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* 1 Non-fictional heroes

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o 1.2 B

o 1.3 C

o 1.4 D

o 1.5 E

o 1.6 F

o 1.7 G

o 1.8 H

o 1.9 I

o 1.10 J

o 1.11 K

o 1.12 L

o 1.13 M

o 1.14 N

o 1.15 O

o 1.16 P

o 1.17 R

o 1.18 S

o 1.19 T

o 1.20 U

o 1.21 V

o 1.22 W

o 1.23 X

o 1.24 Y

* 2 See also

* 3 Extrenal links

Non-fictional heroes

This is a list of people who have been considered heroes. For fictional people, please see the list of fictional heroes.

* Albert Schweitzer, doctor and reverence for life. Found a hospital in Gabon

* Abraham Lincoln, USA president

* Achilles, classical Greece

* Aeneas, Ancient Rome

* Alvin York, American hero

* Amelia Earhart, Female aviation pioneer

* Anne Frank, a young heroine

* Atatürk, founder of Turkish Republic

* Audie Murphy, most decorated American soldier

* John Axon, railwayman

* Alp Arslan, sultan of Seljuk Turks

* Bernard Law Montgomery, leader of Second Battle of El Alamein

* Bernard Freyberg, war hero in many wars

* Bill Clinton, USA president

* Bill Gates, for charitable giving

* Billy Bishop, top ace of British Empire and Canadain WWI

* Barak Obama, Curent president

* Björn Söderberg

* Bob Dole, war hero in World War II

* Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim , leader of Finland during WWII

* Carlos Belo, liberator of East Timor from Indonesia

* Charles Upham, only infantryman ever awarded the Victoria Cross twice

* Che Guevara, Marxist revolutionary

* Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader in WWII

* Chuck Yeager, Aviation Pioneer

* Claus von Stauffenberg, tried to kill Hitler

* Dag Hammarskjöld, The last Secretary-General in United Nations

* Dalai Lama, religious authority of Tibet

* David Broadfoot, radio officer on the MV Princess Victoria

* Davy Crockett, Tennessee politician who fought and died for Texas independence at the Alamo

* Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, liberator of Myanmar from unelected military regime

* Denise Bloch, heroine of WWII

* Douglas Bader, a modest fighter ace

* Douglas McArthur, WWII American hero of the Pacific Theater and the Korean War

* Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander in WWII, fought for World Peace in the 50s

* Edmund Hillary, first to climb Mount Everest

* Emmeline Pankhurst, fight for equal voting right for woman

* El Cid, Spanish knight

* Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish rebel leader.

* Franklin D. Roosevelt, USA president in WWII

* Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

* Mohandas Gandhi, the non-violent activist and revolutionary

* George S. Patton, United States General

* Georgi Zhukov, Soviet Union Marshal, victor of the Battle of Berlin

* Gilgamesh, Epic of Gilgamesh

* Gino Strada, war surgeon

* Giordano Bruno, renaissance mystic burned as a heretic

* Gustav II Adolf, Swedish king, millitary leader and war hero in Thirty Years' War

* Gustav Vasa, leader of a revolt against Christian the Tyrant

* Guan Yu Chinese late Han Dynasty general who fought many one on one battles during Three Kingdoms

* Harald Edelstam, saved thousands of Chilean people on Pinochet's coup d'état

* Harriet Tubman

* Hector, classical Greece

* Henry Dunant, creation of Red Cross

* Heracles (Hercules), Greco-Roman mythology

* Heralda Luxin, German woman who, during World War II, protected nine Jewish children

* Hua Mulan, Chinese folk hero

* Hugh Dowding, British leader at the Battle of Britain

* Itzhak Stern, helped Oscar Schindler to save the Jews

* Ivan Susanin, a Russian peasant who saved the Czar

* Jean Batten, female pilot who set many distance records

* Jesus

* Joan of Arc, France

* John Patler, killed George Lincoln Rockwell

* John Rabe, saved 250,000 Chinese in Nanjing Massacre

* Josef Stalin, saviour of the USSR and victor in Great Patriotic War

* Józef Pilsudski, Polish leader in Polish-Soviet War

* Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia in World War II

* Juan Santamaría, Costa Rica

* Keith Park, New Zealand WW1 air ace and WW2 victor in the Battle of Britain

* Klas Pontus Arnoldson, creation of Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society

* Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations.

* Larry H. Parker, activist for victims' rights

* Lapu-Lapu, Philippines

* Laura Secord, Canada

* Lech Wałęsa, Polish leader for Solidarity and liberator of Poland from communist regime

* Vladimir Lenin, leader in Russian Revolution

* Lilian Rolfe, heroine of WWII

* Lord Guan, Chinese general

* Lyndon Baines Johnson, for the War on Poverty and Civil Rights reforms.

* Marla Ruzicka, human rights activist

* Martin Luther King, Jr.

* Marvin Heemeyer, modern day hero

* Maurice Buckmaster, leader of the French section of Special Operations Executive

* Mehmed II "The Conqueror", Ottoman sultan and commander

* Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader

* Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, saviour of Russia in the Patriotic War

* Mohammed Mossadegh, fight for independence and democracy for Iran

* Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran

* Moses

* Muhammad, prophet of Islam

* Neil Armstrong, First person on the Moon

* Nelson Mandela, held in a South African prison for 26 years, led the battle to end apartheid

* Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, hero of the Battle of Trafalgar

* Dr. Norman Bethune Canadian physician and humanitarian

* Omar Bradley, United states general

* Orde Wingate, British pilot

* Orville Wright with his brother, the creators of the first practical aeroplane

* Paul Rusesabagina, saved 1,200 tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwandan Genocide

* Stanislav Petrov, Soviet military officer who averted a worldwide nuclear war in 1983

* Piet Hein, Dutch pirate in 16th century

* Raoul Wallenberg, saving 100,000 Jews during World War II

* Raúl Castro, Cuban revolutionary

* Raymond Spruance, saviour of Australia

* Rigoberta Menchú, Human rights for Mayan Indians and other indigenous peoples

* Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero of the 1700s

* Robert Watson-Watt, The "inventor of radar", and thanks to the radar, the allies won the war.

* Roland, French Christian knight killed by the Basques in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass

* Rosa Parks

* Saigo Takamori the most influential samurai in Japanese history

* Saint Nicholas, the real life Santa Claus

* Oskar Schindler, saved 1,200 Jews during World War II

* Simo Häyhä, legendary Finnish sniper who killed 542 Soviet soldiers

* Simón Bolívar, El Libertador. South American revolutionary leader

* Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter

* Skanderbeg, Albanian Folk Hero during Ottoman Occupation

* Spartacus, leader of a slave revolt in the Roman Empire

* Stenka Razin, Russian folk hero

* Suleyman I "The Magnificant", Ottoman sultan

* Tenzing Norgay first to climb Mount Everest

* Terry Fox, Canadian cancer fundraiser, ran Marathon of Hope

* Theodore Roosevelt

* Thomas Andrews, designer of the Titanic; he spent the final hours of his life helping people to the lifeboats and went down with his ship

* Toussaint L'Ouverture, one of leader of the Haitian Revolution

* Ulubatli Hasan, Turkish warrior in the siege of Constantinople

* Václav Havel, liberator of Czechoslovakia from communist regime

* Vasil Levski, Bulgarian national hero, founder of a revolutionary net

* Violette Szabo, WWII secret agent

* George Washington, leader of the American revolution

* Nancy Wake, resistance heroine, on whom the film Charlotte Gray is based.

* William Tell, the national hero of Switzerland

* William Wallace won the freedom of the Scots from King Edward I of England

* Wilbur Wright with his brother, the creators of the first practical aeroplane

* Winston Churchill, British leader in WWII

* Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish milliary leader in Polish-Soviet War and World War II

* Wong Fei-Hung, Chinese hero who was a martial arts master as well as an esteemed doctor

* Xanana Gusmão, liberator of East Timor from Indonesia

* Xiang Yu Chinese warrior who destroyed the Qin Dynasty and its army without losing one single battle

* Yi Sun-sin, Korean Admiral

* Yitzhak Rabin, Israels prime minister and war hero in Six-Day War. Tried to negotiate peace betwine arab and Israel

* Yue Fei, Chinese general from the Southern Song Dynasty.

* Yuri Gagarin, sacrificed himself to save a village, also first in space.