Who's a really really awesome person?

Yourself.

Lech Walesa… check out his wiki to see what you think…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa

Chuck Palahniuk…his writing is awesome and his life story is pretty crazy too.

well toomuchcoffe, as much as I would love to write a paper about myself I have to find an actual biography to read :( so unless you feel like writing one about yours truly, not gunna happen.

Why, I am, of course!!

Seriously, what are your interests/hobbies. Pick someone who has contributed something to those fields.

Nicolai Tesla
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Julius Caesar
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
Che Guevara

edit:
Marie Antoinette
Joan of Arc

I have no idea why these kinds of things are so hard for me. I always seem to be stumped by simple questions like what are your interests/hobbies, then I get stuck in my own head and forget the purpose of my thought process… Hell that’s the reason why I asked fluther for a person.

Benjamin Franklin
Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo Galilei

All amazing and well rounded, with plenty written about them.

@funkdaddy all men? :-)

All three? Couldn’t it just as easily be “all pre-1900’s”, “All inventors”, “All white”... you can find bias wherever you want, but a list of three historical figures I find interesting doesn’t have an agenda…

Albert Einstein

The person who gave you life…
-your mom (no pun intended)

Well, if you want to do something kind of wacky and definitely interesting, there’s always Wesley Willis

I love reading biographies! Here’s a few of my favorites (and these are all fun, easy reads):

Walt Disney
Jim Henson
Moss Hart (he was a playwright on Broadway in the 30’s and 40’s)

And a few that I own but haven’t read yet:

Dr. Seuss
Damon Runyon (he wrote the stories that Guys and Dolls is based on)

I’m also in the middle of Andrew Carnegie, which is an excellent biography, but it’s very dense – not at all what you want for a book report…

Hope this helps!

Go to the library and browse the biography sections. Everybody has a story. Here’s a list with a bit of range to it:

Albert Schweitzer
Gladys Aylward
Thomas Edison
Marian Anderson
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Henry Ford
Genghis Khan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John D. Rockefeller
Elizabeth I
Bob Dylan
Albert Luthuli
Pablo Picasso
Lucrezia Borgia
Amedeo Modigliani
Florence Nightingale
Marie Antoinette

Danny Bonaduce?

Dr. Seuss is actually a brilliant recommendation. He’s really cool to read/study about.

Bill Clinton

I don’t think you’ll have trouble finding interesting articles about him.

I Googled “great people” and got this.

Obama.

The life of Charro and hubby Xavier Cougat. I’ve often wished someone would write a musical about them.

Lance Armstrong
Bulat Okudzhava
Susie Bright

come on, peeps, who can make a more eclectic list than that?

Some folks I have found to be interesting or inspiring include:

Phyllis Wheatley
Benjamin Franklin
Aldo Leopold
Joyce Kilmer
Helen Keller
Isaac Asimov
Scott Hamilton
John Nash
Charles Darwin
Sir Isaac Newton
Josephine Baker
Zora Neale Hurston

Ann Frank

Kevin Hardy

Jimmy Carter

Einshtain and the knew girl witch jump at me and she does not say anything that is just fun.

@pathfinder – A translation, please?

@adreamofautumn That reminds me, there’s also Dr. Seuss Goes to War – it’s sort of a partial-biography about Dr. Seuss’ political cartoons during WWII – it’s an amazing book!

Darwin::here is an translation only for you=first league are those girls.I am the wizard for those girl.Haw is that?I allways can make them happy by my way.OK

@Darwin – Must have something to do with a Frizzer and likely best not to ask.

I think the Dalai Lama is a neat person. He’s lived an interesting life. Also, John Lennon would always be at the top of my list.

@forestGeek – I see that now.

to me i think everyone is in their own little way!

Eleanor Roosevelt
Ida B. Wells
Sojourner Truth
Fannie Lou Hamer
Sacajawea
Helen Keller (boy, if the general public really knew about the later life of ol’ Helen, oh, boy!)

and because she’s just cool: Rita Moreno

Chuck Close, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Theodore Rooseveldt

@Grim, whom did you pick?

Dr. Seuss

@Grim – I guess you know what ”Quick, Henry – The Flit!” means now. ;) Good luck on your report!

Great choice! Good luck with your paper.

oh yeah, thank you to everybody who suggested somebody, I really appreciate it :)

Paul Newman.. RIP