Reason's 35 Heroes of Freedom

"People who have made the world a freer, better, and more libertarian place by example, invention, or action"

Other Individuals: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

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

Articles

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."