# Who was your childhood hero? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 20, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302 "2010-11-20T03:25:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/21 "2010-11-21T02:11:08Z")
Super Mario. …and my dad. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/22 "2010-11-21T02:19:55Z")
FDR, because as a child I aspired to be POTUS, and he was in a wheelchair, like me. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/23 "2010-11-21T02:41:16Z")
I have not outgrown my childhood hero, he’s the same hero I have today. A voice of reason, someone to emulate, to look up to. I’m talking about Bart Simpson, of course. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/24 "2010-11-21T08:20:36Z")
Frank Lloyd Wright. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/25 "2010-11-21T08:24:42Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Nadia Comanici (sp?): I was about 7 when this tiny, adorable girl blew everyone away at the ‘76 summer Olympics. I watched at my grandparents’ house, and spent the summer tumbling and flipping and dreaming that I could be Nadia. Of course, then I realized that, at 7, I was already too tall to be an Olympic gymnast… but I still love gymnastics. Hehe, same! Except that I was the smallest in whatever school I was in until I hit puberty, so I carried the dream a little longer. 😛 I also had some kind of mental crush on President Carter. I don’t think that one ever really faded 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/26 "2010-11-21T10:43:02Z")
Duncan Renaldo ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/27 "2010-11-22T05:08:39Z")
Madonna, and then a little bit later she shared the “childhood hero” title with Michael Jackson. It makes me sound like I grew up in the 80s but I was born in 1990. ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/28 "2010-11-22T12:43:14Z")
Isaac Asimov. I read everything I could find by him, fiction and non-fiction. I loved how in love with learning he was, how broad his interests and enthusiasms were. He died when I was in my early twenties and it was the first celebrity death that brought me to tears. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/29 "2010-11-22T12:52:41Z")
My father. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/30 "2010-11-22T13:55:51Z")
[Roger Ramjet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ramjet) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/31 "2010-11-22T16:22:00Z")
Jim Henson and Shel Silverstein. I know nothing about them, but their wonderful work lives on, making the lives of children so much richer for it. ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/32 "2010-11-22T16:25:43Z")
John Fitzgerald Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/33 "2010-11-22T16:26:57Z")
My grandad and Bart Starr. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/34 "2010-11-22T16:31:44Z")
Equal parts Neil Armstrong, and my father. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/35 "2010-11-22T17:16:17Z")
Carl Sagan. Although I think it was a bit more of a crush than hero worship. But he’s the closest I came to having a hero. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/36 "2010-11-22T17:27:00Z")
Batman ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/37 "2010-11-22T20:48:08Z")
Popeye the Sailor. 😛 I had a rich imagination. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/38 "2010-11-22T20:51:24Z")
Closest I had growing up was Marty Stouffer. I loved his documentaries. Can still hear the tagline to this day: “Enjoy … our … Wild … America.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/39 "2010-11-22T21:08:59Z")
My childhood hero wrote the first science fiction I ever read, taught me science, mathematics, psychology, history and philosophy. He taught me more about the Bible then all the preachers before and after him, and taught me the joy of the dirty limerick. I was lucky enough to meet him once when I was an adult and he was all that and more. ``` *In memory yet green, in joy still felt, The scenes of life rise sharply into view. We triumph; Life's disasters are undealt, And while all else is old, the world is new.* ``` -Isaac Asimov ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302/40 "2010-11-23T17:04:28Z")
Maury Wills, shortstop for the Dodgers in the 60’s. I’ve had the chance to meet him a few times, and he is a classy guy. It about killed me when he later had an ‘epic fail’ as a manager for the Mariners. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-childhood-hero/561302.md?page=3)