Justice heroes: Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Muhammad Ali, Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, John Lewis, Rebecca Solnit, Roxanne Gay, Bernie Sanders, Heather Cox Richardson

Literary heroes: Sappho, Euripides, Ovid, Voltaire, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Rilke, Goethe, Phillis Wheatley, Poe, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Herman Melville, Jorge Luis Borges, Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Lorca, Herman Hesse, Isaac Asimov, George Orwell, Pablo Neruda, Joy Harjo, Mary Oliver, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Musical heroes: Hildegard von Bingen, Bach, Mozart, Son House, Leadbelly, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Buddy Holly, Hank Williams Sr, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, Leonard Cohen, Al Green, Patsy Cline, Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Gil Scott-Heron, Nick Drake, Townes Van Zandt, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Tupac Shakur, Kris Kristofferson, Bjork, Beck, Fiona Apple, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), Andre 3000 (Outkast), Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Joanna Newsom, Alexandre Desplat, Laura Marling, Little Simz, Mariee Sioux, Kendrick Lamar

Science heroes: Copernicus, Galileo, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Carl Sagan

Spiritual heroes: Siddhartha Gautama, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Khalil Gibran, Rumi, Hafiz, Alan Watts, Krishnamurti, Ram Dass, Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hanh

TV/Film heroes: Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Bruce Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Robin Williams, Mel Brooks, Jim Henson, George Carlin, Spike Lee, Jordan Peele, Coen Brothers, David Simon, Jackie Chan, Anthony Bourdain, Larry David, Viola Davis, Dev Patel,  Robert Eggers

Visual Arts heroes: Hieronymus Bosch, Frida Kahlo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy