If bitcoin had a face, it'd probably be Hal's.

I get that he really helped in the early days, but I can't unsee the fact that he's cooperated with Craig Wright and have informed everybody that he's the real Satoshi and that he's showed him a signed message from the genesis' address[1][2].

[1] https://youtu.be/W1f5Ms5heMM
[2] https://youtu.be/2qLI3VIHuKU

I have bookmarked this thread and I am going to read through it as soon as I have some more time, thanks!

I love how Vitalik destroyed him in this discussion. I think I get what happened now. According to Gavin, he has no doubt that craig is satoshi. At least, that's what he thought back in 2016. He apparently signed a message of Gavin's choosing with a private key that only satoshi could possess. Gavin doesn't mention verifying the signature though and nothing was posted and proved publicly. However, the two of them want to convince the world that it happened and we should just trust them without trying to verify anything on our end. Because that's the point of Bitcoin, blindly trust don't verify.    
It's funny how Gavin says that craig (satoshi) is a very private person and wants to remain private. Well except the whole I am satoshi, look at me drama.

I added Gavin to the list because he managed to keep bitcoin running between 2011 and 2014 - no small feat.
I don't know about his current views on that event. Perhaps he is keeping quiet due to possibilities that he may have been 1) paid, 2) signed an NDA, or 3) doesn't want further backlash from any community for saying more, like lawsuits, especially when they appear frivolous. He at least regrets being involved (2016): http://gavinandresen.ninja/either-or-ignore

Gavin's words in 2016, despite his regret, might still even today convince people of Craig being Satoshi.
Craig always sounds to me exactly like an in-law who said that he bought bitcoin back in 2003 "back before the other company bought them". He sounds convincing but you'd have to ignore a lot to believe him..

If you place Satoshi on a different class which I believe he should be, there are alot of people on the second row of bitcoin heroes and down to all users.
There are alot of heroes in this space that has made disclosed and undisclosed sacrifices in this place, even here in the forum.
I consider all the btc donors here, even the recent Dave gesture to Ukraine.
There are heroes who go about educating people about Bitcoin.
The ones with big passion that bought pizza with btc that gave it high publicity.
The likes of Gmaxwell, Theymos, Cobra, Sirus and many more.
The ones that provide technical help in the technical section like LoyceV, o_e_l_e_o, and even the self acclaimed anti hero franky1 and many more users are all heroes of bitcoin.

I agree with your opinion, themos is a hero of btc, who has kept this forum, then people who dare to hold bitcoin and always invest in bitcoin, under any circumstances, they are also true heroes of bitcoin, without anyone daring to hold bitcoin for sure bitcoin is not will be popular until now, and it is impossible for people to dare to invest in bitcoin, my real heroes in bitcoin are everyone in this forum, who have taught me about bitcoin world.

I tend to agree, this dude deserves to be called a Hero of all heroes in Bitcoin.
Hal Finny was here since the Bitcoin forum was created and he contributed a lot to this forum sometimes I may think that he deserves to call and has a right to claim as a satoshi.

I always think that those who spend large sums of Bitcoin before also can be called a Hero, the pizza man, and also the forum member donators contributed Bitcoin for the sake of the forum that was created by the creator of Bitcoin.

There are a lot of them who deserve a Hero badge.

Bitcoin seems to attract extremely talented people. Many are already mentioned here but I want to mention a few more.

I would like to start with Con Kolivas to this list, an Australian anaesthetist that gave us cgminer and the solo mining pool ckpool. He's known here in the forum as -ck. I would say he has been extremely influential in the Bitcoin world. Almost the entire mining industry adopted cgminer in one way or another, and even these days ckpool keeps finding blocks.

Open source has benefited Bitcoin immensely. This is a good opportunity to also acknowledge jgarzik who published the CPU Bitcoin miner that would eventually be forked by -ck and turned into cgminer. Also of course there's the great work of kano who has contributed many things, like cgminer's API which enabled the creation of multiple miner dashboards, and is the current maintainer of cgminer, adding support for the latest GekkoScience Compac F, which were created by the talented sidehack. There's also all the great work done by Luke-Jr with bfgminer, and other projects like Bitcoin Core development and keeping alive a lot of tools and projects like a graph of the number of Bitcoin nodes, and others.

Mike Caldwell gave us the casascius coins, creating a whole industry of physical bitcoins and bitcoin related art. There's a lot of people in that space that have created amazing things, like kialara for example.

There are of course a lot more people that should be mentioned here, but I think I made the point already. The more I learn about Bitcoin, the more I realize this space is filled with a huge and diverse group of extremely talented people. Bitcoin is a great technology, but what makes it absolutely amazing is the people that are involved in it.

My bitcoin hero is no other than my friend who introduced me to this forum back in 2017.

I remember the conversation we had when we were talking about watches. I told him that I wanted to purchase this $200 Seiko watch in which he approved of my taste. Since I was only a college student at that time and earning money (via part-time jobs) was not in my radar at that time, he quickly introduced me to this forum and the potential of earning BTCs every weekly by participating into campaign signatures.

Because of my friend, he opened the doors for me to purchase not only books but educational materials for my general use. I literally owe him everything- though it is kinda sad to see him being inactive in this forum.

I'm now reading user comments in this thread and come to the conclusion that I can't single out one or more of them as my bitcoin hero. I understand when people name famous figures from bitcoin world or hyperactive bitcointalk users (or administration) and I don't rule out that they really had a very big influence on someone that some are ready to call them their bitcoin hero. I want to say that, in my opinion, it is not entirely correct to single out one hero, because I believe that everyone who in one way or another was related to the creation, development, popularization of BTC contributed to the future and he is already a hero. Also, each user on this forum has brought, albeit a small, but a piece to the bitcoin community and therefore deserves praise. Someone more, someone less. That's not the point.
I see it as if billions of drops of water form an ocean and bitcoin looks exactly like this, where the ocean is bitcoin, and the drops are each of bitcoin users. Perhaps I will voice an unpopular idea that even Satoshi with his creation would mean nothing without a bitcoin users community because it was these people who breathed life into bitcoin with their faith in it.

Actually, the members you listed have had a significant impact on the Bitcoin world and cryptocurrency in general. A real Hero is always active, supportive, and willing to assist when required. Many of these folks have persuaded me to reconsider my previous belief that cryptocurrency is a ponzi scam, and they have persuaded me to believe in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.
There are undoubtedly some excellent idols to be ranked. More are still accessible, and I realize it's impossible to list them all. I'd like to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone of my heroes.