My most awesome dwarf? Lolor of the Chamber of Thunder. From simple Migrant crafter I quickly put her out with the other scrubs on hunting duty (needed lots of leather and bones). Unfortunately I had no metal industry for many years after she showed up.
Over the course of her beginning years she showed great skill at slaying groundhogs, wolves, and tigers. The other hunter i had was seriously injured in his first year, but good old Lolor would actually find ambushers a fight them back. She had well over a Hundred animal kills manly consisting of tigers and wolves, not that amazing except for the fact that more often then not she would have to club most of them to death as to my lack of quivers.
After one particularly large ambush she single handedly held of about 10 ambushers and turned champ. So I decided she would be the head of my military, several years later my metal industry started and she also started wielding a Artifact crossbow. Some of her more notable kills include a couple of sieges, and a Titan, I would but ammo stock piles beside ambush/choke points out side and she would mop up. After losing her Lover to carp Lolor began training with other weapons and in her life she managed to master Swords, Crossbows, Axes, Hammers, and was quite proficient with armor and sheilds. She died after a tantrum down spiral, she went berskerk and felled 1o-20 dwarves before she was mobbed and beaten to death.
She was entombed at the fork in the river just above the waterfall in a platinum coffin with a simple stone statue to serve as her marker. She was buried close to the surface and outside the fort walls for nothing could restrain her love for killing animals in the wild. Lolor of the Chamber of Thunder your legend will always live on in my Tales of Most Awesome Fort Dwarves.
Now that I think about she had a pretty hard life. Out of all my forts this one had THE most casualties do to cave ins, carp, and ambushes. She was one of my "polling" dwarves for general attitude of the fortress and so I quickly grew attached to her. It broke my heart after she lost her Lover (a recruit that died to random carp attack) cause every time I went to read her thoughts it would always finish with: She doesn't really care about much anymore and hasn't had a drink in a very, very long time. Though if you went to read her Personality description she was once a very shy and caring dwarf.