Pop icon

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A pop icon is a celebrity, character, or object whose exposure in popular culture is regarded as constituting a defining characteristic of a given society or era. The usage of the term is largely subjective since there are no definitively objective criteria.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Pop icon”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Barbara Krafft, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.