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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Nancy Wake - New Zealand, Australia, France

Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma

John Rabe - Germany, China

Yitzhak Rabin - Israel

Nelson Mandela - South Africa

King Faisal I - Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Arabia

Featured heroes

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Turkey	Peter Benenson - Great Britain	Norman Bethune - Canada, Spain, China	Winston Churchill - Great Britain	Dalai Lama - Tibet	Charles de Gaulle - France
Mahatma Gandhi - India	Xanana Gusmao - East Timor	Vaclav Havel - Czech Republic	Martin Luther King Jr. - United States	Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Guatemala	Ho Chi Minh - Vietnam
Mohammed Mossadegh - Iran	Emmeline Pankhurst - Great Britain	Franklin Delano Roosevelt - United States	Count Claus von Stauffenberg - Germany	Lech Walesa - Poland	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	José Ramos-Horta - East Timor
Jawaharlal Nehru - India	Rosa Parks - United States	Andrei Sakharov - former USSR	Albert Schweitzer - Germany, Africa	Walter Sisulu - South Africa	Joe Slovo - South Africa
Oliver Tambo - South Africa	Archbishop Desmond Tutu - South Africa	Wei Jingsheng - China	Simon Wiesenthal - Austria