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Survey finds many young people don't know who Marilyn Monroe or Neil Armstrong are

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

12:12 7 May 2022


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Do you know what they're famous for?

Earlier this week, the Met Gala took place, with all eyes on the style of celebs at the major fashion event.

One such star was Kim Kardashian, who wore a dress famously worn by Marilyn Monroe.

The headlines this week were focused on the iconic dress, but this stirred up a different type of conversation for many young people:

Who is Marilyn Monroe?

That's right, some people under the age of 30 were left scratching their heads at the reference to the pop icon.

A survey found that half of Brits in that age cohort didn't know who the US actress was.

Monroe was an icon back in the 1950s and early 1960s, but her fame hasn't quite carried on through the generations.

And she's not the only 'lost icon', as the survey resulted in a list of 30 famous names that apparently young people can't place.

Another of the ones that we couldn't quite believe people didn't know was Neil Armstrong.

Maybe this picture will jog your memory:

Are you ready for a test? Well here's the full list:

  1. Mary Seacole
  2. Frida Kahlo
  3. Virginia Woolf
  4. Alan Turing
  5. Ginger Rogers
  6. Emmeline Pankhurst
  7. Marlon Brando
  8. Cary Grant
  9. Fred Astaire
  10. Bette Davis
  11. Jim Morrison
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. George Orwell
  15. Rosa Parks
  16. Andy Warhol
  17. Aretha Franklin
  18. Alfred Hitchcock
  19. Jimi Hendrix
  20. Audrey Hepburn
  21. Kurt Cobain
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Pablo Picasso
  24. Marie Curie
  25. Muhammad Ali
  26. Florence Nightingale
  27. Bruce Lee
  28. Nelson Mandela
  29. Martin Luther King
  30. Neil Armstrong

How many do you know?


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