<p>Teddy Roosevelt :D</p>
<p>As an inspiration, Churchill or Stresemann. And Kitchener in many ways.</p>
<p>For their comedic value, Rasputin or Yeltsin :)</p>
<p>Winston Churchill! For inspiration and comedic value!</p>
<p>While he isn’t my favorite, I’ve always admired TR.</p>
<p>Abraham Lincoln by far. Also like Kennedy and Reagan a lot. As for non-presidents go, Tesla and Salinger.</p>
<p>I second Lincoln!</p>
<p>I don’t know how historic he is, but I love Ray Bradbury!</p>
<p>Emerson!!!</p>
<p>Voltaire always struck me as fairly badass but I don’t know much about him.</p>
<p>Oda Nobunaga?</p>
<p>Seriously I don’t know/care.</p>
<p>Rockefeller, Reagan, and Herbert Spencer</p>
<p>^ Ew.
Ummm…that’s a toughie I’ll get back to you</p>
<p>The one and only, BenJarvus Green-Ellis.</p>
<p>Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, St. Thomas Moore, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hayek</p>
<p>Washington, Franklin, Voltaire was a cool guy, Teddy, Lincoln, Mark Twain, and I always found Frederick Douglass very inspirational. </p>
<p>Robespierre and Andrew Jackson too. Just because I think they’re fascinating, not because I like them.</p>
<p>Rasputin is indeed hilarious in a sick, twisted way. But still a riot. :D</p>
<p>It’s hard to beat Archimedes on brilliance.</p>
<p>Henry Clay because his plans quickly escalated to the civil war.</p>
<p>I forgot Thomas Jefferson, Pericles, Alexander of Macedon (not Alex the great)</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>CHARLES MANSON</p>
<p>Lincoln and <em>dramatic pause</em></p>
<p><em>BAM</em> Archimedes.</p>
<p>There are way too many…</p>
<p>Nikola Tesla, Jack Kilby, Enrico Fermi, Pauli, Feynman, Sun Tzu, George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, Andrew Jackson, every Enlightened thinker, every Greek philosopher, all Nobel prize winners, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Nehru, etc.</p>
<p>Way too eclectic, but nonetheless accurate</p>
<p>Definitely Martin Luther King, Jr. The Kennedy’s and their legacy was invaluable also. Rachel Carson and Henry Ford are both great.</p>