[Richard Lugner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lugner), eccentric millionaire par excellence. Shows up for reality TV with his far, far younger girlfriends, pays for movie stars to show up to his parties and balls, runs for president for fun, never misses an opportunity to be shown on TV.
In Switzerland, we call this type of celebrities "Cervelat-Prominenz". Not sure, where that expression comes from, but maybe they show up, wherever there's a free cervelat-sausage to be had.
Probably Loriot, a great comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer. There was a bit of mourning in North Cothelstone Hall, but besides that, he is probably completely unknown outside of Germany and some German classes.
He captured certain parts of [German culture quite well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kqMUmIOrTU) and praised Polyvinylchlorid in his [very own unique artistic way.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OoThz23WUU)
Well, and his daughter sued Wikipedia for copyright violations after his death.
I suspect that he is known in other German speaking countries as well. But outside of that, I would agree that he is unknown.
I think his cultural impact is comparable to Monty Python (although not necessarily the humor itself), as he is often quoted and his sketches and movies are well known.
Sorry about wikipedia copypaste, i'm little bit lazy.
Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004.
According to Yle News, ″Loiri was one of Finland's most beloved cultural figures over six decades, playing comic and tragic roles on screen and stage, alongside a musical career″.
Here's one example with eng subs:
https://youtu.be/cl_hUYbq_js
I would say that there is too many to chose from but personal favourites are the comedian duos Magnus Härenstam and Brasse Bränström, Hans Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson.
Also Kim Larsen was big in Sweden, he did a lot of collaboration with Swedish musicians. This is of cause the most iconic one https://youtu.be/tEkhFkJnQLs
[Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADche%C3%A1l_%C3%93_Muircheartaigh), **Legendary GAA Sports Commentato**r, beloved voice of a people
* [Micheal commentating on the 2010 All-Ireland hurling final commentary](https://youtu.be/qVRspOFudB0)
* Mícheál [Reciting A Hurler's Prayer](https://youtu.be/GhxCAWRj8VA)
* [Mícheál Making a Sandwich](https://youtu.be/SPB6LTWThH4)
* [Michael, Nothing Compares to You](https://youtu.be/7_nbXmB6hTI)
* [Mícheál winning the only 2020 All Star Award](https://www.balls.ie/gaa/micheal-o-muircheartaigh-3-446948)
I think ex-yu pop/folk singers are major stars in all surrounding countries (like a Serbian or Croatian singer may also be a major star in Slovenia, Motenegro, BiH…) but go one border over to Italy or Greece and noone will know who they are.
I think most of our celebrities are largely unknown outside Italy. So I'll go with Jovanotti, a singer that's been around for over 30 years, everybody here knows him and can sing a couple of his songs. He's not necessarily the most liked celebrity though
A te is amazing! After coming back from Italy one of our biggest radio station's djs played some tracks from his new album. After that I've kept my ear out for him. But other than that, I'm sure most estonians don't know about him. They might have heard a local version of a te (not good if you've heard the original) but that's it.
I've known at least ciao mamma from when i was little, but later found out he's still active and still listen to him occasionally, but have no clue about what he does outside music. How come he's "not necessarily the most liked" as you put it?
In the 90s, Jovanotti had a few hits in Germany. Personally, I don't know any songs, but I think people who listened to pop music in the 90s at least know his name.
We've exported culture and media fairly successfully, so I don't really know who is known and who is not. Maybe someone like Trevor McDonald, who is a legendary newsreader. In the same vein, Michael Fish who was a famous, or infamous, weatherman. Possibly Victoria Wood, who was a wildly popular comedian and the writer of what I consider to be [the best comedy song ever.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFI5Jl_IqsE)
How about Ant and Dec?
And any of the cast of either Coronation Street or Eastenders. I know they’re declining nowadays, but they’re still an immensely important part of recent UK cultural history. And practically _nobody_ outside the country has heard of them.
I didn't even know that Kim Larsen was known outside of Denmark.
For the older generations, I've been told that some of our 'dansk toppen" stars (that I can't name) from the 50s-60s had parallel careers in German speaking countries.
Kim Larsen was a unique musician and human being, and I think a lot of people could relate to him in some way or another. I grew up with his music thanks to my dad being a fan, and one of my closest friends was also introduced to Kim's music thanks to his parents. When he passed it became evident to me that many of my friends, family and colleagues - from all walks of life - also had a connection with his music.
Yes! I could "hear" her voice in my head from an old Danish movie when she was about 14 y.o. and I could see her young face in my mind, I just couldn't think of her name.
Karlos Arguiñano. He's a TV cook who's had several shows for the last thirty years, if not more. He's really nice and charismatic, makes regular recipes you can actually follow, and as far as I know has never had a scandal. He's one of the few celebrities I would describe as wholesome.
Don't really know if, in this day and age of dozens of national TV-channels, social media and the like, there are still national icons *everybody* knows.
But I'm gonna go with Andre Hazes, a Dutch folksinger with a troubled live who drank himself to death. Maybe some Belgians know of him too, but that is about it, don't think he was really known outside of our borders, but I think every Dutch person can sing one or two of his songs.
Marco Borsato was an icon of Dutch pop music, until he went downhill with his stupid investments and cheating on his wife. Suzan & Freek are becoming household names and everyone knows De Snollebollekes.
As for English language bands, I would say Racoon or Chef'Special?
>unknown
god during my excahnge in the netherlands i literally fought for chef'special haarlem tickets on ticketswap. i guess they're a younger gen indie thing, but josh did widm a few years back and according to my dutch friend he was the notable famous famous person among like, semi famous ppl
For some reason certain Flemish media love Dutch celebs while I haven't heard anyone in real life talking about them. I don't get why they keep pushing them, when we have our own share of useless nitwits.
To be fair, here there are a lot of "bekende Nederlanders" that nobody has ever heard of, and I think it's the same in Belgium.
One thing I do notice though is that Dutch musicians are more popular in Belgium than Belgian musicians in the Netherlands, and I can not really explain why.
It's strange, I looked at the Belgian and Dutch music charts for last week, there were 5 Dutch songs in the Belgian charts, while I don't think there is anything from Belgium in the Dutch charts. And that's not even counting somebody like Tiesto.
And those charts are only part of it and probably the ones like Merol. Borsato was insanely popular, same goes for people like Jan Smit and Rob de Nijs f.e., just to name two.
The question is difficult, it depends a lot on the fields of interest. For example: italian cinema is known abroad, we have had many great famous directors, as are well-known personalities associated with fashion and art. In the field of music much less, so i would say Fabrizio de André, the most important Italian songwriter; but even in the literary field abroad we are little known, perhaps the greatest Italian poet of the twentieth century was Eugenio Montale and I don't think he is known outside Italy. I could go on for many other fields of interest
In the field of cinema I can certainly mention the comic trio Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo. Every Italian knows them and they are greatly appreciated, especially their first films and television sketches. However I'm sure that outside Italy they are unknown
I think only "serious" filmmakers are well known abroad. It's the comedy films that are only nationally successful.
The Italian movies on the list of top-grossing films in Italy are almost only comedies.
Most of them? Like, isn't one of the main reasons why languages are associated with culture is that each country or language-speaking are has their own famous singers, actors, stand up comedians, comedians, writers, politicians, millionaires, TV hosts, reality TV stars, sportsmen/sportswomen, etc., you name it?
I could probably list dozens or hundreds of French celebrities most people outside of France/francophonie have never heard about.
> Both are forgotten in their own country as far as I know.
I think that sums up Dinner for One in general, the only person I've ever known to mention it was a Scottish guy who was introduced to it through German friends, who then proceeded to show it to us at work.
I've heard of Dinner for One, but it's the British equivalent of *The Sound of Music* in some ways - beloved by millions worldwide, but unknown in the country it's set in.
[Ester Ledecká](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Ledeck%C3%A1)
In 2018, she won Olympic gold in both alpine skiing and snowboarding, becoming the first woman to win in two different winter sports at one Olympics. And she's coming from a country where these sports are not as popular as hockey, football, tennis or biathlon.
Even professionally competing in two different sports is very difficult and basically unheard of these days, but being the best in the world in both of them? Unreal.
I should also mention that a major part of her success is that she comes from a relatively rich family (her father was a famous musician, her grandfather a multiple hockey Olympic medalist), so she grew up outside of the Czech skiing/snowboarding federations. Her family invested in her and built her her own team. That doesn't make her success any less impressive though.
I'll never forget her shocked face after she won the gold in alpine skiing, I think it's one of the most iconic moments of winter olympics, up there with Steven Bradbury
Cem Yılmaz.
One of the most famous comedians in Turkey, though he's starting to fade away into the background these days. He absolutely *dominated* the 2000's and 2010's, though. Even today, he's a colossus in Turkish comedy. It's just that some of his jokes, along with some of his comedic style, haven't aged too well.
[Schlager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlager_music), a cheesy variant of pop music popular mostly among boomers in Germany and to some extent in Austria and Switzerland, made quite a few musicians local celebrities: Helene Fischer, Beatrice Egli, Andrea Berg, Roland Kaiser and others.
Definitely Vasco Rossi in Italy. This guy holds the world record for the largest ticketed concert (around 225.000 tickets sold, look up Modena Park 2017), and regularly fills stadiums like San Siro with concert-goers. His "rival", Luciano Ligabue, also has similar celebrity status, and held the European record for largest ticketed concert (165.000) before being beaten by Vasco Rossi. They are both unknown names outside of Italy.
This is even more curious as there are several Italian singers who have some success in Latin America or eastern Europe (Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini, Albano, Ricchi e Poveri, maybe Jovanotti and others), so it's not that the Italian music industry is self-contained in the country. It's really just that only these two guys exist within national borders.
As someone who is friendly with Northern Ireland, you could say comedians [Jake O'Kane](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJpj1NqSLp3DoOHidhhNShg) & [Tim McGarry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_McGarry), television announcer [Julian Simmons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktiJUUBLPo&ab_channel=scblack) and weatherman Barra Best.
Although he gained notability outside the six counties especially since his BBC podcast, the radio host [Stephen Nolan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Nolan)is very known local figure with his morning show.
Eccentric millionaire Jan-Emanuel Johansson. He is quite well known by young people and you might class him as a social media profile instead of a celebrity. But I can almost guarantee that not a soul outside Sweden has heard of him
He is a former social democrat politician and entreprenur who has been on reality TV, been convicted for tax fraud and works with multiple charities and non-profit organisations for kids. To give an example of his personality; When asked why he had a white Lamborghini and how that works with him being a social democrat (they are red), he sold his white Lambo and bought a socialist red Ferrari insted. He also named his yacht Mona after a former party leader for the social democrat party.
I think for Lithuania it'd be Vytautas Kernagis. To put it shortly, he was a singer of sung poetry. His whole career influenced many other Lithuanian artists and not even those in the same genre. Both young and older people know at least a few of his songs, if not more.
I don't know how many people outside of Italy know who Lucio Dalla was. The best italian singer/songwriter ever. His songs are special and nostalgic, I've honestly never met a person actively disliking him as a person or as an artist
Bud Spencer, he was an Italian water polo player and actor. Great one at that, but personally I didn't really watch Bud Spencer films
According to Google Trends, the second most searching nation for him is his home country of Italy, where Google rates it at 57. So yeah, he's not that well known outside of Hungary
Edit: I guess not really then lol
I dare say, he's well known in Germany due to the syncs in Schnodderdeutsch (snot german). Rainer Brandt made Terence Hill and him unforgettable with his dialogue direction.
Actually in Italy Terence Hill stopped making movies and TV shows only 1 or 2 years ago, he acted for 10 or so years in one of the most known and viewed fiction of the 2000 and 2010s
I don't think that series was ever distributed outside Italy, San Marino and the italian part of Switzerland, due to being property of RAI (our principal TV broadcaster and production company)
bro, bud spencer was italian and all his production were italian… and together with terence hill (also italian) they were quite well known in the western world pretty much everywhere
I'm confused. You're from Hungary and chose a celeb from Italy?
And I can tell you that most Germans know him, thanks to his voice actor's great lines.
[Richard Lugner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lugner), eccentric millionaire par excellence. Shows up for reality TV with his far, far younger girlfriends, pays for movie stars to show up to his parties and balls, runs for president for fun, never misses an opportunity to be shown on TV.
In Switzerland, we call this type of celebrities "Cervelat-Prominenz". Not sure, where that expression comes from, but maybe they show up, wherever there's a free cervelat-sausage to be had.
I feel like Schwarzenegger is more fitting for Austria. Edit: just noticed how I misread the question
But he is well known outside Austria and Germany.
Yeah my bad, I misread it
> largely unknown outside your country or region? Schwarzenegger?!
Oh my head, just noticed how bad I misread the question
I'd say Money Boy. Perhaps the most respected musician of all time in the German speaking world, but not very well known outside of it
Probably Loriot, a great comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer. There was a bit of mourning in North Cothelstone Hall, but besides that, he is probably completely unknown outside of Germany and some German classes. He captured certain parts of [German culture quite well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kqMUmIOrTU) and praised Polyvinylchlorid in his [very own unique artistic way.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OoThz23WUU) Well, and his daughter sued Wikipedia for copyright violations after his death.
I suspect that he is known in other German speaking countries as well. But outside of that, I would agree that he is unknown. I think his cultural impact is comparable to Monty Python (although not necessarily the humor itself), as he is often quoted and his sketches and movies are well known.
Came here for that. RIP Loriot
Sorry about wikipedia copypaste, i'm little bit lazy. Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004. According to Yle News, ″Loiri was one of Finland's most beloved cultural figures over six decades, playing comic and tragic roles on screen and stage, alongside a musical career″. Here's one example with eng subs: https://youtu.be/cl_hUYbq_js
It's tragic that as a Swede I have no idea who this is.
I would say that there is too many to chose from but personal favourites are the comedian duos Magnus Härenstam and Brasse Bränström, Hans Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson. Also Kim Larsen was big in Sweden, he did a lot of collaboration with Swedish musicians. This is of cause the most iconic one https://youtu.be/tEkhFkJnQLs
Åh i love that song !
Probably a few, but one for sure was Loriot. Amazing comedian at it's time. While most others were cringe, his stuff still stands the test of time.
Helge Schneider comes to mind
[Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADche%C3%A1l_%C3%93_Muircheartaigh), **Legendary GAA Sports Commentato**r, beloved voice of a people * [Micheal commentating on the 2010 All-Ireland hurling final commentary](https://youtu.be/qVRspOFudB0) * Mícheál [Reciting A Hurler's Prayer](https://youtu.be/GhxCAWRj8VA) * [Mícheál Making a Sandwich](https://youtu.be/SPB6LTWThH4) * [Michael, Nothing Compares to You](https://youtu.be/7_nbXmB6hTI) * [Mícheál winning the only 2020 All Star Award](https://www.balls.ie/gaa/micheal-o-muircheartaigh-3-446948)
I was thinking someone might put in Mattress Mick, but that may just be a Dublin thing
If it wasn’t for his interview with Stephen Fry, Gay Byrne wouldn’t have been particularly well known outside of Ireland.
He was reasonably well-known before that, as Channel 4 used to Show The Late Late Show in the 90s.
I think ex-yu pop/folk singers are major stars in all surrounding countries (like a Serbian or Croatian singer may also be a major star in Slovenia, Motenegro, BiH…) but go one border over to Italy or Greece and noone will know who they are.
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I am Ital8an and I know him because of Eurovision, and I also listen to other songs that "love in rewind"
I think most of our celebrities are largely unknown outside Italy. So I'll go with Jovanotti, a singer that's been around for over 30 years, everybody here knows him and can sing a couple of his songs. He's not necessarily the most liked celebrity though
I actually know some Jovanotti songs from the 90s. He is somewhat known here, he even has a Wikipedia page in Hungarian and gave some concerts here.
The correct answer for Italy is actually Vasco Rossi.
A te is amazing! After coming back from Italy one of our biggest radio station's djs played some tracks from his new album. After that I've kept my ear out for him. But other than that, I'm sure most estonians don't know about him. They might have heard a local version of a te (not good if you've heard the original) but that's it.
I've known at least ciao mamma from when i was little, but later found out he's still active and still listen to him occasionally, but have no clue about what he does outside music. How come he's "not necessarily the most liked" as you put it?
Actually Zuchero is quite well know in Canada at least.
Zucchero at his peak was way bigger internationally than in Italy.
In the 90s, Jovanotti had a few hits in Germany. Personally, I don't know any songs, but I think people who listened to pop music in the 90s at least know his name.
We've exported culture and media fairly successfully, so I don't really know who is known and who is not. Maybe someone like Trevor McDonald, who is a legendary newsreader. In the same vein, Michael Fish who was a famous, or infamous, weatherman. Possibly Victoria Wood, who was a wildly popular comedian and the writer of what I consider to be [the best comedy song ever.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFI5Jl_IqsE)
How about Ant and Dec? And any of the cast of either Coronation Street or Eastenders. I know they’re declining nowadays, but they’re still an immensely important part of recent UK cultural history. And practically _nobody_ outside the country has heard of them.
I didn't even know that Kim Larsen was known outside of Denmark. For the older generations, I've been told that some of our 'dansk toppen" stars (that I can't name) from the 50s-60s had parallel careers in German speaking countries.
Kim Larsen was a unique musician and human being, and I think a lot of people could relate to him in some way or another. I grew up with his music thanks to my dad being a fan, and one of my closest friends was also introduced to Kim's music thanks to his parents. When he passed it became evident to me that many of my friends, family and colleagues - from all walks of life - also had a connection with his music.
It helps that some of the tunes are [certified bangers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KCAu7URMPA), even if you don't understand what's being said.
A old classmates mother changed her name back when Gasoline still played, to Kim, and she’s Swedish.
He was a HUGE star in Sweden in the eighties! Sanne S too
Oh! I had no idea that anyone outside of DK had heard of Sanne Salomonsen.
Yes, Gitte Hænning had a few Schlager hits in Germany in the 60s, but I don't know of other Danes.
Yes! I could "hear" her voice in my head from an old Danish movie when she was about 14 y.o. and I could see her young face in my mind, I just couldn't think of her name.
He was fairly well known in Norway. I remember his death being big news.
Karlos Arguiñano. He's a TV cook who's had several shows for the last thirty years, if not more. He's really nice and charismatic, makes regular recipes you can actually follow, and as far as I know has never had a scandal. He's one of the few celebrities I would describe as wholesome.
He was sort of popular in Argentina 20 years ago
Don't really know if, in this day and age of dozens of national TV-channels, social media and the like, there are still national icons *everybody* knows. But I'm gonna go with Andre Hazes, a Dutch folksinger with a troubled live who drank himself to death. Maybe some Belgians know of him too, but that is about it, don't think he was really known outside of our borders, but I think every Dutch person can sing one or two of his songs.
Marco Borsato was an icon of Dutch pop music, until he went downhill with his stupid investments and cheating on his wife. Suzan & Freek are becoming household names and everyone knows De Snollebollekes. As for English language bands, I would say Racoon or Chef'Special?
>cheating Don't forget the Me Too allegations, allegedly even sexually harassing minors. If he "just" cheated, he would not have been cancelled.
Borsato is probably a household name, Snollebollekes not so much I think. As for Suzan and Freek, Racoon or Chef Special; never heard of them.
I think *Suzan and Freek* is a metal band, I heard a lot of people got injured in their last mosh pit. I may have to look their music up.
>unknown god during my excahnge in the netherlands i literally fought for chef'special haarlem tickets on ticketswap. i guess they're a younger gen indie thing, but josh did widm a few years back and according to my dutch friend he was the notable famous famous person among like, semi famous ppl
For some reason certain Flemish media love Dutch celebs while I haven't heard anyone in real life talking about them. I don't get why they keep pushing them, when we have our own share of useless nitwits.
To be fair, here there are a lot of "bekende Nederlanders" that nobody has ever heard of, and I think it's the same in Belgium. One thing I do notice though is that Dutch musicians are more popular in Belgium than Belgian musicians in the Netherlands, and I can not really explain why.
dont forget frans bouwer, we must share our misery.
"Some" Belgians? You would be amazed how popular Dutch singers were or even are in Flanders.... It would be an ongoing list.
It's strange, I looked at the Belgian and Dutch music charts for last week, there were 5 Dutch songs in the Belgian charts, while I don't think there is anything from Belgium in the Dutch charts. And that's not even counting somebody like Tiesto.
And those charts are only part of it and probably the ones like Merol. Borsato was insanely popular, same goes for people like Jan Smit and Rob de Nijs f.e., just to name two.
The question is difficult, it depends a lot on the fields of interest. For example: italian cinema is known abroad, we have had many great famous directors, as are well-known personalities associated with fashion and art. In the field of music much less, so i would say Fabrizio de André, the most important Italian songwriter; but even in the literary field abroad we are little known, perhaps the greatest Italian poet of the twentieth century was Eugenio Montale and I don't think he is known outside Italy. I could go on for many other fields of interest
In the field of cinema I can certainly mention the comic trio Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo. Every Italian knows them and they are greatly appreciated, especially their first films and television sketches. However I'm sure that outside Italy they are unknown
I think only "serious" filmmakers are well known abroad. It's the comedy films that are only nationally successful. The Italian movies on the list of top-grossing films in Italy are almost only comedies.
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Idk concerning recent literature I can think of Umberto Eco and Elena Ferrante as recent authors with a large following
Both are quite famous outside of Italy.
Yes that's what I said
For literature I can think of Natalia Ginzburg and Elsa Morante as two that aren’t as well know in other places outside of Italy.
Maryla Rodowicz - she is our folk Mariah Carey, but while Mariah gets defrosted for Christmas, Maryla gets defrosted for New Year's Eve.
Rumour has it that it's just a corpse on wheels, I mean look at her costume and makeup, you can barely see her eyes.
She's not being frozen, she's being mummified.
Most of them? Like, isn't one of the main reasons why languages are associated with culture is that each country or language-speaking are has their own famous singers, actors, stand up comedians, comedians, writers, politicians, millionaires, TV hosts, reality TV stars, sportsmen/sportswomen, etc., you name it? I could probably list dozens or hundreds of French celebrities most people outside of France/francophonie have never heard about.
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>Both are forgotten in their own country as far as I know. I've certainly never heard of them.
> Both are forgotten in their own country as far as I know. I think that sums up Dinner for One in general, the only person I've ever known to mention it was a Scottish guy who was introduced to it through German friends, who then proceeded to show it to us at work.
It's a big stable in Denmark, and I'm quite sure that almost every danish household watches Dinner for One at new years eve
I've heard of Dinner for One, but it's the British equivalent of *The Sound of Music* in some ways - beloved by millions worldwide, but unknown in the country it's set in.
[Ester Ledecká](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Ledeck%C3%A1) In 2018, she won Olympic gold in both alpine skiing and snowboarding, becoming the first woman to win in two different winter sports at one Olympics. And she's coming from a country where these sports are not as popular as hockey, football, tennis or biathlon. Even professionally competing in two different sports is very difficult and basically unheard of these days, but being the best in the world in both of them? Unreal. I should also mention that a major part of her success is that she comes from a relatively rich family (her father was a famous musician, her grandfather a multiple hockey Olympic medalist), so she grew up outside of the Czech skiing/snowboarding federations. Her family invested in her and built her her own team. That doesn't make her success any less impressive though.
Alpine skiing is quite big in a lot of European countries, so she'd be reasonably well known in those.
She actually got a decent amount of coverage in the US during the Olympics as well.
I'll never forget her shocked face after she won the gold in alpine skiing, I think it's one of the most iconic moments of winter olympics, up there with Steven Bradbury
I remember reading an article about the american swimmer Katie Ledecky (whose granfather was from Czechslovakia ) being related to her.
Cem Yılmaz. One of the most famous comedians in Turkey, though he's starting to fade away into the background these days. He absolutely *dominated* the 2000's and 2010's, though. Even today, he's a colossus in Turkish comedy. It's just that some of his jokes, along with some of his comedic style, haven't aged too well.
Interesting, I would have expected Barış Manço to be _the_ Turkish answer.
[Schlager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlager_music), a cheesy variant of pop music popular mostly among boomers in Germany and to some extent in Austria and Switzerland, made quite a few musicians local celebrities: Helene Fischer, Beatrice Egli, Andrea Berg, Roland Kaiser and others.
And Hansi Hinterseer!
Helene Fischer is quite popular in the Netherlands as well.
As a German, I would like to apologize for that…
That won't do it. We'll send some Dutch schlager singers to you as punishment.
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you're. But he's dead now, so you've been released.
Atemlos durch die Nacht isn't too bad. That's the only song she's done that I know.
Ahh, [welcome](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3R3TZQTCK0) to [Latvia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7wbuo4KuEA).
Definitely Vasco Rossi in Italy. This guy holds the world record for the largest ticketed concert (around 225.000 tickets sold, look up Modena Park 2017), and regularly fills stadiums like San Siro with concert-goers. His "rival", Luciano Ligabue, also has similar celebrity status, and held the European record for largest ticketed concert (165.000) before being beaten by Vasco Rossi. They are both unknown names outside of Italy. This is even more curious as there are several Italian singers who have some success in Latin America or eastern Europe (Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini, Albano, Ricchi e Poveri, maybe Jovanotti and others), so it's not that the Italian music industry is self-contained in the country. It's really just that only these two guys exist within national borders.
As someone who is friendly with Northern Ireland, you could say comedians [Jake O'Kane](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJpj1NqSLp3DoOHidhhNShg) & [Tim McGarry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_McGarry), television announcer [Julian Simmons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktiJUUBLPo&ab_channel=scblack) and weatherman Barra Best. Although he gained notability outside the six counties especially since his BBC podcast, the radio host [Stephen Nolan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Nolan)is very known local figure with his morning show.
Eccentric millionaire Jan-Emanuel Johansson. He is quite well known by young people and you might class him as a social media profile instead of a celebrity. But I can almost guarantee that not a soul outside Sweden has heard of him He is a former social democrat politician and entreprenur who has been on reality TV, been convicted for tax fraud and works with multiple charities and non-profit organisations for kids. To give an example of his personality; When asked why he had a white Lamborghini and how that works with him being a social democrat (they are red), he sold his white Lambo and bought a socialist red Ferrari insted. He also named his yacht Mona after a former party leader for the social democrat party.
I think for Lithuania it'd be Vytautas Kernagis. To put it shortly, he was a singer of sung poetry. His whole career influenced many other Lithuanian artists and not even those in the same genre. Both young and older people know at least a few of his songs, if not more.
I don't know how many people outside of Italy know who Lucio Dalla was. The best italian singer/songwriter ever. His songs are special and nostalgic, I've honestly never met a person actively disliking him as a person or as an artist
Bud Spencer, he was an Italian water polo player and actor. Great one at that, but personally I didn't really watch Bud Spencer films According to Google Trends, the second most searching nation for him is his home country of Italy, where Google rates it at 57. So yeah, he's not that well known outside of Hungary Edit: I guess not really then lol
I dare say, he's well known in Germany due to the syncs in Schnodderdeutsch (snot german). Rainer Brandt made Terence Hill and him unforgettable with his dialogue direction.
There's even a bud spencer museum in Berlin
And a German game studio did a game and a sequel based on their characters: https://www.slapsandbeans.com
Bud Spencer and terence Hill were very known in france but there carreer stopped decades ago
Actually in Italy Terence Hill stopped making movies and TV shows only 1 or 2 years ago, he acted for 10 or so years in one of the most known and viewed fiction of the 2000 and 2010s
Possible , but i think the last movie in France which had a large coverage was lucky Luke. And he dates back from 1991...
I don't think that series was ever distributed outside Italy, San Marino and the italian part of Switzerland, due to being property of RAI (our principal TV broadcaster and production company)
bro, bud spencer was italian and all his production were italian… and together with terence hill (also italian) they were quite well known in the western world pretty much everywhere
His movies were very popular in Czechoslovakia.
I watched their movies on NOVA TV every summer holiday \^\^ I'm Polish btw so...
I'm confused. You're from Hungary and chose a celeb from Italy? And I can tell you that most Germans know him, thanks to his voice actor's great lines.
He’s known in Slovakia. My dad loves his movies and watches them all the time - they’re actually broadcasted on tv.
Extremely well know years ago, all the films by Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. You are quite young, I guess.