Real Life Heroes Wiki
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A list of pages that are needed on this wiki. Please do not add celebrities unless they have done indisputably heroic things.

List

People

  • Prince Philip Mountbatten, World War II British war hero
  • Raúl Alfonsín; President of Argentina from 1983 to 1989, responsible for bringing trials against various members of the dictatorship.
  • Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi; a Persian polymath who produced vastly influential works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography.
  • Joseph Bazalgette; medical pioneer who introduced the London sewage system, relieving the city of cholera epidemics.
  • Richard Halsey Best; WWII hero of the Battle of Midway.
  • Juan Bosch; former president of the Dominican Republic, who made reforms that granted labor rights to Dominicans.
  • Jamie Brock; Stopped Jesse Osborne, a hero of the Townville elementary shooting.
  • Nikolai Bukharin; Russian politician who devised the New Economic Policy.
  • Dolores Cacuango; Ecuadorian activist
  • Steven Callahan; survived 76 days Adrifted
  • Austen Chamberlain; British politician who helped negotiate the Locarno Treaties.
  • Luis Donaldo Colosio; Mexican politician, known for his 1994 speech where he exposes the discomforts of the country.
  • Mari Copeny; youth civil rights activist
  • Molly Craig; Aboriginal Australian freedom fighter known for escaping the Moore River Native Settlement with her sister and cousin.
  • Anthony Fauci; infectious disease expert, one leading the response against coronavirus in United States.
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss; German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science, ranked among history's most influential mathematicians
  • Jo Frost; English television personality, nanny and author, who helped reformed children
  • John Gibson; police officer killed during the 1998 Capitol shooting
  • Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Minister of Affairs
  • Matt Hancock; British health secretary.
  • Doug Hegdahl; played dumb on the North Vietnamese, Prisoner of War Medal recipient
  • Barbara Henry; teacher of Ruby Bridges, civil rights defender.
  • Riley Howell; Hero of University of North Carolina at Charlotte shooting.
  • Elizabeth Huckaby; Former vice principal of Little Rock Central High School, ally of the Little Rock Nine
  • Alberto Hurtado; Chilean priest, known for helping poor people and workers
  • Shigesato Itoi; Japanese graphic designer and writer who designed anti-war advertisements, created one of the most heartfelt game series in MOTHER, and supported LGBT friends in the 80s
  • Mary Jackson; American mathematician and aerospace engineer for NASA
  • Víctor Jara; Chilean musician and activist
  • Rebecca Jarrett; a former prostitute and procuress who, with reformer and newspaper editor W.T. Stead, fought against child prostitution and white slavery during the late 19th century.
  • Richard J. Flaherty; Shortest soldier in the US Army in Vietnam.
  • Katherine Johnson; American mathematician for NASA, first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist
  • Mikhail Kalashnikov; Russian inventor famous for making the AK-47
  • Siti Rahmah Kasim; independence activist and contributor of the 'Bangle of Independence'
  • Imran Khan, cricketer and Prime Minister of Pakistan responsible for cleaning up corruption
  • Viktor Kravchenko; Soviet defector
  • Jay Leno; American television host, comedian, and writer, also defended Michael Jackson
  • Hans Litten; German lawyer who attempted to prosecute Adolf Hitler for inciting violence
  • Robin Woods Loucks; friend of Terrence Roberts, ally of the Little Rock Nine, Civil Rights defender
  • Chelsea Manning; whistleblower
  • José Martí; hero of the independence of Cuba
  • Gary McMichael; peacemaker
  • Robert McNamara; United States Secretary of Defense.
  • Russell Means; Lakota activist who fought for Native American rights.
  • Raoni Metuktire; Brazilian indigenous leader that fights against deforestation in the Amazon.
  • Mohammad Najibullah; second president of Afghanistan who abolished the one-party state
  • Alexei Navalny; Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist
  • Gary Noesner; retired FBI hostage negotiator, involved with the Waco standoff.
  • Jim Pizzutelli; Retired combat medic and hockey trainer that saved the life of Clint Malarchuk
  • M.K. Rajakumar; father of primary health care, advocate for affordable healthcare
  • Jo Ann Robinson; civil rights activist
  • Louis Rwagasore; Burundian leader of the independence.
  • Ken Shimura; Japanese popular comedian.
  • Alaa Salah; Sudanese activist
  • Hjalmar Schacht; President of the Reichsbank who opposed Hitler's re-armament
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; former president of Brazil who set up many social programs to end hunger and tried to save a woman executed for adultery in Iran. He was replaced by the current corrupt president Jair Bolsonaro.
  • Robert F. Smith; African-American Jewish billionaire investor in human rights organizations
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton; leading member of the women's rights movement
  • John Steele; Paratrooper, purple heart recipient, known for landing on the pinnacle of a church tower.
  • Chiune Sugihara; Japanese diplomat who rescued refugees facing persecution of Nazi Germany
  • Dorothy Vaughan; American mathematician and human computer for NASA.
  • François Viète; a French mathematician whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra.
  • Thomas Walther; Nazi hunter


Groups

  • 442nd Infantry Regiment; most decorated us military unit.
  • Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes; government organization that investigated the Nazi war crimes
  • Human Rights Campaign; American largest LGBTQ advocacy group and political lobbying organization in the United States.
  • League for Democracy in Greece; heroic group that resisted the Greek junta.
  • Military Emergencies Unit; unit of the Spanish Armed Forces dedicated to helping people in natural disasters.
  • Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo; Argentine organization that seeks to find the disappeared during the military dictatorship.
  • National Council of Iran; loosely based umbrella group of the exiled opposition to Iran's Islamic Republic government.
  • Southern Poverty Law Center; American legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.

Events

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