My Heroes

Real

• Alan Turing (invented computers)
• Amartya Sen (fights suffering with knowledge)
• Mohandas Gandhi (fought injustice without fighting)
• Arthur C. Clarke (invented space)
• Paul Foot (fought injustice with words)
• Roger Bacon (invented science, part I)
• Francis Bacon (with Galileo Galilei, invented science, part II)
• Galileo Galilei (with Francis Bacon, invented science, part II)
• William of Ockham (didn't really invent logic, but did a lot for it)
• Bruce Schneier (fights danger and fear with mathematics)
• Ben Goldacre (fights bullshit with SCIENCE)

Fictional

• William of Baskerville (from Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose')
• Sherlock Holmes
• Batman
• Macgyver