# History's Hotties **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902 "2004-07-19T23:48:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/21 "2004-07-20T03:29:57Z")
> [@Shaolinrabbit](#): > > I have to totally give it up for high flying Russian hottie, [Natalya Meklin](http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/images/meklin_01_350.jpg). > > Decorated flyer, hero of the Soviet Union, and possessor of the most distracting placement of medals _ever_. šŸ˜ƒ Hubba hubbaā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/22 "2004-07-20T03:58:32Z")
My high school history textbook contained a portrait of an unidentified late 18th century or early 19th century gentleman in a neckcloth and wig. He had a narrow chin, pleasant mouth and large blue eyes. He looked to have been in his 20s when his portrait was painted. He was really, really hot and Iā€™ll never know who he was. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/23 "2004-07-20T05:09:48Z")
Itā€™s probably the worst thing a Georgian man could possibly say, but Iā€™ve always been kind of partial to Ulysess S Grant from the $50 bill. (All the younger pictures Iā€™ve seen of him donā€™t do it for me). And of course, he was a drunk and an unforgiveable bastard who burned my homeland. Butā€¦ dang. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/24 "2004-07-20T05:23:19Z")
I donā€™t know if he was historical or not, but Iā€™d have run for the nearest bush with Robin Hood, ever since I was about six. Iā€™ve had a thing for the ā€œForever Amberā€ version of King Charles II as well. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/25 "2004-07-20T05:34:34Z")
> [@AwSnappity](#): > > In 8th grade history class we watched _1776_. Because Iā€™m an idiot, I started to say that great line from _Wayneā€™s World_: ā€œIf Thomas Jefferson was a president, heā€™d be Babraham Lincoln.ā€ And then I realized Thomas Jefferson was indeed a president. Thatā€™s VERY funny! And itā€™s amusing enough that you couldā€™ve pretended you did it on purpose. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/26 "2004-07-20T05:47:07Z")
I really think that [King Aleksandar of Yugoslavia](http://www.royalfamily.org/album/portraits/port6.htm) really rocked the whole ā€œNerdy Chicā€ in his day. What can I say-Iā€™m sucker for the intellectual. I also think I was a Glenn Miller groupie in a past life. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/27 "2004-07-20T05:47:20Z")
> [@zoogirl](#): > > I donā€™t know if he was historical or not, but Iā€™d have run for the nearest bush with Robin Hood, ever since I was about six. Yeah, heā€™s a fox. Well, according to Disney, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/28 "2004-07-20T06:15:52Z")
[Ada Lovelace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace), worldā€™s first computer nerd, daughter of Lord Byron, and all-round geekgirrl supreme. Yummo. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/29 "2004-07-20T06:43:53Z")
This may well qualify me for history geekhood, but Iā€™ve always had a thing for King Henry the II of England, even if he did imprison Eleanor of Aquitaine for all those years (if I was a guy, my crush would most definately be for Eleanor). I read a simple biography of his life when I was about 10, and then E. L. Konigsburgā€™s _A proud Taste for Scarlett and Miniver_ a few years laterā€“by the time I saw _The Lion in Winter_, I was hooked. He reformed, nay created the English legal system, how could such a man not be a hottie! And yes, that is what made me fall in love with him when I was 10ā€“intelligence and power acted as an aphrodisiac on me befoe I knew what an aphrodisiac was! ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/30 "2004-07-20T07:12:30Z")
[Catherine](http://www.lacquerbox.com/TSEKV.HTM) the [Great](http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/catherine.html) looked pretty good, and sounds like sheā€™d be fun, if you know what I mean. And I donā€™t believe the [horse story](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_109). ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/31 "2004-07-20T07:51:29Z")
[Frances Cleveland](http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/Z/Zorn_Anders/large/Zorn_Mrs_Frances_Cleveland.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/32 "2004-07-20T10:08:31Z")
[Stephen Crane](http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/crane/). I did a drawing of him when I was a teenager (I did a lot of drawings of ā€œheartthrobsā€ back then). Crane was definitely a historical heartthrob. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/33 "2004-07-20T13:13:00Z")
I say that [Nefertiti](http://www.portalmundos.com/mundoegiptologia/fotos/nefertiti.jpg) had a high hottiness index. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/34 "2004-07-20T13:24:43Z")
[Eva Peron](http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/Social_Science/Latin_America/Evita%20Web/Evita.html) Born into utter poverty, became a second rate actress, then the leader of a nation before dying at 33. AND had a musical made of her life. And she was damn good looking. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/35 "2004-07-20T13:39:02Z")
[Franz Liszt](http://www.d-vista.com/OTHER/franzliszt2.html) - The Elvis of the 19th Century ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/36 "2004-07-20T13:52:21Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > [Petrarchā€™s Laura](http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/images/l2.jpg). What greater poetic torture could I suffer? ā€œā€¦it is unknown if they ever spoke, or if she ever knew of his feelings for her.ā€ Well thereā€™s always Beatrice, if it werenā€™t for that age thingā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/37 "2004-07-20T13:55:39Z")
Iā€™d like me some [Charles II](http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/pc/Charles_II.jpg), as well. Those eyes! That nose! And he looks so darned dissapated. Yum. Also, I wouldnā€™t mind me some [Edward I](http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairweather/docs/Eleanor.htm). Yes, I know he was the Hammer of the Scots. I know he kicked the Jews out of England. He was an asshole. I donā€™t care. Iā€™d also be more than happy to get me some [Teddy Roosevelt](http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tr26.html), if I had the chance. Finally, back when I was an impressionable teenager, I found a book of poems in a used book store by [Don Blanding.](http://www.don-blanding.com) Liked the poems and got a bit of a crush on the poet. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/38 "2004-07-20T13:56:57Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > [Franz Liszt](http://www.d-vista.com/OTHER/franzliszt2.html) - The Elvis of the 19th Century Yeah, but then he got fat and starting shooting out the screen of his Stereopticon. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/39 "2004-07-20T14:06:38Z")
> [@Shaolinrabbit](#): > > I have to totally give it up for high flying Russian hottie, [Natalya Meklin](http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/images/meklin_01_350.jpg). You know that youā€™ll spend all those candle lit nights listening to her go on about Marx this, and capitalist pigs thatā€¦ Within two weeks, it will be nothing but cold showers and earplugs for you. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historys-hotties/255902/40 "2004-07-20T14:12:56Z")
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