The blog Canterbury Tales has this list of the Nine Worthies, broken down into three categories: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian.
Imagine different categories, with more contemporary examples:
Atheist
George Orwell
George Bernard Shaw
Bjørk
Spiritualist/New Age
Edgar Cayce
Deepak Chopra
Shirley MacLaine
Relativist
Michel Foucault
Jean-Paul Sartre
Bill Clinton
Webkinz
Reindeer
Black Friesian
Googles
Can you think of other lists—or modern examples of the original categories? No? OK, just asking . . . calm down.
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