Honor Harrington
Honor Harrington is a fictional character, the eponymous heroine of a series of books set in the 'Honorverse', written by David Weber and published by Baen Books.Honor was born on Sphinx, the third inhabited planet of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. She attended the Royal Manticoran Naval Academy on Manticore's Saganami Island, and became an officer in the Royal Manticoran Navy. She is one of the RMN's best tactical officers, but without outstanding mathematical ability, which caused her much irritation and some problems while at the Academy.
She is one of the few people adopted by a Sphinxian treecat (whom she has named Nimitz), and she has devoted considerable research to them. She has become one of the foremost experts on treecats as a result.
She has a high-degree black belt in the martial art of Coup De Vitesse, and set a sailplane record at the Naval Academy (for combined altitude, time spent aloft, and acrobatics) which (as of the latest book) seems to have remained unbroken.
In the course of her career, she has become a Duchess of the Star Kingdom of Manticore, a Grayson Steadholder and a high ranking officer in both the Grayson Navy and the Royal Manticoran Navy. She has also earned several medals for bravery and ability, including the Manticoran Parliamentary Medal of Valor.
Honor Harrington is regarded as a military genius and has been given the nickname 'The Salamander' for always being in the 'heat of the action'.