Ayn Rand
Ayn Rands story has to be one of the most inspiring stories I have ever read. After growing up in communist Russia she aspired to move to the US in order to claim here freedom from oppression. She loved the New York landscape and awesome man made constructions where she would often contemplate the men behind such massive achievements. Her earlier stories were all about heroic men of great accomplishments and wrote one of here first movies called The Fountainhead about an heroic architect. This lead here to create here own philosophical system of thought called objectivism. In my view she was one of the most influential thinkers/philosophers of our time and she is a complete hero to me.