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This is a list of the most famous statues worldwide, past and present.
Austria
- statue of Archduke Charles of Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Alberta
- Wayne Gretzky statue outside Rexall Place (home of the Edmonton Oilers)
Manitoba
- Timothy Eaton statue in the MTS Centre
Newfoundland
- John Cabot
- The Dead Christ
- St. Patrick
- The Fighting Newfoundlander
- Sir Wilfred Grenfell
- St. John the Baptist
- Peter Pan
- The Caribou
- Gaspar Corte-Real
- Shanawdithit
- The Veiled Virgin
Ontario
- Parliament Hill Statues
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- The Famous Five
- Sir John A. Macdonald
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Robert Baldwin
- Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Victoria Tower Bell
- George Brown
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Sir George-Étienne Cartier
- John George Diefenbaker
- Queen Victoria
- Lester Bowles Pearson
- Sir Robert Laird Borden
- Supreme Court of Canada statues
- Louis St. Laurent
- Statue symbolizing truth, to the west of the Supreme Court
- Statue symbolizing justice, to the east of the Supreme Court
- Alexander Wood
- Timothy Eaton statue
Saskatchewan
Egypt
France
- The Vimy Memorial, honouring Canada's role there in the First World War
- The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin in Calais
- The Thinker by Auguste Rodin in Paris
- The Lion of Belfort by Frédéric Bartholdi in Belfort
- Venus de Milo, ancient Greek statue in the Louvre
- Winged Victory of Samothrace, ancient Greek statue also in the Louvre
Greece
- Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (destroyed by fire in 462 AD during the fall of Constantinople)
- Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (destroyed by earthquake in 224 BC, and the remains sold for scrap in 656 AD)
- Statue of Theodoros Kolokotronis
Mexico
North Korea
- has many very large statues of Kim Il Sung
Peru
- Francisco Pizarro statue, Lima (removed)
Russia
- Bronze Horseman and other equestrian monuments to Russian tsars
- Alexander Pushkin's statue on Pushkin Square in Moscow
- Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow
- Zurab Tsereteli's Peter the Great in downtown Moscow
- Labourer and kolkhoz woman in Moscow
- 86-meter-tall Rodina Mat on the Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd
- List of statues of Lenin
Spain
- Statue of Pope John Paul II in Madrid
- Statue of El Cid in Burgos
Sweden
- The Branting Monument in Stockholm.
- Statue of August Strindberg in Stockholm.
- Statue of August Palm in Stockholm.
- Statue of Fabian Månsson in Hasslö.
- Statue of Charles XII of Sweden
- statue of Charles XIV John of Sweden
- statue of Gustav II Adolf of Sweden
United Kingdom
England
United States, including territories
Madonna of the Trail
Alabama
- Vulcan statue, Birmingham, Alabama World's tallest cast iron statue
Arkansas
Massachusetts
- Robert Treat Paine, Taunton
- The Whaler, New Bedford
Michigan
- Joe Louis statue
New York
- Statue of Liberty, New York
- John Ericsson statue in Battery Park
Nevada
- Joe Louis statue, inside the Caesars Palace Hotel, Las Vegas
Oklahoma
- Golden Driller statue, Tulsa
Pennsylvania
- Rocky statue, Philadelphia
Puerto Rico
- Estatua del Jibarito, Cayey
- Sixto Escobar statue, Isabela
Texas
- Statue of Sam Houston, Huntsville
Washington, DC
- USMC War Memorial, Washington, D.C.
- Statue of Abraham Lincoln, inside the Lincoln Memorial
By distinction
Oldest
Tallest
- Ushiku Daibutsu Amida Buddha in Japan - 120 meters, 1995
- Zurab Tsereteli's Columbus in Puerto Rico - 100 meters, 1994
- Zurab Tsereteli's Peter the Great in downtown Moscow - 96 meters, 1996
- Evgeny Vuchetich's Mother Motherland on Mamayev Kurgan - 82 meters, 1967
Highest placement
Largest stone sculpture by volume
Largest metal sculpture
- At 54m, the Angel of the North has the largest single dimension. In term of height only, the Statue of Liberty is the largest.
Largest stone sculpture
- God of Longevity in the Meng Shan mountains near Pingyl, Shandong, China
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