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* 1 Non-fictional heroes
o 1.1 A
o 1.2 B
o 1.3 C
o 1.4 D
o 1.5 E
o 1.6 F
o 1.7 G
o 1.8 H
o 1.9 I
o 1.10 J
o 1.11 K
o 1.12 L
o 1.13 M
o 1.14 N
o 1.15 O
o 1.16 P
o 1.17 R
o 1.18 S
o 1.19 T
o 1.20 U
o 1.21 V
o 1.22 W
o 1.23 X
o 1.24 Y
* 2 See also
* 3 Extrenal links
Non-fictional heroes
This is a list of people who have been considered heroes. For fictional people, please see the list of fictional heroes.
A
* Albert Schweitzer, doctor and reverence for life. Found a hospital in Gabon * Abraham Lincoln, USA president * Achilles, classical Greece * Aeneas, Ancient Rome * Alvin York, American hero * Amelia Earhart, Female aviation pioneer * Anne Frank, a young heroine * Atatürk, founder of Turkish Republic * Audie Murphy, most decorated American soldier * John Axon, railwayman * Alp Arslan, sultan of Seljuk Turks
B
* Bernard Law Montgomery, leader of Second Battle of El Alamein * Bernard Freyberg, war hero in many wars * Bill Clinton, USA president * Bill Gates, for charitable giving * Billy Bishop, top ace of British Empire and Canadain WWI * Barak Obama, Curent president * Björn Söderberg * Bob Dole, war hero in World War II
C
* Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim , leader of Finland during WWII * Carlos Belo, liberator of East Timor from Indonesia * Charles Upham, only infantryman ever awarded the Victoria Cross twice * Che Guevara, Marxist revolutionary * Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader in WWII * Chuck Yeager, Aviation Pioneer * Claus von Stauffenberg, tried to kill Hitler
D
* Dag Hammarskjöld, The last Secretary-General in United Nations * Dalai Lama, religious authority of Tibet * David Broadfoot, radio officer on the MV Princess Victoria * Davy Crockett, Tennessee politician who fought and died for Texas independence at the Alamo * Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, liberator of Myanmar from unelected military regime * Denise Bloch, heroine of WWII * Douglas Bader, a modest fighter ace * Douglas McArthur, WWII American hero of the Pacific Theater and the Korean War * Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander in WWII, fought for World Peace in the 50s
E
* Edmund Hillary, first to climb Mount Everest * Emmeline Pankhurst, fight for equal voting right for woman * El Cid, Spanish knight * Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish rebel leader.
F
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, USA president in WWII * Fidel Castro, Cuban leader
G
* Mohandas Gandhi, the non-violent activist and revolutionary * George S. Patton, United States General * Georgi Zhukov, Soviet Union Marshal, victor of the Battle of Berlin * Gilgamesh, Epic of Gilgamesh * Gino Strada, war surgeon * Giordano Bruno, renaissance mystic burned as a heretic * Gustav II Adolf, Swedish king, millitary leader and war hero in Thirty Years' War * Gustav Vasa, leader of a revolt against Christian the Tyrant * Guan Yu Chinese late Han Dynasty general who fought many one on one battles during Three Kingdoms
H
* Harald Edelstam, saved thousands of Chilean people on Pinochet's coup d'état * Harriet Tubman * Hector, classical Greece * Henry Dunant, creation of Red Cross * Heracles (Hercules), Greco-Roman mythology * Heralda Luxin, German woman who, during World War II, protected nine Jewish children * Hua Mulan, Chinese folk hero * Hugh Dowding, British leader at the Battle of Britain
I
* Itzhak Stern, helped Oscar Schindler to save the Jews * Ivan Susanin, a Russian peasant who saved the Czar
J
* Jean Batten, female pilot who set many distance records * Jesus * Joan of Arc, France * John Patler, killed George Lincoln Rockwell * John Rabe, saved 250,000 Chinese in Nanjing Massacre * Josef Stalin, saviour of the USSR and victor in Great Patriotic War * Józef Pilsudski, Polish leader in Polish-Soviet War * Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia in World War II * Juan Santamaría, Costa Rica
K
* Keith Park, New Zealand WW1 air ace and WW2 victor in the Battle of Britain * Klas Pontus Arnoldson, creation of Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society * Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations.
L
* Larry H. Parker, activist for victims' rights * Lapu-Lapu, Philippines * Laura Secord, Canada * Lech Wałęsa, Polish leader for Solidarity and liberator of Poland from communist regime * Vladimir Lenin, leader in Russian Revolution * Lilian Rolfe, heroine of WWII * Lord Guan, Chinese general * Lyndon Baines Johnson, for the War on Poverty and Civil Rights reforms.
M
* Marla Ruzicka, human rights activist * Martin Luther King, Jr. * Marvin Heemeyer, modern day hero * Maurice Buckmaster, leader of the French section of Special Operations Executive * Mehmed II "The Conqueror", Ottoman sultan and commander * Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader * Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, saviour of Russia in the Patriotic War * Mohammed Mossadegh, fight for independence and democracy for Iran * Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran * Moses * Muhammad, prophet of Islam
N
* Neil Armstrong, First person on the Moon * Nelson Mandela, held in a South African prison for 26 years, led the battle to end apartheid * Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, hero of the Battle of Trafalgar * Dr. Norman Bethune Canadian physician and humanitarian
O
* Omar Bradley, United states general * Orde Wingate, British pilot * Orville Wright with his brother, the creators of the first practical aeroplane
P
* Paul Rusesabagina, saved 1,200 tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwandan Genocide * Stanislav Petrov, Soviet military officer who averted a worldwide nuclear war in 1983 * Piet Hein, Dutch pirate in 16th century
R
* Raoul Wallenberg, saving 100,000 Jews during World War II * Raúl Castro, Cuban revolutionary * Raymond Spruance, saviour of Australia * Rigoberta Menchú, Human rights for Mayan Indians and other indigenous peoples * Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero of the 1700s * Robert Watson-Watt, The "inventor of radar", and thanks to the radar, the allies won the war. * Roland, French Christian knight killed by the Basques in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass * Rosa Parks
S
* Saigo Takamori the most influential samurai in Japanese history * Saint Nicholas, the real life Santa Claus * Oskar Schindler, saved 1,200 Jews during World War II * Simo Häyhä, legendary Finnish sniper who killed 542 Soviet soldiers * Simón Bolívar, El Libertador. South American revolutionary leader * Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter * Skanderbeg, Albanian Folk Hero during Ottoman Occupation * Spartacus, leader of a slave revolt in the Roman Empire * Stenka Razin, Russian folk hero * Suleyman I "The Magnificant", Ottoman sultan
T
* Tenzing Norgay first to climb Mount Everest * Terry Fox, Canadian cancer fundraiser, ran Marathon of Hope * Theodore Roosevelt * Thomas Andrews, designer of the Titanic; he spent the final hours of his life helping people to the lifeboats and went down with his ship * Toussaint L'Ouverture, one of leader of the Haitian Revolution
U
* Ulubatli Hasan, Turkish warrior in the siege of Constantinople
V
* Václav Havel, liberator of Czechoslovakia from communist regime * Vasil Levski, Bulgarian national hero, founder of a revolutionary net * Violette Szabo, WWII secret agent
W
* George Washington, leader of the American revolution * Nancy Wake, resistance heroine, on whom the film Charlotte Gray is based. * William Tell, the national hero of Switzerland * William Wallace won the freedom of the Scots from King Edward I of England * Wilbur Wright with his brother, the creators of the first practical aeroplane * Winston Churchill, British leader in WWII * Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish milliary leader in Polish-Soviet War and World War II * Wong Fei-Hung, Chinese hero who was a martial arts master as well as an esteemed doctor
X
* Xanana Gusmão, liberator of East Timor from Indonesia * Xiang Yu Chinese warrior who destroyed the Qin Dynasty and its army without losing one single battle
Y
* Yi Sun-sin, Korean Admiral * Yitzhak Rabin, Israels prime minister and war hero in Six-Day War. Tried to negotiate peace betwine arab and Israel * Yue Fei, Chinese general from the Southern Song Dynasty. * Yuri Gagarin, sacrificed himself to save a village, also first in space.
See also
* List of fictional heroes * List of anti-heroes * List of villains * List of real people appearing in fictional context * AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains