Also, you achieve legendary status and sing songs that include the lyrics, "playing with my ding-a-ling. Wary of fame and repelled by formulaic Hollywood fare, he has built a successful career playing underdogs and odd men out--all the while avoiding the media spotlight.

He was a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished twelfth in the World Championships in 1992.

As for picking just one guy to be the coolest guy in the world, well that would simply be impossible. On 12/13 May 1945 at Taungdaw, Burma [now Myanmar], Rifleman Lachhiman Gurung was manning the most forward post of his platoon which bore the brunt of an attack by at least 200 of the Japanese enemy.

British actor Mark Strong, who played Jim Prideaux in the 2011 remake of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), is often cast as cold, calculating villains.Not the richest or most popular, not the most successful, athletic, or best looking (although, admittedly, all of those qualities come into play), we're talking about the coolest cat. You know why the first 40 minutes of Full Metal Jacket is the most realistic boot camp sequence in movie history? Nikki Sixx moved around as a youngster, but before he attended the same high school as Sir Mix-a-Lot in Seattle, he got his hooligan start while living in Jerome, ID.