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David Attenborough

The man's spent SEVENTY YEARS educating people about the world in which they live. He's been a relentless campaigner for environmental reform for literally decades. He has almost certainly done more to bring global empathy to the British than anyone else, and yet he's still remarkably humble.

Today is his 100th birthday, and he's still doing the thing he's been doing almost since he joined the BBC back in 1952. He's never sold out, never changed his tune, never aligned himself in any way that won't go some way towards helping to educate people.

And that's exceptionally rare.

Weird Al Yancovic, great musician always nice to fans and seems like a great dude in general

Greta Thunberg

Danny DeVito and his ex-wife Rhea Perlman.

While filming Matilda (1996), he and Rhea Perlman basically took in their 8-year-old co-star, Mara Wilson, after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer early into production. Sadly, her mom died before the movie was released, but Danny visited her in the hospital to screen a near-complete cut of the film. According to Mara, Danny and Rhea are delightful people that bent over backwards to help her family. And that's just one of many stories of their kindness.

Keanu Reeves. From all accounts, he is a great guy who helps anyone he can.

Dolly Parton is amazing, both talented and principled :-)

If I wanted to be pedantic, I'd point out that no one truly deserves anything. (good or bad)

But casually speaking, I agree with the Reeves, Devito, & Perlman mentions in other posts. I'd also add Dolly Parton, Don Cheadle, & John Oliver.

They seem like genuinely sweet and well intentioned people.

Not in the "entertainment" domain, but Malala Yousafzai's my core one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai https://www.ted.com/talks/malala_yousafzai_what_i_got_wrong_about_changing_the_world

Angela Davis, for her spectacular guts in writing "Race, Gender, & Class", or whatever that book is called. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

Robin Williams always insisted on movies he was in hiring homeless people, & he corresponded with fans who were being crushed by depression, carrying their lettres when he was in their area.. https://www.ted.com/talks/samantha_cohen_robin_williams_and_the_struggles_inside_us She never mentions the KEY point with many comedians: it is when one knows darkness sooo profoundly, that fighting it off of other's-lives is a fundamental-NEED, that one gets like the more intense comedians, like Williams. It is because of being embedded in darkness that one fights to-the-death for light's life in others' lives.

There are a number of people who've done TED Talks who deserve all their fame, if not more..

& Rupert Sheldrake, for calling-out the scam Scientism is, AND for calling-out the scam that TED is, too. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rupert+sheldrake+anniversary is the guy, but the exact video, the 10th anniversary ( or something like that ) of his TED Talk being banned, seems to have been disappeared.

( other TED Talks they've banned include Russell Targ's one on remote-viewing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KB9Z6BcvZg , & Targ's a physicist, not a woo-pusher, & yes, for anybody who'd dug into that stuff, the CIA actually had employed Ingo Swann, the remote-viewer, possibly the best ever, & Joe McMoneagle was also one in that line of work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-8puX-83o4 ..

.. & whats-his-name, the guy who does archaeology talks, but changes how aligned with UFOs he is, depending on the audience, from what I've read.. Graham Hancock: his banned TED talk was on how Ayahuasca kicked his ass, because he had been indulging in dope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w should be the same one I saw years-ago. )

I'm seconding the Tom Waits vote, the Greta Thunberg vote, & the Keanu Reeves vote.

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Tom Waits.

Perhaps a less well-known name but he's been around forever in both film and music. He has famously never allowed any of his music to be used for marketing, ever. He also successfully sued a company that couldn't license his music and instead produced a sound-alike artist mimicking one of his songs for a commercial. He seems generally good natured, and he has spent an intense amount of energy making sure his family's privacy is respected. He's even been arrested for fighting plainclothes cops who were harassing someone, and he sued the city of LA in civil court for false arrest and won.

Sure, his persona is more persona than reality, but it's a persona that has served him well as an outsider that reveled in being an outsider. He speaks for us dregs of society who spend all night drinking coffee in all night diners, writing poetry and smoking cigarettes. The godfather of alternative rock, who holds a place for many in the younger generations that was held by Bob Dylan for the elder generations.

John Cena - I'm not even a wrestling fan but just the fact that he's done so many Make A Wish visits with sick kids is impressive.

Jeffrey Epstein truly deserves every bit of infamy attributed to his name (if not more).

Rodney Mullen. One of the greatest athletes of all time, and just a genuinely wonderful person.

Markiplier.

YouTube is a cesspool of sludge, but Mark is one of the few gems of creators. His content isn't for everyone, but Mark as a person is genuine in what he does. He's not in it for the money, and the vast wealth he has accumulated from his success he's put right back into more creative projects.

His biggest recent success being Iron Lung, helping pave the way for other indie projects to get to the big screen (Glitch's Digital Circus, Jacksepticeye announcing a Bloodborne movie with Sony).

Donald Glover. He's so talented in so many ways.

He started as a stand up comedian and now has 2 Emmy's and 5 Grammys

He's got EGOT potential

Rami Malek

All of them.