Wow, quite a few to choose from, I see on the Wiki list (including Crazy Horse, William Jennings Bryan, Gerald Ford, Fred Astaire, Gabrielle Union, Warren Buffett, Malcolm X, Henry Fonda, Harold Lloyd, Bob Kerrey and Johnny Carson, among others), but JFK fan that I am, I’ll go with Ted Sorensen, the President’s trusted aide and speechwriter.
YMF Ohioan?
My mom
YMF New Yorker?
My high school chum Dan. Among famous people, Theodore Roosevelt. Among living famous people, hmm… I’ll go with Robert De Niro.
YMF famous Californian?
Ted Willliams
Fav Alabaman
Bart Starr
YMF Irish person?
Bono
YMF Welsh person?
Rhod Gilbert. Funny as heck.
YMF English person?
Charles Dickens
YMF French person?
Charles deGaulle
Fav Belgian person
Henri Vieuxtemps
YMF German?
Probably Nietzsche, because of my favorite quote: “I did my children the favor of not having them.”
Fav Hungarian
Béla Bartók
YMF Russian
Sergei Rachmaninoff
YMF Italian
Cicero
YMF Spaniard
Inigo Montoya
YMF Austrian?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
YMF Dutch person?
Vincent, of course.
YMF painter who isn’t Vincent.
Grigorescu
Fav Alaskan
YMF Polish person?
Stan Musial. Since I said Ted Williams for Californian, Musial matched him in so many ways, on the field and off.
Fav 20th century Russian