These are the people I look up to and admire - famous or not. They are my heroes.

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• David Attenborough, broadcaster

• James Baldwin, writer

• ​Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura, genocide researcher & educator

• Don Cherry, trumpeter

• Alexandra Elbakyan, computer programmer

• ​Timnit Gebru, computer scientist

• Ajahn Hasapanna, Buddhist nun

• Sifan Hassan, runner

• Imane Khelif, boxer

• Hind Khoudary, Palestinian journalist

• Naomi Klein, author

• Martin Luther King, civil rights activist

• Arne Naess, philosopher

• Maria Ressa, journalist

• Johan Rockström, climate scientist

• Marshall Rosenberg, psychologist

• Nina Simone, pianist

• Aaron Swartz, computer programmer

• Greta Thunberg, environmental activist

• Leonardo da Vinci, polymath