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Sri Sathya Sai Baba

1926 – 2011 · India

Indian spiritual leader who traveled across India sharing religious teachings and gathered a large following.

American leadership expert and author

American self-help author and motivational speaker. Best known for Think and Grow Rich, he is considered a pioneer of the modern personal success genre.

American Methodist clergyman who gained wide renown through radio preaching and writing. Time magazine called him the finest Protestant preacher in the United States.

American educator and central figure in the Transcendentalist movement. He pioneered conversational teaching methods and was the father of novelist Louisa May Alcott.

Irish astronomer and mathematician. He served as Royal Astronomer of Ireland and wrote several widely read books on popular astronomy.

Victorian-era English novelist whose real name was Mary Ann Evans. She is regarded as a master of literary realism with works like Middlemarch and Silas Marner.

English poet and novelist known for I, Claudius and his scholarship on Greek mythology.

Ancient Roman military leader and statesman. As dictator of the late Roman Republic, he led the conquest of Gaul and laid the foundations for the Roman Empire.

Twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States, the only one elected to two non-consecutive terms. He pressed for reform under the banner of honest public service and limited government.

Jack Ma is a Chinese entrepreneur and co-founder of Alibaba Group. He established Alibaba in 1999, revolutionizing the e-commerce sector and becoming one of the richest individuals in Asia.