Leonardo Da Vinci - Brilliance in several fields
Jesse Owens - Getting one (or four) over against the bad boys
Barnes Wallis - The ingenuity to help win a war
Alan Turing - The ingenuity to help win a war
Frank Whittle - Imagine Conceiving of a jet engine
Albert Einstein - Brilliance
Stephen Hawking - Triumph over adversity
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Best engineer ever
Yuri Gagarin - Courage (or stupidity?) beyond compare
Robert DeNiro - I know it looks trite after the others, but was there ever a better actor?
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Winston Churchill - Enough said
Jean Pierre Blanchard - the first man to use a parachute, how brave was he??????
every bloody soldier sent to war with shit kit , shit pay, shit conditions and still manage to be the BEST in the business bar none.
martin johnson
sir ian botham
Nothing really, just always intrigued me who was the first, so did a Google search and and the general consensus was him.
Ritchie Benaud? ;-)
Man alive, that first delivery was so fast I was looking for the ball to come when I realised the stump was already flying off in the other direction.
Tommy Cooper
My personal non footballing heroes are...
Derren Brown
Gordon Ramsay
Stephen Fry
Steh MacFarlane (Creator of Family Guy and American Dad)
Yes that was the year Tony Greig said that he would make the West Indies grovel ...
Oakster put me onto this book, primed and ready for my holibobs
GROVEL
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
Geoff Boycott
Harry Hill
Chief Wiggum
I.T. Botham is my all time sporting hero including football
Other than that I think its just ordinary people who have positively affected my life.
Shirley Nolan for starting the Anthony Nolan Trust.
Doctors, nurses etc.
Old soldiers etc.
Anyone triumphs over adversity or puts themselves in a situation where they risk their life and limb for others.
Tony Benn
My late Father
Charles Dickens ---- books that tell more than a tale, they are a social history of desperite times.
Floureance nightingale ---- How truely brave was that woman.
Douglas Barder --- No DDA act when he was about flew Spitfires and escaped prisons with no legs ? you cant make that up .
Also would add Seb Coe to that. One of the smoothest running styles I have ever seen. remember watching the 1500m win in the 1984 olympics on an old portable b/w telly in my bedroom.
'Johnny' Johnson - the highest scoring Allied fighter ace from WW2, A Nutter of the highest order!
My Grandad.
Proper Heroes and not a bat or ball between them!!
Sporting hero - Ali
Never got the Lennie Bruce thing, I know a lot of comics quote him as a hero or inspiration, but everything I have seen of him I find average, maybe he stood out more in his era?
Dave Grohl - All round rock legend (sings, plays drum, guitar, etc) and seems to be a general nice guy.
Guy Grieve - For his book 'Call Of The Wild'. He had the testicular fortitude to live in the Alaskan Wilderness with no training for a year.
Charles Blondin - Mid 1800's stuntman 'The Great Blondin'. Tightrope walked across the Niagra Falls. Also a family member (i aint as brave!)
I thought you would say my Dad ;-)
Carol Vorderman
Halle Berry
Clare Nasir
Kate Garraway
Nigella Lawson
Carol Thatcher
Kelly Brook
Alesha Dixon
Fern Britton
Holly Willoughby
Charlie Theron
J Lo
Cheryl Cole
Billie Piper
Coleen Rooney
Tess Daly
Kylie Minogue
Martine McCutheon
Eva Longria
Abi Titmuss
Zoe Lucker
Mariah Carey
Suzanne Shaw
You sound like that bloke on "Throw Momma From The Train" who's writing a book called, "Women I'd like to pork".
on the guy that thought of eating jellied eels "so i have just caught his snake like thing which is a fish (yeah right !) and now i think ill cook it then wont eat it foreawhile then let if set solid in its own "juice" and then ill eat it " brave or a complete loon