1. Wesley Autrey (he leapt into the tracks of New York subway to save the life of a stranger who fell from the platform, as a train was approaching)
2. Kevin Dowling (South African Catholic Bishop, who sat up a health clinic, where women are encouraged to refuse sex without a condom)
3. Zhu Fumin (15 year-old Chinese boy, who saved 33 lives during an earthquake)
4. Ted Anderson (on the 11th of September, he carried two injured persons and then re-entered the smoke-filled facilities to drag out two more injured individuals, one whose clothes were on fire)
5. Paul Rusesabagina (being the general manager of a luxury hotel in Rwanda, he took in more than 1200 people who stayed in the facilities as Hutu extremists were killing every Tutsi person they could find)
6. Vilmos Farkas (a Hungarian man living in Serbia, he rescued a couple from their Croatian kidnappers and brought them to meet their children)
The list only includes living people.