34 People Online Share Who They Believe Was The Absolute Coolest Person To Have Ever Lived

Léo Major.

Canadian sniper/reconnaissance, lost an eye, was told you’re going home..replied with why? I only need 1 eye to snipe…liberated an entire town in holland, took over a dozen prisoners, all single handedly after his fire team partner was killed

My mom. Having to deal with my raging abusive alcoholic c**t of a father yet always being there for me.

I think Audie Murphy is up there. For those who don't know, most decorates US Soldier including the medal of honor. Some of his actions during WW2 include 1. Holding off a German assault with the .50 mouted atop off of a destroyed tank (M10 Jackson I believe) after gaining a battlefield commision (Sgt to LT). He had his men fall back and dig in. While ontop of the tank he was calling for IDF dangerclose pretty much right on top of himself. They got so close when the guy on the other end of the radio asked how close he said something along the lines of "give me a minute, I'll let you talk to one of the bas***ds" This would last an hour, and he would sustain an injury to the leg and he would repel the attack 2. When him and a buddy were in a crater/foxhole by themselves, two Germans surrendered. Something felt off to him, however his buddy believed them, stood up to go detain them, except they gunned him down. So in a fit of rage, he picked up a machinegun I believed it was and went on a one man rampage. After the war, I find one of his actions that speak highly of his character is how he refused to partake in cigarette and alcohol commericals despite financial difficulty as he was aware of the influence he would have on kids.

Charles Upham was a NZ soldier who won 2 Victoria Crosses. He had a reputation of carrying a flour sack full of grenades instead of a rifle. If you read the wiki, it goes through the whole saga that led to his awarding of the first VC and then casually mentions that he was suffering from Dystentary at the time.

There are a lot of good people mentioned in here for various reasons but I'll throw out two more people.

First the unknown viking at Stamford Bridge, he held off the entire English army until they floated a soldier under the bridge to stab the viking in the testicles. Dude was straight stacking bodies before getting stabbed in the no no spot.

Second is Norman Borlaug, Norman was not a great warrior but a scientist, he developed a variant of wheat that had a higher yield and wouldn't fall over so harvests would be greater. He has saved countless lives from dying of starvation.

Lookup Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Explorer and all around bada**. And only within the last generation. First to visit both north and South Pole. Crossed Antarctica by foot. War hero. During an expedition in the arctic got frostbite and cut his fingers off with a saw. Had a heart attack in 2000. But ran 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days 3 years later. Pure iron in my opinion

Jack Churchill. Went into battle armed with a broadsword, a bow and arrow, and bag pipes. In WW2.

My grandmother was definitely born in the wrong generation. She was bad a*s. She was the oldest of 8, basically helped raised her siblings. Married my grandfather (an absolute man-child) and had 7 kids.

She basically had to drag my grandfather to get a job in the 50's. She was an excellent seamstress, making clothes for quite a few well known people in her community, even some outfits for a couple of films.

She dragged my grandfather around the world for holidays for them to enjoy, and she was wicked smart! In middle school I used to go to their house for lunch and watch the Price Is Right. Almost every time she was within $500 of the final showcases. Mad skills! If she had been born in my generation she would have been some sort of CEO, Lawyer, or Doctor.

Saitō Musashibō Benkei. He was a Japanese monk from the 1100's. He took part in many battles, but my favorite was his last where he had to gaurd a bridge as a suicide mission.

His master, Minamoto no Yoshitsune (another famous Japanese figure) was about to be captured (another long, but interesting story in of itself), but chose to kill himself before that could happen. Benkei had to keep the enemy from crossing the only bridge to the castle that Yoshitsune was hiding in. As Benkei was firecly loyal, he went through with it.

Benkei was a big dude, so no one was all that brave facing him, and every single one that did try crossing just got killed in a single file line. Eventually, they gave up on swords and just shot arrows from across the bridge. Even then, after getting shot by a barrage, he was still standing on his feet. Nothing they could throw could kill him.

...or so they thought. Turned out he died. He literally died on his feet and didn't fall over until someone was brave enough to check to see the status of arrow-covered body.

TL:DR; Big scary dude stopped an army from crossing a bridge, then his corpse kept them from crossing even after he died.

"In one of the more remarkable treks known to history, Glass set his own leg, wrapped himself in the bear hide his companions had placed over him as a shroud, and began crawling. To prevent gangrene, Glass laid his wounded back on a rotting log and let the maggots eat the dead flesh. Deciding that following the Grand River would be too dangerous because of hostile tribes, Glass crawled overland south toward the Cheyenne River. It took him six weeks to reach it. Glass survived mostly on wild berries and roots. On one occasion he was able to drive two wolves from a downed bison calf, and feast on the meat. Reaching the Cheyenne, he fashioned a crude raft and floated down the river, navigating using the prominent Thunder Butte landmark. Aided by friendly natives who sewed a bear hide to his back to cover the exposed wounds as well as providing him with food and a couple of weapons to defend himself, Glass eventually reached the safety of Fort Kiowa."

Earnest Shackleton

(Famous Antarctic explorer, one of the main figures in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. The member of four Antarctic expeditions, three of which he commanded. - BP)

Teddy Roosevelt was a bada**

Josef Broz Tito, leader of Post-WW2 Yugoslavia. He broke with Stalin and the USSR in the mid-1940s. Stalin repeatedly tried to have Tito killed. When Stalin died a private letter from Tito to Stalin was found in Stalin's bedside table: “Stop sending people to kill me… If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.” By the 1960s he was an influential world leader organizing the non-aligned pact of nations against both NATO and the USSR,

Alexander the Great