# Who is the absolute coolest person on the planet? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371 "2021-04-20T09:23:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/41 "2021-04-21T05:37:15Z")
Imaginary: Bono’s Evil Doppleganger Real: Let’s go with Daniel Riccardo, or Mutherfuckin’ Dave Grohl No. It’s Dave, either way. Face it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/42 "2021-04-21T05:50:01Z")
Actually, after some … thought… Mike McCready. I’ve not not loved a single project he’s been involved with that I know of, mainly because of his contribution. And so totally out of the eye. That’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/43 "2021-04-21T05:58:15Z")
Jeff Goldblum. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1_6RQKoCTVY/maxresdefault.jpg "Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - Cantaloupe Island (Live)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_6RQKoCTVY) ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/44 "2021-04-21T06:03:24Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Not only is he a highly evolved, Can the Obama nominators explain this comment? How is he more evolved than the average person that makes him “cool”? Is his spine better suited for upright walking? Has his brain evolved beyond the addictive desire for sugar? My nomination for coolest person on the planet would be myself. I’m pretty spiffy. Also Kevin Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/45 "2021-04-21T07:34:45Z")
Vladimir “Watch Me Pose Shirtless on a Horse” Putin is the working definition of a tryhard. He’s the opposite of cool. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/46 "2021-04-21T08:54:46Z")
He has the exact same coolness level as Obama, national leaders can’t be cool unless they lose their egos or put their money where their mouth is and Putin and Obama are about equal in the department. Teddy Roosevelt is a “cool” leader for example. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/47 "2021-04-21T11:51:50Z")
> [@Enjoy\_Slurm](#): > > My nomination for coolest person on the planet would be myself. I’m pretty spiffy. Obama is cool because he has evolved to the point where he would not have to nominate himself for coolest person on the planet. He just knows that he is and he will just chill and let other people reaffirm it for him. And give a little wink. [![](https://regularrightguy.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/obama-wink-614x400.jpg) ](https://regularrightguy.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/obama-wink-614x400.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/48 "2021-04-21T13:09:53Z")
> [@Enjoy\_Slurm](#): > > Also Kevin Smith I thought about Kevin Smith but he wake and bake lifestyle has turned me off if he would go back to taking breaks from being stoned he’d be really close to #1. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/49 "2021-04-21T13:28:32Z")
I’m just glad nobody has chimed in with that putz, _Elon Musk_. [UGH. I hate that guy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypkzKXz5QAE) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/50 "2021-04-21T13:49:48Z")
The only thing I’ve got is Sir Patrick Stewart. I wonder, though if you can be that dignified and cool at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/51 "2021-04-21T13:53:42Z")
Barack Obama won the Presidency largely BECAUSE he was so immensely cool. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > I’m just glad nobody has chimed in with that putz, _Elon Musk_ . As I pointed out in another thread, I’ve meet Elon Musk, albeit in university a long time ago. He was not cool, and if you’re the coolest human on the planet, you have to have always been cool. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/52 "2021-04-21T13:58:36Z")
My vote currently goes to Elisabeth Bik. > **[Eye for Manipulation: A Profile of Elisabeth Bik](https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/eye-for-manipulation--a-profile-of-elisabeth-bik-65839)** > > The microbiologist has turned her attention full-time to unearthing problematic figures in papers--for free. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/53 "2021-04-21T14:30:47Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > …if you’re the coolest human on the planet, you have to have always been cool. I might fight you on that (though that would be uncool). I’m twenty times cooler than I was a decade ago, and certainly than I was in my teens. Seriously, growing as a person (“evolving” if you will) to the point where you don’t care as much what others think of you is pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/54 "2021-04-21T14:32:49Z")
I think that the context of said _coolness_ is implied here. Obama was almost certainly cool throughout his life within his age bracket and setting. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/55 "2021-04-21T14:32:56Z")
Sorry, it’s still Janelle Monae. Have you seen the “Make Me Feel” video? [Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel [Official Music Video] - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGRzz0oqgUE) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/56 "2021-04-21T14:38:23Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’m twenty times cooler than I was a decade ago, and certainly than I was in my teens. Seriously, growing as a person (“evolving” if you will) to the point where you don’t care as much what others think of you is pretty cool. You may be extremely cool. However, we are talking about **the coolest person in the world.** Just being really cool isn’t close to enough to gain that title. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/57 "2021-04-21T14:52:00Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Obama is cool because he has evolved to the point where he would not have to nominate himself for coolest person on the planet. He just knows that he is and he will just chill and let other people reaffirm it for him. This is the heart of the matter. The coolest person on the planet _knows_ he or she is the coolest person on the planet. No need to prove it. No need to pose shirtless. No need to say anything, but when he _does_ say something, people will listen. Before Obama, Miles Davis was the coolest person on the planet (yes, I know there was a bit of an interregnum there – I don’t know who the coolest person on the planet was between them). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zqNTltOGh5c/maxresdefault.jpg "Miles Davis - So What (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/58 "2021-04-21T14:55:25Z")
I was going to let it go but since you keep insisting… she does not hold a candle to those who defined coolness: Nina Simone, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald… Sorry, not even close with that painfully obvious rip-off styling from Prince. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/59 "2021-04-21T15:48:34Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > You may be extremely cool. However, we are talking about **the coolest person in the world.** Just being really cool isn’t close to enough to gain that title. Y’know, you could give that news a little more gently. Heck of a bedside manner, Dr. Rick. Gotta go, I need some hopelessly ordinary comfort food… ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-absolute-coolest-person-on-the-planet/940371/60 "2021-04-21T15:50:56Z")
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