Heroes

(last updated 3/2020) 52 random heroes (not necessarily my role models!), including fictional characters. To avoid wrong connotations, I do not include people such as (live) people in my academic field, people who recently paid me, etc.

1. Sarinee Achavanuntakul
2. Allan Adams
3. Boris Alexeev
4. Charles Barkley
5. Joshua Batson
6. Russell “Stringer” Bell
7. bldswtrs
8. Jonathan Blow
9. Cao Cao (曹操）
10. Italo Calvino
11. Gerolamo Cardano
12. Gabriel Carroll
13. Dave Chappelle
14. G.J.K. Chesterton
15. Ted Chiang
16. Paul Christiano
17. cly5m
18. Richard Feynman
19. Edgar Figaro
20. Benjamin Franklin
21. Frog (Chrono Trigger)
22. Hideyuki Fujisawa
23. Kelly Grayson
24. Vincent van Gogh
25. Richard Hamming
26. Aldous Huxley
27. E. T. Jaynes
28. Sanjoy Mahajan
29. Emmy Noether
30. Pham Nuwen
31. PSY
32. Alec Resnick
33. Laura Roslin
34. Gian-Carlo Rota
35. Lee Sedol
36. Claude Shannon
37. Eleanor Shellstrop
38. Da Shi (大史）
39. Aaron Swartz
40. Tintin
41. Varys
42. Jeff Vogel
43. Yang Wen-Li
44. Tabitha-Ruth “Turtle” Wexler
45. John Wooden
46. Phoenix Wright
47. Wu Miao (吴淼)
48. Charles Francis Xavier
49. Ying Xin (my mother)
50. Lu Xun（鲁迅）
51. Kiyoharu Yashiro
52. Zhuge Liang (诸葛亮)