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.

Featured heroes

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Turkey	Peter Benenson - Great Britain	Winston Churchill - Great Britain	Dalai Lama - Tibet	Mahatma Gandhi - India	Xanana Gusmao - East Timor
Vaclav Havel - Czech Republic	Ho Chi Minh - Vietnam	Martin Luther King Jr. - United States	Nelson Mandela - South Africa	Mohammed Mossadegh - Iran	Jawaharlal Nehru - India
Emmeline Pankhurst - Great Britain	John Rabe - China, Germany	Yitzhak Rabin - Israel	Franklin Delano Roosevelt - United States	Walter Sisulu - South Africa	Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma
Count Claus von Stauffenberg - Germany	Nancy Wake - New Zealand, France	Lech Walesa - Poland	Wei Jingsheng - China	Simon Wiesenthal - Austria	Georgy Zhukov - former USSR

Other heroes

Carlos Belo - East Timor	Michael Collins - Ireland	Che Guevara - Cuba, Argentina	H.V. Evatt - Australia	Howard Florey - Australia, Great Britain	Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Guatemala
Rosa Parks - United States	José Ramos-Horta - East Timor	Andrei Sakharov - former USSR	Albert Schweitzer - Germany, Africa	Joe Slovo - South Africa	Oliver Tambo - South Africa
Archbishop Desmond Tutu - South Africa