List of historical people portrayed as heroes
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This is a list of people portrayed as heroes in fiction.
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[edit] Military heroes
- Colonel Sir Aubrey Herbert, portrayed by John Buchan as Sandy Arbuthnot
- Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart, reimagined by Evelyn Waugh as the fictional Brigadier General Ben Ritchie-Hook in Men at Arms.
- Hannibal Barca, Carthaginian commander to be portrayed by Vin Diesel in Hannibal the Conqueror
- Leonidas I, King of Sparta, portrayed by Gerard Butler in 300 (film)
[edit] Monarchs
[edit] Politicians
- Vladimir Putin, appears in short humorous stories by Maxim Koronenko
[edit] Scientists
- Benjamin Franklin, appears in The Age of Unreason
[edit] Revolutionaries
- Mahatma Gandhi, portrayed in Gandhi
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, commonly known as Che Guevara, Argentine Marxist Revolutionary
- Michael Collins, organised flying columns in Cork and Dublin during the Irish War of Independance. Signed Treaty between British and Irish Government accepting an Irish Free State
[edit] Other heroes
- Oscar Schindler, portrayed in Schindler's List
- Jarminge Jones, coolster
