Hubba hubba…
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 I’ll never know who he was.
It’s probably the worst thing a Georgian man could possibly say, but I’ve always been kind of partial to Ulysess S Grant from the $50 bill. (All the younger pictures I’ve seen of him don’t do it for me). And of course, he was a drunk and an unforgiveable bastard who burned my homeland. But… dang.
I don’t know if he was historical or not, but I’d have run for the nearest bush with Robin Hood, ever since I was about six.
I’ve had a thing for the “Forever Amber” version of King Charles II as well.
That’s VERY funny! And it’s amusing enough that you could’ve pretended you did it on purpose. 
I really think that King Aleksandar of Yugoslavia really rocked the whole “Nerdy Chic” in his day. What can I say-I’m sucker for the intellectual.
I also think I was a Glenn Miller groupie in a past life.
Yeah, he’s a fox.
Well, according to Disney, anyway.
Ada Lovelace, world’s first computer nerd, daughter of Lord Byron, and all-round geekgirrl supreme. Yummo.
This may well qualify me for history geekhood, but I’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. Konigsburg’s A proud Taste for Scarlett and Miniver a few years later–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 10–intelligence and power acted as an aphrodisiac on me befoe I knew what an aphrodisiac was!
Catherine the Great looked pretty good, and sounds like she’d be fun, if you know what I mean. And I don’t believe the horse story.
Stephen Crane. I did a drawing of him when I was a teenager (I did a lot of drawings of “heartthrobs” back then). Crane was definitely a historical heartthrob.
I say that Nefertiti had a high hottiness index.
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.
Franz Liszt - The Elvis of the 19th Century
Well there’s always Beatrice, if it weren’t for that age thing…
I’d like me some Charles II, as well. Those eyes! That nose! And he looks so darned dissapated. Yum.
Also, I wouldn’t mind me some Edward I. Yes, I know he was the Hammer of the Scots. I know he kicked the Jews out of England. He was an asshole. I don’t care.
I’d also be more than happy to get me some Teddy Roosevelt, 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. Liked the poems and got a bit of a crush on the poet.
Yeah, but then he got fat and starting shooting out the screen of his Stereopticon.
You know that you’ll spend all those candle lit nights listening to her go on about Marx this, and capitalist pigs that… Within two weeks, it will be nothing but cold showers and earplugs for you.