Who are your favorite Christian heroes/heroines outside of the bible?

Who is your favourite bible hero or heroine besides Jesus? Why is he or she a favourite?
I will begin. Mine is Jacob. I like him because like me, he is a sinner, a deceiver, a liar and there is hardly anything good about him besides the fact that he hungers for God's blessings to be in his life. Yet, at the end of his life, he died in worship of God.
He started up bad, and tried to get God's blessings, but ended up just worshipping God, even in his death. I want to be someone like that.
I can never be a Abraham because I am weak in my faith, or a David because I am too cowardly to trust God to slay a Goliath or a Moses or a Elijah or a Paul.
But I am definitely a Jacob, in that I seek after God's blessings, despite being a sinner and hopefully, at the end of my life, died in worship of God like him. So he is my hero even though I am a gal.
What about yours?

Who are your favourite recent heroes/heroines outside of the bible, particularly born in recent times and why?
I will begin again. Mine is Samuel Morris and DL Moody.
Samuel Morris is an African man who prays and even though he does not live long, he is a model for me in the area of childlike prayers.
DL Moody reaches the lost for God with a passion and he is not very educated.
I also like Billy Graham, Smith Wigglesworth, Catherine Booth.
Too often, we honor the saints of the bibles without recognizing that there are modern heroes/heroines in our midst too. Let's talk about them here!

[Miss Hepburn]

Me too - Smith Wigglesworth! Katherine Kuhlman, etc--Myles Munroe, RIP, Meister Eckhart - then the Saints...esp the mystics.
Oh and ALL the New Thought authors and teachers! They are remarkable;
the list is too long to write.
But I could if asked.

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Me too - Smith Wigglesworth! Katherine Kuhlman, etc--Myles Munroe, RIP, Meister Eckhart - then the Saints...esp the mystics.
Oh and ALL the New Thought authors and teachers! They are remarkable;
the list is too long to write.
But I could if asked.

It was surprising to see mention of Katherine Kuhlman…….we had a family connection to her coming from the same neighborhood…..

[Redchic12]

Anne Williams is my hero. A woman who spent 27 years getting justice for 97 innocent men women and children who died in the Hillsborough disaster.

[BigJohn]

Who are your favorite Christian heroes/heroines outside of the bible?

Mary of Jesus of Ágreda

She bilocated from Spain to modern day New Mexico/Arizona during the 1600's. The Church investigated her bilocations and found that toward the end of her journeys, she was able to talk to the Native Americans and give them gifts.

She is also referred to at times to being an incarnation of Mother Mary.