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Heroes of the 20th Century
This is a personal selection of heroes from the 20th Century. The facts are as accurate as could be determined from credible sources available on the internet and elsewhere. The interpretation is entirely personal. It always is.
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Count Claus von Stauffenberg - Germany
José Ramos-Horta - East Timor
Dalai Lama - Tibet
Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma
Raoul Wallenberg - Sweden, Hungary
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - United States
- Featured heroes
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Turkey
Peter Benenson - Great Britain
Norman Bethune - Canada, Spain, China
Winston Churchill - Great Britain
Charles de Gaulle - France
King Faisal I - Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Arabia
Mahatma Gandhi - India
Xanana Gusmao - East Timor
Vaclav Havel - Czech Republic
Martin Luther King Jr. - United States
Nelson Mandela - South Africa
Ho Chi Minh - Vietnam
Mohammed Mossadegh - Iran
Emmeline Pankhurst - Great Britain
Yitzhak Rabin - Israel
Lech Walesa - Poland
Nancy Wake - New Zealand, Australia, France
Georgy Zhukov - former USSR
- Other heroes
Carlos Belo - East Timor
Michael Collins - Ireland
Che Guevara - Argentina, Cuba
H.V. Evatt - Australia
Howard Florey - Australia, Great Britain
Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Guatemala