Book of Fame

Book of Fame wants to travel in many countries and meet with many different people with different views and values. You are invited to add to it a person - living, dead or fictional - who, in your opinion, deserves a place in this travelling Hall of Fame.

Please attach a picture of the person or character to the Book of Fame and a short explanation why this particular person deserves a place there. Photographs or descriptions of new additions on the TB Home Page will be greatly appreciated.

To the owners' knowledge, at least the following persons or characters have their names in the Book of Fame:

• Snufkin, a brave and independent vagabond
• Moominmamma, a bighearted Mother of unloved and invisible
• Tarja Halonen, a courageous and intelligent woman with great integrity and capacity of standing up for marginalised, a president
• Timo Väänänen, a talanted musician, player of the traditional Finnish folk instrument kantele
• Astrid Lindgren, a Swedish writer, creator of many wonderful characters equally loved by the young and the old
• Sir Peter Ustinov, a wonderful actor, director, painter and writer, a world citizen
• Nelson Mandela, a great man of peace and reconciliation, a winner of Nobel-Prize for Peace
• Siddharta Gautama (Buddha)
• Mohammed, the Prophet
• Donald Duck, man-in-the-street
• Harald Schmidt, a German late night TV talker
• Willy Wacker, cartoon character
• Calvin & Hobbes, cartoon
• Sandmännchen, puppet
• Pope John Paul II
• Homer Simpson, cartoon character
• Love is..., cartoon
• Tom Hanks, actor
• Albert Einstein, scientist
• Dave Ulmer, the first person to hide a geocache, May 3, 2000, the inventor of geocaching
• Mark Twain, writer
• Sam Gamgi, hobbit
• Alexander von Humboldt, a great scientific traveller, one of the founders of modern geography
• Steve Irwin, television personality and environmentalist
• John Lennon, singer
• Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the civil rights movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• James Stewart, actor
• The War Hero
• Cleopatra, queen
• Petar II Petrovic-Njegoš, a Serbian Orthodox Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, a ruler and a poet
• Stan Laurel (and Oliver Hardy?), actors
• Heinrich von Kleist, a famous German author
• Simplicissimus Teutsch, a character created by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
• Gary Snyder, an American poet and writer
• Samuel Barber, an American composer
• Rincewind, a fictional character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels
• The Fair Maid, a character in a book by Sir Walter Scott
• The Highland Mary, alias Mary Campbell, born near Dunoon Scotland, the love of Poet Robert Burns
• Lance Armstrong, a seven time Tour de France winner, Olympian and cancer survivor who started a cancer foundation called Livestrong
• David Page, a father, a family pillar, a strong man
• 1701eh, a geocacher who lost his life in a car accident on his way back from a geocaching event
• Jesus Christ
• Phineas and Ferb because they show kids how to do stuff during summer
• Captain Robert (Bob) Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal, for their knowledge, skill and bravery in landing the "Gimli Glider" with no loss of life or major injuries
• The people who created the National Parks system and the Rangers who care for them
• Rose Palladino, a wonderful friend and faithful sister in Christ
• Chuck Yeager, pilot, first to break the sound barrier