Famous people you admire

[Villavic]

live or from history..


My list (though there r a lot, but now I remember..)

Carl Sagan
Bob Geldof (his Live Aids in the 80s were great)
Mozart (nice music!)
H.G. Wells (great books and ideas)
S.Spielberg
Ustad ‘Isa (Taj Mahal architect)
and the top one... MARCO POLO !!! (my kind of guy)

[cliffdweller]

Writers and Such:
Ingmar Bergman
Karin Boye (famous in Sweden)
Hjalmar Soderberg (famous in Sweden)
August Strindberg
Henrik Ibsen
Raymond Carver
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Faulkner
Jean Paul Sartre
Samuel Beckett
Virginia Woolf

Artists:
Salvador Dali
Renee Magritte
M.C. Escher
Jackson Pollock
Sulamith Wulfing (famous with Stevie fans!)

Other Notables (Famous Mainly in the Academic World):
Jenny Jochens (Old Norse Historian and Scholar)
Carol Clover (Film Theorist and Old Norse Scholar)
Judith Butler (Theorist)
Carl Sagan (astrophysicist)
Richard Feinman (astrophysicist)
Jane Goodall (primatologist)

Musicians:
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
Ann and Nancy Wilson
Joni Mitchell
Virgil Shaw
Jim O'Rourke
Nick Cave
David Bowie
Opeth
Led Zeppelin
Linda Ronstadt
Aimee Mann

[DrummerDeanna]

OMG...there are a lot here are some:

Paul McCartney
Stevie Nicks
Oprah
Rosie O'Donnell (for her charity work mostly)
Lucille Ball
Desi Arnaz
Susan Stamberg (NPR)
Anne Garrels (NPR)
Juan Williams (NPR)
Linda Wertheimer (NPR)

[77Rumours77]

Musicians
Stevie Nicks
Lindsey Buckingham
Mick Fleetwood
Christine McVie
John McVie
Peter Green
Rick Vito
Steven Tyler
Joe Perry
Tom Hamilton
Ron Wood
Mick Jagger
Kith Richards
Charlie Watts
Tom Scholz
Fran Cosmos
Brad Delp
Madonna
Bruce Springsteen
Bono
The Edge :rolleyes:
Amy Grant
And many others!

[amber]

my shallow list
Bette Davis
Isabelle Adjani
Parker Posey
dark linen suit :D
Stevie
Tecumseh
Deeper list perhaps to follow.

[Gwillaker]

Elvis - I used to want to be him
Bruce Springsteen - I used to want to be him
Lindsey Buckingham - yep, I used to want to be him
Jesus Christ - At the very least he was a man of great decency and integrity, at the very most he was the son of God (not too shabby!)
Stevie Nicks - What a voice!
The Beatles - The were The Beatles!
Spinal Tap - Hilarious! Great comedians/actors/funny musicians!
Renee Zellweger - Very talented actress IMO, and yeah, she's easy on the eye!

[darklinensuit]

So many:

Gerda Weissman-Klein - Holocaust suvivor who speaks movingly without bitterness, just hope

Stevie Nicks & Mary Queen of Scots - For having that unspoken magic of charisma, and for surviving (at least for some time)

Jackie Robinson - For his class and dignity in adversity

Baron Gottfried Von Cramm - German tennis champ, held up by Hitler as an example of Aryan supremacy but worked against Hitler & was jailed.

Alice Marble - Tennis champ, WWII spy, professional singer, tuberculosis survivor, rape survivor, best friend of Hollywood elite & the wealthy, comic book editor, coach/teacher, motivational speaker, and the list goes on. She did it all.

Susan Cooper - Amazing writer

(I think I'm revealing my interest in women's history again. :shrug: )


- Jake

[jadegypsy]

(I think I'm revealing my interest in women's history again. )

Hey Jake, that's kinda cool, don't know of many men who care a bit about womens history...

Anyways people I admire, at least from a distance (since I don't know most of them)

Artists:
Monet (In person his paintings made me cry...)
Michelangelo
Da Vinci
Van Gough (Such very vivid and powerful paintings)
Walt Disney (the vision)
Laurel Burch (a truly wonderful artist, person, and at one time a great friend)

Musicians:
Stevie Nicks (to survive and admit her flaws)
Madonna (for not apologizing for who she is, and for daring to break all boundaries)
Grace Slick (for her wonderful sense of humor and for daring to be so very blunt)
Pat Benatar (you can have it all and be clean and drug free as well)
The Beatles (truly musical geniuses and always for peace)
The Stones (for still being around)
The three J's : Jimi, Janis, Jim for each bringing something truly different to music and being so full of passion for what they did)
Zepplin (just the music)

Sports:
Michelle Kwan (the epitome of grace, and truly a wonderful person)
Svetlanta Khorkina (for being a woman in the girls sport of gymnastics)
Jerry Rice (for being the best but never being concited)

Movies:
Audrey Hepburn
Michelle Phiffer
Julia Roberts
Sean Connery
Steven Spielberg (for giving the world the truth)
George Lucas (vision)

Literary:
Marrion Zimmer Bradley
Timothy Zahn
JR Tolkin
JK Rowling
Mark Twain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hilda Doolittle (poet)
Emily Dickinson

[GretaRhiannon]

Stevie Nicks
Shania Twain
Sara Evans
Deborah Harry
Lucy Lawless
Gillian Anderson
Annabeth Gish
Dolly Parton
Hudson Leik
Renee O'Conner

[EveryHour]

Bob Geldof (his Live Aids in the 80s were great)


Haven't a lot of people "turned" on him, though, saying that he was quite pompous about the whole thing like he was saving the world or something? :shrug:

[strandinthewind]

Gloria Swanson

She was one of the first feminists to take on the Motion Picture industry. She left her husbands when they hurt or used her. According to her book, which was almost horrifyingly unflinching in its portrayal of her great successes as well as huge failures and tragedies, she married her first husband (Wallace Berry) when she was 16 or 17 and he drunkenly brutally raped her on her wedding night and then made her drink a concotion that he told her was for morning sickness when it really was meant to and did induce a miscarriage that could have killed her - she was hospitalized as a result. She left him and had to work with him in movies for a year or so. When she became pregnant by her second husband with her first child, she told the studio (Paramount) to go hell when they told her not to have the baby because it would ruin her career and, more importantly, their chance to make a pile of money off of her. She lived in a man's world and routinely beat them at their own game. Sometimes, however, she did not win and she goes into that in detail and, again, she in unflinching about it. For example, Joe Kennedy, father of the Pres., took her for millions all while making love to her and telling her he represented her best interests. I highly recommend her autobiography "Swanson on Swanson" for a great and fascinating self-written portrayl of one of the most complex and fascinating women on the 20th century.

Interestingly, she was an inventor, sculpteress, artist, and nutrition expert. She designed an important drawing for the UN, she lobbied Congress to get more nutritious meals in schools, and she helped Jewish people escape Nazi Germany by employing them at her invention complany her.

Many did not like her because in business she carried herself frankly like a man - but all respected her and rightfully so.

[dissention]

Salvador Dali

Mick's idea of a wet dream. A Mac fan who loves Salvador Dali. I bet he's hearing the cash register ring as I type.

[David]

My two heroes are some guys named Jacques Barzun & Richard Mitchell, the former barely alive & the latter quite dead. But I also love Mr. Rogers, whom I'm going to vote for in the upcoming presidential election.

Hey, did you guys know that Lindsey Buckingham used to be Freddie Prinze?!

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[cliffdweller]

Mick's idea of a wet dream. A Mac fan who loves Salvador Dali. I bet he's hearing the cash register ring as I type.


:laugh: :laugh:

[cliffdweller]

Forgot to add Neil Young as a musician that I admire. Gotta give mad props to Neil.

[CrystalVisions]

Mine would have to be John Lennon. I really admire the way he thought and felt about most everything and I think he was a great person. And Stevie Nicks, of course...mostly for her determination and courage, and being a sweet, honest person throughout her journey. In rock and roll, I'll bet that was difficult sometimes.

[estranged4life]

Sports:

Sammy Sosa
Ron Santo
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Matt Kenseth
Tony Stewart
Mark Martin
Michael Waltrip

Music:

The fab five of Dream Theater (A band who has total artistic freedom to release whatever they want through a major label without the usual label pressure for sales!)
Rush (Ditto as D.T.)
The members of the Beatles (Nuff said)
Stevie Nicks (A survivor)
Steve Vai (Eccentric genius like his mentor Frank Zappa & beekeeper)

Acting:
R.Lee Emery (aka USMC "Gunnery Sgt. Hartman" in the classic "Full Metal Jacket")
Alan Rickman
Sir Richard Harris ("A Man Called Horse")