Who are your heroes?

[SallyLightfoot]

[i]Seriously.[/i] Can you name any public figures whom you admire or consider a hero? By hero, I mean someone whose life work has shown him or herself to be a true artist/innovator, or a visionary?

This exercise probably requires some thought, but off the cuff, I can list a few:

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson" target="_new">Jim Henson</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers" target="_new1">Fred Rogers</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling" target="_new2">Rod Serling</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" target="_new3">Douglas Adams</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" target="_new4">Nikola Tesla</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller" target="_new5">Buckminster Fuller</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing" target="_new6">Alan Turing</a>

Of course, this is a work in progress. I'd be interested to hear who some of your heroes are. I think heroes are inspirational, and hopefully your list of heroes will help me grow my list.

[TragicMagic]

Simon Pegg (thinks).. nope.. no one else springs to mind!

[ghosty]

Off the top of my head:
Orson Welles
Brian Wilson
Mel Blanc (hell, all the folks at Termite Terrace)
Peter Cook
Joe Namath

I'd add Rod Serling to my list (with honorable mentions to Twilight Zone scribes Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont).

[i_like_lectric_motors]

[quote]Originally posted by SallyLightfoot
a visionary, a true artist/innovator, or a visionary?

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Nice. [:D]

My list at the moment:

Charles Darwin
Jack Kevorkian
Charles Manson
Larry Flynt
Charlie Sheen
Chad Ochocinco (look, Sally- a black man!)
Henry Rollins

[SallyLightfoot]

Motors-- [i]Thanks. I fixed the typo[/i].
If your heroes were all on a bus, would you have Chad sit at the back? [:D]

[eight6]

[quote][i]Originally posted by i_like_lectric_motors[/i]

Chad Ochocinco

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Hey, there's an idea!

[WoodlandParkPunk]

My mom!

"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious

[Bitter Almonds]

<p align="justify">Ma'[}:)]


I idolise the following for one reason or another:

Homer
Socrates and Plato
William Shakespeare
Napoleon Bonaparte
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Charles Darwin
Henry David Thoreau
Thomas Alba Edison
Madame Curie
Margaret Sanger
Rosalind Franklin
Philo Farnsworth
Mishima Yukio
Stanley Miller and Harold Urey
Albert Camus
Andrei Tarkovsky


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