Historical personalities that you admire

Who do you admire Jow Forums ? Why, and what kind of article, book, movie or essay from that great man or woman do you recommend?

My list is too big and diverse, so I chose a politically friendly, non-controversial figure as an example:
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Lenin

>Be American
>get shot
>lmao don't give a fuck

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I especially admire the part where he drank himself to death. Been following his steps for quite a while now.

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Why would you admire a dog?

You realize not everyone eats them like you, right Zhang?

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I like Lorca, he wrote nice plays

No idea who this nigga be. Can you arouse my interest with only 300 or less?

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Not in the Jow Forumstard way but Augustus
Just because he wasnt one of the normal roman great men like Caesar, Sulla, Pompei, Scipio Africanus, Constantine, who all were naturally incredibly talented ballsy warriors which through luck and instinct had everything go there way. He was jist an autistic cunt who through planning and manipulation of the system became the toppest dog of the entire thing.

All memes aside, he was a pretty cool guy

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the greatest f1 driver of all time
anybody who says otherwise is a raging fanboy of their own favourite driver

First post that actually includes an explanation. And a very good one. Thanks for the input, mate.

He truly was. Candid is one of the best books I've read

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Nothing says normal like being a blood relatives of the ruling dictator who later adopts you.

The only respectable Roman emperor was Aurelius, and by that I mean only his Meditations

If he was such a good driver then why did he die while driving a car?

his car had an uncontrollable mechanical failure
if colin mcrae was such a good pilot, why did he die while flying a helicopter?

>his car had an uncontrollable mechanical failure
A great driver would've dealt with that too.

then his mechanics and engineers would be out of a job

It was Rome so if you weren't part of the aristocracy you were fucked but it wpuld have been very easy for him to just do what everybody advised him and not make a grab for power based on nothing but the name and be a footnote in history