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Folk-hero John Henry (who according to legend, beat a steam drill in a tunnel-digging contest, and who died soon after from exhaustion), may have actually been a real person.

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Davy Crockett was more than just a folk hero, soldier and frontiersman. He was a soldier and a politician who who was elected to the House of Representatives in 1827, for Tennessee, and was vehemently opposed to Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.

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1. Isokelekel; folk hero of Pohnpei who committed suicide by tying his penis to the top of a bent young palm tree, then releasing the tree, ripping off his penis and bleeding to death.

2. Irish Folk hero Cu Chulainn was about to attack the Queen of Connacht in battle, when she suddenly started menstruating and the battle was called off. Cu Chulainn escorted her and her army back home.

3. In 1984 Olympic biathlete Kari Swenson was kidnapped by two men intent on making her their wife. She was rescued but the ensuing media coverage attempted to turn the criminals into folk heroes.

4. Wilhelm Voigt was a German impostor who, in 1906, masqueraded as a Prussian military officer, rounded up a number of soldiers under his "command", and "confiscated" more than 4,000 marks from a municipal treasury. He became a folk hero named as "Hauptmann von Köpenick"

5. Germany has a great fascination with Native Americans. Germany’s biggest folk hero is a Native American from the Apache tribe.

6. A Japanese soldier from WWII in Guam deserted the war then hid in Guam's jungles for 28 years finally getting caught after attacking local shrimpers. Returned to Japan a folk hero.

7. Harry R. Truman, a Washington resident who lived on Mount St. Helens came to be a folk hero in the months preceding the volcano’s 1980 eruption after he stubbornly refused to leave his home. Truman expectedly died by the pyroclastic flow that buried the site under 150 feet of volcanic debris.

8. Las Vegas casino manager Carl Cohen became a local folk hero after he knocked the caps off Frank Sinatra's front teeth.

9. Folk hero Johnny Appleseed was based on John Chapman, an eccentric frontier nurseryman who, unlike the legend, planted trees for profit and these trees did not produce edible fruit, but instead, small tart apples to make alcohol

10. Eddie the Eagle" competed in ski jump at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. He was so clumsy the organizers begged the British to not let him compete. He became a folk hero to the fans, and had a movie made about his life.

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Pittsburgh, PA has their own Paul Bunyan-like folk hero in Joe Magarac

The folk tale of Haensel and Gretel was based on the murder of baker Katharina Schraderin by a rival businessman, Hans Metzler. In a cruel twist, Katharina was immortalized as the villain in her own murder story while her murderers were rewritten as the heroes. - source

Laurie Bembenek, accused of killing her husbands ex-wife and convicted, blamed a police conspiracy. She escaped prison and fled to Canada. She became a folk hero with people chanting, "Run, Bambi, Run." Upon the request of the Canadian government a judicial review gave her the right to retrial. - source

There is a party in the Lithuanian parliament that was founded by the supporters of Drąsius Kedys, who became a folk hero after allegedly killing a judge suspected of pedophilia.

The historical Buddha was not obese. The "chubby Buddha" is a 10th-century Chinese folk hero by the name of Budai, who was usually depicting as laughing and smiling - source

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Greece's most wanted fugitive is a self styled Robin Hood who robs banks and industrialist and distributes the money to the poor, tried to break his brother out of prison with a tank, is hunted by US intelligence, escaped from prison by helicopter twice, and is loved by many as a folk hero

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The historical Buddha wasn't obese. The "chubby Buddha" or "laughing Buddha" is a 10th-century Chinese folk hero by the name of Budai

In 1965, a Baltimore Quaker self-immolated and killed himself outside the office of Secretary of Defense McNamara to protest the Vietnam War. He became somewhat of a folk hero for the North Vietnamese.

The Journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush is a folk hero in Iraqi and is now running for Parliament