John Carmack to me is the closes thing to a real Rock Star programmer in the world. He's one of the best software engineers and I follow him on Twitter to see what he's up to. Almost always it's something crazy and new.

Here's a video of John choking someone out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X68Mm_kYRjc

He's a great role model to aspire to as a software engineer. :)