Whom Do You Admire the Most?

[Levonian]

Who are the top 10 people of the twentieth century whom you admire the most? Here’s my list, not necessarily in order:

Linus Pauling

G. Gordon Liddy

Agnesë Bojaxhiu

Oscar Romero

Jane Goodall

John F. Kennedy

Elmo Zumwalt, Jr.

Cheeta

Mohandas Gandhi

Albert Einstein

This list is by no means complete; there are hundreds of other individuals in the fields of psychology, business, engineering, the arts, and many other areas who deserve to be mentioned just as much, if not more, than the individuals I listed above. But these are the ones who really stand out in my mind in their respective fields. Who are yours?

 

[Ruliya]

A. J. Ayer [Logical Positivism]

Ayn Rand [Conservatism and Objectivism]

Frederick Copleston [History of Philosophy]

Edmund Burke [against running up large debts by government]

John Dean [anti-Authoritarianism Conservatism]

Otto Neurath [Logical Positivism]

Mahatma Gandhi [Non-violence]

Thomas Friedman [Capitalism and Globalization]

Thomas Samuel Kuhn [Philosophy of Science and History of Science]

Moritz Schlick [The Founding Father of Logical Positivism]

 

[Levonian]

That's 16, not 10.

 

[Levonian]

Trying to make a monkey out of me? :P

 

[Ruliya]

That's 16, not 10.

Oops. :Oops:

 

[Ruliya]

Trying to make a monkey out of me? :P

I can't help it.

 

[Levonian]

 

[Ruliya]

 

[Levonian]

Never do that to a chimpanzee unless you mean it.

 

[Ruliya]

Pink chimpanzee says so.

 

[Ruliya]

Fixed the list... Some of them weren't the people of the twentieth century.

Levonian: I fixed the list. Some of them weren't the people of the Twentieth century.

Another hangover effect.

The list:

A. J. Ayer [Logical Positivism]

Ayn Rand [Conservatism and Objectivism]

Frederick Copleston [History of Philosophy]

Richard Edler von Mises [Scientist]

John Dean [anti-Authoritarianism Conservatism]

Otto Neurath [Logical Positivism]

Mahatma Gandhi [Non-violence]

Thomas Friedman [Capitalism and Globalization]

Thomas Samuel Kuhn [Philosophy of Science and History of Science]

Moritz Schlick [The Founding Father of Logical Positivism]

 

[Buckdodgers]

Art Modell

Ray Lewis

Johnny Unitas

Jim Palmer

Boog Powell

Brooks Robinson

Bill Haley

 

[horselover61]

I dont have anybody that I admire but my mom.

 

[Oddball]

Art Modell :rl: thanks for ruining Cleveland ten years ago!

 

[LuciaDisturbed]

Angelina Jolie!

"I heard it was like a pencil anyway"

 

[guido]

These are all people I admire from the 20th Century/21st Century. Many of them are for reasons you would not be able to comprehend.

CS Lewis
Jay Bakker
Ian Mckaye
Ghandi
Howard Zinn
SE Hinton
Christopher Walken
Upton Sinclair
Theodore Roosevelt
Grigori Rasputin

 

[Endymion]

These are ten twentieth-century people I may not necessarily agree with. I am nonetheless impressed by their candor, their personality, their perservance, their analytical minds, and/or the transformations they have levied in our world. As such, I list them in no particular order:

John Rawls (A Theory of Justice, Justice as Fairness)

Wen Jiabao

Patricia Russo

Mukhtaran Bibi

Jim Yong Kim

Amartya Sen

Alfred Russel Wallace (I realize he only spent thirteen years of his life in the 20th century )

John Maynard Keynes

Junichiro Koizumi

And who can forget to give credit to the Wikipedia man? Jimmy Wales

 

[Endymion]

And the bonus round!
Worked up an appetite from this thread? Try this not-very-honorary mention: Alferd Packer

 

[Levonian]

Long time no see—where have you been?

 

[Endymion]

I've been troublemaking. Lots of it! Good to see you too again!