Sam Hill
Greg Minnaar
Tom Pidcock

If non-alive people like Steve McQueen are allowed, I’m nominating Leonard Cheshire. Proper dude.

Mads Mikkelsen

Skin

Clarkson? FFs. I can’t open this thread anymore. It’s so utterly uncool, it’s annoying me.

Josh Homme

I’m a big fan of Kyuss and QOTSA but Homme comes across as an arrogant, egotistical prick at the best of times.

Xavier Rudd
Rodney Mullen
What’s left of the Beastie Boys
Andy Cooper
Neil Fallon from Clutch
Black Pumas
Frazey Ford
Brant Bjork
Keanu Reeves
Drew Barrymore
Dope Lemon
Samara Weaving
Ben Howard
Sturgill Simpson
and most of all Jimmy Cliff.

In my mind you can’t be that cool if you’re a full on pop star or celebrity. Cool people are outsiders for the most part. At least in my opinion.

Shit, has no one mentioned Patti Smith yet? She practically invented the word.

Kim Gordon.

Penelope Cruz.

Gillian Welch.

A bit younger:

Chloe Bennet

Naomi Osaka

Laura Lee(zy)

AOC (hell, and the rest of the Squad)

Amanda Gorman

Greta Thunberg

And the Linda Linda’s (all four of them).

For men:

David Lynch.

+1 for Peej & Björk ❤️

I’m nominating Leonard Cheshire. Proper dude.

That is a very good call. A hero in two ways – his war service then his dedication to providing care for the elderly and disanbled

If you lot have heard of them they ain’t cool.

Jeremy Corbyn

I don’t think he has been mentioned yet, but I would nominate Alex Honnold. As well as his fantastic climbing feats, I have seen him in a couple of interviews and he just seams a quite unassuming quiet guy who loves climbing. Seams to be the type of guy who would help and advise less experienced climbers.

Even if he wasn’t so sucsesful he would still be living the van life in Yosemite doing what he loves, which if he was just a bang average climber could be rather sad. Which leads to the question, is there a thin line between cool and tragic wannabe.

Me, ‘cos I’m too cool for school, with school being this thread.

Samuel L has only had one mention?!

I’ll add Angelina Jolie to the list

Christopher Walken….. Cool as f@#k.

Geraint Thomas. So laid back he can’t stay on his bike.

kayak23

Joe Cocker

👍🏻

The prize for obscure thread reference

😂

Cool and still alive…at 77.. already mentioned but worth a pic…cut his own fingers off because the frost bite was ‘annoying’…

Thom Yorke

Jarvis Cocker

Sonny Bill Williams. Outstandingly talented and accomplished athlete, seems a real bloke, coolest name in sport.

George the Poet

Until last week…. Dusty Hill

Robert Plant.

Billy Connolly

and most of all Jimmy Cliff

Hell yes!

I’ll add in Polly Harvey and Bjork (even though I don’t understand Bjork’s more recent work… but I’m putting that down to my own lack of coolness, not hers).

Ahh… cletus & fasthaggis got there before me.

Richard D James then.

Dolly Parton. One awesome lady indeed.

I can’t believe after 4 pages no one has mentioned Billy Gibbons.  Like Duncan says, last week we’d have had Dusty too, but sadly no more.

Baaba Maal

Bill Nighy
Dave Grohl
Eddie Vedder
Brian Johnson

Billy Gibbons does seem like one of the coolest people alive to be fair.

The Dude.

Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia clothing boss who paid all his staff through lockdown.

Charlotte Worthington – https://www.eurosport.co.uk/bmx/tokyo-2020/2021/tokyo-2020-the-first-time-ever-charlotte-worthington-claims-gold-with-history-making-backflip-in-bmx-freestyle_vid1517082/video.shtml

Negan from The Walking Dead.

Reinhold Messner

iohan gueorguiev

Pretty sure pidcock, Thomas, Worthington and thunberg ain’t over 50 btw

Alex Turner currently doing a turn – at being the coolest person on Earth at this precise moment in time.

Sanna Marin

Aldo Kane

Steven Van Zandt

Some strange choices on this thread.

Sanna Marin probably my favorite of those listed above.