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 The People's Choice
In the 1980s, Welsh songstress Bonnie Tyler told the world: "I need a hero," and it seems many people agree with her.
A long time ago we asked: "Who was YOUR hero. A favorite pop star? A TV celebrity? A football genius? An inspired thinker? A great scientist? A homeless advocate? Someone in your town who saved three children from a burning house?" And you told us.
Suggestions ranged from world leaders and humanitarians to religious icons, sportsmen and musicians.
We then sifted out the top 20 most popular names that you suggested. They were (in alphabetical order) ...
 José María Aznar:
Spanish prime minister
Franck Biancheri:
French champion of European unity
Tony Blair:
British prime minister
Hans Blix:
Swedish UN weapons inspector
Bono:
Irish pop star and charity activist
Jacques Chirac:
French president
Joschka Fischer:
German foreign minister
Vaclav Havel:
First post-Communist Czech president
Alexander Kasenzi:
Zambian humanitarian aid coordinator
Ken Livingstone:
Mayor of London
Nelson Mandela:
Former South African president
Pope John Paul II:
The first Polish Pope
André Rieu:
Dutch celebrity violinist and orchestra leader
Fernando Savater:
Spanish anti-terrorist leader
Gerhard Schröder:
German chancellor
Gino Strada:
Italian surgeon and humanitarian, founder of Emergency
Linus Torvalds:
Finnish IT pioneer and creator of the Linux computer operating system
Dominique de Villepin:
French foreign minister
Lech Walesa:
First post-Communist Polish president
Zinedine Zidane:
French footballer
Next we asked you to decide who should be TIMEeurope.com's Online Hero for 2003. More than 25,000 votes were cast and three clear front-runners soon appeared.
To see who the Online Hero for 2003 is and how the others fared click here 
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