We led off the week with two posts about unwarranted beliefs—my own unwarranted belief in the power of bathtub hardware and Moody’s economist Mark Zandi’s unwarranted belief in the power of fiscal stimulus.

The rest of the week was devoted to my gallery of heroes, with followup discussions here and here.

Along the way, there were many provocative suggestions for additions to the gallery, of which some struck me as fully worthy, some struck me as implausible, and some I’d never heard of. Below, without commentary, is the full list of suggested additions, with the suggesters names in parentheses; apologies if I overlooked a few. The name most frequently mentioned was Richard Feynman; my mom cast an extra vote for Feynman by email.

I’ll be back, of course, on Monday.

Adam Smith (Douglas)
Adam Smith (Gil)
Adam Smith (Sprobert)
Aesop (Patrick R. Sullivan)
Alan Turing (przemek)
Alan Turing (Snorri Godhi)
Aldo Leopold (dave)
Alexandre Dumas (Sprobert)
Andres Segovia (JoeZ)
Aristotle (Al V.)
Aristotle (Snorri Godhi)
Arminius (Snorri Godhi)
Athanasius of Alexandria (Sprobert)
Augustine of Hippo (Sprobert)
Basil Poledouris (Snorri Godhi)
BB King (JoeZ)
Beatrix Potter (dave)
Beethoven (Snorri Godhi)
Bernhard Riemann (przemek)
Bertrand Russell (przemek)
Bertrand Russell (Stephen)
Bill James (Phil)
Bing Crosby (Patrick R. Sullivan)
Brooks Robinson (Gil)
Calvin Coolidge (Sprobert)
Charles Darwin (Al V.)
Charles Darwin (Snorri Godhi)
Charles Dickens (przemek)
Charles Martel (Snorri Godhi)
Christian de Duve (JoeZ)
Claude Shannon (Snorri Godhi)
Copernicus (Snorri Godhi)
CS Lewis (Sprobert)
Cyrus (Snorri Godhi)
Dave Brubeck (MW)
David Brainerd (Sprobert)
David Gilmour (JoeZ)
David Hume (Snorri Godhi)
Edward Thorndike (Snorri Godhi)
Elfego Baca (Snorri Godhi)
Elizabeth I (Snorri Godhi)
Eric Liddell (Sprobert)
Ernest Hemingway (Gil)
Euclid (Al V.)
Ezra Jack Keats (dave)
Francis Bacon (Robert S Porter)
Frank Shorter (Gil)
Fred Astaire (Patrick R. Sullivan)
Frederic Chopin (przemek)
Friedrich Hayek (Tim)
Garry Kasparov (Stephen)
Genghis Khan’s Mom (Snorri Godhi)
Genghis Khan (Snorri Godhi)
George Carlin (JoeZ)
George Gershwin (Patrick R. Sullivan)
George Stigler (MW)
Gerry Lopez (Gil)
GK Chesterton (Steve Reilly)
Gregor Mendel (Al V.)
Gregor Mendel (dave)
Gregorius VII (Snorri Godhi)
Grover Cleveland (Peter)
Grover Cleveland (Sprobert)
Hans Christian Anderson (Patrick R. Sullivan)
Harold Black (Snorri Godhi)
Harold Innis (Robert S. Porter)
Harold Jeffreys (Snorri Godhi)
Harry S Truman (Snorri Godhi)
Henri Bourassa (Robert S. Porter)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (JoeZ)
Henri Guisan (Snorri Godhi)
Henri Poincare (JoeZ)
Henry George (Michael)
Henry the Navigator (Snorri Godhi)
Hermann Grassmann (Snorri Godhi)
Hudson Taylor (Sprobert)
Hunter S. Thompson (Gil)
Ian McEwan (przemek)
Ilya Prigogine (JoeZ)
J.L. Granatstein (Robert S. Porter)
Jackie Robinson (Sprobert)
Jesus Christ (Snorri Godhi)
Jim Corbett (Snorri Godhi)
Jim Elliot (Sprobert)
Jim Harrison (Gil)
Jimmy Steward (Gil)
JJ Cowperthwaite (Snorri Godhi)
JM Keynes (Douglas)
Johann Sebastian Bach (JoeZ)
John Bunyan (Sprobert)
John Calvin (Sprobert)
John English (Robert S. Porter)
John Harsanyi (przemek)
John Keats (Steve Reilly)
John Knox (Sprobert)
John Locke (Robert S Porter)
John Muir (dave)
John Stuart Mill (Robert S Porter)
John von Neumann (Snorri Godhi)
John Wycliffe (Sprobert)
Johnathan Edwards (Sprobert)
Jonathan Richmond (Gil)
Jose Ortega y Gasset (Gil)
Joseph Schumpeter (Douglas)
Joseph Schumpeter (JoeZ)
Josheph Schmpeter (MW)
JRR Tolkien (Sprobert)
JS Bach (Peter)
JS Bach (Snorri Godhi)
Jules Verne (dave)
Karl Marx (Douglas)
Karl Popper (Snorri Godhi)
Karl Weierstrass (przemek)
King Sejong (Steve Reilly)
Kolmogorov (Peter)
Kurt Godel (Al V.)
Kurt Godel (przemek)
Led Zeppelin (dave)
Lee Kuan Yew (Snorri Godhi)
Leo Lionni (dave)
Leonardo da Vinci (Sprobert)
Lewis Fry Richardson (Peter)
Linus Torvalds (Peter)
Louis Armstrong (JoeZ)
Mannerheim (Snorri Godhi)
Manuel de Falla (JoeZ)
Marilyn vos Savant (Stephen)
Martin Seligman (Snorri Godhi)
Max Weber (Douglas)
Michael Bliss (Robert S. Porter)
Michael Oakeshott (Gil)
Miles Davis (MW)
Montaigne (Gil)
Nassim Taleb (Snorri Godhi)
Niccolo Machiavelli (Snorri Godhi)
Nikola Tesla (dave)
Orson Welles (Stephen)
Orson Welles (Stephen)
Oscar D. Skelton (Robert S. Porter)
Pasteur (Snorri Godhi)
Paul Martin, Jr. (Robert S. Porter)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (JoeZ)
Pitt the Elder (Snorri Godhi)
PJ O’Rourke (Gil)
Red Cloud (Snorri Godhi)
Richard Diebenkorn (JoeZ)
Richard Feynman (Michael)
Richard Feynman (MW)
Richard Feynman (Peter)
Richard Feynman (Stephen)
Richard Feynman (Stephen)
Richard Posner (Stephen)
Richard Posner (Stephen)
Richard Scarry (dave)
Robert Burns (Sprobert)
Robert Solow (Douglas)
Ronald Coase (MW)
Rosalind Franklin (Michael)
Schiller (Patrick R. Sullivan)
Semmelweis (Snorri Godhi)
Sequentia (Snorri Godhi)
Sir Edmund Hillary (Gil)
St. Paul (Snorri Godhi)
Stephen Hawking (Al V.)
Steven Landsburg(!!!!) (Josh)
Sun Tzu (Snorri Godhi)
Tenzing Norgay (Gil)
Themistocles (Snorri Godhi)
Theodore Roosevelt (dave)
Thomas Bayes (Sprobert)
Thomas Huxley (Snorri Godhi)
Tom McGuane (Gil)
Toussaint Louverture (Snorri Godhi)
Vivaldi (Snorri Godhi)
Vladimir Nabokov (Steve Reilly)
Voltaire (Robert S Porter)
Wilfrid Laurier (Robert S Porter)
William of Ockham (Snorri Godhi)
William James (Steve Reilly)
Wolfgang Mozart (Peter)
Woody Allen (JoeZ)
Woody Allen (Steve Reilly)
Yegor Gaidar (Snorri Godhi)
Yoni Netanyahu (Snorri Godhi)
Yvonne Chouinard (Gil)
Zbigniew Herbert (przemek)