Heroes/Heroines, Influences etc..?


Garrett

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Writers, Musicians, Poets, Game Devs, Artists etc etc.


here's a few of mine:


Cristopher Hitchens


George Carlin


William Burroughs


Oscar Wilde


Bob Dylan


Bill Hicks


Francis Bacon (artist)


Wim Wenders


Mark E Smith


Mervyn Peake


Charles Bukowski


Noam Chomsky


Aldous Huxley


Captain Beefheart


Django Reinhardt


John Cooper Clarke


Johnny Cash


I've a lot more, but for the sake of keeping things brief I'll leave it there.


who's yours, contemporary or historical..?
 
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IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER - Still Editing, as there are so many to list

Musical Artists


2Pac/Makaveli (Tupac Shakur)


EMINƎM/Slim Shady (Marshall Mathers) - Also a film artist that I admire


Nas (Nasir Jones)


Dr. Dre (Andre Young)


Kanye West


Jay-Z (Shawn Carter)


Will Smith - Also a film artist that I admire


Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta)


Usher (Usher Raymond)


Elvis Presley - Also a film artist that I admire


LL Cool J (James Smith) - Also a film artist that I admire


Film Artists


Brad Pitt


Leonardo DiCaprio


Johnny Depp


Al Pacino


Jamie Foxx


Morgan Freeman


Denzel Washington


Anthony Hopkins


Jet Lee


Robert De Niro


Russell Crowe


Edward Norton


Tom Cruise


Ed Harris


Jack Nicholson


Ewan McGregor


Sean Penn


Patrick Stewart


John Turturro


Harvey Keitel


Tim Roth


Kevin Spacey


Brandon Lee


Ken Watanabe


Sam Neill


Arnold Schwarzenegger


Mel Gibson


Richard Gere


Harrison Ford


Matt Damon


Jim Carrey


Bruce Willis


Eric Bana


Kirk Douglas


Billy Connolly


Christian Bale


Sean Connery


Samuel L Jackson


Robin Williams


George Clooney


Jackie Chan


Nicolas Cage


Gene Hackman


Sylvester Stallone


Robert Duvall


John Travolta


Adam Sandler


Dustin Hoffman


Liam Neeson


Christopher Walken


Michael Caine


Hugh Jackman


Tom Hanks


Michael Douglas


Mark Wahlberg


Joe Pesci


Michael Keaton


Benicio Del Toro


Geoffrey Rush


Richard Dreyfuss


Ben Kingsley


Software developers/designers - Some are also hardware developers


Miyamoto Shigeru


Iwata Satoru


Ken Levine


Hironobu Sakaguchi


Amano Yoshitaka


Ed Boon


Cliff Bleszinski


John Carmack


Hori Yuki


Igarashi Koji


Inaba Atsushi


Inafune Keiji


Ishii Koichi


Itagaki, Tomonobu


Iwata Satoru


Iwatani Toru


David Jaffe


Kamiya Hideki


Koizumi Yoshiaki


Kojima Hideo


Kondo Koji


Matsuura Masaya


Sid Meier


Mikami Shinji


Mitsuda Yasunori


Mizuguchi Tetsuya


Peter Molyneux


Naka Yuji


Gabe Newell


The OpenPandora Team


Nomura Tetsuya


Sakaguchi Hironobu


Sakurai Masahiro


Tim Schafer


Shinkawa Yoji


Warren Spector


Suzuki Yu


Tezuka Takahashi


Tijiri Sitoshi


Toriyama Akira


Ueda Fumito


Uematsu Nobuo


Yamauchi Kazunori


Yasuda Akira


Yokoi Gunpei
 
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In no particular order:


Alan Turing


Stephen Hawking


Voltaire


Marvin Minsky


Richard Stallman


Bruce Perens


John Draper


Ed Cummings


Eric Corley


ASIMO


More to be added as I think of them. :)
 
couple of peoples work i enjoy.


MUSIC


Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton


DJ Kno


Don Juan


SPORTS


Zydrunas Ilgauskas


Drazen Petrovic


Michael Jordan


GAMES


Shigeru Miyamoto
 
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