Historical figures you would have like to have known..............

[Darth_Kitten]

Mine:

King Charles II (man was a wit and kind to women) ;)

Lord Byron (mad bad dangerous to know, that kinda thang...) :)

Chopin (complicated guy)

for starters........

[Brucey]

1. People with integrity, such as

Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mahatma Gandhi, poet Stevie Smith, and John Lennon.

[mark414]

2. agree w/ above re: Lennon

also:

FDR
Lincoln
RFK
MLK
Mozart
Aristotle and Socrates
Che Guevara
Jack Kerouac (pre-breakdown)

but I think most of all

Mark Twain

[NJCher]

3. Beatrix Potter

Actually, I wish I could go back in time and be her. The ideal life, IMO.

Another would be Clarence Darrow.


Cher

[mitchum]

4. Christopher Marlowe

[bigwillq]

5. Martin Luther King

Malcolm X
Jimi Hendrix
JFK
Marilyn Monroe
Teddy Roosevelt
Babe Ruth

Way to many to mention.

[kyattaman]

6. Historical Character I Would Like to Have Known

Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, John Coltrane and James Baldwin.

[Book Lover]

7. Imhotep for starters

Socrates' wife, Xanthippe; Mary, mother of Jesus; Cicero and Vergil; and Benjamin Franklin.

I'm sure I'll think of others, too :-)

[PittPoliSci]

8. Alexander Hamilton

brilliant man.

[ogradda]

9. catherine d'medeci

bet she could've helped thinking of a way to boot bush

[Mojambo]

10. Thomas Jefferson

Ben Franklin would have been pretty cool to go bar hopping with.

[Taverner]

11. Arthur Rimbaud

Freidrich Nietschze
Lord Byron
Mary Shelley
H.P. Lovecraft

[Tikki]

12. Man Ray.....

Charles Darwin and E.G Squier and E. H. Davis.

[hobbit709]

13. Historical figures I'd have like to have known

Buddha, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Twain, Anne Bonney

[Meshuga]

14. Thomas Jefferson

I'd love to talk politics with him. He'd be sick of our current situation today!

[NYC Liberal]

19. Yep, me too!

I'd have to be careful telling him what DimSon has been doing...he might have a heart attack.

[ofrfxsk]

15. Off the top of my head

Napoleon, Marcus Aurelius, Mark Twain and Thoreau. All for vastly different reasons.

[pbg]

16. I'd like to meet

Richard Francis Burton
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Chuang Tzu
William Blake
Nikolai Tesla
Elizabeth I of England
Tecumseh
Giordano Bruno
François Rabelais
and a guy named Jesus, just to clear a few things up...

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

17. Fredrick the Great, Voltaire, FDR, LBJ ...and..yeah...Charles II.

man, ,that was a good choice there...Charles II......

[bratcatinok]

18. Cleopatra, Tutankhamen, Noah

Jesus
Ramses

[Lefty48197]

20. Ben Franklin: Party ANIMAL

.

[soothsayer]

21. jesus of nazereth n/t