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Quality Human Beings 🏆
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items Here is my list of inspiring people who devoted themselves to the betterment of others. No one is perfect, but in general terms, if everyone could be more like the people in this list, the world would be a better place.
Fred Rogers was the beloved creator and host of the long-running preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which aired on public television from 1968 to 2001. An ordained Presbyterian minister with a degree in child development, he ded...
Mister Rogers
Dolly Parton has supported many charitable efforts, particularly in the area of literacy, primarily through her Dollywood Foundation. Her literacy program, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which is a part of the Dollywood Foundation, was founded i...
Dolly Parton
Rich Mullins was a highly influential Christian Musician. His philosophy can be understood by a quote he gave at a concert shortly before his death.
"Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you've done it to me. And this is what ...
Rich Mullins
In 1569 Dirk Willems was held in a prison for his Protestant beliefs, from which he escaped using a rope made out of knotted rags. Using this, he was able to climb out of the prison onto the frozen moat. A guard noticed his escape and gave chase. Wil...
Dirk Willems
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has become a national icon in the history of American liberalism and American progressivism. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the U.S. Just days after King's assassination, Congress passed the Civil...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
George E. Wahlen was a Pharmacist's Mate Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He landed with his unit on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, and was seriously wounded by an enemy grenade on February 26 in combat. Refusing evacuation, he continued going on to h...
George E. Wahlen
Louis Pasteur, while not free from controversy, was a brilliant researcher who brought mankind the rabies vaccine. Pasteur is also regarded as one of the fathers of the germ theory of diseases, which was a minor medical concept at the time. His many ...
Louis Pasteur
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the P...
Oskar Schindler
Navajo code talkers were U.S. Marines in World War II who used their native language to create an unbreakable code for transmitting vital information in the Pacific theater. They developed code words for military terms and a phonetic alphabet using N...
Navajo Code Talkers
Marie Curie is most famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity and for being the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields. She discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium, and developed the theory of ra...
Marie Curie