Hall of Fame is the list of the Greatest persons of human kind. (list is cannot be orderd anyhow so this is NOT about coolest man in the world)
Modern
Dr. Jordan Peterson - is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, a clinical psychologist and the author of the multi-million copy bestseller 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, #1 for nonfiction in 2018 in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, the Netherlands, Brazil and Norway, and now slated for translation into 50 languages. His books changed my life, and helps to overcome my struggles.
Terence McKenna was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the “Timothy Leary of the ’90s”, “one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism”, and the “intellectual voice of rave culture”. He is also an author of TimeWave Zero theory about historical time compression and singularity of Novelty.
Jean Baudrillard - Best known for Simulacrum work. (You all know that)
Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions.
Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman leads the Free Software Movement, which shows how the usual non-free software subjects users to the unjust power of its developers, plus their spying and manipulation, and campaigns to replace it with free (freedom-respecting) software. He is author of Emacs editor, GPL licenses, and many other things you’re using on daily basis. Today he is advocating Free Software all over the world against privacy survilance on internet.
Terry Davis was an American programmer who created and designed the operating system TempleOS. Its development was a complex and unusual undertaking for one person. Davis also posted video blogs to social media, and by the time of his death, had established a small online following. He often referred to himself as “the smartest programmer that’s ever lived”. You have to take a look into TempleOS, this is absolutley state of the art programming creature, it writting with variation of C language, called HolyС. Operating system is fully worked on virtual machine and available with a source code which you can study not only for educational purposes, but as an art object too.
Andreas Antonopolous is one of the greatest cryptoprofessinal and advocate of all time, take a look on his videos and lections.
Jacque Fresco was an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Self-taught, he worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design. Fresco wrote and lectured his views on sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, cybernetic technology, automation, and the role of science in society. He directed the Venus Project and advocated global implementation of a socioeconomic system which he referred to as a “resource-based economy”.
Michael Tsarion is one of the greates modern esoteric explorer, hermetic philosopher and astrologist, Tarot researcher.
Satoshi Nakamoto he wrote Bitcoin White paper
Joe Rogan - is an American stand-up comedian, mixed martial arts color commentator, podcast host, and former actor and television host.
David Goggins is an American ultramarathon runner, ultra-distance cyclist, triathlete, motivational speaker and author. He is a retired United States Navy SEAL and former United States Air Force Tactical Air Control Party member who served in the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War. He is a former world record holder for the most pull-ups done in 24 hours. His self-help memoir, Can’t Hurt Me, was released in 2018.
Jacob Appelbaum is an American doctoral candidate in cryptography, independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker. He studies at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and was formerly a core member of the Tor project,[5] a free software network designed to provide online anonymity.
Santos Bonacci is an Astrologist and Hermetic philosopher.
John C. Lilly - Remember those Johnny Mnemonic dolphin ? Take a look at this man. He was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor. He was a member of a generation of counterculture scientists and thinkers that included Ram Dass, Werner Erhard and Timothy Leary, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home. He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists.
Classic
Socrates - Socrates (/ˈsɒkrətiːz/; Greek: Σωκράτης; c. 470–399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
Friedrich Nietzsche - was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. You need to read his work.
This list is endless, keep up to the updates ;-)