Your childhood historical heroes

In fiction, my hero was Ulysses whose adventures in Homer's Odyssey just captivated me.

Legendary hero: Hercules

Historical hero: The Soldier of the Romanian Army.

Nowadays hero: Ulrich Rudel (to bad he fought on the wrong side)

Alexander Mackenzie was a hero of mine growing up. He was the first European to cross North America in 1793. He reached the Pacific at a place called Bella Coola, not far from where I live now.

Yes Zorro was my hero too. But my historical hero was and still is Dr. Mossadegh, the iranian symbole for democracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Mossadegh

Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh (May 19, 1882 - March 4, 1967) was prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. He was removed from power by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and pro-monarchy forces in a complex coup led by British and US intelligence agencies.

My childhood favorites were Julius Caesar and Scipio Africanus.

Lately, I've also come to admire Dr. Mossadegh.  I think he's an inspiration, not only to Iranians, but to all democracies.

Manfred von Richthoften, the Red Baron, the most famous aerial ace ever, the top scoring fighter pilot of WWI (80 kills) was a childhood favorite of mine

My first that i can remember was Hercules and the moved onto Joan of Arc and now it includes some of great generals like Belisarius and Gehghis Khan.

As a child, I loved stories of the American "wild west." My first historical hero was Wyatt Earp, legendary lawman of Dodge City. He is portrayed as a calm and collected keeper of the peace, with a devotion to justice. I was fascinated by stories of capturing outlaws on the western front and the drama of a "quick draw." I admired him as a child, and admire him even more as a young adult. I am pursuing a career in federal law enforcement, and he was one of my first heroes that inspired me to this. I am glad this topic was posted, as it gives the chance to learn something about personal icons on an international level. Already, I have heard several names that I was not yet familiar with, and they all seem to be very interesting. Great post idea!

Does hairy caveman nr 5 count

that character was out of a Historybook(childerns lots of pics) .

He was the one who saved his villeage by inventing fire.

I forgot the books name

But will allways rember caveman nr 5 or gar(lets call him garry the harry caveman)




btw does vicky the viking count I still love him(nice sign Ulrich btw)


but seriously the first person I can rember was Charlemagne

he was a king who cared about the people and he was a bit paranoid (moving all the time)

but what most afected me were the education reforms(reading and writing is a right not a privileage)

I wasmabey 10 or 11 years old.(I was born and raised in the netherlands so no oriental or Mediterenean heroes for me) (well now I accualy do he is one of the few I still like in western history)

My hero was Hitler, i was always intrigued by the sheer shadow of his moral and strictness, but i would never support his purposes for the German Kind.