Genuinely great human beings in our lifetime

[Brian Marwood]

Lance Armstrong has to be right up there, to be brave enough to travel to the moon is mind boggling.

 

[HarryVegas]

Apart from Hedy Lamarr. Hedy Lamarr was definitely great.

Hedley!!

 

[Marvanelli]

Every single firefighter who ran back into the twin towers to help save people on 9/11

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Apart from Hedy Lamarr. Hedy Lamarr was definitely great.

Who

 

[Chutney]

Who

If only there was a way to find out...

 

[HarryVegas]

Who

Actress and code cracker iirc.

 

[afcb_acklam]

Lance Armstrong has to be right up there, to be brave enough to travel to the moon is mind boggling.

a chimp did it, wots the big deal?

 

[pallyparker]

The patient stranger who helped my father-in-law (dementia) when he got on a train and was stranded, lost and confused.
In fact the multitude of unsung heroes who demonstrate the 'kindness of strangers' every day.

well said.

 

[muniz]

Boris Johnson

 

[1finny]

Genuinely
There is probably no such thing as a great human being. We all (incl me) have our hypocrisy and faults to deal with

We all have the capacity to do great things.
It is certainly worth a period of reflection. Most of us will have done a great thing in our lifetime - its a nice thing to remember.
Even better to build this into our lives going forward.

A song for our time perhaps……

be more kind frank turner - Google Search

 

[Boro_Interlinked]

Captain Sir Thomas Moore

 

[Maury_Povich]

Neil Armstrong.

A great cyclist who overcame the odds, and I'm not sure that he gained that much of an advantage when cheating. (Everyone else was at it, too.)

 

[RedcarRed]

Spiderman is a nice lad

 

[SmallTown]

Dolly Parton.

Thread over. We have a winner!

 

[RavsMilkman]

Brian Clough

 

[HarryVegas]

Clem Attlee

 

[SmogonOuseburn]

Mohammed Ali, closely followed by Cassius Clay.

 

[BaronSmoggie]

I picked the first page as its quite an interesting selection of people (excluding newyddion ). It shows how people consider greatness. When I read the title, I thought of greatness in terms of contributions to humanity and life, not as sports people or as musicians.

In my opinion and context of how I read the question, the ones in bold I consider great, the rest were just talented in their respective fields.
David Attenborough
Greta Thunberg
Albert Einstein

 

[Capybara]

I picked the first page as its quite an interesting selection of people (excluding newyddion ). It shows how people consider greatness. When I read the title, I thought of greatness in terms of contributions to humanity and life, not as sports people or as musicians.

In my opinon context of how I read the question, the ones in bold I consider great, the rest were just talented in their respective fields.
David Attenborough
Greta Thunberg
Albert Einstein

And you'd need to be 68 or older for the last one to be 'in our lifetime' as the subject line prescribes.

 

[BaronSmoggie]

And you'd need to be 68 or older for the last one to be 'in our lifetime' as the subject line prescribes.

There's a few of those on here.