Who are your favorite geeks? Famous, infamous, fictional, or just random groovy people on teh intrawebz.

my bff (the leila texts girl. google it) Data, from Star Trek, Twigby, Sherlock Holmes, Andrew Zimmern, Matt L0t0 (from consumating) and me.

Lucas (the movie "Lucas")

All the Goonies. All of 'em.

Harry Potter

Dr. Gregory House

The geek girl in every "geek girl turns hot" movie, before she turns hot (see, e.g., Rachael Leigh Cook in She's All That)

@slack: actually, no, no I didn't. That is about as cool as you get. I know that there were a ton of HS movies and music videos filmed at Bayonne HS in Jersey, but I didn't know slack central got the love, too!

LUCAS is one of my favorite movies of all time.

for multiple reasons.

(i've never been more excited than when the score was finally released last year)

i'm still searching for the elusive LUCAS sequel, which was to have starred Robin Williams and has LUCAS working as an entemologist at a museum. no, i'm not making that up.

Favorite Geeks?

Kevin Smith (And his various geeky characters)
Joss Whedon (ditto)
The Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Hiro Protagonist (Snow Crash)
Hank "Beast" McCoy (X-Men)
Jack Knight (Starman - the comics, not the movie)

I went back and forth about Hiro Protagonist. Sure, he's a computer nerd, but he's also a ninja pizza delivery guy. I'm not sure he fits.

And I am KICKING myself for forgetting Adams, Kevin Smith, and the Tenth Doctor.

Eccleston was great, but not as amazing as Tennant. I tend to think Eccleston was better as Claude in Heroes than he was as the Ninth.

@Heraldic: You know, when it comes to Hiro, it seemed to me that he was geek first, samurai second. And sweet-ass car aside, the pizza delivery job screams slacker geek.

Heraldic: Gotta disagree; Claude wasn't a really compelling character. Especially not standing next to Mr. Bennett.

By comparison, The Ninth, the one directly carrying the guilt of the Time War, had a lot more going for him. If he'd stuck around for another season, I don't think he'd be as lost in Tennant's shadow.

Everything Combustible Monkey said.

also: Einstein, Hawking, Galileo, and Da Vinci.

Whoever came up with Ninja Turtles.

the product line manager for Game of Thrones ccg/lcg

@Chrome: That was Kevin Eastman and...Laird? I can't remember the other guy. But Eastman is now married to Julie Strain, so it's like Geek Fantasy come true.

I would say that I've met them both at the party of someone who is actually my first "Geek of the Week" but I wouldn't want to namedrop. ;p

Yep, Eastman and Laird.

BTW, regarding the Dr. Who thing above: I loved Eccleston, but there is no denying that Tennant's Doctor, with the suit and the gee-whiz-isn't-THAT-fascinating manner (when he's not pissed off) is the geek.

Bill Gates

Dead Geeks:
Richard Feynman, Doug Adams, Stephen Jay Gould, Mr. Wizard

Living Geeks:
Harold McGee, Natalie Angier, Nicholas Kristof, Carl Kassel, The Tappit Brothers, The Mythbusters Duo, Paul Alivisatos

Still living ubergeek: Nick Bostrom. Seriously.