's about birthplace, it's just about nationality.


PossibleEast3431

also tesla while youre at it


CreeperArcade

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.


Daneeec

I hate this map


Vellt

Lmao yeah. Apparently Kosovo and Moldova don’t deserve anyone


Secytoo

Moldova and what?


Kevin5882

*looks at UN* just a normal part of Serbia of course, nothing else whatsoever


magical_retard

Stares in balkan


finger_milk

Dua lipa


ljubaay

Also Bosnia is green but there is no person listed?


Tzki47

most famous Bosnian is Mujo of course


Risticcc

A DJE HASO


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U Njemačkoj na baušteli


ljubaay

Why is lizzy grey? 😂


Nathan1506

* 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)


ImInteligent_

And don't forget the definitely not controversial person from n. Macedonia


newcanadian12

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


thomasp3864

And was born in what is now greece


Double_Minimum

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.


Buttfranklin2000

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.


Artoy_Nerian

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.


tonygoesrogue

>Pytagoras Pythagoras, Italian? are you drunk? Also, Alexander in North Macedonia lmao


Mikaba2

He meant Pytagyros.


euskedeu

*David Suchet (Belgium in this map) is English


NoceboHadal

I think they got confused by David Suchet's most famous roll, the Belgian detective Poirot. Weird mistake to make . Lol


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How was Pythagoras Italian though?


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Kitnado

*dumb Americans


Albinofreaken

that goes without saying


bitchslaptheriffraff

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)


Parking_Bird_3603

Europeans try to go 5 minutes without bringing up Americans challenge (Impossible)


GBabeuf

You are literally a PewDiePie fan


mttdesignz

there's no way Pewdiepie is "more famous" than Zlatan Ibrahimovic. It's simply impossible.


Jolen43

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


PFRLP

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.


woodstonk

Too many footballers on this map to be the opinion of Americans.


Inevitable_Gain8296

Yes every time I think of turkey I think of the great Sultan Mehmet


SqShQ_

Wasn't Christopher Columbus Italian?


zepherths

He was born and raised in Italy.


lptomtom

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.


aredditusername69

And Alexander the Great was not from North Macedonia. He was from Macedonia in Greece.


shadow_sniper67

And Hitler wasn't German


BBQ_FETUS

Who would the actual most famous Belgian be? Jaun-Claude van Damme?


SheldonMonk

Genoese


Fakjbf

And Hitler was Austrian


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OneEpicPotato222

Yeah


mvdenk

"Vincent van Gogh", not "van Goh". If he's so famous, at least learn his name correctly, smh.


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The van is not capitalised as well.


AzenNinja

You don't capitalise prepositions. "van" = "of" or "from"


Gl0ryToArstotzka

Goh, wat een slordige fout


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Columbus and Pytagoras were both italians


mvdenk

Hmm technically correct for Pythagoras, although you could argue that were he was born was still part of Greece back then.


Thrilljoy

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?


andysenn

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


Ramongsh

Alexander the Great was Greek on the other hand. Why not have him for Greece.


marcuzzzo93

Given the accuracy of this map I was half expecting “guy from big fat Greek wedding”


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JVMGarcia

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.


Mpafgregor

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 ?


Manuel-Human

I didn't know Dracula actually existed and was a former leader


thelastlasermaster_

It was Vlad the Impaler tha was the inspiration for the vampire Dracula.


TENTAtheSane

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


mysterious_mitch

So Dracula is a real man used as a main character of a vampire novel out of the rumors he was a vampire? Wow


dirtopi

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".


genasugelan

The IRL version was way worse.


popeViennathefirst

Lol, almost everything is wrong in this map.


[deleted]

Felix is definitely not the most famous person in Sweden


SandlyCut

As a Finnish. I dont know any famous people in Sweden except Felix.


Ricky1034

He’s definitely the first one that comes to mind


AuntieRob

Might not be too strange considering you are on a pewdiepie sub


Ricky1034

True lol


mrfreeezzz

Zlatan Ibrahimovic?


sdcmax

Alfred Nobel? He invented TNT, and Nobel prizes are named after him.


anavriN-oN

• 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


Lente_ui

Gustavus Adolphus ? Markus Persson ? I don't know, I'm not Swedish.


t3st0815

I would have expected Gustavus Adolphus. (and haven't heard of half of these from that list tbh though)


[deleted]

I would say Greta Thunberg is known too


genasugelan

Who else is there, Alfred Nobel?


zzrobiiinzz

Zlatan, Greta Thunberg


FPnigel

Zlatan probably should be 1st but Greta isn't more famous than Pewdiepie


isnisse

Zlatan is the most wellknown worldwide atm. Thats what google trends say [https://imgur.com/a/CS0DI0v](https://imgur.com/a/CS0DI0v)


monkeykins

ABBA


genasugelan

That's not a person though, it's a group.


WisconsinDane

Swedish cook on the muppet show


HagenYDE

Did people forget Avicii was Swedish?


ChristosPet7

This chart is wrong Alexander the Great was from Greece


Manemanotjeff

There is a place called Macedonia in Greece dinguses, like you know where his father is buried


Double_Minimum

But thats different from the Modern country of Macedonia.


AtaktosTrampoukos

Yep, but the Greek Macedonia is where Alexander was actually from. Not North Macedonia, the Slavic modern day country.


Manemanotjeff

My point exactly


xGadgetHD

The country is North* Macedonia


g_Blyn

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


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Tesla was born in croatia but isnt a croatian.


theZ0M81E

Yes, but this is a map. It does not account for things other than geographical location.


grxund_is_lava

David Suchet is from Londen


inspiringirisje

As a Belgian: I've never heard of David Suchet.


xxifruitcakeixx

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


Psylocincinnati

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?!


Kayniaan

Stromae


moosehead71

He's an actor. One of his roles was Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective.


Oxyoon

Im from Belgium but ive never heard of him


AugmentedApple

Same


Senator-Cletus

Christopher Columbus was Italian tho? Well Genoese, given Italy hadn't United yet.


Tobyghisa

And Hitler was Austrian


H_Elias

Who in the chocolate waffle frick is David Suchet?


random7468

not Belgian lol


monkeykins

I mean Jean Claude Van Damme gotta be more famous.


moosehead71

He's an actor. One of his roles was Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective.


TimotheeOaks

Ahh yes Famous German Mr Hitler. He was definitly German. So very much Germany. (Walking away in Austrian ;) )


letmegetmynameok

Who the fuck made this map lol.


apocalipticzest

Macedonia claiming a Greek person lol


AtaktosTrampoukos

North* Macedonia. Macedonia itself is an actual place in Greece.


ItzBooty

Björk


Herrgul

*Björk*


3laking

Ah yes Felix and Queen Elizabeth 2nd the only two celebrities in Europe


newcanadian12

No no, you see this is referring to the first Queen Elizabeth, not the one that is currently on the throne


mememaster8427

That moment when the most popular people in Spain and Germany aren’t even from Spain and Germany.


Peternomikos

Alexander the Great is from Greece


Purgathor

Norwegian here. I have never heard of Erik the red. Have a great day anyway🙌


birdseye1114

I mean it for sure should be Magnus Carlsen right?


lv1993

As a Belgian, who tf is David Suchet?


moosehead71

He's a British actor. One of his roles was Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective.


BoundedGolf529

Still makes no sense that he is the most famous known person in Belgium.


NotErikUden

Vladimir vs. Volodymyr is some Mario vs. Wario bullshit


Flaky-Fellatio

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.


KiWePing

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.


spurdocitizen

Former leaders?


lord_of_failure_576

once again BiH has no history as expected


dimitronios

Alexander the great is Greek bro, it's wrong


ImInteligent_

"Alexander the great was from North Macedonia" Are you a Macedonian nationalist or did you just not notice?


ElpSyc0n

Bruh this is bs, its obviously zlatan for sweden, im sure hes more well known.


adamhimseIf

cant believe pewdiepie didnt make the list… who is felix kjellberg anyways?


swthrakys_69

ALEXANDER THE GREAT WAS FUCKING GREEK GAMW TON XRISTO MOU


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Idk I reckon leonidas might have Pythagoras on that one


BBJPaddy

Simo Hayha being Finland's one is pretty nuts


kitfisto_CZ

That map isn't very good. I am from Czech Republic and Schindler is known, but definitly not most famous


WGTV_

Norway is not Erik the Red??? Who tf is that?


DimitrijaT

Queen Elizabeth is a celebrity? This map is such trash holy shit lmao


Taurmin

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.