# The most famous people from the least-noticed countries **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 23, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-people-from-the-least-noticed-countries/985986 "2023-06-23T09:58:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 7
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> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Gautama Buddha For what it’s worth, his name was Siddhartha Gautama, while the Buddha was a title. ---
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> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Are there any famous people to have come from Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, Western Sahara, Northern Cyprus or Somalialand? I’m assuming there are zero famous Bir Tawalians There are “famous” people from everywhere, just as a statistical thing. There is a little Caribbean island called Saba. The island is 5 square miles, much of that consisting of an active volcano (Mount Scenery), which makes it the highest part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The population is under 2,000. [Barbara Kassab-Every](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kassab-Every), a landscape painter, is a famous Saban. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-people-from-the-least-noticed-countries/985986.md?page=6)