What are your 10 favorite historical persons

[Crazywolf]

What are your 10 favorite historical persons.

[Leanna]

Hm. You sure do love the favourites questions :>

Erm. Well I’m on my commute, so why not?

- Princess Diana
- Nelson Mandela
- Marie Curie
- George Washington Carver
- William Shakespeare
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Jamal Khashoggi
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Marco Polo
- Anne Frank

[Yggdrasil_Hugger]

10. Lief Erikson
9. Al Capone
8. Shakespeare
7. Jack Churchill
6. Steve Irwin
5. Freddie Mercury
4. Alexander the Great
3. William Wallace
2. Benjamin Franklin
1. Nikola Tesla

[bluemoon]

I hate history...but if you insist...

David Bowie
Elvis Presley
Joan of Arc
Elizabeth Bathory
Anne Frank
Vlad Tepes
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
Charles Darwin
Geronimo

[Dnafein]

In no particular order

Stan Lee
Mark Twain
Robert A Heinlein
JFK
Nicoli Tesla
Sun Tzu
Alfred Hitchcock
Raffaele Esposito
John Belushi
Aristotle

[bluemoon]

Are you stalking me D'na? Cause you keep showing up on threads where I have posted...lol. I'm going to have to get a cyber watchdog to keep track of your whereabouts. *evil laugh*

As to your question (not asked publicly), yes, that is the Countess Bathory to which I was referring. :D

[Storm]

Are you stalking me D'na? Cause you keep showing up on threads where I have posted...lol. I'm going to have to get a cyber watchdog to keep track of your whereabouts. *evil laugh*


https://i.imgur.com/ZglBLQ4.png
Someone call for a Watchdog … wait, that means I'm stalking too … lol.

Edit: Adding my 10 -
Not exactly my favorite historical persons, don't really have a list like that, but figure influential historical figures, in no given order

MLK
Park Chung-hee
Patton
Richard Nixon (not necessarly in a good way)
Mother Teresa
Ghandi
Winston Churchill
Neil Armstrong
Henry Ford
Ronald Reagan

[bluemoon]

Storm...I feel as though I know you a little better based on your list, oh grand master of squirrels!

[Leanna]

Some pretty solid lists.

Moon, you don’t like history?! I absolutely love history. Such fascinating stories <3

I mean, don’t get me wrong... I hated school, but I love studying the subject in my own time. I also get a kick out of trying to find famous locations where significant historic events took place.

[bluemoon]

I have never been a big fan of history, not in school or now. Geography also sucks...lol. There are time periods which interest me a bit, but not enough to read about them. I would rather go see a movie that takes place in that period and learn that way. All and all, I am a science girl. I love to learn about nature and how things work.

[Leanna]

Ah, nice. Science is also awesome :)

I like most subjects, to be honest. I just enjoy learning, so I also love geography, lmaoooo. But yer... historical sites have given me goosebumps when I’ve gone to certain places, though... Like in Anne Frank’s bedroom, Julius Caesar’s palace ruins, Ephesus ruins, the Cu Chi tunnels,etc etc. It’s just the shit!!!

I’m actually going to Luxembourg in May to go explore the old the WW2 underground tunnels. The flight was only 45€ so I couldn’t resist :o

[Crazywolf]

Really good replies. I really love some of these lists. C:

[bluemoon]

Would like to see your list Crazywolf! XD

[Crazywolf]

Would like to see your list Crazywolf! XD

It's actually really hard for me to narrow it down to just 10 but maybe though something like this...

1. Winston Churchill
2. FD Roosevelt
3. Charles de Gaulle
4. Henning Von Tresckow
5. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
6. Athelstan I
7. Elizabeth I
8. Homer
9. Thomas Paine
10. William Marshal

There's a couple of obscure ones in there I guess. Henning Von Tresckow was a german resistance leader in WW2, Mannerheim was commander of the army of Finland and later president of the country, Athelstan I was an Anglo-saxon king and William Marshal was an english knight - possibly the greatest knight in human history. There's a whole load of mexican and native american personalities I like as well.

[bluemoon]

Very nice!

In defense of my rather obscure and random list, I would just like to mention that the people I named are historical figures of interest, not ones that I necessarily look up to...because that would just be wrong. XD

[Nope]

Must these historical persons be deceased? There are many people who have made history whom are still shlumping.
Asking for my own list context.

[Crazywolf]

Must these historical persons be deceased? There are many people who have made history whom are still shlumping.
Asking for my own list context.

Strictly speaking I'd say yes. To be historical persons they must first be dead or at least presumed dead.

[DCaesar of Wakanda]

Stan Lee
B.B. King
Michael Jackson
Muhammad Ali
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Bruce Lee
Malcom X
Martin Luthor King Jr.
Frederick Douglass
Maya Angelou

[SikstaSlathalin]

Jesus Christ

Sir William Wallace

King Robert the Bruce

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Stan Lee

MLK

Gandhi

Bruce Lee

Vlad Tepes

[Nachthexe]

How did I miss this? A few of my favourites(not necessarily because I view them as good, but because they're fascinating in one way or another), in no particular order, are:

-Jesus Christ
-Emperor Constantine I
-Ivan Grozny
-Queen Cleopatra
-Josip Broz Tito
-Niccolo Machiavelli
-Catherine the Great
-Princess Ileana of Romania
-Julius Caesar
-Maria Skobtsova(bonus points for being a saint in my church)
-Julian the Apostate
-Empress Theodora

There's many more, but these are the ones I can think of atm.

[Crazywolf]

@Nach: Interesting list. there's a few on there I'll have to look up.

[Nachthexe]

@Nach: Interesting list. there's a few on there I'll have to look up.

I could have listed more, but nah.

[Alura]

Queen Liliuokalani
Empress Dowager Tz'u-Hsi
Mata Hari
Hatshepsut
Alexander the Great
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Abd al Rahman
Donnchadh O Hamsaigh
Gertrude Bell

Both Thomas Paine & Nikola Tesla have already been mentioned, but they were both in the running for my list, so I am just lazily mentioning them both for tenth. Unusual to see another Paine mention, so that was fun! It was hard to whittle away, though...