Heroes from the childhood

For a long time (I kept this for eight years of my life) I have wanted to become a Veterinarian practitioner -yes now I know that this had been quite atypical of a child, not changing their future wannabe job thing for that long. I wanted to head to Africa, Serrengeti and Madagascar those wild zones and live in there making friends with animals. I still remember dreaming about this haha. Well, as a result Tippi Degre was like the one of my idol and hero!

A seven year old who play, drink, sleep, eat, talk and basically live with animal friend out in the wild? I remember I envied her so much I even used to begggggg on mum to buy me that book "Tippi- my book of Africa" and i read it over and over again so many times haha. With this I came across an article explaining what shes been upto after her childhood check it out at  http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/the-real-life-cady-heron-who-grew-up-in-africa-tippi-degre?s=mobile#1r6cvbt.
But I also wonder, besides the child animation and movie character, what heroes are children surrounded by? Kpop stars like Psy who sang Gangnam style? Harry potter? The Pope? Yet, till now Idolisation of a subject seems very important building up childhood of a person's life. So tell us, who was your idol?