Ozzy: He's a clownish man who entertains people who doesn't care about metal but he has an iconic status.
Geezer Butler: What would modern heavy music sound like if it wasn't for him?
Lemmy: An icon like Ozzy but with more cred among metalheads.
Dimebag: A very good guitarist who influenced loads of people, old and young.
Ross Robinson: Produced a shitload of bands who set the trend during the nu-metal era, and without it more trooo styles of metal wouldn't have returned and become popular in the US today.
Steve Harris: A sharp businessman.
Lars Ulrich: Another businessman who is the reason Metallica became big, abysmal drummer and art fag but he knows how to run the ship.
Conrad Thomas Lant (aka Cronos): Wrote songs that both hippies and conservative, christian soccermoms could hate.
Jesper Strömblad: The man most responsible for the Gothenburg-sound. Today this has influenced everyone from mallcore to black metal.
Justin Broadrick: An inspiration for most alternative metal bands.