Icons.

It will come as no surprise that I've been thinking about it too Calendargirl
I've just seen a little clip on another thread of Monroe dancing and I immediately thought of the 'icon' thing. She was just so luminous.
The term 'lighting up the screen' is oft used, but only really applies to her.

Bowie

Doris Day

Ghandi

Picasso; Dali; Kahlo

Nelson Mandela

Dame Edna Everage
Tommy Cooper
HM The Queen
Margaret Thatcher
Joan Collins

Oscar Wilde

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King

Billie Holiday

Che Guevara

Florence Nightingale
Margot Fonteyn
Fred Astaire
Winston Churchill

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King

Suffragettes

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

Mandela
Elvis
Marilyn
Jesus

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

Sparkling I'm surprised that noone had mentioned Elvis yet

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

Anniebach

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

It's under chat
I was chatting

Jimi Hendrix

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

Pavarotti
Maria Callas
Pele
Karl Marx, and his brother Groucho

Audrey Hepburn
Grace Kelly
Debbie Harry

Queen Elizabeth I

Captain Sir Tom Moore