= Heros =
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 * about 25% were/are wealthy 
 * entrepreneurs with ( * ) == started business/institution, signed paychecks to others

|| Buzz Aldrin            || Archimedes             || Edward H. Armstrong    || Neil Armstrong         ||
|| John Bardeen           || Tim Berners-Lee        || Norman Borlaug         || Stewart Brand *        ||
|| Vinton Cerf            || George Church *        || Cindy Crawford *       || Francis Crick          ||
|| Ward Cunningham        || Marie Curie            || Charles Darwin         || Paul Davies            ||
|| Deng Xiaoping *        || Esther Dyson *         || Freeman Dyson          ||
|| George Dyson           || Albert Einstein        || Paul Erdős             || Michael Faraday        ||
|| Richard Feynman        || Alexander Fleming      || John Ambrose Fleming   || Ivar Asbjørn Følling   ||
|| Benjamin Franklin *    || Rosalind Franklin      || Buckminster Fuller     || Mohandas Gandhi        ||
|| Barrie Gilbert *       || John Gilmore *         || Char Glenn *           || Robert Goddard *       ||
|| Charles Goodyear *     || Ulysses Grant *        || Andrew Grove *         ||
|| Johannes Gutenberg *   || Chris Hadfield         || Danny Hillis *         || Charles M. Hall *      ||
|| John Harrison *        || Mark Hatfield          || Robert A. Heinlein     || William Hewlett *      ||
|| Ted Hoff               || Grace Hopper           || Ruth Itzahki           || al-Jazari              ||
|| Henry Kaiser *         || APJ Abdul Kalam        || Charles K. Kao         || Donald Knuth           ||
|| Stephanie Kwolek       || Hedy Lamarr            || Lawrence Lessig        ||
|| Charles Lindberg       || Cathy Lofstrom         || James Lovelock         || Barbara !McClintock    ||
|| Lynn Margulis          || Barry J. Marshall      || Henry Maudslay *       || James Clerk Maxwell    ||
|| Dmitri Mendeleev       || Carolyn Meinel *       || Jacques Monod          || Mary Morgan            ||
|| Akio Morita *          || Wayne Morse            || Randal Munroe          || Elon Musk *            ||
|| John von Neumann       || William New *          || Isaac Newton           ||
|| Edwin Fitch Northrup * || Robert Noyce *         || Gerard K. O'Neill      || Ron Paul               ||
|| Linus Pauling          || Donald Pederson        || Chris Peterson *       || Charles F. Phelps *    ||
|| Virginia Postrel       || Joseph Priestley       || Dennis Ritchie         || Paul Russesabagina     ||
|| Burt Ruttan *          || Oskar Schindler        || William Shakespeare    || Edward Snowden         ||
|| George Stephenson *    || Nikola Tesla *         || Peter Thiel *          ||
|| Leo Tolstoy *          || Linus Torvalds         || Andrew Tridgell        || Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ||
|| Alan Turing            || Mark Twain             || Craig Venter *         || Jules Verne            ||
|| Howard Vollum *        || Jimmy Wales *          || James Watson           || George Washington *    ||
|| Andrew Weil            || Steve Wozniak *        || Wilbur Wright *        || Yahushua ben Yosef     ||
|| Muhammad Yunus *       ||