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Which *real* person, living or dead, has the most statues erected of them in their honour?


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:01 pm
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Buddah?


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:03 pm
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Gotta be Jesus. Or Mary. Or God?


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:03 pm
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A statue gets erected here every morning in honour of Mrs.C's hotness.

Alternatively, Buddah.


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:05 pm
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anywhere in the world? I would think that the winner would be someone/somewhere in the UK or Europe in general, but could also be in Latin America I suppose.


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:06 pm
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Queen Victoria


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:07 pm
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Ronald McDonald?


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:08 pm
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Kim Jong Il?


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:09 pm
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A statue gets erected here every morning in honour of Mrs.C's hotness

😆


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:10 pm
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Yeah anywhere in the world, let's keep religious figures out of this because the jury's out on all of them.

An American president (Lincoln)?

Forgotten soldier (but that's a cheat)


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:11 pm
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Gotta be Jesus. Or Mary. Or God?

REAL PERSON!


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:11 pm
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Chairman Mao


 
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Queen Victoria

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Posted : 30/05/2012 10:14 pm
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The guys with big head from the easter islands?


 
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Speaking of statues:

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Posted : 30/05/2012 10:16 pm
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Someone Chinese.


 
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Lenin?

Stalin?


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:17 pm
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WTF!!!


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:18 pm
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WTF!!! +1


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:22 pm
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Posted : 30/05/2012 10:25 pm
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An American president (Lincoln)?

Probably not old Abe---don't think he would come close to others mentioned, i.e. Queen Victoria, Mao, etc. Once one gets away from the eastern seaboard, statues of anyone out here in the hinterlands are kind of sparse


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:25 pm
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Elvis


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:27 pm
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David, as in Michaelangelo's David?


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:29 pm
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Yeah anywhere in the world, let's keep religious figures out of this because the jury's out on all of them.

Buddha was definitely real, this is not contested.


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:34 pm
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According to wiki answers it's Queene (sic) Victoria. We are not amused.


 
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Not sure but these are pretty [url= http://www.cracked.com/article_19155_the-14-most-unintentionally-terrifying-statues-in-world.html ]terrifying. [/url]


 
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+1 on my mantelpiece


 
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According to wiki answers it's Queene (sic) Victoria. We are not amused.

I can't believe it's not Buddha 🙂


 
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😆


 
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Mr pawn.


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:43 pm
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David, as in Michaelangelo's David?

Thats an allegorical figure though - Michealangelo never met the biblical David, its a sculpture that evokes the story, not a likeness of the individual.

As actual sculptural likenesses of people alive or dead - then faces on coins will have been reproduced more than most other 3d likenesses. Lincoln is still on the america Cent, so being a low denomination and a long innings that would be a high scorer. The queen appears on all these currencies though

Australia
Bahamas
Belize
Bermuda
British Caribbean Territories
British Honduras
Canada
Cayman Islands
Ceylon
Cyprus
East African Currency Board
East Caribbean States
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Gibraltar
Great Britain (Bank of England)
Guernsey
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Jamaica
Jersey
Malaya and North Borneo
Malta
Mauritius
New Zealand
Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Rhodesia
Saint Helena
Scotland (Royal Bank of Scotland)
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
Southern Rhodesia
Trinidad and Tobago
Zambia

However there are rather a lot of status erected in honour of Ist Baron Isaac Leslie Hore-Belisha, but they are maybe a bit too moderne for many people's tastes 🙂


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:50 pm
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CaptJon - I'm suspicious whether your picture shows all the same person. I can see a couple of guys who appear to be different. Specially the ones with four legs.


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:51 pm
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Is it that little gold chinese cat?


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 10:56 pm
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splashgordon - I love that site.

This is quite odd.

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Looks uncomfortable.


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 11:03 pm
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I can't believe it's not Buddha

Good work!


 
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In the uk the red lion?


 
Posted : 30/05/2012 11:12 pm