Yasser Arafat was the first President of the Palestinian National Authority and the founder of the “Al Fatah” group.
Yanka Kupala was a Belarusian nationalist poet, who is famous for his poem ‘Ад сэрца’ (‘From the Heart’).
Yane Sandanski was one among the leaders of the ‘Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization’.
William Jennings Bryan was a famous American politician.
William Cullen Bryant is best remembered as the romantic poet and editor of New York Evening Post.
Valeriya Novodvorskaya is a Russian politician famous for trying to establish democracy in the country.
Uhuru Kenyatta is the fourth and current President of Kenya.
Syama Prasad Mookerjee was an Indian politician who founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh party.
Svetlana Boginskaya is a former Soviet/Unified Team/Belarusian gymnast who was famously known as the ‘Goddess of Gymnastics’.
Sun Yat Sen was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader.
Serzh Sargsyan is the third President of Armenia, who has also served as the Prime Minister of the country.
Ségolène Royal is a French politician who currently serves as the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council.
Salva Kiir Mayardit is the President of South Sudan.
Ryan White was an American teenager who fought AIDS-related discrimination and served as a leader for spreading greater understanding of the deadly disease.
Ryan Seacrest is an American radio & television host, and producer.
Ryan Gosling is an actor and director who achieved stardom with a leading role in the film, ‘The Notebook’.
Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet.
R. K. Narayan was an Indian writer who was most famous for his fictional work Malgudi Days.
Peyo Yavorov was a Bulgarian romantic poet.
Omar Khayyam was a great Persian poet of medieval times, best-known for his work “The Rubaiyat”.
Nolan Ryan is a former baseball player and a former CEO of Texas Rangers.
N. R. Narayana Murthy is the co-founder of Infosys Ltd.
Moshe Dayan was a former Israeli military leader, minister of defense and minister of foreign affairs.
Miyamoto Musashi was a 16th century Japanese samurai, and author of the classic strategy text ‘The Book of Five Rings’.
Mireya Moscoso was the first Female President of Panama, and of the ‘Arnulfista Party’, a leading Panamanian political organization.
Maya Angelou was a famous writer, activist, singer, and actor, known best for her autobiography, ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’.
Magdi Yacoub is one of the world's most respected cardiac surgeons.
M. Visvesvaraya was a famous Indian engineer whose birthday, 15th September, is celebrated as ‘Engineer’s Day’ in India.
Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya is an Indian British engineer who founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group.
Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian child rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who formed the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA).
Juvénal Habyarimana was a politician who served as the third President of the Republic of Rwanda.
John Bunyan was a renowned English Christian preacher and writer in the seventeenth century.
Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur, best known as the co- founder, and the former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.
Jakaya Kikwete is the current President of Tanzania and is known for his policies aimed at uplifting the economic conditions of the country.
Isoroku Yamamoto was a Japanese naval commander during World War II.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was an Indian polymath and a social reformer.
Henry Tayali was a Zambian fine artist and sculptor.
Ghanshyam Das Birla was a prominent Indian businessman and a member of the well-known Birla family.
George Santayana was the first and foremost Hispanic-American philosopher.
Dhyan Chand helped India win three Olympic gold medals.
Dayanand Saraswati was a Hindu religious leader who founded the reform movement, Arya Samaj.
Benjamin Netanyahu is an Israeli politician currently serving as the Prime Minister of Israel.
Bear Bryant served as the head coach of the University of Alabama football team for 25 years, leading them to several victories.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was a famous Bengali writer, poet and journalist. He composed India’s national song ‘Vande Mataram’.
Ayatollah Khomeini was the political and religious leader of Iran who held the highest office of his country until his death.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch activist and feminist.
Aryabhata was an ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer.
Anatole Broyard was a writer and an editor for ‘The New York Times’.
Amartya Sen is a much-admired, award winning economist, writer and philosopher.
Al Yankovic is the famous American singer & songwriter, known for his humorous songs and parodies. is also known as ‘Weird Al’.
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