Famous Role Models We'd Like To Meet In Person

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These are the famous folks it would be most exciting to meet in person, as ranked by the wisdom of the crowd. Anyone can add their personal role models to this list, making it an accurate, real-time ranking of the most interesting and inspiring role models in the world. From idols to heroes, these are the people other people most aspire to meet. So, add your two cents and see how your personal heroes stack up against the crowd's.

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Jesus Christ

4
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Albert Einstein

1879
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Leonardo da Vinci

1452
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Abraham Lincoln

1809
5

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Mahatma Gandhi

1869
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Winston Churchill

1874
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Thomas Jefferson

1743
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Mother Teresa

1910
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God
10

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John F. Kennedy

1917
11

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William Shakespeare

1564
12

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

1929
13

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George Washington

1732
14

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Benjamin Franklin

1706
15

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John Lennon

1940
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Dr. Seuss

1904
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Bob Marley

1945
18

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Ronald Reagan

1911
19

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Alexander the Great

356
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Bill Gates

1955
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Stephen Hawking

1942
22

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God
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Helen Keller

1880
24

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Barack Obama

1961
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Moses
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Nikola Tesla

1856
27

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Marilyn Monroe

1926
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Theodore Roosevelt

1858
29

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Morgan Freeman

1937
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Thomas Edison

1847

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Plato

427

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John Wayne

1907
33

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Gautama Buddha

563

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Mark Twain

1835
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Socrates

469

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Elvis Presley
37

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Edgar Allan Poe

1809
38

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Blessed Virgin Mary
39

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Warren Buffett

1930
40

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Mother Teresa
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Anne Frank

1929
42

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Ahney Her

1992
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Aristotle

384
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Bill Clinton

1946
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Yeshe Tsogyal

757
46

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Amelia Earhart

1897
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Elvis Presley

1935

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Johnny Depp

1963
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John the Baptist

5
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Deonna Rickenbach
Famous Role Models We'd Like To Meet In Person at 10/04/2012 2:30 AM

famous male role models. HELL YEAH.
Un Fattig
Famous Role Models We'd Like To Meet In Person at 10/03/2012 4:30 AM

famous role models. OH YEAH.
Dane Griffth
Famous Role Models We'd Like To Meet In Person at 7/09/2012 3:30 AM

list of role models. Oh!
mike v
Famous Role Models We'd Like To Meet In Person at 2/04/2012 11:11 AM

Steve Jobs!??????
Electricity
Famous Role Models We'd Like To Meet In Person at 12/11/2011 2:37 AM

No Tesla?!
vestigial_tail
Mother Teresa at 9/30/2011 9:17 PM

Maybe she could help me with my low tolerance threshold for idiots...
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Leonardo da Vinci at 9/30/2011 9:16 PM

Learning from this man would be fascinating, but I'm thinking that speaking fluent Italian would come in handy.
cbamr
Famous Role Models We'd Like To Meet In Person at 7/18/2011 9:21 AM

Like it - nice subject matter about role models - unlike -http://www.comicbookandmoviereviews.com/2011/07/role-models.html
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Quentin Tarantino at 11/16/2010 10:13 AM

Seriously? Someone wants to meet this guy? It's one thing to admire his talent ... but I can't stand even watching him try to act in his own movies. Imagine being in a room with him. Yikes.
Anonymous
Jesus Christ at 11/13/2010 8:37 AM

Are you guys suggesting that there wasn't a guy from Nazarene who decided being a prophet was more exciting than being a carpenter? What history turned him into may not have been real, but he was a real guy. And I would love to go back and see what he was really like.
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Mother Teresa at 10/20/2010 3:44 PM

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
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Ronald Reagan at 10/20/2010 3:44 PM

gay
JJ
Jesus Christ at 10/20/2010 3:40 PM

They have to put real people on here, jesus is not.
blah
Jesus Christ at 10/20/2010 10:39 AM

ot really
em
Jesus Christ at 10/19/2010 3:32 PM

He's not real...
Bob the Bob
Famous Role Models We'd Like To Meet In Person at 10/19/2010 5:27 AM

Shut up.
Brett
Famous Role Models We'd Like To Meet In Person at 10/18/2010 5:36 PM

Michelle Obama isn't vice president
1. Clark Benson
  Famous Role Models We'd Like To Meet In Person at 11/12/2010 7:36 PM
  
  yeah, that's one of the odd vagarities of using large datasets - Mrs. Obama was indeed a vice president in her career (from Wikipedia: 2002, she began working for the University of Chicago Hospitals, first as executive director for community affairs and, beginning May 2005, as Vice President for Community and External Affairs), which is where that data was taken from.
Anonymous
Warren Buffett at 10/13/2010 7:33 PM

The Buffet man definitely, image how much you could make after spending a few years with one of the top financial gurus of all time! Maybe he'd throw some Berkshire stock your way for keeping him from getting shanked in the showers.
Anonymous
Leonardo da Vinci at 10/13/2010 7:31 PM

2 reasons for Da Vinci; first you'd never get bored learning from him, second he could figure a way to break you both out.