A Stranger helped a young girl who was lost in the city.Alan Beavan will be remembered for his bravery on Sept. 11, 2001Albert Schweitzer had a 'reverence for life.'Ben Carson is the chief of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
Bernard Kouchner is the co-founder of Doctors without BordersChiune and Yukiko Sugihara believed in freedom and saved many Jews during WWII.Claire Lalanne founded the Center for Nutritional Recovery...Dr. David Applebaum was a selfless emergency room doctor in Jerusalem
Dr. J. Larry Brown directs the national Center on Hunger and Poverty.Dr. Mark Jacobson 
works with AIDS patients in Tanzania.
Dr. Van Halbach  the Lone Ranger, is a specialist in neurosurgery.Dr.Ginger Holt saved Drew's leg when he was in the hospital.
Edith Cavell was a nurse who risked her own safety to help others during WWIEvelyn H. Lauder founded the Breast Cancer Research FoundationFirefighters in New York City are the heroes of the day.Florence Ngobeni urges African leaders to work for AIDS prevention.
Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing.Fridtjof Nansen  was a daring explorer, a freedom fighter, and a selfless humanitarian. George Latham saved a girl from a burning car.Giorgio Perlasca saved the lives of thousands of Jews during WWII
Harriet Tubman organized the Underground Railroad.Helene Gayle is one of the leading authorities on AIDS research.Hermine Santrouschitz (Miep Gies) , for two years, kept Anne Frank and her family safely hidden from the Nazis.Jody Williams began a campaign to ban landmines.
Judith Blair donated one of her kidneys to a man in desperate need.Kurt Klein brought, among others, his future wife, Gerda, and Oskar Schindler, to safety.Lillie Hitchcock-Coit was a turn of the century firefighting hero.Maximilian Kolbe was a Catholic Saint known for his great humanity during WWII.
Michael Kelley beat all the odds as a paratrooper and police officer.Mikey Ray Frasier is a lifesaver three times over.Olara Otunnu is helping children in war-torn nations.Paul Farmer is a medical anthropologist and physician who has dedicated his life to treating people in the poorest nations in the world
Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust.RAWA promote women's rights through non-violent actionRudolph Giuliani , New York Mayor, was a compassionate leader following the World Trade Center attack.RYAN HRELJAC helps build wells for clean water in Africa
   
Tommie Hamaluba 
works with his
students to help eradicate malaria.
   
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