Favorite Person in History

Marie Antoinette - SHe had her shit going on :) plus she ran France, and I love France

Adolf Hitler - Not because he killed millions of Jews, but because he was fucking brilliant. End of story.

I don't really know, I just watched, "The History Of Singapore" in Discovery Channel and I think I liked their prime minister, Lee Kwan Yew. I'm not sure about that yet. I also like my country's national hero, Jose Rizal. Just like any other hero, he died for my country. How heroic! :cute:

Martin Luther King Jr.

Walt Disney.

Elizabeth I

Madame de Pompadour.
I don't know why. Maybe it's just because of the Doctor Who episode The Girl in the Fireplace, but I do love the real person as well.

There're more, but I can't think of them right now.

Jane Austen.

She helped women become independent. And made a HUGE mark in the history of literary.

Alan Turing.

He was one of the codebreakers enlisted in the WW2 effort for Britain, he worked at a place called Bletchley Park where they used to obtain messages sent by and intended for German officers, coded ones, and decode them. It was harder than it sounds, because the Germans used something known as the "Enigma" code and... well, without being too detailed, it was incredibly complex and hard to crack. But Alan Turing was a total genius, a visionary imo, and he came up with a new way of working it out and invented things and generally just did more than his fair share. He was a real war hero- and then after the war ended, it came out he was gay and he was castrated for it. A true travesty... especially as he was castrated by injection of female hormone, which would have messed up his entire body. He killed himself two years later. He was a real British hero and I hate that the very government he worked so hard for destroyed him.

They have recently released a public apology though, which is something.

Edgar Allan Poe.

I love that man, more than I should.

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Marie Antoinette.
I love learning about her and the French Revolution.

I watched The Duchess the other day, and I guess you all know I'm now gonna say Georgiana Cavendish.
Period dramas obsess me, honestly.

^ That was SUCH a great movie! I love anything in that era.

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Marie Antoinette.
I love learning about her and the French Revolution.

So agreed. I'm fascinated by her. That whole way of life, and how it wasn't really their fault - everything about the French Revolution is really interesting.

I recently did a history project on Joan of Arc, and... well, I don't want to say I fell in love with her, because, I didn't, and that sounds pretty creepy anyway.
But... as I learned about her, and what she stood for, I grew a really deep respect for her, and her boldness, especially.

She was incredibly brave, a warrior for God, and all of this by age 17.
I wish I could've met her.

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It has to be either Jack the Ripper, or a pirate.
Jack the Ripper just seemed cool, despite what he did.
And pirates, pirates are just extremely awesome.

Jack was epic! First recorded serial killer! Though most children don't know about him anymore

My favorite has got to be Otto von Bismarck followed closely by Catherine the Great of Russia and Fredrick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Epic leaders, all three of them!

Oscar Wilde. I'll never love anyone as much as I love that man

Sneferu, he was the founder of the 4th dynasty of Egypt and he built the first true pyramid (not the step pyramid). He also built the bent pyramid before he build The Great Red pyramid.

Teddy Roosevelt.

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Teddy Roosevelt.

Teddy was pretty cool. I love the Rough Riders