The Afghan Girl

There are certain photos that people just know and remember. The picture of the tanks in Tiananmen Square for instance is quite well known world wide. Steve McMurry's shot simply titled "The Afghan Girl" is one of the most famous shots to be seen on the cover of National Geographic. (Actually, according to them it is.)

From Wikipedia:

Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله "flower-juice girl") (Sharbat is pronounced /ˈʃaɾ.bat/) (born ca. 1972) is an Afghan woman of Pashtun ethnicity. She was forced to leave her home in Afghanistan during the Soviet war for a refugee camp in Pakistan where she was photographed by journalist Steve McCurry. The image made her famous when it was featured on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic Magazine, at a time when she was approximately 13 years old. Gula was known throughout the world simply as the Afghan Girl until she was formally identified in early 2002.