Local Heroes & Everyday Saviors

21

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Subedar Major Bana Singh Rank #21

Subedar Major Bana Singh scaled a 1,500-foot ice wall at 21,000 feet to capture Quaid Post on Siachen Glacier.

43,300

22

AB

Amrita Devi Beniwal Rank #22

Amrita Devi Beniwal sacrificed her life in 1730 leading 363 Bishnoi villagers who hugged sacred Khejri trees to save them.

43,000

23

AS

Afroz Shah Rank #23

Afroz Shah organized the world's largest citizen-led beach cleanup, clearing twenty million kilograms of plastic from Versova Beach.

42,700

24

AS

Anand Kumar Super30 Rank #24

Anand Kumar founded the Super 30 program, providing free IIT-JEE coaching, food, and lodging to poor students with near 100% success.

42,400

25

CS

Chiune Sugihara Rank #25

Chiune Sugihara hand-wrote thousands of transit visas in Lithuania during WWII, saving over 6,000 Jewish refugees.

42,100

26

FI

Fumiko Ishioka Rank #26

Fumiko Ishioka tracked down the true story of child victim Hana Brady, creating the global educational movement 'Hana's Suitcase'.

41,800

27

AE

Abdul Sattar Edhi Rank #27

Abdul Sattar Edhi founded the world's largest volunteer ambulance network and sheltered over 20,000 abandoned infants.

41,500

28

JR

John Rabe Rank #28

John Rabe established the Nanking Safety Zone in 1937, sheltering more than 200,000 Chinese civilians from massacre.

41,200

29

KV

Kesz Valdez Rank #29

Cris 'Kesz' Valdez, a former abused street scavenger, founded 'Championing Community Children' helping 10,000 homeless kids.

40,900

30

DM

Dr. Cynthia Maung Rank #30

Dr. Cynthia Maung founded the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai border, providing free surgery and healthcare to millions of refugees.

40,600

31

RR

Rick Rescorla Rank #31

Rick Rescorla, Head of Security at Morgan Stanley, evacuated 2,700 people from the WTC South Tower on 9/11 while singing songs.

40,300

32

AJ

Arland D. Williams Jr. Rank #32

Arland D. Williams Jr. repeatedly passed the rescue lifeline to five fellow passengers in the frozen Potomac River until he drowned.

40,000

33

LS

Lenny Skutnik Rank #33

Lenny Skutnik jumped into the ice-covered Potomac River in 1982 to pull a drowning plane crash survivor to safety.

39,700

34

HT

Harriet Tubman Rank #34

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and made nineteen perilous journeys back to the American South to liberate over 300 enslaved people.

39,400

35

RB

Ruby Bridges Rank #35

Ruby Bridges was a six-year-old child who bravely integrated William Frantz Elementary School in 1960 amidst violent mobs.

39,100

36

GB

Gino Bartali Rank #36

Gino Bartali, two-time Tour de France winner, smuggled counterfeit documents in his bicycle frame to save hundreds of Jews during WWII.

38,800

37

GS

Gino Strada Rank #37

Dr. Gino Strada was an Italian war surgeon who founded EMERGENCY, providing free high-standard surgical care to 11 million war victims.

38,500

38

AM

Aristides de Sousa Mendes Rank #38

Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, defied dictator Salazar to issue 30,000 transit visas in 1940.

38,200

39

RW

Raoul Wallenberg Rank #39

Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.

37,900

40

WP

Witold Pilecki Rank #40

Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish cavalry officer who deliberately got captured to infiltrate and expose Auschwitz.

37,600