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.

Latest additions and updates

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

Jawaharlal Nehru - India

Rosa Parks - United States

John Rabe - Germany, China

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