HOLLYWOOD (USA) People magazine today named their choice for Sexiest Man Alive 2014. Anyone who knows anything about these things will immediately recognise Chris Hemsworth, of whom there are more pictures below the 'fold line'. The magazine says that he continues to smite bad guys as a hammer-wielding Norse god in The Avengers, will fight off a terrorist hacker in Michael Mann's upcoming cyber thriller, Blackhat, and battle a whale in Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea, but there was no contest when it came to naming Aussie Chris Hemsworth this year's Sexiest Man Alive. The actor, 31, thought it was "pretty funny" when he first heard the news – as did his wife, Spanish model Elsa Pataky, 38, whom he wed in 2010 and with whom he has a young daughter and twin sons.