Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?

[abaris]

Who's your favourite historical figure, or at least one of your favourites?

I already named a few, previously.

As far as Thatcher goes, she was all of what you mentioned. But, and that's a big but, since you always tend to only look at what you want to see. She was a lot of things you probably wouldn't agree with. I was old enough to watch her age. Back then I didn't get half of what she was all about. I totally agreed with her on taking a hard stance in the Falkland crisis and I didn't give a shit over what she did to the british working class. Now, looking back, my image of her has changed. Quite a lot actually. She more or less destroyed the unions, which is the major reason why so many british people have to cope with whatever the government dishes out. Not the EU, not some big conspiracy, but the absence of any real force fighting their corner.