Lenny Kravitz.
I’m gonna have to say Denis Leary is coolness personified.
My fiancee.
James Garner
Huh?
Someone should break the news to Lenny: It’s not 1967 and you’re not Jimi Hendrix.
Tony Bennett.
It’s a tie. Sting and Bono.
That is about as close as you can get to Lenny. Not quite though.
Bono rules second place. Sting close 3rd.
Jesus without a doubt.
Ooh, forgot about Bono. Something about those Irish guys…
Uhh, Bill, I think you missed the memo, but Jesus is dead. Y’know, the whole Last Supper/crucifix/died-for-our-sins thing?
Jesus is the coolest LIVING person? Interesting.
Well, maybe Jesus is both alive and dead at the same time… Y’know, like Scröedinger’s Cat. 
Ray Charles.
You rang?
::::ducking and running::::
Uh remember he rose from the dead. So that would make him not dead and still living would it not? And for him to do that(die for our sin and then rise from the grave) he is definetely pretty cool wouldn’t you say?
in order to see the single coolest individual you have to look in a mirror. all other individuals are relatively unimportant by comparison.
when i heard that lady di had crashed from this mortal plane the first thought that popped into my head was: “now i don’t have to hear about that broad anymore.” then a voice that sounded like my mother said: “that’s not nice.”
i mean really! you go to a news stand and there’d be 20 pictures of that woman, ALL THE SAME PICTURE. what did she do? married some dude with big ears. too many people need to get a life. maybe i should try. know where i could find one?
Dal Timgar
A polar bear.
Those critters can thrive at temperatures as low as 60 degrees below zero. If that doesn’t qualify as “cool,” I don’t know what does.
Wildest Bill technically I think that would make him undead… like a zombie or Dracula…
punk snot dead,
broccoli!
Actually, broccoli!, I think zombies and other undead are raised from the dead, whereas Jesus rose from the dead. He was active, they were passive; it’s so much cooler to be able to leave the grave of your own volition. I’m tempted to argue that Jesus is God, and so still doesn’t qualify … but he was fully human, too. :pushes can of worms away:
I’ll nominate the Pope. Oops. ::pushes can of worms farther away::
I’ll nominate Mary. She never actually died; she was ascended while alive. @#$! ::throws can of worms far, far away::
How about Paul McCartney? or Mel Gibson? or Tom Clancy?