What historical figure has the greatest number of statues modeled after them worldwide?

Question

Ok, we play trivia at our local bar on Tuesdays and lastnight one of the questions was the question above. We were told the answer was Joan of Arc! Almost everybody put down The Virgin Mary. We think that the trivia ***** was waaaaaay wrong! There are more Virgin Mary statues on Staten Island alone than there are of Joan of Arc worldwide!!! Anybody know the true answer? I can't find anything anywhere.

Thanks,
Doug

Answer 1

Alexander the Great. He became the ideal male beauty in the ancient world and even Michelangelo's David resembles him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_beauty_in_the_classical_world
There are probably more statues of Buddha and Mary but they do not all look the same so they are not really modeled just named for them.

Answer 2

Alexander The Great reshaped the ancient world, yet was tolerant of the conquered peoples' beliefs and religions. 10 2) Abraham Lincoln one of our greatest leaders 10 3) Elizabeth I of England ruled during a period of tolerance and enlightenment, 9, had father issues and had no heir 4) Maximilien Robespierre 5, leader of a revolution, executed by the revolution 5) Thomas Edison as an inventor, 10, as a human being, I know nothing about him 6) Cleopatra tough to separate fact from legend and just plain fiction 7) Jose De San Martin you got me with this one. never heard of him. 8) Mother Teresa 10 as a human being, but likely to have no historical impact 9) Thomas Jefferson 10 in shaping our political system 10) Benito Mussolini 1, a bad guy who associated with two other bad guys

Answer 3

I think history figure would been Caligula who was the third emperor of rome, he had a lot of statues built of him because he wanted to be equal to all gods, after his assassination all of his statues where taken down because he was a very unpopular person. but i don't look at jesus as a historical figure nor budda, as of todays statues i have no clue

Answer 4

I don't know but I'd say Joan of Arc is incorrect.
I've never seen a statue of Joan of Arc.
I have seen plenty of the Virgin Mary and, as the previous answerer said, statues of Buddah.

Answer 5

Before the merging of Cingular and AT&T with the resulting AT&T prominence in the company, I might have suggested that orange guy that was their logo. How many cell phone stores had those little statues? What about the omnipresent logo stamped on every phone and charger they had?

Answer 6

Actually the answer is Buddha. There are more statues of this demi-god than any other figure.

Answer 7

well, as the virgin mary is not a historical figure, statues of her would not count. France is replete with Joan of Arc statues - there is one in basically every church in the country.

Answer 8

I would have guessed down Egypt way, probably one of the Ramses, probably Ramses the Great.

Maggie

Answer 9

Buddha makes the most sense to me.

Answer 10

It would be close between Jesus and Buddha...