I wrote a short list of men I admire on a social media site I frequent the other day, and got pulled up on my lack of Stephen Fry (who to be fair, I do admire, but ran out of space for), and subsequently decided to write more on this topic… The basic criteria is that the list is drawn from people in the public eye and that they are alive. There are plenty of dead men who I admire for their contributions to history, but whom I would likely not approve of if they were alive today (Sir Isaac Newton seems like he had a good streak in him, based on his invention of the cat flap, at least. I am uncertain about his actual character, though). I admire Lord Byron's poetry but, keeping a bear in his rooms and dying in the service of Greek independence aside, don't really approve of how he lived. I’m attempting to base this not so much on achievement, so much, but on character, and on attributes I admire. This isn’t to say that I don’t think women can be as kind, tenacious, charm...