The blog Canterbury Tales has this list of the Nine Worthies, broken down into three categories: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian.

Imagine different categories, with more contemporary examples:

Atheist
George Orwell
George Bernard Shaw
Bjørk

Spiritualist/New Age
Edgar Cayce
Deepak Chopra
Shirley MacLaine

Relativist
Michel Foucault
Jean-Paul Sartre
Bill Clinton

Webkinz
Reindeer
Black Friesian
Googles

Can you think of other lists—or modern examples of the original categories? No? OK, just asking . . . calm down.