- Ashcroft, John - Governor of Missouri, U. S. Senator and U.S. Attorney General
- Bezos, Jeff - Founder and chief executive of Amazon.com
- Borlaug, Norman - Agricultural scientist, the “father of the Green Revolution”
- Brand, Stewart - Creator of The Whole Earth Catalog
- Burroughs, William S. - 20th century American writer
- Flood, Curt - Baseball outfielder with the St. Louis Cardinals during the 1960's
- Flynt, Larry - Publisher of Hustler magazine
- Friedman, Milton - 1976 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences
- Goldwater, Barry - Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate
- Havel, Vaclav - First President of the Czech Republic
- Hayek, Friedrich A. - 1974 Nobel Prize winner in Economics Sciences
- Heinlein, Robert A. - American science fiction writer
- Jacobs, Jane - 20th century American/Canadian writer, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Kahn, Alfred E. - Professor of economics, chairman of Civil Aeronautics Board in the late 1970s
- Lamb, Brian - Founder and chief executive of the C-SPAN television network
- Lane, Rose Wilder - American journalist, author of The Discovery of Freedom
- Madonna - American singer, dancer and actress
- Mandela, Nelson - First President of South Africa after repeal of apartheid
- Navratilova, Martina - Czech-born tennis player, winner of nine Wimbledon singles tournaments
- Nelson , Willie - American country singer and songwriter
- Nixon, Richard M. - Thirty-seventh President of the United States, infamous for the Watergate scandal
- Paul, Les - American guitarist, electric guitar designer
- Paul, Ron - Texas Republican Congressman, 1988 Libertarian Presidential candidate, 2008 Republican Presidential prospective candidate
- Rand, Ayn - Objectivist philosopher, novelist
- Rodman, Dennis - Professional basketball player, NBA leader in rebounds for seven consecutive seasons
- Rossetto, Louis - Founder and past publisher of Wired magazine
- Simon, Julian L. - Professor of Business Administration, author
- Szasz, Thomas S. - Psychiatry professor and author
- Thatcher, Margaret - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1980s
- Thomas, Clarence - Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1991
- Turner, Ted - Founder of the Cable News Network
- Williams, Evan - Creator of the Blogger weblog publishing service
- Zimmermann, Philip R. - Creator of the Pretty Good Privacy email encryption software
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35 Heroes of Freedom: Celebrating the people who have made the world groovier and groovier since 1968, Reason, Dec 2003
Related Topics: John Ashcroft, Jeff Bezos, Norman Borlaug, Stewart Brand, William S. Burroughs, Curt Flood, Larry Flynt, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Václav Havel, Friedrich A. Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Jane Jacobs, Alfred E. Kahn, Brian Lamb, Rose Wilder Lane, Madonna, Nelson Mandela, Martina Navratilova, Willie Nelson, Richard M. Nixon, Les Paul, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, Dennis Rodman, Louis Rossetto, Julian L. Simon, Thomas S. Szasz, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas, Ted Turner, Evan Williams, Philip R. Zimmermann
"The list is by design eclectic, irreverent, and woefully incomplete, but it limns the many ways in which the world has only gotten groovier and groovier during the last 35 years." |
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