People you admire or a role model

[Whistler40145]

Who in life do you admire or are a role model?

I'll start with:-

Nelson Mandela - Anti apartheid
J F Kennedy
Tony Benn - for renouncing his peerage to stand as an MP
Basil D'Oliveira - for standing up for his rights

Now it's your turn

 

[455driver]

I admire Kylie Minogue, but I dont think that is what you meant!

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Professor Douglas Chamberlain.

 

[fowler9]

Bill Hicks.Gary McAllister. Steve Biko and many many more. All for wildly different reasons.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

William Wilberforce.

 

[Tubeboy]

Michael Faraday. Boy from a very poor background who made countless Scientific achievements.

 

[D6975]

Eric Braithwaite.
Alex Ferguson - don't particularly like him, but his ability to squeeze the best out of his players was quite extraordinary.
IKB truly the Great Engineer.
Buster Keaton. (Those of you more youthful than I may need to google him)

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Three of the most random answers you are ever likely to get - Don Henley, I.K. Brunel and Penn Jillette.

 

[Whistler40145]

Joe Walsh, Eagles for giving up alcohol

 

[GarethJohn]

Neil Lennon; For having the balls too stick at Celtic while getting horrendous abuse.

John Barnes; Better than Gazza and with the trophies and career to prove it, but not the recognition why? If he'd been an Alcoholic waster would he be loved?

Alex Ferguson; For sying I want to knock them off their F****** Perch and doing so.

 

[Strathclyder]

A slightly random selection, but here goes:

• Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
• Neil Alden Armstrong
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
• Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Here's my half-dozen:
Dennis Skinner
Fidel Castro
Richard M Nixon
John Lawson (17th century admiral)
Clement Attlee
Denis Healey

And of course Richard Iii

 

[muz379]

Bill Clinton - When the going got tough and he could have quite easily resigned he stuck to his guns and did the job he was elected to do

Martin Luther King, Jr - Stuck to his guns , and demonstrated how you dont always have to be violent in the face of violent adversity

Henry Ford - Mainly for his realisation that paying your workers a fair wage is actually better for everyone in the long run .

Tank Man - Just pure guts to do that ,

Christopher Hitchens- Even though I dont agree with his stance on everything I respect a strong advocate and incredible intellect . And to allow himself to be water boarded just to prove how barbaric the practice is proves the guts he had .

 

[Hornet]

IKB

William Joseph Dunlop OBE, MBE

 

[Whistler40145]

All current & former hostages, it's barbaric.

Princess of Wales (who I met at work)

Sir Richard Branson for his vision

Lord Alan Sugar as above

 

[starrymarkb]

Dita Von Teese for reasons*

*One of which being that she's a classic car enthusiast

 

[Seacook]

My list is:

Richard Feynman
Thomas Paine
Robert Stephenson
Marie Stopes
Alan Turing

That's the ones for today: tomorrow's would probably be different.

 

[telstarbox]

David Lloyd George, the Atlee government and Arsene Wenger.

 

[Monty]

My father

 

[fowler9]

Dita Von Teese for reasons*

*One of which being that she's a classic car enthusiast

Ah Dita Von Teese. She would be on my list. Along with the band in the Eurovision Song Contest from Germany who's name I can't remember, the reason being that there was a huge sign over the stage saying the Dita Von Teese and below it she was laid out on a Chaise Longue. I can't actually remember if there was a band on stage as well or what the song was like.

 

[St Rollox]

The entire 1.6 million YES voters in Scotland.