Living Legends
 

While I was driving today, I heard a radio news story about Les Paul, one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar. I was surprised to learn that he is not only still alive, but is still performing every week at a jazz club - at 92 years old!

And of course, the writer Ray Bradbury is still alive, and writing. I've grown a little tired of his style, but there's no doubt he is a master, and a legend in his field.

There are many more incredible people, masters at their field, who are not only still living, but well-respected, productive and thriving in their old age - living legends, in other words.

Who do you consider to be living legends?

Let me be the first to say Shigeru Miyamoto.

Miyamoto is a toddler with only 55 years behind him.

One that comes at the top of my mind is composer Elliott Carter, whose music I don't really enjoy, but is a respected man in his field, producing quite a few significant developments in Western classical music and passing that to his pupils. He is currently 98 years old and still actively composing.

I would also say that the 23 (as of now) surviving veterans of WWI would qualify as living legends.

Yeah, well, he is alive and he is a legend. So what if he's not 103?

Besides, you won't find many people > 55 that can claim the game designing crown. Try.

John Archibald Wheeler is still alive as well.

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This is one of the guys most muay thai fighters look up to. He is considered by many to be the best ever.

Can't find how old Sid Meier is, but you had to cut off Will Wright with the over 55 limit. :(

(How about Romero, lollin.)

The man's almost as big of a legend as his hair is. :tpg:

Stan Lee. He's a living comic book legend at the age of 85.

Ralph Baer. He single handedly created home console video games as we know it. Without him, there would be no Miyamoto.

Norman Ernest Borlaug for revolutions in agriculture which are credited with saving over a billion lives from starvation.

And Yuji Naka for giving us Sonic the Hedgehog.