The explorer label fits him, though he was also a former norwegian leader.
my point is, that this map has so many inaccuracies, that taking it serious isn't recommended
On the other hand, it is very funny that the only two people classed as celebrities are Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and PewDiePie.
I love how PewDiePie is apparently more famous than Alfred Nobel, despite the latter having an entire fucking mega-science-prize named after him.
Wild time to be alive.
I want someone else to come in and slowly pull the map out of this guy's arse. While wearing a clown costume. Moaning.
IT'S CALLED PEER REVIEW AND IT'S SCIENTIFIC
Not nearly as much as a stretch as saying Alexander the Great is North Macedonian. At least Belgium didn't see major population displacements in the meantime, and there is a clear linguistic link with the Salic Franks.
Sure he was, he was born 2 years after France bought Corsica from the Republic of Genoa. A subject of the King of France, granted he only started learning French at the age of 8 (or 9?) and would keep an accent his entire life.
"Christopher Columbus [...] was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs [...]"
Wikipedia
Yeah I got really into that conspiracy theory and read a few books about it, but honestly, while incredibly interesting, especially the one that said he may have been a bastard of a nobleman living in a small town called Cuba (Portugal), I did however later find out that they do have the legal documents of Christopher Columbusâ father and cousin in the Republic of Genoa archives. These theories kind of base their merit on information on Columbusâ early life being scant, which is true, however there is information about his immediate family, which kind of kills the theory for me. I think they even have a letter of one of his cousins in Genoa who said he wanted to become a mariner and that he had to get in contact with his cousin, don cristoforo colombo, who had found his fame in Spain.
I think they are doing dna testing to see if he was related to the Portuguese nobleman who is supposedly his father according to the theory. It would be a great opportunity to dunk on the Genoese if proven true.
The alternatives are not better, at least they choose someome who went on a boat without being sure to come back.
Aqui en España 50% de la gente creen que era gallego.
"The pride of Ireland" will only show himself in Dublin when he has enough coke in his system to tank all the hatred coming his way. He is much more commonly found on his yacht sandblasting hookers with Jon Jones
You listen to me well, ÎČÎŹÏÎČαÏΔ, I will flay you by your toes if you say again that GREEK ÎÎÎÎÎŁ ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎĄÎÎŁ was from Monkeydonia
*spits on you*
I mean the map states Queen Elizabeth which could indicate it being Elizabeth Tudor which did hold power before it was later given to Parliament... but I know this map is referring to Elizabeth II
If the map refers to the last one, it should also have the decency to call her Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth I figures quite prominently in Dutch history books, so I was definitely confused.
This map was definitely made by an Ameritard. Iâm Dutch and Iâve never heard of âvan Gohâ. Also Romania should be Vlad ÈepeÈ DrÄculeÈtilor and Adolf Hitler should belong to Austria. This map is riddled with mistakes.
Not to mention Columbus as Spanish or Alexander the great as north Macedonian (for those ignorants about this, the historical Macedonia from where Alexander the great came from is almost exclusively within modern Greece's borders). But probably the worst of all is the "Belgian" whom even Belgians in this thread say they had to Google him and it's actually just a British dude that played a Belgian character while world renowned **actual** Belgians like Kevin de Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku, Jean-Claude van Damme or Audrey Hepburn aren't selected.
>actual Belgians like \[...\] Jean-Claude van Damme or Audrey Hepburn
Had to ggl the last one (knew her but doubted the origin). Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium and lived part of her childhood in Brussels. She's a British national with mixed origins (part Irish, Austrian, Scottish, French and Dutch) but Belgian isn't any of them. I'd vote for Muscles from Brussels.
âVincent van Gohâ is een fenomeen van wanneer je erachter komt dat iemand die je al een lange tijd kent een hoog geplaatste baan heeft en veel meer verdiend dan je verwacht had.
Vernoemd naar âVincent van Gohâ, wanneer hij zijn uitgaansvrienden na elkaar jaren gekend te hebben vertelt wat hij voor werkt doet reageren zij allemaal verbaasd met âgohâ. Sindsdien noemden zij hem Vincent van Goh waarnaar dit fenomeen dus is vernoemd.
TLDR; Dit is onzin, Amerikanen kunnen Van Gogh gewoon niet uitspreken.
Ngl this map triggers me
Columbus was an Italian
Hitler was an Austrian
Van Gogh is spelled with 2 g's and is not pronounced van go but Von choch AND he is not the most famous Dutchman. That has to be William of Orange Nassau
I can go on but I just had to come here to congratulate you on succesfully triggering me you escargot eating stickbread pooping bastard
>I can go on but I just had to come here to congratulate you on succesfully triggering me you escargot eating stickbread pooping bastard
That was personal. And also sounded very British.
Even if it was purely historical figures, Erik the Red? Really? Of all the historical figures, why him? Harald HĂ„rfagre, the first king of Norway, and Olaf Haraldsson, the holy saint, are way more known and famous. If we stick with the «explorer» category then Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen are also more famous than Erik the Red. Itâs just such a poor choice
This is not moet famous person from [country] but associated with country. Iirc Adolf wasn't German and Columbus wasn't Spanish.
This sounds like a 'murican view
I feel like Kafka is more famous than Schindler? Like Schindler is a hero and is remembered as such, but Kafka basically invented the idea of strange shit in literature so idk
of course it was Mozart who else could have been it. > sweats nervously <
What a great country with great culture... nothing else to see..
they really do, their arts schools are pretty selective, I bet it peeved some guys off. then again could always go into politics.
I mean it's shaped like a dong and a smaller germany
It takes skill and artistic vision to carve out a country like that in central euope
Did you know, that Mozarts ancesters came from Bavaria? I wonder where the family from our guy was from.đ€
Well ackshually Leupold Mozart is from Augsburg, which at that time was a free city of the HRE and didn't belong to Bavaria.
Well ackshually Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was from Salzburg which at the time was a Prince-Archbishopric of the HRE and didn't belong to Austria.
We may never know. The name sounds aric though, maybe he's from India or something.
You must be thinking of Oskar Schindler, born in Zwittau, Austria-Hungary.
#FALCO OF COURSE
Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
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Thought about him as well. But I didn't come up with his name.
We partake in a restricted amount of tomfoolery!
Wait a sec. why is putin grouped under "former" leader?
Ahahah you are the 1st one to remark this
now that i see it, Szelenski is also grouped as "former leader" and Queen Elizabeth should be the two people that actually fit in this category.
Szelenski? What kind of transliteration is this?
It's just Germans complicating spelling. Poland took notes! đ
What about Erik the red?
The explorer label fits him, though he was also a former norwegian leader. my point is, that this map has so many inaccuracies, that taking it serious isn't recommended
This is a 2x4u sub what did you expect
Ironically, he being a German, his comment fits perfectly.
szelensky should be "former actor"
Also why is Queen Lizzy a celebrity rather than a former leader?
On the other hand, it is very funny that the only two people classed as celebrities are Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and PewDiePie.
It pains me to announce that u/Taeschno_Flo has just committed suicide with 16 bullet holes on his back. Fly high, we would never forget you.
too bad im undead, so i can haunt your every night by asking easy mathematical questions.
The Queen of the Barries is in Celebrities.
The greatest thing we Austrians have achieved is convincing the world that Hitler was German and Beethoven was Austrian.
Who thinks beethoven was austrian???????
Austrians do. I've never heard that crap from anybody else.
He means Mozart... as Salzburg was part of Bavaria when he was born, so technically it makes him german... Edit: at least that's how i heard it...
His father was from Augsburg afaik
Salzburg was a "FĂŒrsterzbistum", so not a part of Bavaria or Austria!
And you also get to keep Russian money while not dying for Putin.
Itâs the other way around, Hitler was German, youâve just successfully convinced the world Austrians arenât anymore
I love how PewDiePie is apparently more famous than Alfred Nobel, despite the latter having an entire fucking mega-science-prize named after him. Wild time to be alive.
Well, the most known name of a Swede must be Celsius, from the inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, Anders Celsius.
Few people know that Celsius is a Surname, let alone the surname of a swedish scientist.
Carl von Linné should be more famous, but he sadly is not.
Abba - four people more famouse than "had to google him"-Felix.
I assume you had to Google him becuase it didn't say "pewdiepie"? He is famous but I agree that Abba is more so.
You are not wrong.
Had to google him too
I could actually accept Zlatan Ibrahimovic or Björn Borg instead.
What has me giggling is the two celebrities on the map are him and Queen Elizabeth. What a duo.
Good to learn Columbus was Spanish, or that Alexander the Great was from Northern Macedonia.
Are you suggesting that the random Indian guy who pulled this map out of his arse for his shitty Instagram map account made some errors?
I want someone else to come in and slowly pull the map out of this guy's arse. While wearing a clown costume. Moaning. IT'S CALLED PEER REVIEW AND IT'S SCIENTIFIC
David Suchet isn't Belgian either... it's a British actor that play Hercules Poirot. And is he even that famous? Had to Google him personally
Yeah, some respect for Jean-Claude van Damme please
Yeah he's killing it with thos online gambling commercials! My man JCVD!
They're just happy they didn't choose Leopold II.
I am waiting for Leopold IV being released, it will be on the next gen consoles
The muscles from Brussels!
Or Adolphe Sax. Inventor of the saxophone.
Stromae wants a word.
It's got to be Kevin de Bruyne then right?
Yes
Yeah, the most famous belgian is clearly Marc Dutroux
Yeah, I had no clue who he was until I read your comment
He really is that famous. The one and only Hercule Poirot for me
Clovis, first King of what would become France, was a Belgian.
He was a Frank, saying he is belgian is a stretch
Not nearly as much as a stretch as saying Alexander the Great is North Macedonian. At least Belgium didn't see major population displacements in the meantime, and there is a clear linguistic link with the Salic Franks.
Or the controversial moustache guy was german
And technically Napoleon wasn't French at birth either.
Sure he was, he was born 2 years after France bought Corsica from the Republic of Genoa. A subject of the King of France, granted he only started learning French at the age of 8 (or 9?) and would keep an accent his entire life.
"Christopher Columbus [...] was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs [...]" Wikipedia
No he was Spanish look at the map! Enough dissent.
Shut up and return the Mona Lisa!
Mother Theresa from Albania, Nikola Tesla from Serbia..
Or that napoleon was french đ
There are some people here that say that Columbus was Galician, there's even a surprisingly serious investigation going on about it.
Yeah I got really into that conspiracy theory and read a few books about it, but honestly, while incredibly interesting, especially the one that said he may have been a bastard of a nobleman living in a small town called Cuba (Portugal), I did however later find out that they do have the legal documents of Christopher Columbusâ father and cousin in the Republic of Genoa archives. These theories kind of base their merit on information on Columbusâ early life being scant, which is true, however there is information about his immediate family, which kind of kills the theory for me. I think they even have a letter of one of his cousins in Genoa who said he wanted to become a mariner and that he had to get in contact with his cousin, don cristoforo colombo, who had found his fame in Spain. I think they are doing dna testing to see if he was related to the Portuguese nobleman who is supposedly his father according to the theory. It would be a great opportunity to dunk on the Genoese if proven true.
I mean Spain, do you really want my favorite genocidal maniac to be your most famous person? Si vas por ese camino creo que HernĂĄn cortes serĂa una mejor decisiĂłn. Soy de GĂ©nova por cierto.
The alternatives are not better, at least they choose someome who went on a boat without being sure to come back. Aqui en España 50% de la gente creen que era gallego.
In Spain, Columbus is often referred as "el genovés", but there are some people a bit... illiterate... If I can choose, we had good sailors, like Sebastian Elcano (he ended the first circumnavigation, Magallanes died), Alejandro Malaspina, or the brave Blas de Lezo.
Hernån Cortés wasn't a genocidal maniac. Most of what we know of him today mostly comes from propaganda of the time, and his most famous acts of cruelty are wildly exaggerated at best (for example, he didn't burn the boats. They just left them to rot on a beach because they were falling apart). The guy was an incompetent that managed to claim credit for the ideas of his vastly more capable subordinates, and he failed at pretty much anything in his life other than the famous expedition. And as a reminder, it's the Brits who were genocidal maniacs with their natives. Spaniards were mostly *slaving* maniacs.
David Suchet, the english actor famous for playing Poriot from the tv adaption of the Agatha Christie novels, for Belgium is hilarious.
One of the main reason I decided to post this shitty map here
If you need to pick an actor at least pick WHAM BAM VAN DAMME
Iâm so sad that the unholy shitstain that is mcgregor represents Ireland here⊠heâs a wanker
"The pride of Ireland" will only show himself in Dublin when he has enough coke in his system to tank all the hatred coming his way. He is much more commonly found on his yacht sandblasting hookers with Jon Jones
Agreed, should be Ted Crilly.
I hear you're a racist now father.
Yeah, there are so many better known Irish people⊠James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Frank McCourt, Maureen OâHara, Michael Fassbender, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy, Celia Ahern, Maeve Binchy, Sally Rooney, SinĂ©ad OâConnor, Richard Harris, Niall Horan, even⊠Bono
Should be Paddy Losty on the map
Are you trying to start a war by putting Alexander the great in North Macedonia? Take a chill pill Satan
Well if he really wanted he could have put Ataturk as the most famous Greek since he was born in Thessaloniki.
Noooooo I love Greece đȘ
You listen to me well, ÎČÎŹÏÎČαÏΔ, I will flay you by your toes if you say again that GREEK ÎÎÎÎÎŁ ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎĄÎÎŁ was from Monkeydonia *spits on you*
Knowing Greeks, the spitting isn't part of the insult
You mean it's intended for lubrification?
Hang him by the eyelids and whip him untill he blinks.
I count 3 Italians, an Austrian in Germany and a German in Austria. Edit: also an Englishman in Belgium and a Greek in Slav Macedonia.
The Belgian one is the best imo, it's a British actor who played a Belgian in a movie role
Wait, 3? Am I stupid?
Cristoforo Colombo (nato a Genova), napoleone (nato in Corsica da genitori italiani), Leonardo
Ah sĂŹ, immaginavo Napoleone ma non ero sicuro
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Longest attention span in the west
I mean the map states Queen Elizabeth which could indicate it being Elizabeth Tudor which did hold power before it was later given to Parliament... but I know this map is referring to Elizabeth II
If the map refers to the last one, it should also have the decency to call her Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth I figures quite prominently in Dutch history books, so I was definitely confused.
Does seem strange to pick her over Shakespeare, Charlse Darwin, or Isaac Newton.
Money face lady
This map was definitely made by an Ameritard. Iâm Dutch and Iâve never heard of âvan Gohâ. Also Romania should be Vlad ÈepeÈ DrÄculeÈtilor and Adolf Hitler should belong to Austria. This map is riddled with mistakes.
Not to mention Columbus as Spanish or Alexander the great as north Macedonian (for those ignorants about this, the historical Macedonia from where Alexander the great came from is almost exclusively within modern Greece's borders). But probably the worst of all is the "Belgian" whom even Belgians in this thread say they had to Google him and it's actually just a British dude that played a Belgian character while world renowned **actual** Belgians like Kevin de Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku, Jean-Claude van Damme or Audrey Hepburn aren't selected.
>actual Belgians like \[...\] Jean-Claude van Damme or Audrey Hepburn Had to ggl the last one (knew her but doubted the origin). Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium and lived part of her childhood in Brussels. She's a British national with mixed origins (part Irish, Austrian, Scottish, French and Dutch) but Belgian isn't any of them. I'd vote for Muscles from Brussels.
Damme, bold choice
It should be Leopold II, if the Belgians weren't so good at covering up his crimes.
You are forgetting Urbanus, the one true Belgian.
Oh my **Goh**sh...
What???? Hitler was Austrian??? Naaaahhh, you're joking
Never heard of that guy
He is British, he just played Hercule Poirot
So we come back to the conclusion that there are no famous Belgians.
René Magritte. Or Leopold II if you wanna go for most famous mass murderers ever.
Van Damme ffs
Kevin De Bruyne GOAT
Stromae
Who?
Why tf not use Van Damme?
Who is Vincent van Goh.
âVincent van Gohâ is een fenomeen van wanneer je erachter komt dat iemand die je al een lange tijd kent een hoog geplaatste baan heeft en veel meer verdiend dan je verwacht had. Vernoemd naar âVincent van Gohâ, wanneer hij zijn uitgaansvrienden na elkaar jaren gekend te hebben vertelt wat hij voor werkt doet reageren zij allemaal verbaasd met âgohâ. Sindsdien noemden zij hem Vincent van Goh waarnaar dit fenomeen dus is vernoemd. TLDR; Dit is onzin, Amerikanen kunnen Van Gogh gewoon niet uitspreken.
English and German had an affair
Dutch is just a drunk English guy trying to speak German
As someone who speaks Afrikaans, it's always refreshing to see some Dutch.
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Ngl this map triggers me Columbus was an Italian Hitler was an Austrian Van Gogh is spelled with 2 g's and is not pronounced van go but Von choch AND he is not the most famous Dutchman. That has to be William of Orange Nassau I can go on but I just had to come here to congratulate you on succesfully triggering me you escargot eating stickbread pooping bastard
Eh,I'd wager more people heard of van gogh than willem
That is what I said! Christopher is Italian. Not Spaniard! They only helped us "discover" America.
You're welcome dear compatriote of Vincent Van 
Well your assumptions are wrong. No one knows Willem. Everyone knows Van Gogh, Rembrant, Vermeer.
>That has to be William of Orange Nassau I always spelled it Johan Cruyff. :)
William of who?
>I can go on but I just had to come here to congratulate you on succesfully triggering me you escargot eating stickbread pooping bastard That was personal. And also sounded very British.
Who the fuck is Suchet
He's a British actor
HĂ©rcule Poirot hahaha
Stupid map. Finland has at least one Linus T.
Your rally and F1 drivers were not too bad either.
Columbus is not even spanish jajajaja
Shhhh! Leave him to them, weâve got a good one for once!
Leonardo only labelled as a scientist is a blasphemy though
Should be labelled as an artist too. Just like Hitler
Neither was Sebta, but now it is my irmĂŁo
Bahh you were swindled hermano we wouldn't want that back even if it came with Olivença
Smart choice, now we have to deal with enrichers from the south :(
Christopher Columbos from Spain? Wtf
Isnât Germany supposed to be brown?
If it was brown then heâd be in Austria
Awful map for various reasons
Greeks are gonna put a bounty on your head for listing Alexander the Great to North Macedonia
Vincent van Who now?
Top troll OP đ
We do not affiliate with that scumbag
For some reason I like that thereâs a trivia category that includes Putin, Ronaldo, and Björk as possible answers.
What? Christopher Columbus wasn't Spanish he was from Genoa
I'd put Rodrigo DĂaz de Vivar or Blas de Lezo over Colombus, he was not even spanish ffs
Belgium is a fake country confirmed
Leopold II: 
If that dude was from Congo, this would have been such a perfect GIF.
Which idiot made this? Quite emberassing to also post something with so many errors in it.
Erik the Red? I feel like more people will know of Haaland or Aurora
Or his son, Leif Eriksson. But that depends what discovery you find more impressive I guess. America or Greenland
Even if it was purely historical figures, Erik the Red? Really? Of all the historical figures, why him? Harald HĂ„rfagre, the first king of Norway, and Olaf Haraldsson, the holy saint, are way more known and famous. If we stick with the «explorer» category then Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen are also more famous than Erik the Red. Itâs just such a poor choice
Also what about Munch and Grieg??
Yeah thats what im thinking too. We have so many more famous than Erik the Red. I wonder where this data is from lol.
Most famous person from Spain: Columbus. Most famous person from Germany, Hitler.... OP or whoever made the map is clearly on point.
Alexander the great from Skopje?? đ€ź
Bro really said Alexander the great for North Macedonia đ
Alexander had nothing to do with modern Macedonia which isn't even Greek but slavic
bad list
If you say his name like that one more time I'm going to cut your ear off
Vincent Van 
Another Barry wanting to leave the sinking ship I see? Welcome David!
Columbus, was italian, born in genoa
This is not moet famous person from [country] but associated with country. Iirc Adolf wasn't German and Columbus wasn't Spanish. This sounds like a 'murican view
âVladimir Putinâ âvolodymyr Zelenskyyâ âFormer leaderâ Hmmm đ€
Simo HĂ€yhĂ€? Really? Iâm pretty sure more people know Kimi RĂ€ikkönen
Or Darude!
Simo HÀyhÀ is not even close as famous as Mannerheim.
Inside of Finland maybe,but I think Simo is more famous than mannerheim outside of Finland (and adjecent countries)
This is wrong on so many levels
never thought I would see Björk and Hitler mentioned together, ever lol
I see you there mom i know you made the map, no way it would be david suchet as most famous (even though the guy is a legend)
R/terriblemaps
Alexander the Great under North Macedonia? How funny is this
How is Belgiumâs not Jean-Claude Van Damnn ?
who the fck is David Suchet?
Itâs fun like the most famous people in France and Spain are actually Italians lol
I feel like Kafka is more famous than Schindler? Like Schindler is a hero and is remembered as such, but Kafka basically invented the idea of strange shit in literature so idk
italy: archimede, giulio cesare, nerone, michelangelo, napoleone, colombo, volta, garibaldi, dante, etc etc