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3rd April 2016, 09:34 AM
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Re: Famous Personalities of the World

The lists of famous personalities around the world in various field for the Nineteenth, Twentieth or Twenty First Century are as follows:

This list includes famous actors, politicians, entrepreneurs, writers, artists and humanitarians.

 Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962) American actress / singer / model.
 Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) US President during American civil war
 Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997) Catholic missionary nun / charity worker
 John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) US President
 Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) – American civil rights campaigner
 Nelson Mandela (1918 – ) – South African President anti-apartheid campaigner.
 Winston Churchill (1874- 1965) – British Prime Minister during WWII
 Bill Gates (1955 – ) American businessman, founder of Microsoft
 Muhammad Ali (1942 – ) American Boxer and civil rights campaigner.
 Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Leader of Indian independence.
 Margaret Thatcher (1925 – ) British Prime Minister.
 Charles de Gaulle (1890 – 1970) French resistance leader and President.
 Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) – Italian explorer
 George Orwell (1903 – 1950) British author of 1984, Animal farm
 Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) British scientist proposed theory of evolution.
 Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977) American pop singer.
 Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) German scientist – theory of relativity.
 Paul McCartney (1942 – ) British musician, member of Beatles.
 Plato (423 BC – 348 BC) Greek philosopher
 Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – ) British monarch since 1954.
 Queen Victoria ( 1819 –1901) British Queen during Nineteenth Century
 John M Keynes (1883 – 1946) British economist.
 Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 – ) Russian President during end of Cold War.
 Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) Indian Prime Minister
 Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Italian, painter, scientist, polymath
 Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) – French chemist and microbiologist.
 Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910 ) – Russian author and philosopher.
 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) – Spanish modern artists
 Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) Dutch artist
 Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) – US President 1932 – 1945.
 Pope John Paul II (1920 – 2005) Polish Pope.
 Thomas Edison ( 1847 – 1931) – American inventor
 Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) – American civil rights activist
 Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 – ) Burmese opposition leader.
 Lyndon Johnson (1908 – 1973) – US President 1963-69
 Ludwig Beethoven (1770 – 1827) – German composer
 Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ) US media celebrity.
 Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984) – Third Prime Minister of India.
 Eva Peron (1919 – 1952) – First Lady of Argentina
 Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007) – Prime Minister of Pakistan
 Desmond Tutu (1931 – ) South African Bishop and opponent of apartheid
 Dalai Lama (1938 – ) Spiritual and political leader of Tibetans
 Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) American film producer
 Neil Armstrong (1930 – 2012) US Pilot , first person to land on moon.
 Donald Trump (1946 – ) Businessman, politician
 Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) British film actor and comedian
 Barack Obama (1961- ) US President
 Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) American Black nationalist leader
 J.K.Rowling (1965 – ) British author of Harry Potter series.
 Richard Branson (1950 – ) British entrepreneur founder of Virgin.
 Pele (1940 – ) Brazilian footballer, considered greatest of 20th Century.
 Angelina Jolie (1975 – ) Actress, director, humanitarian.
 Jesse Owens (1913-1980) US track athlete won 4 golds at 1936 Olympics.
 Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) American author
 John Lennon (1940 – 1980) British popstar and member of the Beatles.
 Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) US Industrialist
 Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975) head of state of Ethiopia
 Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953) Soviet leader from 1924-1953.
 Lord Baden Powell (1857 – 1941) British Founder of scout movement
 Michael Jordon (1963 – ) US Basketball star.
 George Bush jnr (1946 – ) US President 2000-2008.
 V.Lenin (1870-1924) – Leader of Russian Revolution 1917.
 Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) Swedish actress. Featured in Casablanca.
 Fidel Castro (1926-) Cuban revolutionary leader.
 Oscar Wilde (1854- 1900) Irish author, poet, playwright.
 Coco Chanel (1883-1971) – French Fashion designer
 Pope Francis (1936 – ) – First pope from the Americas.
 Amelia Earhart (1897– 1937) – Female aviator
 Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) – leader of Nazi Germany 1933-45.
 Sting (1951 – ) British musician.
 Mary Magdalene (4 BC – 40AD) – devotee of Jesus Christ
 Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) – English / American film producer
 Michael Jackson (1958 – 2009) – American Pop singer
 Madonna (1958 – ) American Pop singer
 Mata Hari (1876-1917) Dutch exotic dancer, executed as spy.
 Cleopatra (69 -30 BC) Queen of Egypt.
 Grace Kelly (1929-1982) American actress and later Princess of Monaco.
 Steve Jobs (1955 – 2012) Key figure in Apple computers
 Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) – US President (1981-1989).
 Lionel Messi (1987- ) Argentinian footballer
 Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948) American baseball player
 Bob Geldof (1951 – ) – Irish musician, charity worker
 Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian Marxist revolutionary
 Roger Federer (1981 – ) Swiss Tennis player
 Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) Austrian psychoanalyst
 Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924) US president.
 Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Leader of Chinese Communist revolution
 Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003) – American actress.
 Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) British actress and humanitarian.
 David Beckham (1975 – ) English footballer
 Tiger Woods (1975 – ) American golfer
 Usain Bolt (1986 – ) – Jamaican athlete. Record holder at 100m and 200m
 Carl Lewis (1961 – ) – US athlete and Olympian
 Prince Charles (1948 – ) Heir to British throne
 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994) – American wife of JF Kennedy
 C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) – British author
 Billie Holiday (1915 – 1959) American jazz singer.
 J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) – British author of Lord of the Rings
 Billie Jean King (1943 – ) – American tennis players and campaigner for equality.
 Anne Frank (1929-1945) – Dutch Jewish author who died in Holocaust.
 Simon Bolivar (1783 – 1830) ‘Liberator’ of Latin America.
 Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793) French Queen, executed during the French revolution
 Christiano Ronaldo – Portuguese footballer.
 Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) – English suffragette.
 Emile Zatopek – Czech athlete
 Lech Walesa – Polish leader of Solidarity movement
 Julie Andrews – British singer
 Florence Nightingale – British nurse
 Marie Curie – Polish / French scientist
 Stephen Hawking – British scientist
 Tim Berners Lee (1955- ) English creator of World Wide Web
 Lance Armstrong (1971- ) American cyclist.
 Shakira – Colombian singer
 Jon Stewart (1962 – ) – American comic and tv presenter New York.
 Wright Brothers – Orville and Wilbur Wright who made first flight in 1903.
 Roman Abramovich – Russian oligarch.
 Tom Cruise (1962 ) – American actor
 Rupert Murdoch – Media owner of News Corporation.
 Al Gore – US presidential candidate and environmental campaigner
 Sacha Baron Cohen (1971 – ) – English comedian
 George Clooney (1961 – ) – American actor and political activist.
 Paul Krugman – American Nobel Prize winning economist
 Jimmy Wales – American creator of Wikipedia
 Brad Pitt (1963 – ) Actor
 Kylie Minogue – Australian singer and actress
 Malala Yousafzai – (1997- ) Pakistani human rights activist.
 Stephen King (1947 – ) Contemporary horror and fantasy writer.


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