Badass, cool guy, biker dude a simple leather jacket can say a lot of things about your personality. As arguably the most iconically fashionable garment in American TV & movie history, the leather jacket has meant a lot of things to many different people, largely thanks to the memorable characters (both fictional characters and real celebrities almost too eccentric for believable fiction) to don one, whether on screen or in the pages of a magazine. Without further ado, these are our picks for the most famous leather jackets in history.Fonzie, Happy Days Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli actually encompasses all three of the aforementioned leather clad stereotypes. Originally written as a secondary character in the Happy Days series, the Fonzie’s popularity grew so quickly writers soon made him a lead character on the show. Fonzie was quite simply the all-around epitome of cool. Even actor Henry Winkler, who played Fonzie, admitted “The Fonz was everybody I wasn’t. He was everybody I wanted to be.” Though Happy Days aired from the mid 70′s to mid 80′s, it depicted times in the 50′s and 60′s, arguably the leather jacket’s heyday. Today, Fonzie’s leather jacket is on display in the Smithsonian Institute. Read more on this Article!