Mountain biking,playing my Ibanez semi-archtop guitar. Photography is second to biking.
I posthumously add Martin Luther King. However, I know and have worked with famous men and women of Science. To name a few: Arthur Kornberg Roger Kornberg Linus Pauling Paul Berg Abe White Joshua Lederberg James Watson Frances Crick All are Nobel Laureates who dedicated their life to the elucidation of mechanisms responsibe for human suffering, sickness and disease on a global scale.
Jazz, Mo-town, Stealy Dan and most all female vocalists. Yet country and rock are equally enjoyed.
Outbreak, Andromeda Strain, Time Machine, AI, Lost in Space, Red Planet, MI1,2 ( not 3).... Basically,anything about the future or space travel or SciFi. I am a fan of Tom Cruise, Matt Damon and James Bond.Not into horror flicks.
Heros, CSI, Nature, Nova
Principles of Developement, Lewis Wolpert 2006; Do Fish Drink Water?, Bill McLain 1999; Building your own working Robot, David Heiserman 1976; There's no need to wear a happy face after age 50, Michael Long, (work in progress)
Those mentioned in the "I'd like to meet" section. And the new age hero: Americans who express there voting privelidges and ride a bike.