What about role models for boys??? I have boys.

[kimi]

As we have a women role model thread going, who do you think is a good role model for boys.

Mr B, the local Year 1 teacher.

A.S. Neill, founder of Summerhill. Partly because he was so completely weird in every way.

And of course: John Peel.

Do what you love, boy.

Bear Gryls

Lance Armstrong

Doctor Who! My dts love him and his sonic screwdriver.

our local bobby is ACE
he's called Roly
i once called him Roly Mo to his face

DH

Johnny Depp (Well my DS loves him anyway - takes after his mum!

NOT footballers who spit!
Fed up of damp patches in Porpoise household

Ronald Reagan
Winston Churchhill
Martin Luther King
Robert Kennedy
Sir Patick Moore
David Attenborough
Michael Jordan ( A perfect Gentleman, always exhibits good sportsmanship)
Carl Sagan
Billy Graham

There are billions of male role models in diverse fields - the point of the female one is that they are all celebs.

Ronald Reagan????????????????????

[sophable faints]

I think there are very few celebs worth emulating male or female. I feel that Role models should be people who really make a diffrence in the world. There are very few celebs or sports personalitys who fit this.

A great Man

I forgot to put Stephen Hawking on my list

HTH was Reagan a great man...

actually don't answer that, if you think he was, it tells me all I need to know about both your politics and sense of morality....am staggered.

Ronald Reagan?
I hope as an actor...

the president's brain is missing

i think most role models are people children look up to in real life more than people they don't know

Albert Hirschman
Marcello Mastroianni
Amartya Sen
Lou Reed

I think you are right SEA

He brought a peaceful end to the Cold War for straters

Erm, I think Gorbachov had more to do with that

Primo Levi
Steven Pinker
Karl Marx
there's blummin millions

and the fact that the URSS could keep up with the arms race...

Paula, I agree with Robert Kennedy. Far more compassionate and courageous than his brother.

Way too many to list on this one.