Heroes

1. Heroes he·roes [heer-ohs]  noun, plural  Persons of distinguished courage or ability, admired for their brave deeds and noble qualities. Persons who, in the opinion of others, have heroic qualities or have performed heroic acts and are regarded as model ordeals:

2. POLITICIANS

3. Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States. His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others

4. Choose a Layout Michelle Obama is the first African American First Lady and wife of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States.

5. William J. Clinton was president of the United States, elected in 1992 and reelected in 1996. Previously he had served as governor of Arkansas.

6. Hillary R. Clinton is the 67thUnited States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42ndPresident of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election, Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

7. HISTORICAL FIGURES

8. Anne Frank was one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.

9. Choose a Layout Cory Aquino. was the 11thPresident of the Philippines and the first woman to hold that office in Philippine history. She is best remembered for leading the 1986 People Power Revolution, which toppled Ferdinand Marcos and restored democracy in the Philippines. She is considered an icon of democracy, and was titled by TIME Magazine in 1986 as its 'Woman of the Year'.

10. Choose a Layout Helen Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

11. INVENTORS

12. Alexander Graham Bell was one of the primary inventors of the telephone, did important work in communication for the deaf and held over 18 patents.

13. Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist who developed the theory of relativity and is considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century

14. Thomas Alva Edison is famous as the inventor of the light bulb but another one of his early inventions has proven at least as illuminating over the years. Edison established the worlds first modern research facility or invention factory as he called it.

15. Choose a Layout Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and biologist who proved the germ theory of disease and invented the process of pasteurization

16. Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry. She was the first female professor at the University of Paris

17. Wilbur and Orville Wright shared an intellectual curiosity and an aptitude for science, at a time when the possibility of human flight was beginning to look like a reality. Together, the Wright brothers developed the first successful airplane in Kittyhawk, North Carolina—and together they became national heroes. Considered the fathers of modern aviation, they developed innovative technology and inspired imaginations around the world.

18. Amelia Earhart was the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic and the first person to have flown both oceans. Her mysterious disappearance occurred in 1937

19. Steve Jobs was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.

20. EDUCATORS

21. Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history. He received the 1921Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics.

22. Charles Darwin established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

23. ATHLETES

24. Michael Jordan is a former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time."Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

25. Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm is a retired American soccer player. Hamm played many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team and was a founding member of the Washington Freedom. Hamm has scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male or female, in the history of U.S. soccer (158). She is the second most capped female player in soccer history appearing in 275 international matches throughout her career.

26. Roberto Clemente was a Puerto Rican baseball right fielder who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 through 1972. Clemente was awarded the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1966. He was on the NL All-Star team 15 times, received 12 Gold Glove Awards, and led the NL in batting average four times. In 1972, Clemente got his 3,000th major league hit.

27. Kobe Bryant is an American professional basketball player who plays shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Bryant enjoyed a successful high school basketball career at Lower Merion High School, where he was recognized as the top high school basketball player in the country.

28. Manny Pacquiao is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won 8 world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2000s by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA). He is also a three-time The Ring and BWAA "Fighter of the Year," winning the award in 2006, 2008, and 2009.

29. HUMANITARIANS

30. Robin Lim is a midwife and founder of YayasanBumiSehat (Healthy Mother Earth Foundation) health clinics, which offer free prenatal care, birthing services and medical aid to anyone who needs it. She and her team have been working since 2003 to combat Indonesia's high maternal and infant mortality rates. [1] She was awarded the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year award by the CNN news network, for helping thousands of low-income women in Indonesia with healthy pregnancy and birth services.

31. Choose a Layout Nelson Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election.

32. Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who for over 40 years aided the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. By the 1970s she had become internationally renowned as a humanitarian and campaigner for the poor and helpless. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India’s highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa’s set up the Missionaries of Charity which continued to expand to over 600 missions in over 100 countries.

33. Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader in the American civil rights movement led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-6) and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first president. Martin Luther King led a March on Washington in 1963, where he delivered his most influential speech, “I Have a Dream”. While in Washington, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement leading him to become the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.

34. Mahatma Gandhi led a coalition against non-violence-which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is officially honored in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday is on October 2, and it is known as the International Day of Non-Violence.

35. Diana Windsor, the Princess of Wales, was a well known supporter of all charity projects close to her heart. As a princess, there was an expectation for her to involve herself with hospital organizations so that she could comfort the sick. Her interests surpassed her responsibilities when she concerned herself with certain illnesses and health-related matters. Diana was the first celebrity to actually touch a person with HIV. Her hope was to change the views or public opinions of the AIDS virus. Her royal blood and birthright did not overshadow her humanitarian acts of kindness.

36. Bono is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono is also widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign and Product Red. He has organized and played in several benefit concerts and has met with influential politicians. Bono has been praised and criticized for his activism and involvement with U2. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and was named as a Person of the Year by Time, among other awards and nominations.

37. *ENTERTAINERS*

38. Whitney Houston was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all time.

39. She is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011.She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.

40. Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century.

41. Shirley Temple Black is an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, autobiographer, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. She began her film career in 1932 at the age of four and in 1934, skyrocketed to superstardom in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents.

42. Madonna is an American singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983. She followed it with a series of albums that attained immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV.

43. BeyonceKnowles is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.

44. Will Smith is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.

45. Leonardo DiCapriois an American actor and film producer. As an actor, he has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award eight times and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004). He has also been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

46. Angelina Jolie is an American actress and director. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011.

47. Brad Pitt is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one Golden Globe. He has been described as one of the world's most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention