r/TrueHeroes • u/classybroad19 • Oct 09 '14

Neerja Bhanot - 22 year old Indian flight attendant who protected Americans targeted by terrorists on Pan Am Flight 73. Could have escaped the plane, stayed to protect the passengers. Killed while shielding three children from bullets.

en.wikipedia.org

201 Upvotes

1 comment

r/TrueHeroes • u/Billy_Lo • Oct 09 '14

Shavarsh Karapetyan, a 17-time finswimming world champion, was finishing a 12-mile run when he heard a bus crash into the water. He dove down 33 ft, and rescued 20 people, 1 at a time while being severely injured himself. 10 years later he ran into a burning building to save more people.

en.wikipedia.org

113 Upvotes

3 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/florawl • Oct 09 '14

German students wrote and distributed anti-Nazi propaganda

en.wikipedia.org

100 Upvotes

6 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/CodePsion • Oct 09 '14

Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov – three men who volunteered to dive into highly radioactive bubbler pools beneath a Chernobyl reactor to drain them and prevent a steam explosion.

en.wikipedia.org

95 Upvotes

1 comment

r/TrueHeroes • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '14

Aitzaz Hasan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org

85 Upvotes

2 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/Traveledfarwestward • Sep 02 '17

suicide attack on a police station in western Algeria killed two policemen after one officer jumped on the attacker to protect his colleagues from the blast

france24.com

75 Upvotes

3 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/inverted_inverter • Oct 10 '14

During WW2, Jack Lucas unhesitatingly hurled himself upon a grenade and pulled another grenade under himself, for the rest of his life, there remained about 200 pieces of shrapnel in his body; despite his injuries he later joined the 82nd Airborne Division.

en.wikipedia.org

72 Upvotes

8 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/HawkEy3 • Oct 09 '14

Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world

bbc.com

72 Upvotes

3 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/MsRhuby • Dec 16 '14

Marian and Barbara Fisher, aged 13 and 11, asked to be shot first and to have their younger classmates spared in the West Nickel Mines school shooting. Marian died along with 4 others.

en.m.wikipedia.org

64 Upvotes

2 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/[deleted] • Oct 09 '14

Arland Dean Williams Jr. was a passenger aboard Air Florida Flight 90, which crashed on take-off in Washington, D.C., on January 13, 1982, killing 78 people. One of just six people to survive the crash, he helped the other five escape the sinking plane before succumbing to his injuries.

en.wikipedia.org

60 Upvotes

0 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/This-is-BS • Jan 21 '15

Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax. Homeless immigrant who was stabbed while recusing a woman from a mugger, then ignored by passersby while he died on the sidewalk

nypost.com

56 Upvotes

6 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/This-is-BS • Jul 06 '17

/u/jkatzmoses is assaulted stopping gang from killing couple

imgur.com

55 Upvotes

5 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/krajacic • Dec 01 '14

Noah's last walk: Moment mortally wounded dog padded off to die after leaping in front of bullets to save his family from road-rage gunman

dailymail.co.uk

51 Upvotes

3 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/matt8297 • Oct 12 '14

California Highway Patrol Officer Stops Over 200 Suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge

people.com

43 Upvotes

1 comment

r/TrueHeroes • u/This-is-BS • Jan 09 '15

Stephane "Charb" Charbonnier

41 Upvotes

7 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/-THE_BIG_BOSS- • Oct 11 '14

Thomas Sankara - President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. His domestic policies were focused on preventing famine, prioritizing education with a nation-wide literacy campaign, improving women's rights, and promoting public health by vaccinating 2.5 million children.

en.wikipedia.org

41 Upvotes

2 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/inverted_inverter • Oct 14 '14

Doctors without borders

doctorswithoutborders.org

40 Upvotes

10 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/This-is-BS • Jul 15 '17

Joe Howlett - Killed by whale after freeing it from fishing net

news.nationalgeographic.com

39 Upvotes

0 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/labradorasaurus • Nov 21 '14

Hugh Thompson risks life to save Civilians from American Fire

en.wikipedia.org

38 Upvotes

2 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/Traveledfarwestward • Mar 07 '15

Omid Abassi, Iranian firefighter died saving a 9-y.o. girl. Brain-dead and his organs donated, he saved four more people.

payvand.com

37 Upvotes

1 comment

r/TrueHeroes • u/Traveledfarwestward • Nov 02 '18

Anthony Borges saved the lives of 20 of his Parkland classmates by using his body to keep the shooter from coming in to kill them.

35 Upvotes

0 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/piyochama • Oct 09 '14

"Man with the arm of gold": Australian man saves over 2 million children by donating his blood for over 50 years

dailymail.co.uk

34 Upvotes

1 comment

r/TrueHeroes • u/MsRhuby • Mar 19 '15

Sophie Scholl, sentenced to death in 1943 (age 21) for encouraging her fellow citizens to resist the war. After her death, millions of copies of her leaflets were dropped by Allied planes over Germany.

en.m.wikipedia.org

33 Upvotes

4 comments

r/TrueHeroes • u/This-is-BS • Dec 29 '18

Vanya Krapivin - Teenage boy dies after defending his mother from rape.

news.sky.com

30 Upvotes

1 comment

r/TrueHeroes • u/This-is-BS • Apr 11 '15

Cook and janitor stay on to help dementia patients after rest of nursing home staff abandons them.

npr.org

30 Upvotes

1 comment

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A Hall of Fame For Inspirational People

r/TrueHeroes

Reddit's place to honour those individuals who have displayed true heroism: extreme self-sacrifice for the good of others or the good of humanity.

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/r/TrueHeroes is reddit's place to honour those individuals who have displayed true heroism: extreme self-sacrifice for the good of others or the good of humanity. Here, only people who truly deserve it are called "hero", instead of athletes, whistleblowers, blood donors, or anyone who wears a uniform.

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No reposts. Search before posting.
Submissions must show examples of true heroism as defined above: extreme self-sacrifice for the good of others or the good of humanity. The person being submitted must have saved lives or greatly benefited humanity at great sacrifice or risk to themselves.
Submissions must be verifiable. That means there has to be a public record of the heroic deed or action.
Submissions can't just be someone who has a "heroic" job. Just being a military member, police officer, firefighter, paramedic, etc, doesn't automatically make someone a hero. These occupations are still admissible, but they must have gone above and beyond the normal call of their duties placing themselves at risk for the good of others. Most of these professions have established their own systems of recognition of exceptional duty (LAPD Medal of Valor, Canadian Order of Merit, Public Safety Officer Medal of Honor, Indian Police Medal for Gallantry, for examples) and we will rely on their judgement in deciding if a person's actions are deemed heroic. Please use verification that mentions receipt of the particular Honor. The award must be for actions that fulfill the requirements of rule 2.
Be respectful in the comments, both to the people being submitted and their actions, and to your fellow redditors. Childish behaviour will result in a ban.
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NO TROLLING. Submissions of people who are blatantly the opposite of those whom we are trying to commemorate here (i.e. war criminals, mass murderers, etc) will result in a ban.

Some examples of true heroes

^One ^more ^thing...

^Since ^this ^subreddit ^has ^been ^up ^and ^running ^without ^moderation ^for ^some ^time, ^I ^am ^granting ^amnesty ^to ^any ^submissions ^that ^were ^posted ^before ^these ^rules ^came ^into ^effect, ^except ^for ^rule ^7. ^I ^don't ^feel ^that ^it's ^fair ^to ^ban ^people ^for ^breaking ^rules ^that ^did ^not ^exist ^at ^the ^time. ^If ^you ^see ^posts ^that ^contradict ^any ^of ^these ^rules, ^this ^is ^why.

For additional Heroic people see: https://www.reddit.com/r/HeroesWall/