Who can you admire and praise when you get in a taxi in a foreign country? Whose home is a national museum you can visit? Who is honoured by a statue?
Focus on worldwide or national past heroes, who are easiest to research, then local heroes for more news and novelty.
Heroes and Heroines by nationality and religion:
Albania: Mother Teresa
Australia: Sir John Monash
Canadian: John McCrae
Chinese: Confucius; Sun Yat Sen.
Christian: Francis of Assissi
Czech Republic: Kafka, Franz.
Denmark: Hans Andersen.
French: Veuve Cliquot; Alfred Dreyfus; Marcel Proust; Talleyrand. Napoleon. Perrault. Jacques Cousteau.
German: Goethe.
Greek: Socrates. Alexander the Great.
Indian: Indira Ghandhi; Mahatma Gandhi;
Irish: St Patrick
Italian: Francis of Assissi; Leonardo da Vinci.
Japanese: Chiune Sugihara
Nepalese: Norbay Tensing, climbed Everest summit with Sir EdMund Hillary
Netherlands: Anne Frank; Spinoza.
New Zealand: Sir Edmund Hillary.
Norwegian: Roald Amundsen.
Poland: Chopin.
Roman: Julius Caesar. Hadrian.
Scottish: Bonnie Prince Charlie; John Logie Baird: Robert Burns; McGonagall; McAdam
Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew; Stamford Raffles; Sun Yat Sen.
South African: Nelson Mandela.
Spanish: Gaudi. Cervantes.
Swedish: Alfred Nobel; Anders Celcius; Raoul Wallenberg
UK: Florence Nightingale; LS Lowry. William Shakespeare. Charlotte Bronte. Nelson. Beatrix Potter. Jane Austen. Walter Raleigh.
USA: Abraham Lincoln; Clara Barton; Molly Brown; Isabel Myers Briggs; Neil Armstrong; Martin Luther King Jnr. Mark Twain.
Welsh: Dylan Thomas
National Days: USA July 4. USA Thanksgiving 4th Thursday in November.
Celebrations:
Remembrance: Nov 11 (WWI, WWII, all wars.)
Religious Leaders & Figures
Christian Catholic: Jesus of Nazareth. St Francis of Assissi; Saint Patrick.
Christian Protestant: Martin Luther.
Christian Methodist: Wesley.
Jewish: Anne Frank; Benjamin Disraeli; John Monash; Two Gun Cohen (Sun Yat Sen's bodyguard); Gold Meir; Sigmund Freud; Bialik.
Muslims & others: Mohammed. Aga Khan. Sikhs. Buddha.
Humanists: John Stuart Mill. Jeremy Bentham.
Please help me expand this list. Thank you.
Angela Lansbury.
Author of Jewish Travel Tales & Guide.
Focus on worldwide or national past heroes, who are easiest to research, then local heroes for more news and novelty.
Heroes and Heroines by nationality and religion:
Albania: Mother Teresa
Australia: Sir John Monash
Canadian: John McCrae
Chinese: Confucius; Sun Yat Sen.
Christian: Francis of Assissi
Czech Republic: Kafka, Franz.
Denmark: Hans Andersen.
French: Veuve Cliquot; Alfred Dreyfus; Marcel Proust; Talleyrand. Napoleon. Perrault. Jacques Cousteau.
German: Goethe.
Greek: Socrates. Alexander the Great.
Indian: Indira Ghandhi; Mahatma Gandhi;
Irish: St Patrick
Italian: Francis of Assissi; Leonardo da Vinci.
Japanese: Chiune Sugihara
Nepalese: Norbay Tensing, climbed Everest summit with Sir EdMund Hillary
Netherlands: Anne Frank; Spinoza.
New Zealand: Sir Edmund Hillary.
Norwegian: Roald Amundsen.
Poland: Chopin.
Roman: Julius Caesar. Hadrian.
Scottish: Bonnie Prince Charlie; John Logie Baird: Robert Burns; McGonagall; McAdam
Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew; Stamford Raffles; Sun Yat Sen.
South African: Nelson Mandela.
Spanish: Gaudi. Cervantes.
Swedish: Alfred Nobel; Anders Celcius; Raoul Wallenberg
UK: Florence Nightingale; LS Lowry. William Shakespeare. Charlotte Bronte. Nelson. Beatrix Potter. Jane Austen. Walter Raleigh.
USA: Abraham Lincoln; Clara Barton; Molly Brown; Isabel Myers Briggs; Neil Armstrong; Martin Luther King Jnr. Mark Twain.
Welsh: Dylan Thomas
National Days: USA July 4. USA Thanksgiving 4th Thursday in November.
Celebrations:
Remembrance: Nov 11 (WWI, WWII, all wars.)
Religious Leaders & Figures
Christian Catholic: Jesus of Nazareth. St Francis of Assissi; Saint Patrick.
Christian Protestant: Martin Luther.
Christian Methodist: Wesley.
Jewish: Anne Frank; Benjamin Disraeli; John Monash; Two Gun Cohen (Sun Yat Sen's bodyguard); Gold Meir; Sigmund Freud; Bialik.
Muslims & others: Mohammed. Aga Khan. Sikhs. Buddha.
Humanists: John Stuart Mill. Jeremy Bentham.
Please help me expand this list. Thank you.
Angela Lansbury.
Author of Jewish Travel Tales & Guide.
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