<p>I was just wondering who everyone’s hero/role model is?
I have a few:</p>
<p>1) Winston Churchill
2) Nelson Mandela
3) Steve Biko (I’m really into South African anti-apartheid activists :))
4) Ron Clark (phenomenal educator who won Disney’s Teacher of the Year Award in 2000)</p>
<p>How about you?</p>
<p>That is so weird that coincidentally I was thinking about who my role model is. Mine is Oprah Winfrey.</p>
<p>mia hamm. even though shes retired from playing.</p>
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<p>What is so great about Oprah?</p>
<p>oprah = rags to riches story, overcame racism</p>
<p>one of the most successful women overall</p>
<p>Michael Jackson is my hero (and no, I’m not joking).</p>
<ul>
<li>Bradley Nowell</li>
<li>Allen Ginsberg</li>
<li>Jesus Christ </li>
<li>Hillel the Elder</li>
<li>Buddha</li>
<li>St. Francis of Assisi</li>
<li>Henry David Thoreau</li>
<li>Ghandi</li>
<li>KRS-One (Chris Parker)</li>
</ul>
<p>Michael Jackson is actually pretty cool too, arachno 
Everyone mentioned in this thread so far seemed cool but I had to wiki a few of them lol</p>
<p>Tank Man, or Unknown Rebel. Frida Kahlo is pretty boss too.</p>
<p>Lady O as well.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t have a role model.
I wouldn’t classify him as my “role model”, but I do look up to a friend who goes to my school who is very successful in everything he does.</p>
<p>Dr. Benjamin Carson.</p>
<p>Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and John Steinbeck, to name a few.</p>
<p>Stephen Colbert
Jon Stewart</p>
<p>^How has someone not already mentioned these extraordinary gentlemen.</p>
<p>Oh and Jessica Alba, but only because she is something–I mean someone–that/who “motivates” me when times are down. –>Do not be offended, I am a feminist, a teenage feminist!</p>
<p>Muhammed (swt)</p>
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<p>I absolutely love Michael Jackson…though I’ve heard he wouldn’t love me. </p>
<p>I find Maya Angelou to be very inspirational. My ultimate role model, however, is my mother.</p>
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<p>that man is a beast.</p>
<p>prefontaine
emiliano zapata
my mom and dad
stephen hawking
and a couple of others.</p>
<p>Otto von Bismarck.</p>
<p>And Paul Rusesabagina. He’s just an awesome person.</p>
<p>Hayao Miyazaki. </p>
<p>i wish i had his imagination. Amazing movies. </p>
<p>Jane Austen.
Oskar Schindler.
Anne Frank, Miep Gies and the other helpers who helped hide the family.</p>
<p>Michael Vick </p>
<p>(i kid)</p>
<p>Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
Victor Hugo
Marius Pontmercy (fictional)
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Howard Hughes
Bill Gates
Tersa Teng
Sarah Brightman
Zaha Hadid</p>