# Who is the hottest guy who ever lived? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155 "2001-12-06T02:34:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/1 "2001-12-06T02:34:42Z")
I mean who is the absolute hottest guy ever? The one that makes your knees shake, etc. For me it’s gotta be [Michael Pitt](http://www.hedwiginabox.com/movie/tommy_mic.jpg). You can bet I’ll be running out to buy _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_ on DVD for all the shots of him in eye makeup and vinyl. On that note, Glam Rock Boyz in general do it for me. That means I love the likes of [Robert Smith](http://www.lostwishes.com/cure/robert_letsbeads.jpg), [Rozz Williams](http://www.deathrock.com/1334/pics.html) (That’s a flash, click to see more pictures instantly) and yes, even [Marilyn Manson](http://manson.origin-x.com/images/omega/15l.jpg) on his [better days](http://manson.origin-x.com/images/mercury/10l.jpg). Go ahead and post yours, pictures preferred but not required. Mmmmm, Robert-Mikey-Rozz-Marilyn salad. Flamingly Yours, LC ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/2 "2001-12-06T02:36:27Z")
Me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/3 "2001-12-06T02:48:45Z")
Ahhh…George Clooney, hands down. I see him and my mind goes blank, my heart starts beating triple-time, and I have trouble breathing. I can’t imagine anyone ever looking, acting or being sexier then him. My god. Oded Fehr is a close second. I watch UC Undercover every week. I have no concept of what the show is even about; all I know is Oded runs around very sexily, looking incredibly do-able. Rowrrr. These men should be my love slaves. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/4 "2001-12-06T02:55:16Z")
IMHO, the same two guys as **Nacho4Sara** , but I’ll reverse the order. Oded first, George a close second. Yummy! UC Undercover is getting better, the first few shows I didn’t understand at all. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/5 "2001-12-06T02:59:30Z")
Sting. No competition. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/6 "2001-12-06T03:03:29Z")
Benjiman Bratt! ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/7 "2001-12-06T03:10:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > \*\*Me. 😃 \*\* Must…resist…urge…to make REALLY smart-ass comment. ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/8 "2001-12-06T03:10:40Z")
My [http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/629510](http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/629510) Minky is the most handsomest boy in the world. But of course I’m jaded. 🙂 Honorable Mention would go to Darren Hayes formerly of Savage Garden and Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys. They’re uber babes.🙂 _fixed link_ [Edited by DrMatrix on 12-06-2001 at 11:57 PM] ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/9 "2001-12-06T03:11:56Z")
_sigh_ umm, can someone please fix that link? I’m a dope. ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/10 "2001-12-06T03:16:28Z")
Val Kilmer makes me pant. Mmmm. His lips just drive me nuts. However, I’ll second both Sting and George Clooney, too. Plus I have a rapidly growing affinity for Hugh Jackman. Tough, sexy, AND sweet, and the fact that he didn’t piss off this long-time X-Men fan with his portrayal of Wolverine wins him many, many points. And he can sing! ::swoon:: ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/11 "2001-12-06T03:22:26Z")
Oded and Andrian Paul. I can’t pick just one. ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/12 "2001-12-06T03:29:03Z")
Actually, let me add one. If we’re going to go _ever_ I will give it to [John Donne](http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne). He was a Renaissance-era poet and later a minister (“Death, be not proud” and “for whom the bell tolls” are both from religious writings of Donne’s). He wrote some of the sexiest poetry _ever_ before he became clergy, and even a little bit afterwards. Witness [Batter my heart, three-personed God](http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/sonnet14.htm) where he calls upon God to rape him. :eek: The two sexiest lines of English poetry _ever_ are from his [Elegy XX: To His Mistris Going to Bed](http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/elegy20.htm). This is basically a description of a striptease. 😃 _License my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below._ Doesn’t that just make you squirm? He also has a poem entitled [The Flea](http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/flea.htm) where he used the then-common notion that the blood of lovers intermingled during sex to concoct a great little scene. Some poor sumbitch has unsuccessfully tried to seduce a woman and hasn’t quite been succeeding, until he sees that a flea had just bitten her before jumping on to his arm and biting him too. So, since their blood is already mingling in the flea, what damage is left to be done through lovemaking? 😃 Hey, it would’ve worked on me. The man was bloody brilliant. I get instantly horny whenever a guy reads Elegy XVI to me. Now _that’s_ hot. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/13 "2001-12-06T04:16:27Z")
cary grant. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/14 "2001-12-06T04:16:30Z")
Paul Newman. He’s gorgeous, talented, and monogamous. fictional character: Hawkeye (thanks to James Fenimore Cooper) ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/15 "2001-12-06T05:08:37Z")
James Dean, no question, end of story. Paul Newman as a fairly close second. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/16 "2001-12-06T05:42:07Z")
John Cusack and Ben Chaplin. Mmmm. Also young George Harrison and Bono. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/17 "2001-12-06T05:51:57Z")
Who EVER lived? Genghis Khan. Just try to prove me wrong. ---
**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/18 "2001-12-06T06:17:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by saffostarr \* > \*\*Actually, let me add one. If we’re going to go _ever_ I will give it to [John Donne](http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne). He was a Renaissance-era poet and later a minister (“Death, be not proud” and “for whom the bell tolls” are both from religious writings of Donne’s). He wrote some of the sexiest poetry _ever_ before he became clergy, and even a little bit afterwards. Witness [Batter my heart, three-personed God](http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/sonnet14.htm) where he calls upon God to rape him. :eek: > > The two sexiest lines of English poetry _ever_ are from his [Elegy XX: To His Mistris Going to Bed](http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/elegy20.htm). This is basically a description of a striptease. 😃 > > _License my roving hands, and let them go > Before, behind, between, above, below._ > > Doesn’t that just make you squirm? > Now _that’s_ hot. \*\* Great links! I was going to suggest another poet of that era known for his erotic verse…but after looking at his picture - well -at least he could write. [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/](http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/) ---
**Author:** ![dragongirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/19 "2001-12-06T10:48:03Z")
Sebastian Bach, from the '80s band Skid Row. Hugh Jackman is easy on the eyes too. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155/20 "2001-12-06T11:19:29Z")
I’ve said this before: [Paul Newman](http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Newman/newman.htm) in his 30s and 40s was the pinnacle of male evolution. Jess [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-hottest-guy-who-ever-lived/97155.md?page=2)