What's cool? - Page 3

Paul Verhoeven
John Krasinski
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Steven Van Zandt (was it Little Steven that was nominated or Silvio Dante, btw?)
Catherine Keener
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Michael Mann
Banksy
Sealand
Ryan Reynolds
Diva
Cormac McCarthy
Norah Jones
Falafel
Jerry Bruckheimer
Peter Weir
Michael Chabon
Joe R. Lansdale
'Everything in its Right Place' by Radiohead
Alec Baldwin
Hellboy
Shepard Fairey
Bruce Campbell
Edgar Wright
Brian K. Vaughan
Kathryn Bigelow
Supernatural
Lost
Joe Casey
Bill Hicks
Henry Rollins
George Carlin
"My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)" by The Ramones
Tom Waits
Asian Cinema
Frank Miller
Guillermo del Toro
Johnny Cash
Leonard Cohen
Fucking an attractive person
Ron Perlman
Shane Black
Takashi Miike
Woody Allen
The Rock
Aaron Eckhart
Tom Waits
Robert Downey Jr.
Gore Verbinski
Werner Herzog
Judd Apatow
Joel you gotta be fucking kidding me Schumacher
Anna Faris
Charlie Murphy
Darren Aronofsky
Alfonso Cuaron
Gael Garcia Bernal
Christina Ricci
Kris Kristofferson
David Carradine
Michael Madsen
Samuel L. Jackson
John Frusciante
Beat Takeshi
Kraftwerk
The Bodum French Press
Christopher Walken
Stephen Colbert
Tadanobu Asano
William Shatner
Lawrence Block
Jon Stewart
Iggy Pop
Nellie McKay
The Venture Bros.
Al Swearengen
musashi miyamoto
The Electric Guitar
Divine
John Waters
James Ellroy
Sam Peckinpah
John Frankenheimer
Charles Bukowski
Slow motion
Baraka from Mortal Kombat 2
The Theremin
The Nike SB Dunk
Toshiro Mifune
Monica Belluci
The White Stripes
Martin Amis
Hunter Thompson
Richard Pryor
Steampunk
Having sex in the back of your first car
Ron Moore
Takashi Miike
Miles Davis
Berkley Breathed
The Loch Ness Monster
Prince
Peter O'Toole/"The Stunt Man"

Bjork
so bat shit crazy yet her music is just pure brilliance, Vespertine is all I need to say

Brad Bird
Iron Giant, Incredibles, Edna, shout outs to Frank and Ollie,

Definitely Paul Verhoeven... Robocop... and as if that wasn't enough, Total Recall, Starship Troopers...

Need I say more?

1. Adding the love Wee-Bey's givin- Nick Nunziata

2. Bob Dylan-Over seventy and still kicking ass.

3. The Gravity Gun from Half Life 2-One of the coolest weapons in video game history.

I nominate that sentence as cool.

Okay, I took a quick look at the list, and I hope im wrong in correcting these great omissions:

Kurt Russell (Plissken, MacReady, Burton...and lets not forget, hell rides with him)
Viggo Mortensen (Keep LOTR, add History of Violence and Alatriste)
Lee Marvin (Original bastard)
Klaus Kinski (One (if not The) craziest and yet most talented actor I can think off)
Chow Yun-fat (do i need to explain this one?)
Bud Spencer/Terence Hill (one of the best cinematic duos in history)
John Kennedy Toole (achieved a triumph over literature and idiocy posthumously...and with just one book)
The zombie survival guide/World War Z (read em...and be prepared)
Douglas Adams (Genius)
Terry Pratchett (witty enough to create the first fantasy saga with a condom factory)
Warren Ellis (Planetary and Fell alone earn him the right)
Alan Moore (from Swamp thing to V for Vendetta, watchmen to a classic treaty on pornography)

That's all.

William S. Burroughs. Need I said more?

Very nice.

I second pretty much all of those choices, especially Kurt Russell, Chow Yun Fat, and Spencer/Hill.

And I also second Feral's nomination of Burroughs.

Excellent choices guys.

Sleater-Kinney is cool. Not only the best female band ever, but one of the best bands of the 90s/00s period.

I got one for this list. Yeah the guy whose my avatar

Clive Owen

The man is class, he ruled as Dwight in Sin City. He was amazing in Children of Men and pretty damn good in Inside Man. And let's not forget his work in Croupier either. All of which outweighs Derailed. But this guy needs to be on the list.

Oh and put Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop

Sure he was an amalgamation of Lupin the III and various other Hong Kong flicks but he was one helluva a character. Not to mention in my view one of the best English dubbed anime characters ever.

"They say hunger is the best spice."

When's the Kill Draft for this list?

My addition: Paul Newman. He's Hud, Fast Eddie Felson, Butch Cassidy, and Cool Hand Luke. Does it get any cooler than Paul Newman? The Chewers salute you.

Did I go blind or Clint Eastwood isnt on the list?

Okay, if this is because of his latest films, can we at least agree on "Classic Clint"?

Other nominations:

Sergio Leone's film scores.
Willem Dafoe
David Lynch
Terry "filmaking hates me" Gilliam.
Things on fire
Most of the Fonda Family (be picky)
"Easy Rider"
"The monster squad"
Giant Robots
That 80´s movie you thought was awesome until you rented it 20 years later and saw the truth.
"They Live"
"Classic" Mel Gibson
Alcohol
"300" in every form, medium or media.
Solid Snake.
"Man on fire" (you were expecting a cliche here and there? its so good to be dissapointed)
Milo Manara
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Grant Morrison
Neil Gaiman
Jean "I look like I never sleep because Im stalking you" Reno
Alain Delon
Jean Paul Belmondo
Gerard Depardieu (When in French souless bastard mode ie "36 Quai Des Orfevres")
Tony Montana (bastardo numero uno!)...

And The steady leak...

Paul Verhoeven
John Krasinski
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Steven Van Zandt (was it Little Steven that was nominated or Silvio Dante, btw?)
Catherine Keener
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Michael Mann
Banksy
Sealand
Ryan Reynolds
Diva
Cormac McCarthy
Norah Jones
Falafel
Jerry Bruckheimer
Peter Weir
Michael Chabon
Joe R. Lansdale
'Everything in its Right Place' by Radiohead
Alec Baldwin
Hellboy
Shepard Fairey
Bruce Campbell
Edgar Wright
Brian K. Vaughan
Kathryn Bigelow
Supernatural
Lost
Joe Casey
Bill Hicks
Henry Rollins
George Carlin
"My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)" by The Ramones
Tom Waits
Asian Cinema
Frank Miller
Guillermo del Toro
Johnny Cash
Leonard Cohen
Fucking an attractive person
Ron Perlman
Shane Black
Takashi Miike
Woody Allen
The Rock
Aaron Eckhart
Tom Waits
Robert Downey Jr.
Gore Verbinski
Werner Herzog
Judd Apatow
Joel you gotta be fucking kidding me Schumacher
Anna Faris
Charlie Murphy
Darren Aronofsky
Alfonso Cuaron
Gael Garcia Bernal
Christina Ricci
Kris Kristofferson
David Carradine
Michael Madsen
Samuel L. Jackson
John Frusciante
Beat Takeshi
Kraftwerk
The Bodum French Press
Christopher Walken
Stephen Colbert
Tadanobu Asano
William Shatner
Lawrence Block
Jon Stewart
Iggy Pop
Nellie McKay
The Venture Bros.
Al Swearengen
musashi miyamoto
The Electric Guitar
Divine
John Waters
James Ellroy
Sam Peckinpah
John Frankenheimer
Charles Bukowski
Slow motion
Baraka from Mortal Kombat 2
The Theremin
The Nike SB Dunk
Toshiro Mifune
Monica Belluci
The White Stripes
Martin Amis
Hunter Thompson
Richard Pryor
Steampunk
Having sex in the back of your first car
Ron Moore
Takashi Miike
Miles Davis
Berkley Breathed
The Loch Ness Monster
Prince
Peter O'Toole/"The Stunt Man"
Bjork
Brad Bird
CHUD.com
Nick Nunziata
Bob Dylan
Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2
Kurt Russel
Viggo Mortensen
Lee Marvin
Klaus Kinski
Chow-Yun Fat
Bud Spencer/Terence Hill
John Kennedy Tool
The Zombie Survival Guide/World War Z
Douglas Adams
Terry Prachett
Warren Ellis
Alan Moore
William S. Burroughs
Sleater-Kinney
Clive Owen
Spike Spiegel
Paul Newman
"Classic" Clint
Willem Dafoe
David Lynch
Terry Gilliam
Things on fire
Most of the Fonda Family
Easy Rider
The Monster Squad
Giant Robots
They Live
"Classic" Mel Gibson
Alcohol
300
Solid Snake
Man on Fire
Milo Manara
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Grant Morrison
Neil Gaiman
Jean Reno
Alain Delon
Jean Paul Belmondo
Gerard Depardieu
Tony Montana

and let me add MF DOOM and Dolph Lundgren.

Seeing as alcohol is on this list, I'll have to nominate weed as well. Kindbuds in particular.

Edit: Mild SPOILERS for the 6th season of the Sopranos follow.

"Steven Van Zandt (was it Little Steven that was nominated or Silvio Dante, btw?)"

It was Silvio, who despite hanging out with exclusively with whores and sociopaths, is pretty damn unflappable, and a snazzy dresser to boot.

Okay, he did lose it a bit when they killed that fat guy from NY, but he had it coming. And his weapon of choice was a dustbuster, which is fucking awesome.

Anyway, I'd like to nominate Mos Def. The guy is just ridiculously talented, and I'm not even really into the poetry thing.

A knockout would be welcomed, as I sort of feel like an asshole for being the only one to object to the choices of others.

You shouldn't feel bad, as I always figure that's really the point of these lists. There's a lot of things on that list that just aren't cool.

Thing is, cool is subjective and a lot of people's "cool noms" (recent ad MF Doom, for example) would get thrown out just because some morons don't know who the hell they are.

Anyway, the list's so all-encompassing, and I have a feeling that with the CHUD crowd, we'd end up with a short list of cool actors and directors.

Yeah, I like the list as being all-encompassing rather than doing an elimination. It feels freer that way.

shit how did I forget

LEGO's

Pam Grier's titties

Emphatically seconded.

Salvador Dali - For fucking with my mind

Asia Argento - For making 'The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things' and being an Italian badass

Mindless Self Indulgence - For having my obnoxious tantrums for me

Allen Ginsberg - For having mystical visions and cosmic vibrations

Jimi Hendrix - For being the sun god of music

Marilyn Manson - For being a glorious freak

Chuck Palahniuk - For writing some of the most disturbing, funny and brilliant books I've ever read

HR Giger - For making doors that are giant vaginas you have to squeeze through to see his shows

He's about as cool as Gwen Stefani...

Will second MSI though.

And I'll add El-P, for giving us Def Jux records, for being an amazing producer and for being the only MC to use the term "Munsonned" in one of his songs.

Jim Henson - needs no explanation

Warren Beatty as George Roundy in Shampoo. Maybe not the most upstanding guy but those scenes of him riding his Triumph motorcycle in a brown leather jacket and sunglasses is undeniably cool.

Paul Verhoeven
John Krasinski
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Steven Van Zandt (both Silvio AND E-Street guitarist because he's the one who arranged the intro to '10th Avenue Freeze-Out')
Catherine Keener
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Michael Mann
Banksy
Sealand
Ryan Reynolds
Diva
Cormac McCarthy
Norah Jones
Falafel
Jerry Bruckheimer
Peter Weir
Michael Chabon
Joe R. Lansdale
'Everything in its Right Place' by Radiohead
Alec Baldwin
Hellboy
Shepard Fairey
Bruce Campbell
Edgar Wright
Brian K. Vaughan
Kathryn Bigelow
Supernatural
Lost
Joe Casey
Bill Hicks
Henry Rollins
George Carlin
"My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)" by The Ramones
Tom Waits
Asian Cinema
Frank Miller
Guillermo del Toro
Johnny Cash
Leonard Cohen
Fucking an attractive person
Ron Perlman
Shane Black
Takashi Miike
Woody Allen
The Rock
Aaron Eckhart
Tom Waits
Robert Downey Jr.
Gore Verbinski
Werner Herzog
Judd Apatow
Joel you gotta be fucking kidding me Schumacher
Anna Faris
Charlie Murphy
Darren Aronofsky
Alfonso Cuaron
Gael Garcia Bernal
Christina Ricci
Kris Kristofferson
David Carradine
Michael Madsen
Samuel L. Jackson
John Frusciante
Beat Takeshi
Kraftwerk
The Bodum French Press
Christopher Walken
Stephen Colbert
Tadanobu Asano
William Shatner
Lawrence Block
Jon Stewart
Iggy Pop
Nellie McKay
The Venture Bros.
Al Swearengen
musashi miyamoto
The Electric Guitar
Divine
John Waters
James Ellroy
Sam Peckinpah
John Frankenheimer
Charles Bukowski
Slow motion
Baraka from Mortal Kombat 2
The Theremin
The Nike SB Dunk
Toshiro Mifune
Monica Belluci
The White Stripes
Martin Amis
Hunter Thompson
Richard Pryor
Steampunk
Having sex in the back of your first car
Ron Moore
Takashi Miike
Miles Davis
Berkley Breathed
The Loch Ness Monster
Prince
Peter O'Toole/"The Stunt Man"
Bjork
Brad Bird
CHUD.com
Nick Nunziata
Bob Dylan
Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2
Kurt Russel
Viggo Mortensen
Lee Marvin
Klaus Kinski
Chow-Yun Fat
Bud Spencer/Terence Hill
John Kennedy Tool
The Zombie Survival Guide/World War Z
Douglas Adams
Terry Prachett
Warren Ellis
Alan Moore
William S. Burroughs
Sleater-Kinney
Clive Owen
Spike Spiegel
Paul Newman
"Classic" Clint
Willem Dafoe
David Lynch
Terry Gilliam
Things on fire
Most of the Fonda Family
Easy Rider
The Monster Squad
Giant Robots
They Live
"Classic" Mel Gibson
Alcohol
300
Solid Snake
Man on Fire
Milo Manara
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Grant Morrison
Neil Gaiman
Jean Reno
Alain Delon
Jean Paul Belmondo
Gerard Depardieu
Tony Montana
Dolph Lundgren
MF DOOM
Weed
Mos Def
LEGO's
Pam Grier's Titties
Salvador Dali
Asia Argento
Mindless Self Indulgence
Allen Ginsberg
Jimi Hendrix
Marilyn Manson
Chuck Palahniuk
HR Giger
El-P
Jim Henson
Warren Beatty as George Roundy in Shampoo
and now I must add...

John Carpenter - From "The Thing" (the unofficial official CHUD movie), to "Halloween" to "Escape From New York" to "Big Trouble in Little China" to "The Fog" to "Assault on Precinct 13", we owe him much. Very much.

David Cronenberg - How he hasn't been mentioned yet is anybody's guess, but the man's work speaks for itself and, as A History of Violence proves, he shows no signs of slowing down.

Ghostbusters - Venkman. Ray. Egon. Tully. Dana. You are on a first name (well, Venkman is a last name) basis with these characters. There is a reason.

Practical Special Effects & Make-Up - CGI can go fuck itself in the ass. We like our Brundleflies melty, the old-fashioned way

Dawn of the Dead (the original) is pretty fucking cool. Any movie that uses exploding heads and torn flesh to comment on the dangers of a consumer oriented society can't go wrong!

Neutral Milk Hotel - an awesome band....


Humphrey Bogart - There's no question that this guy is just fuckin' cool

Lance Henriksen - He was a sailor for most of his life and couldn't even read until he was in his 40's, but Lance Henriksen turned out to be one of the greatest B movie actors of all time. No matter how awful the movie is, if he's in it I'll see it.


Courtney Love - She feeds on your hatred

Adam Goldberg- The Hebrew Hammer and a hero to geeky looking gentlemen everywhere.

Paul Verhoeven
John Krasinski
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Steven Van Zandt (both Silvio AND E-Street guitarist because he's the one who arranged the intro to '10th Avenue Freeze-Out')
Catherine Keener
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Michael Mann
Banksy
Sealand
Ryan Reynolds
Diva
Cormac McCarthy
Norah Jones
Falafel
Jerry Bruckheimer
Peter Weir
Michael Chabon
Joe R. Lansdale
'Everything in its Right Place' by Radiohead
Alec Baldwin
Hellboy
Shepard Fairey
Bruce Campbell
Edgar Wright
Brian K. Vaughan
Kathryn Bigelow
Supernatural
Lost
Joe Casey
Bill Hicks
Henry Rollins
George Carlin
"My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)" by The Ramones
Tom Waits
Asian Cinema
Frank Miller
Guillermo del Toro
Johnny Cash
Leonard Cohen
Fucking an attractive person
Ron Perlman
Shane Black
Takashi Miike
Woody Allen
The Rock
Aaron Eckhart
Tom Waits
Robert Downey Jr.
Gore Verbinski
Werner Herzog
Judd Apatow
Joel you gotta be fucking kidding me Schumacher
Anna Faris
Charlie Murphy
Darren Aronofsky
Alfonso Cuaron
Gael Garcia Bernal
Christina Ricci
Kris Kristofferson
David Carradine
Michael Madsen
Samuel L. Jackson
John Frusciante
Beat Takeshi
Kraftwerk
The Bodum French Press
Christopher Walken
Stephen Colbert
Tadanobu Asano
William Shatner
Lawrence Block
Jon Stewart
Iggy Pop
Nellie McKay
The Venture Bros.
Al Swearengen
musashi miyamoto
The Electric Guitar
Divine
John Waters
James Ellroy
Sam Peckinpah
John Frankenheimer
Charles Bukowski
Slow motion
Baraka from Mortal Kombat 2
The Theremin
The Nike SB Dunk
Toshiro Mifune
Monica Belluci
The White Stripes
Martin Amis
Hunter Thompson
Richard Pryor
Steampunk
Having sex in the back of your first car
Ron Moore
Takashi Miike
Miles Davis
Berkley Breathed
The Loch Ness Monster
Prince
Peter O'Toole/"The Stunt Man"
Bjork
Brad Bird
CHUD.com
Nick Nunziata
Bob Dylan
Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2
Kurt Russel
Viggo Mortensen
Lee Marvin
Klaus Kinski
Chow-Yun Fat
Bud Spencer/Terence Hill
John Kennedy Tool
The Zombie Survival Guide/World War Z
Douglas Adams
Terry Prachett
Warren Ellis
Alan Moore
William S. Burroughs
Sleater-Kinney
Clive Owen
Spike Spiegel
Paul Newman
"Classic" Clint
Willem Dafoe
David Lynch
Terry Gilliam
Things on fire
Most of the Fonda Family
Easy Rider
The Monster Squad
Giant Robots
They Live
"Classic" Mel Gibson
Alcohol
300
Solid Snake
Man on Fire
Milo Manara
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Grant Morrison
Neil Gaiman
Jean Reno
Alain Delon
Jean Paul Belmondo
Gerard Depardieu
Tony Montana
Dolph Lundgren
MF DOOM
Weed
Mos Def
LEGO's
Pam Grier's Titties
Salvador Dali
Asia Argento
Mindless Self Indulgence
Allen Ginsberg
Jimi Hendrix
Marilyn Manson
Chuck Palahniuk
HR Giger
El-P
Jim Henson
Warren Beatty as George Roundy in Shampoo
John Carpenter
David Cronenberg
Ghost Busters
Practical Special FX and Make-up
Dawn of the Dead
Neutral Milk Hotel
Humphrey Bogart
Lance Henriksen
Courtney Love
Adam Goldberg

and I will add.....
Warren Zevon because I want to be a kick-ass Thompson Gunner.
Jon Favreau for making a super hero movie I am interested in.
My Dad for being the most liberal, forward thinking hillbilly I have ever met.

Paul Verhoeven
John Krasinski
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Steven Van Zandt (both Silvio AND E-Street guitarist because he's the one who arranged the intro to '10th Avenue Freeze-Out')
Catherine Keener
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Michael Mann
Banksy
Sealand
Ryan Reynolds
Diva
Cormac McCarthy
Norah Jones
Falafel
Jerry Bruckheimer
Peter Weir
Michael Chabon
Joe R. Lansdale
'Everything in its Right Place' by Radiohead
Alec Baldwin
Hellboy
Shepard Fairey
Bruce Campbell
Edgar Wright
Brian K. Vaughan
Kathryn Bigelow
Supernatural
Lost
Joe Casey
Bill Hicks
Henry Rollins
George Carlin
"My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)" by The Ramones
Tom Waits
Asian Cinema
Frank Miller
Guillermo del Toro
Johnny Cash
Leonard Cohen
Fucking an attractive person
Ron Perlman
Shane Black
Takashi Miike
Woody Allen
The Rock
Aaron Eckhart
Tom Waits
Robert Downey Jr.
Gore Verbinski
Werner Herzog
Judd Apatow
Joel you gotta be fucking kidding me Schumacher
Anna Faris
Charlie Murphy
Darren Aronofsky
Alfonso Cuaron
Gael Garcia Bernal
Christina Ricci
Kris Kristofferson
David Carradine
Michael Madsen
Samuel L. Jackson
John Frusciante
Beat Takeshi
Kraftwerk
The Bodum French Press
Christopher Walken
Stephen Colbert
Tadanobu Asano
William Shatner
Lawrence Block
Jon Stewart
Iggy Pop
Nellie McKay
The Venture Bros.
Al Swearengen
musashi miyamoto
The Electric Guitar
Divine
John Waters
James Ellroy
Sam Peckinpah
John Frankenheimer
Charles Bukowski
Slow motion
Baraka from Mortal Kombat 2
The Theremin
The Nike SB Dunk
Toshiro Mifune
Monica Belluci
The White Stripes
Martin Amis
Hunter Thompson
Richard Pryor
Steampunk
Having sex in the back of your first car
Ron Moore
Takashi Miike
Miles Davis
Berkley Breathed
The Loch Ness Monster
Prince
Peter O'Toole/"The Stunt Man"
Bjork
Brad Bird
CHUD.com
Nick Nunziata
Bob Dylan
Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2
Kurt Russel
Viggo Mortensen
Lee Marvin
Klaus Kinski
Chow-Yun Fat
Bud Spencer/Terence Hill
John Kennedy Tool
The Zombie Survival Guide/World War Z
Douglas Adams
Terry Prachett
Warren Ellis
Alan Moore
William S. Burroughs
Sleater-Kinney
Clive Owen
Spike Spiegel
Paul Newman
"Classic" Clint
Willem Dafoe
David Lynch
Terry Gilliam
Things on fire
Most of the Fonda Family
Easy Rider
The Monster Squad
Giant Robots
They Live
"Classic" Mel Gibson
Alcohol
300
Solid Snake
Man on Fire
Milo Manara
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Grant Morrison
Neil Gaiman
Jean Reno
Alain Delon
Jean Paul Belmondo
Gerard Depardieu
Tony Montana
Dolph Lundgren
MF DOOM
Weed
Mos Def
LEGO's
Pam Grier's Titties
Salvador Dali
Asia Argento
Mindless Self Indulgence
Allen Ginsberg
Jimi Hendrix
Marilyn Manson
Chuck Palahniuk
HR Giger
El-P
Jim Henson
Warren Beatty as George Roundy in Shampoo
John Carpenter
David Cronenberg
Ghost Busters
Practical Special FX and Make-up
Dawn of the Dead
Neutral Milk Hotel
Humphrey Bogart
Lance Henriksen
Courtney Love
Adam Goldberg
Warren Zevon
Jon Favreau
Dabaker's Dad

and...Donald Sutherland because he completely owned M*A*S*H

Many of the above, plus

Russ Meyer - for single handedly inventing the nudie cutie, and for being the most intelligent (if obsessed) man in soft porn.

Frank Henenlotter - for producing Basket Case, one of the most subversive horror films ever.

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace's masterpiece defies description.

Richard Feynman - for standing physics on its head.

Lowell George - for being the leader of the greatest rock band ever.

EDIT Add Abel Ferrara - for making Harvey Kietel masturbate on camera, among other things.

This look right here:

There's a severe lack of Steve McQueen in this thread.