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What is a Hero?
A hero deliberately and courageously overcomes obstacles for the benefit of others without regard to consequences.
The following is just a partial list of world heroes. We have accumulated a very large and ever growing list of heroes from around the world!
World Heroes List
Roald Amundsen: Norwegian discoverer of the South Pole, explored North Pole region
Mary McLeod Bethune: Educator, Humanitarian, Civil Rights Activist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Strong advocate for women’s rights
Galileo Galilei: Italian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, perfected the telescope
George Eastman: Inventor of the first camera people could afford and use
Crazy Horse: Chief of the Oglala Sioux, leader resisting white population in
South Dakota
Hank Aaron: Baseball hero who dealt with racism throughout his career
Johann Gutenberg: Gave us the printing press and the modern book
Marian Anderson: Outstanding black singer, broke racial barriers, first to sing at
New York City Metropolitan.
Thomas Jefferson: Author, farmer, architect, lawyer, statesman, 3rd President
of the United States of America
Leonardo da Vinci: Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, scientist
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Austrian Classical Composer
George Washington: Military leader, farmer and first President of the United States
Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi: Leader in India, nonviolent human rights activist
Clara Barton: Organizer of nursing services in Civil War, leader of American
Red Cross
Matthew Henson: First Black Man to Reach the North Pole, explorer, adventurer
Benjamin Franklin: Statesman, printer, scientist and writer
Wangari Maathai: Environmentalist and founder of the Green Belt Movement
Beatrix Potter: Author of children’s books, greatly interested in animals, science and art
Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. President, conservationist, adventurer, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Jonas Salk: Medical Researcher, physician, creator of polio vaccine, humanitarian
Barack Obama: First African American President of the United States
Eunice Kennedy Shriver: Creative force and organizer of Special Olympics
William Still: Father of the Underground Railroad
Nelson Mandela: Led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy
Yo Yo Ma: World’s finest cellist, educator, musical ambassador