20th century

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century

95 heroes of the 20th century:

  1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  2. Mohammed Mossadegh
  3. Mikhail Gorbachev
  4. Fumimaro Konoe
  5. Che Guevara
  6. Charles de Gaulle
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Aung San Suu Kyi
  9. Rigoberta Menchú Tum
  10. Yitzhak Rabin
  11. Leyla Zana
  12. Nelson Mandela
  13. Xhamela
  14. Wei Jingsheng
  15. Xanana Gusmão
  16. Lech Walesa
  17. Emmeline Pankhurst
  18. Margaret Sanger
  19. Hồ Chí Minh
  20. Martin Luther King
  21. Mohandas Gandhi
  22. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
  23. Mustafa Abdülcemil Qırımoğlu
  24. Ken Saro-Wiwa
  25. César Chávez
  26. Tupua Tamasese Lealofi II
  27. Jaime Sin
  28. Sophie Scholl
  29. Salima Ghezali
  30. Bob Dylan
  31. John Lennon
  32. Osamu Tezuka
  33. Akira Kurosawa
  34. Walt Disney
  35. Mikhail Baryshnikov
  36. Igor Stravinsky
  37. Charlie Chaplin
  38. George Orwell
  39. Jorge Luis Borges
  40. Vladimir Nabokov
  41. James Joyce
  42. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  43. Michael Ende
  44. Richard Feynman
  45. Albert Einstein
  46. Max Planck
  47. Enrico Fermi
  48. Robert Oppenheimer
  49. Stanislav Petrov
  50. John F. Kennedy
  51. Alan Turing
  52. Albert Schweitzer
  53. Robert Goddard
  54. Maria Skłodowska-Curie
  55. Tim Berners-Lee
  56. Alexander Fleming
  57. Howard Florey
  58. Norman Borlaug
  59. Rachel Carson
  60. Rosa Parks
  61. Wáng Wéilín
  62. Neil Armstrong
  63. John Rabe
  64. Anne Frank
  65. Samantha Smith
  66. Pope John Paul II
  67. HRH the 14th Dalai Lama
  68. Óscar Romero
  69. Jack Johnson
  70. Malcolm X
  71. Subcomandante Marcos
  72. Mordechai Vanunu
  73. Anatoly Marchenko
  74. Adem Demaçi
  75. José Vasconcelos
  76. Josip Broz Tito
  77. Paul Wellstone
  78. Elias Chacour
  79. Greg Mortenson
  80. Thich Nhat Hanh
  81. I haven't written all the sections on this page yet. I intend to finish it later.

...and five bad guys

  1. Adolf Hitler
  2. Josef Stalin
  3. Máo Zédōng
  4. Pol Pot
  5. Suharto

Dishonorable mentions: Dow Chemical Company, Idi Amin, François Duvalier, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Ahmet Cemal Pasha, Yasuhiko Asaka, Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Elie Hobeika, Radovan Karadzic, Kim Il Sung, José Efraín Ríos Montt, Ante Pavelic, Vladimir Lenin, Saddam Hussein

Some helpful info here: http://www.time.com/time/time100/index_2000_time100.html http://www.moreorless.au.com/

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