this thread will be for each country to strut their heroes stuff. each hero must be born in the country listed and be of world reknown. my american heroes 1. wright bros. 2. ford 3. edison 4. armstrong 5. yeager 6. salk
Walt Disney was my childhood hero. At the time, and probably still today, he was better known everywhere than a couple of those guys. I would also include Elvis Presley. I certainly expect the first Brit on this thread to list the Beatles. The arts are just as important to humanity as the sciences, and artists are often remembered longer than scientists.
for me im british and sorry fraggle im not really old enough to list the beatles as heros just 5 off my head would be: 1.)oliver cromwell for the way he has forever shaped the UK political system 2.)brunel for shaping the UK industry 3.)R.J. Mitchell for creating the spitfire 4.)Churchill for saving our asses in ww2 5.)cant think right now
i never heard of 1, 2, 3 edit regarding 3 mitchell he sounds vaguely familiar somehow. he had an airplane named after him didn't he?
i'm not old enough to 'remember' the wright bros. either. the rules are they are born in your country and are world famous. the beatles would be an excellent choice for the british. in america the beatles were discribed as "the british invasion"
no but as i was growing up i didnt listen closely to their music and so i wouldnt list them as heros as they didnt really do anything for me, and i never said i remembered them
Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter - for kicking British and French ass. Hugo de Vries - for rediscovering Mendel's laws. William I van Orange-Nassau - for leading the revolt against the Spanish. Anne Frank - victim of the Nazis and fascism. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - the greatest painter ever. Johannes Vermeer - not so bad either Audrey Hepburn - we claim half of her excellence. Rutger Hauer - kick ass actor. Herman Brood - musician/painter/drug addict. Hieronymus Bosch - kick ass artist who depicted Hell as no one else can. Desiderius Erasmus - humanist Baruch Spinoza -philosopher Niko Tinbergen - ethologist. Nobel prize winner. Johan Cruyff - football God. Joop Zoetemelk - best Dutch cyclist ever!!! And for the Americans Peter Stuyvesant - governor of New Netherlands. (that's eastcoast of America)
From India: My personal favorites: Mahatma Gandhi - a non-violent freedom fighter. Mirza Asadullah Khan 'Ghalib' Dhirubhai Ambani - a shopkeeper turned Fortune 500 CEO. Ravi Shankar - a musical genius. Arundhati Roy - incredible political activist. Shabana Azmi - actress extraordinaire. C. V. Raman - physicist. Nobel prize winner Satyajit Ray - great fimmaker. Siddhartha aka Gautam Buddha Rabindranath Tagore- poet, Nobel prize winner Lesser known Indians, famous through their efforts: * Co-founder of Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla) * Creator of Pentium Chip (Vinod Dahm) * Founder and creator of Hotmail (Sabeer Bhatia) * Founder of Bose Audio (Amar Bose) * Founder, chip designer Cirrus Logic (Suhas Patil ) * Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (Raghuram Rajan)
good choice never heard of these two heard of this guy never heard of these two either heard of him never heard of him you mean THE buddha? the one and only GREAT buddha? never heard of him never heard of these three great choice. never heard of these two either. you forgot one sam, a very well known man by the name of alan turing.
the only ones in your list i reconize is frank, hepburn, and spinoza. de vries and erasmus sound vaguely familiar.
Amazing, bunch of Nazi's on these fourm. How can you call yourselves Americans and not Mention Abe Lincholn, John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King. These guy have done more for American Morality then any men in our Nations History. Besides our 4 father. Those guys are in a class of their own. Eventhough they bought and sold slaves.
Ghalib-poet lived 600 years ago; Topic of research for every American university into SE Asian Literature Best link to his work. http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/ His life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Ghalib Dhirubhai Ambani: He's from my dad's hometown. http://www.rediff.com/business/1998/jun/16amba1.htm You should have heard about Arundhati Roy. She won the Booker prize for her first novel "God of small things" And she writes on the US and its policies (anti-US, of course) You can listen/watch her here. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/23/1358250 Shabana Azmi, I can understand. You probably don't watch Indian cinema? She's also a well known social activist. Incredible woman. Muslim. http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/heroes/azmi.html Satyajit Ray: Listed in all time great directors Didn't you know he was Indian? Tagore: Incredible writer and poet: Sample- But you have heard of Sun Microsystems, Hotmail and the Pentium Chip? Hmm I notice a pattern, arts and economics seem to be your least favorite topics. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! But you have heard of Cirrus logic? And the IMF? He was conceived in India, but born in England. Can we take credit for him?
edgar allan poe-poet/author mark twain-author chuck norris-karate messiah wyatt earp-u.s. federal marshal woodward & bernstein-journalists abraham lincoln-the greatest republican al gore-former vice president, and environmentalist ...too tired to think of more.
He was part of Intel's development team, the original Pentium chip's sucked and had serious flaws but they were Intel's first 32bit CPU.
i'm embarassed to say this but no i thought buddha was chinese of course, who hasn't cirrus logic yes, IMF no nope, i thought he was born in india.
i noticed that you are the first one to sling mud. i mentioned JFK. martin luther is another good choice. as for abe lincoln he might not be world renown you don't think bush did anything for US morality by bringing back the religious right? thomas jefferson was one of the constitutions architects, and a slave owner. he was the guy that wrote all men are created equal but yet owned slaves. maybe, maybe not i don't know about lincoln but king and kennedy didn't own slaves
i know i might take stick for this but seriously are you black? all of them were heros to black people
