- I M Pei - Ieoh Ming Pei, after having school education from China, went to the United States to study Architecture.This Architect achieved eminence in the field due to his majestic, aesthetically and technically superior constructions in the U.S.A. Pei at first thought that architecture was not his cup of tea, since his peers excelled him in drawing.
- Le Corbusier - Le Corbusier was indeed the greatest architect of the 20th century, who always thought big. He never earned that deserving recognition for his work as his foresighted vision was never really understood by, forget ordinary mortals but even by his fraternity.
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- Beethoven - Ludwig van Beethoven, the German musical genius, redefined the scope of western classical music by transforming it into a powerful medium of expression of philosophical thoughts as well as feelings.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Johann Sebastian Bach is the successor to the polyphonic art that he revitalized with his spirit.
- Leonardo Da Vinci - Leonardo da Vinci, an artist of great acclaim and a farsighted scientist of the Renaissance, mesmerized people across the world with his vision and depth of thought in art.
- Michelangelo - "It has been said that Michelangelo Buonarotti nailed some poor man to a board and pierced his heart with a spear, so as to paint a crucifixion." Francesco Susinno here repeats an early urban legend about one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance.
- Pablo Picasso - Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Malaga Spain on October 25, 1881. His father Don Jose Ruiz Blasco was an art teacher. His mother’s name was Dona Maria Picasso Lopez. According to Spanish tradition Pablo was given the last name of his father Ruiz and of mother's Picasso. This is how his name was kept. Pablo Ruiz Picasso.
- Rabindranath Tagore - Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore was a creative epoch in whose wake great legions of inspired writers, poets, singers, musicians, linguists, historians, artists and philosophers emerged in India.
- Rembrandt - From his humble origins as a miller’s son to one of the most famous Dutch artists, Rembrandt’s life was a dramatic sequence of success and disaster.
- Vincent Van Gogh - Vincent van Gogh was one of the most original artists, largely self-taught. On the basis of works of the last three years of his life, Van Gogh is generally considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time.
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- Charlie Chaplin - Charlie Chaplin was the first and foremost comedy artist of the silent era.
- Laurel & Hardy - Laurel and Hardy were perhaps the only male comedian pair to hit the silver screen in the early 1900’s.
- Mulla Nasruddin - Mulla Nasruddin was a mendicant dear to God. He simply worried not about tomorrow, but every waking moment. Saints are persons who are completely free worries. Mulla Nasruddin’s anecdotes and stories, though seemingly sound humorous, but they carry a deep understanding of practical philosophy of life.
- Walt Disney - Walt Disney, a name that instantly conjures up in one's mind the wonderful world of fairy tales, heroic stories, fantastic amusement parks, and of course, cartoons that have left their imprint on the minds of generations past and present, and it is pretty much certain that they will continue to do so in the future.
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- Adam Smith - Adam Smith was a genius among the economists along with also being a philosopher. Not only did he extend the boundaries of economy, but also enlightened and reformed the commercial policy of Europe.
- Amartya Sen -Amartya Sen, the 1998-Nobel Laureate in Economics, was born on November 3, 1933 at Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. He is the sixth Indian to get the Nobel and the first Asian winner of the Economics Prize.
- J M Keynes -John Keynes, an English economist, journalist and financier, was best known for his revolutionary economic theories.
- Thomas Hobbes - "A Law of Nature (Lex Naturalis) is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a person is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or takes away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinks it may be preserved," said Thomas Hobbes, the English philosopher and political theorist known even today for his philosophical works.
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- Harry Houdini - He was the first one to know how it felt like to be a couple of meters below the ground, inside the grave, nailed tightly in a coffin. And amazingly, he enjoyed being there, he loved to be hanged up side down in a can full of water with his arms bounded in a straight jacket, his hands cuffed and legs ironed.
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- Christopher Columbus - Even after five centuries, Christopher Columbus remains a figure shrouded in mystery and controversy; a persona who has been described in a variety of ways; that of one of the greatest mariners in history, a visionary genius, mystic, national hero, failed administrator, naïve entrepreneur, and a ruthless and greedy imperialist.
- Ferdinand Magellan - The first acknowledged circumnavigator of the world, Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal.
- Marco Polo - Marco Polo guided a whole genre of travelers, explorers and ‘wanderers’ from the western world to the East. Asia and especially China was an unsolved riddle; and it remained so for many centuries.
- Vasco Da Gama - An explorer, born in Sines, Portugal, Vasco da Gama, led an expedition, which discovered the route to India (1497-99). They landed at Calicut (Kozikode) on the southern coast of India.
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger - Arnold Schwarzenegger began his career with bodybuilding, winning the Junior Mr Europe. He won impressive bodybuilding titles like Mr Universe, Mr World, and Mr Olympia.
- Audrey Hepburn - Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels to a Dutch Baroness and a wealthy English banker. When she was young her parents divorced and Audrey moved with her mother to Netherlands.
- Bruce Lee - The very thought of martial art brings to mind Bruce Lee’s fiery kick, the crashing of profuse bricks in a lone blow, and his vociferous shriek. His contribution to this style of fighting is such that martial art and Bruce Lee are synonyms; where one ceases to exist without the other.
- Charlie Chaplin - Charlie Chaplin was the first and foremost comedy artist of the silent era. He meant many things to many people. His working methods were a mystery until they rediscovered a cache of films he had stored away, which was brought to light after his death. His fourth wife, Lady Oona Chaplin generously consented to provide his film legacy.
- Guru Dutt - Guru Dutt - a popular actor, director and producer, was an enigmatic and romantic person. He believed in ceaseless working. Guru Dutt portrayed the sensitivity and compassion of his characters with rare depth. During his short 13-year career, he replaced the formulaic cinema with an individual as well as a lyrical vision.
- Jackie Chan - Jackie Chan, a name that instantly conjures up a funny, energetic, and amazingly talented personality. His stunning acrobatics, astute synchronization, and his unique rhythmic fights stand unsurpassable in the Hong Kong film industry. But the most significant factor – the key to Chan’s success are his unbelievable, death-defying, mind-blowing stunts.
- Kevin Costner - Kevin Costner, American actor, director and producer, was born in Los Angeles, California. He became a sex symbol as well as an all-American hero with his baseball movies like Field of Dreams and Bull Durham.
- Kurosawa Akira - Kurosawa Akira, born in Tokyo, was a distinguished film director. After a period of initial struggle, his originality and vividness took him to the peak of his career.
- Laurel & Hardy - Laurel and Hardy were perhaps the only male comedian pair to hit the silver screen in the early 1900’s.
- Madonna - Singer, performer, film star, icon - Madonna is the mistress of the art of re-invention. With her in-your-face sensuality, she has become an embodiment of the empowered women.
- Marilyn Monroe - Much has been made of Marilyn’s desperate personal history – the abusive foster homes and the predatory Hollywood scum that accompanied her struggle to stardom.
- Richard Burton - He was the most popular legendary actor of Hollywood. A natural actor, his name to fame on the personal front was, being married to actress Elizabeth Taylor, not once, but twice! In all, however, he married four times. Not bad for an actor who had an insatiable thirst for the glamour world, limelight, fame and fortune. His good looks were well complimented by his naturally gifted abilities to perform. He had the knack to make people listen to him and laugh with him.
- Satyajit Ray - "The quiet but deep observation, understanding and love of the human race, which are characteristic of all his films, have impressed me greatly – I feel that he is a ‘giant’ of the movie industry."
- Steven Speilberg - American filmmaker, Steven Spielberg is the most acclaimed and the ever popular living entertainer of the late 20th century. Emerged as creative moviemaker in 1970; today, he is not only a successful producer-director but also a household name and a veritable brand the world over.
- Sylvester Stallone - Sylvester Stallone is one of Hollywood’s best action heroes.Apart from the fact that he is an Oscar-winning actor, he is also an accomplished scriptwriter and an accomplished director.
- Tommy Lee Jones - Tommy Lee Jones the only son of an oil-field worker and a police officer mother, is known for the dangerous, intelligent, yet sympathetic touch he gave to the characters he played.
- Walt Disney - Walt Disney, a name that instantly conjures up in one's mind the wonderful world of fairy tales, heroic stories, fantastic amusement parks, and of course, cartoons that have left their imprint on the minds of generations past and present, and it is pretty much certain that they will continue to do so in the future.
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- T E Lawrence - Thomas Edward Lawrence, Ned, TEL, T E Lawrence, Colonel Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, T E Shaw, Airman Ross, Private Shaw. He was a multifaceted personality in the literal meaning of the term. He became a legend in his own time, making it difficult at times to separate the man from the myth.
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- Adolf Hitler - Adolf Hitler was born into this world, whose generations will never forget nor forgive him. He was the third (of the five) child of Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl, born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria, instilling a strong patriotic feeling for the German fatherland.
- Akbar - Akbar, the third Mughal emperor, the true founder of the Mughal Empire reigned from Afghanistan to the Bay of Bengal and from the Himalayas to the Godavari River in south. He was the most powerful face on Earth in the 16th century.
- Benito Mussolini - Benito Mussolini, the Prime Minister of Italy in the 20th century, turned a dictator. He began in fields like labor, teaching, writingand journalism. The son of a blacksmith and a socialist after struggling for two decades to gain power ended up with Fascism.
- Chanakya - Chanakya also known, as Kautilya for his Kutila Neeti or the cunning art of diplomacy, was an enigma as not much authentic information is available about him.
- General Douglas Macarthur - "There is no security on this earth, only opportunity."Douglas MacArthur, an American five-star army general, uttered the above quote. It was his truth of life.
- Genghis Khan - Leadership – the tour d'force of the world, is the ability of a person to lead, inspire and mobilize masses to act in unison, in pursuit of a common goal.
- Julius Caesar - The strength of character, strong will and courage of the most ambitious person of his time are expressed in these three words.
- Napoleon Buonaparte - The greatness of a man is measured not just by the success he gets but also the way he achieves it.
- Neil Armstrong - Many decades ago, man made his first tentative probes into near space. Then, his eyes fixed on the moon, that cold and lifeless globe with its borrowed light. He was poised to soar beyond the earth into a vast and trackless void.
- Rani Laxmibai - “She is wonderful woman, very brave and determined. It is fortunate for us that men are not all like her.”
- Shivaji - Remember Shivaji and count this life as grass.In this world and the next, rely on Fame alone.Remember Shivaji ! His form, his noble aims;Forget not also all his valiant deeds on earth.
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- Alfred Nobel - Better known as inventor of Dynamite, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, was a poet as well as the archetype international capitalist. Because he loathed his own appearance and believed that it denied him the happiness of being loved, Nobel while still young resolved to dedicate his life for the benefit of mankind
- Henry Ford - He made all the difference. His foresight and jest for achieving his ambition makes him stand out amongst all the other recent American inventors.
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- Alfred Nobel - Better known as inventor of Dynamite, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, was a poet as well as the archetype international capitalist. Because he loathed his own appearance and believed that it denied him the happiness of being loved, Nobel while still young resolved to dedicate his life for the benefit of mankind.
- Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston Massachusetts. He was the eighth child among the ten children of Josiah and Abiah Franklin. His father already had seven children from his first marriage so, Benjamin knew a lot about growing up in a ‘big’ family with nine brothers and seven sisters !
- Charles Babbage - British mathematician, designer and inventor of the world’s first mechanical computing machine, the forerunner of the modern electronic computer, is considered as one of the key figures of the golden era of British history.
- Edwin Hubble - Dr Edwin Powell Hubble, an aesthetic American astronomer is universally acknowledged as having been one of the foremost astronomers of the modern era.
- Galileo - Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564, 21 years after the death of Copernicus and three days before the death of Michelangelo.
- George Eastman Kodak - The world of photography got a new meaning with George Eastman appearing in the scene. The cumbersome and the most primitive form of photography underwent a revolution. He opened up new avenues for even the common man to record the most memorable of his life’s events for posterity’s sake.
- Graham Bell - How often do you use the telephone? Every day, two or three times a day or almost daylong? What would it be like if there was no phone? Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell, who invented one of the most significant domestic device of today – the Telephone. This Scottish – American scientist had an inventive mind and a great vision.
- Guglielmo Marconi - The air is full of promises of miracles", a man wrote in London. Soon after, three dots and the letter S sputtered across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Gutenberg - It was an era of political and social upheaval, times when the common man, the tradesman, the craftsman were struggling to overcome the strictures passed by the leaders of the church and monarchy, when equality was being talked about in more than hushed whispers, when knowledge and education were sought and respected, when all were trying to break through the shackles of tradition. It was the beginning of the 15th century - the dawn of the modern era.
- James Watt - If the question were asked : "Who is the most famous British engineer ?", the first answer that would immediately come to one's lips would be James Watt.
- Jonas Salk - Jonas Salk, the great physician and medical researcher was the first to develop a safe and effective vaccine for poliomyelitis more commonly known as polio.
- Louis Braille - "If my eyes will not tell me about men and events, ideas and doctrines, I must find another way."
- Louis Pasteur - Louis Pasteur, the French chemist, is known as the founder of Microbiological Sciences. A noteworthy figure in the field of science, he formulated the process of fermentation - a knowledge of the chief maladies which have scourged man and annimals - a knowledge of the measure by which either the body may be protected against these diseases, or the poison neutralised when once within the body.
- Robert Goddard - It was his flight to fancy that laid the foundation for the first flight into space. Robert Hutchings Goddard, the Father of Modern Rocketry, was an American expert of rocket research who is recognized as a remarkable experimenter as well as an engineering genius.
- Thomas Alva Edison - He discovered electromotograph phenomenon.
- Wilhelm Roentgen - The year 1895 witnessed a turning point in experimental physics as Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered ‘X–rays’.
- Wright Brothers - The Wright Brothers made the world’s first manned and powered flight covering just 120 feet, on December 17, 1903. This was their great achievement.
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- Agatha Christie - With a writing career that spanned half a century, Agatha Christie is perhaps the most widely read author, even today. Her simple plot construction and readable language makes her an all time favorite with readers, irrespective of age, culture and language.
- Alexander Pope - Physical disability, religious biases, and to top it all a vulnerable target of people’s mockery – a life loaded with ‘wrongs’, but hats off to the indefatigable spirit of the man called Alexander Pope.
- Alexander Pushkin - Ink flowed from his pen and metamorphosed into impressive works of art. The Moscow born poet, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is considered to be the greatest poet of Russia.
- Alexandre Dumas -One of the most popular writers of his time, Alexandre Dumas led as colorful a life as any of the characters in his books. He has left behind a mass of work whose authorship has been questioned because of its size and the numerous collaborations that he went into
- Alfred Hitchcock - Alfred Hitchcock, one of the greatest filmmakers of Hollywood, made the most frightful thrillers during his life. His suspense films were immensely popular once upon a time and he achieved a legendary status.
- Alfred Tennyson - ‘To get at him there is always the oyster to open’, said Browning of Tennyson. Being a reticent egoist, he was a perfect paradox.
- Anton Chekhov - Well-known playwright and short story writer of Russia, Anton Chekhov was the master of irony, spinning complex webs of verbal imagery, tantalizing phrases and virtual props, he gave an enigmatic touch to histrionics.
- Arnold Wesker - Arnold Wesker, a British playwright, has penetrated through the prevailing social strata by attaining the heights of name and fame. Coming from a working class Jewish immigrant family, Wesker appeared on the center stage of the world theater. The boy from Hackney has rose up to the Royal Theater, London.
- Ayn Rand - The earth has, ever since it's origin, witnessed phenomena. Ayn Rand was one such phenomenon, with an air of uniqueness all around her. Very few novelists are known to possess a philosophy that could entertain a learned race.
- Bernard Shaw - George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin of Protestant Irish stock on July 26, 1856. His mother, Lucille Elizabeth (Bessie) Gurly, was a talented amateur singer, and his father, George Carr Shaw, was a corn trader.
- Bertrand Russell - He was born in Britain. His mother’s name was Katharine Russell, Lady Amberley. She gave birth to three children between 1865 and 1872, of whom Bertrand was the last.
- Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens, one of the most popular writers in the history of literature presented his life in form of novels and made the world ponder on the child’s upbringing. ‘Pip’, an orphan in Great Expectation is Charles’ own autobiographical sketch, where the dark secret of his life became a source, both for creative energy and for the preoccupation with the themes of alienation and betrayal.
- Charlotte Bronte - The life of Charlotte Bronte is a fine example of how a person can rise amidst turmoil and personal tragedies. All through her life she kept on losing her near and dear ones and still, with sheer single-mindedness became a novelist whom the world now respects and looks up to in terms of beauty through writing.
- Daniel Defoe - A paradoxical genius, Daniel Defoe lived an eventful life. Actively involved in the early 18th century English politics, Defoe played a vital role in the unification of Scotland and England. A successful businessman turned pamphleteer, Defoe was quite a popular personality of his times. He is the only person pilloried, who was later cherished as a national hero.
- Dante Alighieri - Italy, in 13th century, was the epitome of culture, with contributors in various fields of art. It was the time when the church bells and the bells of the castles were tolling against eachother.
- David Herbert Lawrence - D H Lawrence, as he is more popularly known as, emerged as one of the greatest English literary writers of the 20th century. He excelled as a novelist, critic, poet and painter.
- Dostoevsky - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is perhaps one of the most enigmatic figures to his biographers and readers alike. His misfortunes and sufferings were portrayed through the characters in his work.
- E.M. Forster - Edward Morgan Forster, popularly known as E M Forster, was one of the most influential writers of his time. However, he is not a novelist for the modern reader.
- Elizabeth Browning - English poet, political thinker and feminist, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was probably the only female poet who was held in high esteem among literary society in U S and England, in the 19th Century.
- Enid Blyton - Enid Blyton is a name loved by most children and parents. Children are busy fantasizing and experiencing the feel of adventure just by reading her books. She has played a very strong role in developing British family values, as her stories were highly educational and moral in tone not only in Britain and America but also throughout the world.
- Ernest Hemingway - "You can destroy me, but can never defeat" – said Santiago, hero of The Old Man And The Sea. Ernest Hemingway, the Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize winner had the courage of despair.
- Eugene O'Neill - When Eugene O’Neill entered the theatre as a playwright, Broadway consisted mainly of musicals, melodramas and farces, with an occasional ‘quality’ fair from Europe. For O’Neill, the theatre was a very appropriate platform for serious ideas.
- Francis Bacon - The life of Francis Bacon is a story of a life devoted to great ideas. These ideas grew on him from his very childhood and pre-occupied him until his death.
- Geoffrey Chaucer - A soldier, a civil servant, a diplomat - Geoffrey Chaucer has been busy all his life on many more fronts besides being a pioneer of the world of literature.
- Goethe - One of the masters of the world literature, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe was the last European poet who possessed the revolutionary qualities of the great Renaissance personalities. He was a critic, journalist, painter, statesman, educationist, philosopher, and apart from all this, a theatre manager too! The variety, depth and quality of his output were in itself, stupendous.
- Harold Pinter - Harold Pinter is today’s foremost living dramatist. What makes him interesting is his formative Hackney childhood, his conscientious objection, his love affair with Ireland, his sacred belief in friendship, his two marriages, his uncompromising hatred of injustice and his passion for poetry and cricket. His infinite complexity and private character shaped his imaginative world.
- Henri Bergson - Among French philosophers, Henri Bergson can be considered someone that clearly stands out from the crowd. He was way above his contemporaries, as he sat on the pinnacle of achievements. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927, for his brilliant and imaginative philosophical works.
- Henry Fielding - Sir Walter Scott called Fielding ‘the father of the English novel.’ He was the first English novelist to approach the genre with a fully worked-out theory in Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia, the comic epics or domestic epics.
- Hermann Hesse - To Hermann Hesse, the most important thing was the individual, and the search for self.
- Homer - Homer’s invention of style of epic poetry has remained unrivalled. Whatever praises bestowed upon him are truly justified.
- James Joyce - James Augustine Joyce was an Irish novelist known for his artistic style and experimental use of the English language. After failing at business, Joyce tried his hands at various professions including politics and tax collecting.
- Jane Austen - Jane Austen is one of the best known and most loved novelists of the English speaking world. Yet on the face of it, she is one of the all-time unlikely candidates for such a title.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau - Perhaps the singlemost enlightened important writer was the philosopher, novelist, composer, music theorist and language theorist and – Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- John Donne - John Donne was an English poet, essayists and sermonist. He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge and also studied law in London. Donne had a very bright future, but his secret marriage proved disastrous in relation to the prospects he had been preparing himself for.
- John Keats - "The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself."
- John Milton - He grew up under the shadow of William Shakespeare. He sipped on the residue offered by muse from a very young age to serve it in the best possible way later on : by creating monumental literary legends like Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
- John Ruskin - Ruskin was one of the greatest writers of England. His writings chiefly consist of criticism. After studying literature from quite an early age, Ruskin joined the Oxford University.
- Jonathan Swift - Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist and political pamphleteer. His passion for satire of human folly made him one of the greatest masters of English prose. His many pamphlets, prose letters and poetry, though meticulous, were yet economical and simple in language.
- Joseph Conrad - A house having four walls on the East, West, North and South but no roof and yet the dwellers protect themselves from sun, rain, wind and all that nature throws over.
- Khalil Gibran - Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, to the Maronite family of Gibran in Bsharri, in Northern Lebanon. The people of Mount Lebanon had struggle for several years to gain independence from the Ottoman rule, a cause Gibran was later to adopt and become an active member in.
- Kingsley Amis - Britain’s most versatile literary artist, Kingsley Amis is the strongest contemporary contender for the title ‘Grand Old Man of English Letters’. He has produced more than 20 novels, in his 40-year career, that began with the most amusing and much loved Lucky Jim.
- Leo Tolstoy - Leo Tolstoy was one of the greatest Russian writers and thinkers of the nineteenth century. In his long life, he wrote some unparalleled masterpieces - War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
- Lewis Carroll - How did Reverent Charles Dodgson, aged 30, lecturer in Geometry at Christ Church, Oxford and popular for precise work, on a single July afternoon while rowing up the Isis with a brother don and three little girls, give birth to one of the most famous stories of all time?
- Lord Bayron - Better known as Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron has been the most squabbling figure in the world of literary history.
- Marian George Elliot - Mary Ann was known to the world as George Eliot. Paving her way Through the male dominated world of early 19th century English Literature, she left an undeniable imprint on the minds and hearts of the readers.
- Mario Puzo - Mario Puzo's The Godfather topped the charts for 67 consecutive weeks on the Times bestseller list. Over the years, more than 21 million copies were sold.
- Mark Twain - "All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure", these words of Mark Twain, one of the greatest humorists of America, probably reflect his philosophy of life.
- Munshi Premchand - The greatest stalwart in the field of Hindi and Urdu fiction – Premchand – whose real name was Dhanpat Rai or Nawabrai, was a prolific writer who wrote 12 novels and 300 short stories.
- Norman Mailer - Mailer has not only published 39 books (including 11 novels), he has written plays (and staged them), screenplays (and directed them), poems (for both Nugget and The New Yorker, among others) and essayed every sort of narrative form (including some he invented).
- Odysseus - The Odyssey is an epic story that has been a significant piece of literature since it was first composed, and will remain so for ages to come. One of the reasons it has been so, is its hero, Odysseus.
- Oscar Wild - AT A GLANCEOSCAR WILDE [1854 - 1900] "I am not English. I am Irish - Which is quite another thing."
- P G Wodehouse - Known around the world as the antidote to sorrow, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and his Jeeves novels mark a genre of their own.
- P. B. Shelley - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY [1792-1822]
Always enveloped by mysticism and controversy, Percy Bysshe Shelley lived a life of a rebel.
- R K Laxman - R K Laxman, a man blessed with a unique sense of satire is the most loved cartoonist in India whose popularity has traveled to several other countries.
- Rabindranath Tagore - Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore was a creative epoch in whose wake great legions of inspired writers, poets, singers, musicians, linguists, historians, artists and philosophers emerged in India.
- Ralph Emerson - 1820
Began keeping journals, which he continued throughout virtually all his life. The first series was called "Wide World", expressing his current thoughts on all topics.
- Rudyard Kipling - Rudyard Kipling, the poet of all times, speaks about the involvement and evolution of life. He visualizes the mankind in few stanzas, which reflect the aim and conclusion of every being.
- Samuel Coleridge - A man of profound imagination and romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge has contributed into the world of English literature with such lyrical ballads that the generations to come will always be oblidged to him for Kubla Khan, The Ancient Mariner and Biographia Literaria.
- Sarojini Naidu - Sarojini Naidu, also known as the Nightingale of India, lived a purposeful life. A devoted freedom fighter, a principled politician, a progressive activist, a radical reformer, an inspirational poet - woman of varied talents and high caliber, Sarojini Naidu lived life to its fullest.
- Satyajit Ray - "The quiet but deep observation, understanding and love of the human race, which are characteristic of all his films, have impressed me greatly – I feel that he is a ‘giant’ of the movie industry."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Perhaps the most famous fictional character of all time, Sherlock Holmes is still alive in popular imagination more than a hundred years after he was created.
- Stephen Edwin King - Over the years, the name Stephen King has become synonymous with cryptic tales, stories of horror, studies of the macabre, and also a continuity of sagas filled with horror, suspense, and intrigue. His stories catapult the reader into a world of dark fantasy, unknown terror, with descriptions of characters so meticulous and vivid that they seem astonishingly real.
- T. S. Eliot - T. S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri (U.S.A).
A representative poet of the present century, he has been regarded as a foremost poet, dramatist and critic. He was also an editor of repute.
- Thomas Hardy - Thomas Hardy is one of the greatest literary figures of the 19th century. His literary genius is apparent in his poems and novels.
- Thomas Hobbes - "A Law of Nature (Lex Naturalis) is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a person is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or takes away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinks it may be preserved," said Thomas Hobbes, the English philosopher and political theorist known even today for his philosophical works.
- Victor Hugo - "To love another person is to see the face of God."
- Les Miserables
'Love' was the only religion he had faith in.
- Virginia Woolf - "There is or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."
Virginia's life was paradoxical. She was exceptionally astute and in many respects wise.
- W.B.Yeats - Dull in study, dark in complexion, unsuccessful in love, William Butler Yeats was attracted towards occultism and theosophy, and began writing plays, ballads and poetry.
- Walt Whitman - Walt Whitman, the great poet, was every inch an American. His poems, including those in Leaves Of Grass, advocate the principles of freedom and democracy that the USA always stood for.
- William Maugham - A British novelist, playwright and short-story writer, W S Maugham was the highest paid author in the 1930’s.
- William Shakespeare - The Bard of Avon, as he was known, is still famous in this era more than four hundred years after his birth.
- William Thackeray - William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist, whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair, a novel of the Napoleonic era in England, and The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., set in the early 18th century.
- William Wordsworth - Born in Cockermouth, England was the pioneer and central figure of the English poetry in the Romantic Era, his effort was a brief flowering of creative spirit midway between the collapse of 18th century authoritarianism and of the Victorian Era.
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- Pythagoras - BIRTH :(Around) 565 B.C. (Around) 490 B.C. in Island Samos – Aegean Sea at Metaponteum
- Rene Descartes - Rene Descartes ( Latin: Renatius Cartesius ), the founder of modern philosophy and one of the creators of seventeenth century science, liberated philosophical thought from the confines of tradition bound medieval philosophy divorced from observation and practice.
- S. Ramanujan - Shrinivas Ramanujan in his short life-span, proved to be a mathematical genius comparable to the likes of Karl Jacobi and Leonhaed Euler.
- William Thomson - The above lines aptly describe Sir William Thomson. A Scottish engineer, mathematician and physicist, all rolled into one, had one of the keenest and most versatile minds that answered every call of science.
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- Leo Burnett - If advertising means breaking the code, he pioneered it.
Leo Burnett – an advertising guru who moved beyond standard advertising practice based on foundationof worded argument to create non-linear advertising strategies characterized by visual representation.
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- Akio Morita - Akio Morita, the Guru of electronics industry became a name to reckon within the business world by establishing Sony, the never-ending success story of the century.
- Bill Gates - Most of Bill's personal beliefs revolve around working hard & trying your hardest to succeed.
- Dhirubhai Ambani
- Florence Nightingale - "Where will you go when you die ?", a Russian orphan, Peter was asked. He simply replied, "To Miss Nightingale."
- Helen Keller - Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia in USA in 1880. Her father Captain Arthur Helen Keller had fought with the Confederate army of Vicksburg.
- J. D. Rockfeller - Rockefeller will be remembered mainly for two reasons – his abilities as a businessman and his quality of philanthropy. He aimed high but had the capacity to fulfill his ambitions through hard work and efficient planning.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a widow of John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States and Aristotle S Onassis, a Greek businessman.
- John Bairdz - A century ago, by pioneering television, John Logie Baird influenced the lifestyle of generations to come and made the vast planet a small and a better place to live in.
- Lady Diana - "Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them," these Shakespearean phrases probably portray well the character of Diana.
- Lee Iacocca - Lee Iacocca once wanted a career in military but ended up as a business management icon.
- Margaret Sanger - A eugenicist or a founder of planned parenthood ? A racist or a radical activist for women’s freedom ?
- Muhammad Ali - "There are many men that are affected by times in which they live but there are very few that actually shape them."
- Nelson Mandela - The civilized world has been witness to brutal atrocities and inhuman prejudices from time immemorial. Nations stood mute watching injustice with helpless hands and cowardice.
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- Edmund Hillary - Edmund Hillary, the man, who in literal terms of its meaning, climbed to the highest peak in this world and also opened an avenue for other men to reach the highest point on the earth- Mount Everest.
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- Beethoven - Ludwig van Beethoven, the German musical genius, redefined the scope of western classical music by transforming it into a powerful medium of expression of philosophical thoughts as well as feelings.t.
- Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson is more than just an extraordinarily popular singer and a wonderfully gifted dancer : he is a phenomenon that has forever left an imprint on the music industry.
- Mozart - Mozart ranks as one of the great
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