My Heroes

These are my heroes - the people who inspire me greatly.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, JD
Mahatma Gandhi
Bapu Gandhi

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Siddhārtha Gautama
Prince Siddhārtha of the Kingdom of Kapilavastu
Gautama Buddha
The Buddha

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His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Lhamo Dondrub
Tenzin Gyatso, PhD, LHD, LL.D, DC, PharmD
Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Incarnation of the Dalai Lama
Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso

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Ye'shu Ha'na'tzar'ti
Jesus of Nazareth
The Christ Jesus
The Master Jesus

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Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī
Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
Mevlānā
Rumi

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Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari
Shah Naqshband

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Tayfur Abu Yazid al-Bustami
Abu Yazid Bistami
Bayazid Bastami

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Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm
Farīd ud-Dīn
Attar of Nishapur

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Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya
Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī
Rabia Basri

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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti

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George Fox
Quaker George Fox

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Dewi o Gymru
David of Wales
Saint David
David, Patron Saint of Poets and Vegetarians

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Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone
Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis
Francis, Patron Saint of Animal Welfare and Environmentalists

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Giles ti̱s Athí̱nas
Giles of Athens
Saint Giles
Giles, Patron Saint of Poor People, Cancer Patients and People with Disabilities

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Francesco di Paola
Francesco di Paola, O.M.
Saint Francis the Fire Handler
Francis, Patron Saint of Boatpeople and Mariners

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Yoḥanan ha-Mmaṭbil
John the Baptist
Saint John the Baptist

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Margaret Fell née Askew
Margaret Fell
Margaret Fox
Quaker Margaret Fell

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William Penn
Quaker William Penn
William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania

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Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga-Chien, KL

Komandante Salonga ng Orden ni Lakandula
Lea Salonga

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Barbra Joan Streisand

Barbra Joan Streisand, DA

Barbra Streisand

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James Trevor Oliver, MBE

The Naked Chef
Jamie Oliver

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Vicente Hao Chin, Jr
Vicente Hao Chin, Jr, PhD

Vic Hao Chin

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of the House of Windsor
The Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth of Nations
Elizabeth II, Queen of the Commonwealth Realms

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Her Majesty Queen Rania
Rānyā al-‘abdu l-Lāh
Rania, Queen Consort of Jordan

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Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, OM
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, PhD
The Knight Bachelor Radhakrishnan

Vice President Radhakrishnan of India

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Carlos Polestico Garcia
Carlos Polestico Garcia, LL.D
Carlos P. Garcia
President Garcia of the Republic of the Philippines

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Albert Arnold Gore, Jr
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr, PhD
Al Gore
Vice President Gore of the United States of America

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Barack Hussein Obama II
Barack Hussein Obama II, PhD, JD
Barack Obama
President Obama of the United States of America





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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, LL.D
President Lincoln of the United States of America





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Hillary Diane Clinton née Rodham
Hillary Rodham Clinton, JD, PhD, MD
Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State Clinton of the United States of America






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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, VOSJ, OC
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, PhD, JD
Nelson Mandela
President Mandela of South Africa

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José Alberto Mujica Cordano
José Mujica
Pepe Mujica
President Mujica of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay

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Orpah Gail Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey, PhD, EdD

Oprah Winfrey

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Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint Exupéry
Capt. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Madame Blavatsky

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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner, PhD

Rudolf Steiner

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Mildred Lisette Norman

Peace Pilgrim

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Oskar Schindler

Herr Schindler
Schindler, Righteous among the Nations

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Walter Elias Disney

Walt Disney

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José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda
José Protacio Rizal, MBChB, BChD, MD, DDS, OD, PhD

Dr. José P. Rizal
José Rizal

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Michael King, Jr
Michael King, Jr, PhD
Martin Luther King, Jr

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Mary Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin, DVM, PhD

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Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, MC
Mother Teresa

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William Henry Gates III, KBE
William Henry Gates III, PhD
Bill Gates

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His Holiness Pope John Paul II
Karol Józef Wojtyła
Papa Giovanni Paolo II
John Paul the Great
Blessed John Paul

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Jeanne d'Arc
Saint Joan of Arc
The Maid of Orléans
Joan of Arc
Joan, Patron Saint of Martyrs, Captives and People Ridiculed for their Piety

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Joanne Rowling, OBE
J.K. Rowling

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Maestro Ludwig van Beethoven

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Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE
Steven Spielberg

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, D.Litt
Mark Twain

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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE
John Lennon

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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, PhD
Einstein

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Kǒng Qiū
Confucius

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Helen Adams Keller
Helen Keller

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Karyapa
Babaylang Karyapa
Karyapa, the Great Oracle

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Mary Louise Streep
Mary Louise Streep, DFA, DA
Meryl Streep

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Harvey Bernard Milk
Lt. Harvey Bernard Milk
Harvey Milk