Leonardo Da Vinci would be an interesting choice if you respect the guy, and how could you not?
He was the first person to come up with the blue prints for the airplane.
Among his other wonderful credits he was an Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. And of course, he did paint the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, which aren't too shabby
And if you find him boring, there are others: Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian to list a few.