= Heros = ------ * 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 * ||