Viswanathan Anand is a five time winner of the World Chess Championship.
Upendranath Brahmachari was a renowned Indian scientist and a prominent medical practitioner of his era.
Swami Vivekananda was the chief disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, and was responsible for awakening India spiritually.
Svetlana Boginskaya is a former Soviet/Unified Team/Belarusian gymnast who was famously known as the ‘Goddess of Gymnastics’.
Sisavang Vatthana was the second and last King of the Kingdom of Laos before being overthrown by the communist regime.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. was an American lawyer, writer and social activist.
Rabindranath Tagore was a great Indian poet and writer, and he is one of the most revered literary figures in India.
Paramahansa Yogananda was a great Indian yogi who popularized the concept of Kriya Yoga to the Western World.
Norodom Ranariddh is a Cambodian prince and politician.
N. R. Narayana Murthy is the co-founder of Infosys Ltd.
Mulk Raj Anand was one of the first Indian writers in English to gain international fame.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was prominent leader who contributed actively in the Indian freedom struggle.
Mata Amritanandamayi is an Indian spiritual leader, also known as the 'Hugging Saint'.
Mahadev Govind Ranade was an Indian social reformer, a distinguished scholar and founding member of Indian National Congress.
Levy Mwanawasa was the third President of Zambia.
Leos Janacek was a Czech musician who was considered as one of the nation’s great composers for the mature style of writing that he adopted.
Lana Turner was an American TV and film actress.
Juvénal Habyarimana was a politician who served as the third President of the Republic of Rwanda.
Joe Montana is a former American professional football player famous for his record breaking career at NFL and Super Bowl.
James Buchanan was the 15 President of the United States of America who ruled during one of the most difficult phases of the American history.
Ivana Trump is a former model, socialite and a businesswoman who was once married to business tycoon Donald Trump.
Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist renowned for his research on role of nucleotides in protein synthesis for which he won the Nobel Prize.
Hanan Ashrawi is a political activist, legislator and scholar, from Palestine, who is famous for her work on human rights.
Guru Nanak was a great Indian saint who founded Sikhism.
George Santayana was the first and foremost Hispanic-American philosopher.
Enrique Granados was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music.
Diana Vreeland was an iconic fashion expert who is also known as the ‘Empress of Fashion’.
Diana Ross is an award winning American singer and actress.
Debendranath Tagore was an Indian religious reformer and Hindu philosopher.
Dayanand Saraswati was a Hindu religious leader who founded the reform movement, Arya Samaj.
David Boreanaz is an American actor and producer who played the vampire angel in the drama series ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.
Dana Carvey is an Emmy award winning American actor and comedian who featured as a cast member on the ‘Saturday Night Live’.
Carlos Santana is a world-famous Mexican-American musician.
Canaan Banana was the first black President of Zimbabwe.
Bedrich Smetana was an eminent Czech composer.
Antanas Smetona was the first president of Lithuania.
Andrew Cunanan was an American spree killer, who committed suicide after killing five people within a period of three months.
Anaxagoras was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.
Anatoly Chubais is a famous Russian economist-turned-politician who has served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the nation.
Anatoli Boukreev was a Russian mountaineer, who ascended some of the highest peaks on Earth in his lifetime.
Anatole France was a Nobel Prize winning writer and critic of French origin.
Anatole Broyard was a writer and an editor for ‘The New York Times’.
Anastasio Somoza García is the former Nicaraguan President who heralded the autocratic regime in the country which continued for the next 50 years.
Anastacia is a popular American singer-songwriter and a philanthropist.
Anais Nin was a French-Cuban writer who became famous for her erotic literature, short stories and journals and lived in the United States till her death.
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