Who is your favorite person from history?

MosbyMarion · 10-26-2009, 08:43 AM

Homer Simpson doesn't count.

willmingtonwave · 10-26-2009, 03:00 PM

I can't name one:

Robert E. Lee
J.E.B. Stuart
Grigori Rasputin (grade-a badass)
William Holland Thomas
Aaron Burr (another huge badass)

panic · 10-26-2009, 05:04 PM

Aaron Burr is so underrated. He should be on the $20 bill instead of Hamilton.

chickenfight! · 10-26-2009, 05:54 PM

Ben Franklin: my home dawg
Siddhartha Gautama
Voltaire
Gandhi
JRR Tolkein
And many, many more

WCF · 10-26-2009, 07:33 PM

Theodore Roosevelt and Gandhi.

America's Founding Fathers are cool too, but it's difficult for me to single people out since what they did was a collective effort.

OptimisticCynic · 10-26-2009, 11:24 PM

King Henry VIII
Voltaire
Malcolm X
Huey P. Netwon

sigurros · 10-28-2009, 07:35 PM

William Harvey (badass with his vivisections)
Custer
Plato
Rimbaud

Baltimoron · 10-28-2009, 09:55 PM

Thomas Jefferson. My favorite person of all time. A complete badass. He did everything. I mean, he didn't even think being President was one of his three greatest achievements. Thats how much awesome crap he did. I would love to sit down and have a talk with him. I would give anything to pick his brain about his political ideals and about the issue of slavery. He thought it was horrible and that it should be abolished and yet he had no intention of giving up his own slaves.

hellojan · 10-28-2009, 11:49 PM

Ben Franklin, Gandhiji, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesus, and a handful of other humanitarians. Bill Gates is working his way onto the list.

007Sen10r · 11-01-2009, 05:56 PM

Hitler
but don't judge me, i don't like what he did to the jews but he was really smart... he just didn't use his smarts on the right issues... and anyway Stalin was worse

mildred · 11-01-2009, 06:32 PM

Shirley Chisholm was one heck of a brave lady.

Here is her wiki entry...

Shirley Chisholm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

She was the first African America lady to run for president of the US.

If I ever have kids, and if I have a girl, I will name her Shirley Chisholm. If I have a boy, I will name him Chisholm, because it would be messed up to name a boy Shirley

I am also a very big fan of the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She did the Special Olympics.

BuddyMcAwesome · 11-01-2009, 06:41 PM

Thomas Edison, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, and Benjamin Franklin (I'm not sure what order.)

math+sci=asian · 11-01-2009, 09:32 PM

Aaron Burr? Didn't he try to organize coups against the US twice and kill Alexander Hamilton?

And Thomas Jefferson is waaaaaaaay overrated.

Dammit, what has APUSH done to me?

Mine would be John Maynard Keynes (sure, he was a pedophile, but who wasn't?) and John Adams was pretty awesome too (now HE was underrated)

wagsthedog · 11-01-2009, 10:22 PM

chief joseph

heinochus · 11-01-2009, 10:53 PM

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Mine would be John Maynard Keynes (sure, he was a pedophile, but who wasn't?)

I thought he was just gay. I haven't found anything about him being a pedophile.

For me, it's Isaac Newton or Nikola Tesla. Tesla's more immediate and eccentric, but Newton rules as far as outright innovation is concerned (as far as I know, Tesla may just have not wanted to share his discoveries with anyone...)