Che Guevara hangs in many a college student's room, and is considered somewhat of an icon in the "edgy" community. However, does today's generation really know -- or even understand -- what Che Guevara really stood for, or who he really was either as a person or as a revolutionary? Probably not. So, we've compiled a list of the most common misconceptions about the revolutionary.

10. He was Celibate: This tends to be a common default trait of many a revolutionary -- we like to think of our heroes as pure, virginal, untainted, and sacrificing pleasures for the greater good of mankind (or, more particularly, the disenfranchised of mankind). But just because our heros are self-sacrificing, it doesn't mean that they don't like to do the horizontal mambo from time to time. And, in the case of Che, he not only liked to do it from time to time, he liked to do it often... So much, in fact, that he had six children to bear his legacy. He had a child with his first wife, a daughter born in Mexico City, and four children with his second wife, the revolutionary Aleida March. Not surprisingly, many of his children prefer to stay out of the glare of the spotlight -- a few photos here and there of his offspring (most notably of his son, Camilo, who is a porcine doppelganger of his father), but nothing of major note.

9. He was a Flower Power Poster Child: The modern view of Guevara is that he was a symbol against the Powers That Be -- not surprisingly, his image first became iconic during the "Flower Power" era of the 1960s. In reality, however, Che was the furthest thing from a counterculture hero: during his active period, he was a staunch advocate of the Perón regime of totalitarianism. He also didn't appreciate the concept of the working class as independent, making him a perfect poster child for the Castro-era Communism in Cuba (where he is revered as a secular saint -- a common image of Guevara in Cuba, in fact, depicts him working for free, in the fields, with a shirt off). And despite his '60s era depiction as "James Dean in Fatigues," he was a vocal advocate of someone whom history acknowledges is a ruthless despot who didn't believe in proper legal processes... A far cry from the concepts embraced by the hippies.

8. He was a Poor Cuban: Even though Guevara is best known for his works in Cuba, he was not a "salt of the earth"-type guy. Moreover, he was born in Argentina. Finally, his parents were far from poor, and he didn't grow up in adject poverty -- in fact, according to the standards of the culture and the day, his upbringing was one of privilege and wealth.

7. He was a "Bad Boy" Renegade: Another common image of Che is as a motorcycle-driving, cigar-smoking bad boy (hence the aforementioned "James Dean in fatigues" moniker). This was furthered by Gael Garcia Bernal's depiction of the revolutionary in the movie of the same name, of course. But in reality, he was a bit of a geek -- he liked to play chess (even entered a few local tournaments), read poetry, and even liked math and engineering in school.

6. He wasn't Book Smart: Further along those lines is the misconception that Che was just a man of the world who didn't understand the necessities of the intellectual world. But in case you didn't get the hint when it was revealed that he was a geek, not only was he incredibly book-smart, he went so far as to get a medical degree. Yes, you read that right: he was, legally and formally, Dr. Ernesto Guevara. His concentration in medical school was on the disease leprosy.

5. He only Traveled to a few Limited Countries: We commonly think of Castro being only in Cuba or South America. In fact, not only did he travel extensively (he lived, or visited, nearly every continent on the globe, with the exception of Australia and Antarctica), he even spoke at the United Nations in 1964. During his speech, he condemned the United States for their segregationism. "Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men -- how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?" he asked.

4. He was Suave: Further along the lines of the "James Dean in Fatigues" view of Che, there was a misconception that he was a "bad boy" in the clean-cut Hollywood sense. But "clean" wouldn't be the word many who really knew Che would use to describe him: from the time he was a child, his nickname was "Stinky Che" because he rarely bathed, changed his shirt only once a week, and throughout his natural life had a reputation for being particularly foul-smelling.

3. He Had No Hands: This stems from the fact that when he was executed, a military doctor amputated his hands and then sent them back to Buenos Aires for fingerprint identification. The hands were later transferred to Cuba.

2. He wanted to be Immortalized: Che's picture only became the iconic monochrome figure after an Italian journalist asked the photographer, Alberto Korda, if he could have it for his publication (Korda obliged). The Italian journalist then dispeled the photo on a global scale. Korda, in fact, took the photo during a funeral service for 136 people who were killed when a French ship carrying arms to Havana was sabotaged and blown-up.

1. His name was Che Guevara, and He was a Full-Blooded Latino: Amazingly, his name wasn't really, legally, Che Guevara. Che was born Ernesto Guevara Lynch (his father was an Irishman who, when Che was born, proudly pronounced that "the first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels"), and his lineage is Irish and Basque.