Virtually all of my heroes are people whose names you wouldn't recognize. I listed some of them here. The world is filled with heroic people. One who comes to mind and who should be on my list can be found in this posting by Big Mick. Some heroes of mine whose names you are more likely to recognize would include, (in no particular order,) Dag Hammarskjöld, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Ray Charles and John Charles Frémont.