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Warren Buffet
• Born August 30, 1930
American investor, industrialist
and philanthropist.
• Often called the "legendary
investor, Warren Buffett", he is
the primary shareholder,
chairman and CEO of Berkshire
Hathaway.
• He was ranked as the world's
wealthiest person in 2008 and
is the third wealthiest person
in the world as of 2011.
Sam Walton
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Founded Wal-Mart in 1962 , the chain of
discount variety stores that in the 1990s
became the world's largest retailer.
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Walton's savvy marketing skills and
attention to detail led to Wal-Mart's
expansion throughout the United States.
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By 1990 Wal-Mart was the nation's top
retailer in terms of sales, and Walton was
one of the richest men in the world.
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After his death in 1992 the company
continued to expand, including online
commerce and stores around the world.
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By 2001 there were more than 4,500 WalMart stores worldwide.
Indra Nooyi
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An Indian-born American executive
and is the Chairperson and Chief
Executive Officer of PepsiCo
Incorporated
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She is a Successor Fellow of the Yale
Corporation. She serves as a member
of the Foundation Board of the World
Economic Forum, International
Rescue Committee, Catalyst and the
Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts
Has served as Chairperson of the
U.S.-India Business Council.
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In 2010 she was named #1 on
Fortune's list of the “50 Most
Powerful Women" and #6 on Forbes'
list of the "World's 100 Most
Powerful Women".
Phil Knight
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Co-founder and Chairman of Nike,
Inc.
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, Knight's stake in Nike gives him an
estimated net worth of $23.5billion,
making him the 43rd richest person in
the world
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A graduate of the University of
Oregon and Stanford Graduate School
of Business, he has donated hundreds
of millions of dollars to the schools.
Knight gave the largest donation in
history at the time to Stanford's
business school in 2006.
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A native Oregonian, he ran track for
coach Bill Bowerman at the
University of Oregon, with whom he
would co-found Nike.
Richard Branson
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Branson has stated that he was formerly a
global warming sceptic and was
influenced in his decision by a breakfast
meeting with Al Gore
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English business magnate, chairman of
Virgin Group of more than 400 companies.
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His first business venture was a magazine
called Student at the age of 16. In 1970,
he set up an audio-record mail-order
business. In 1972, he opened a chain of
record stores, Virgin Records, later known
as Virgin Megastores. he set up Virgin
Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin
Records music label.
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4th richest citizen of the United Kingdom.
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Virgin Galactic, will license the technology
behind Spaceship One—funded by
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and
designed by legendary American
aeronautical engineer and visionary Burt
Rutan—to take paying passengers into
suborbital space. Virgin Galactic
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Virgin Fuels, which is set to respond to
global warming and exploit the recent
spike in fuel costs by offering a
revolutionary, cheaper fuel for
automobiles and, in the near future,
Ren Zhengfei
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He is the president of Huawei
Technologies Co. Ltd, headquartered in
Shenzhen, China, and an ex-People's
Liberation Army officer.
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Forbes magazine listed Ren as the 193th
richest person in China in 2013 with
private assets of approximately $920
million USD
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His ties with the Chinese military and
Communist Party are being cited as a
security concern in not allowing Huawei to
expand in India. In the United States it led
to the collapse of Huawei's efforts to buy
3Com and forced SoftBank to greatly
sever ties in order to have its takeover of
Sprint Nextel acquire U.S. nationalsecurity clearance.
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While in Great Britain the Intelligence and
Security Committee has recommended
the removal of Huawei's equipment due
to spying fears
Gina Rinehart
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Australian mining heiress
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Rinehart opposed the Rudd government's
Mineral Resource Rent Tax and Carbon
Pollution Reduction Scheme as part of a
group of mining magnates that included
Andrew Forrest.
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She has founded the lobby group ANDEV,
("Australians for Northern Development &
Economic Vision")and has sponsored the
trips of prominent climate change sceptic
Christopher Monckton to Australia.
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Rinehart is publicly known for visiting girls'
orphanages in Cambodia and is on the
expert advisory board of SISHA, a
Cambodian non-profit organization
campaigning against human trafficking, in
particular by rescuing and assisting
sexually exploited women and children.
Sam Yagan
• Sam Yagan is an
American Internet
entrepreneur best
known as the cofounder of OkCupid.
• He is currently the
CEO of the world’s
largest e-dating site,
Match.com
Sheryl Sandberg
• American businesswoman,
activist, and writer. As of August
2013, she is the chief operating
officer of Facebook.
• Before Facebook, Sandberg was
Vice President of Global Online
Sales and Operations at Google
• Involved in launching Google's
philanthropic arm Google.org.
• Before Google, Sandberg served
as chief of staff for the United
States Secretary of the Treasury.
• As of January 2014, Sandberg is
reported to be worth over $1
billion, due to her stock holdings
in Facebook and other
companies.
Mark Cuban
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American businessman and investor.
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Cuban's first step into the business world
occurred at age 12, when he sold garbage bags
to pay for a pair of expensive basketball shoes.
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In 1995, Cuban and fellow Indiana University
alumnus Todd Wagner started Audionet,
combining their mutual interest in Indiana
Hoosier college basketball and webcasting. With
a single server and an ISDN line, Audionet
became Broadcast.com in 1998
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By 1999, Broadcast.com had grown to 330
employees and $13.5 million in revenue for the
second quarter. In 1999, during the dot com
boom, Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo!
for $5.9 billion in Yahoo! stock.
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He is the owner of the National Basketball
Association's Dallas Mavericks, Landmark
Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the
chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV.
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He is also a "shark" investor on the television
series Shark Tank.
Pat Croce
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Board of directors for Movitas, a mobile
technology company focused on the
hospitality industry.
In October 2011, Croce financed and
served on the monumental expedition
that located the shipwrecks of Sir Francis
Drake.
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American entrepreneur, sports team executive
and owner, author, and TV personality.
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Physical therapist and was an athletic trainer for
the Philadelphia 76ers
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He founded Sports Physical Therapists in 1984
and grew the business into a chain of 40 centers
spanning 11 states before selling it in 1993 for
$40 million.
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He became president of the Philadelphia 76ers
basketball team in 1996
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Since leaving the 76ers, Croce was on The NBA
on NBC and was a taekwondo commentator for
the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. In 2004, he
hosted his own syndicated self-help television
show, Pat Croce: Moving In
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Pirate Soul Museum in Key West, Florida. The
museum features authentic pirate artifacts, many
from Croce's personal collection.
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Colonial Quarter living-history museum in St.
Augustine, Florida.
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Croce was one of the four judges for the second
season of ABC's reality television series,
American Inventor, which ran from June to
August, 2007.
Science and Technology
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, (born August 21,
1973) is a Russian-American computer
scientist and software developer who, with
Larry Page, is best known as the co-founder
of Google, Inc., the world's largest Internet
company , based on its search engine and
online advertising technology. As of 2011,
his personal wealth is estimated to be $33
billion.
Lawrence "Larry" Page[2] (born March 26,
1973) is an American computer scientist
and software developer who, with Sergey
Brin, is best known as the co-founder of
Google. As announced on January 21,
2011 through a blog post, he will be in
charge of Google's day-to-day operations
as the Chief Executive Officer, effective
April 4, 2011. As of 2011his personal
wealth is estimated to be $32 billion
Bill Gates
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American business magnate,
philanthropist, author, and is
chairman of Microsoft
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Gates is one of the best-known
entrepreneurs of the personal
computer revolution. Although he is
admired by many, a number of
industry insiders criticize his business
tactics, which they consider anticompetitive, an opinion which has in
some cases been upheld by the courts.
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In the later stages of his career, Gates
has pursued a number of
philanthropic endeavors, donating
large amounts of money to various
charitable organizations and scientific
research programs through the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation,
established in 2000.
Dean Kamen
• Kamen was already a successful
and wealthy inventor, after
inventing the AutoSyringe, a new
type of mobile dialysis system for
medical applications, the first
insulin pump, and an all-terrain
electric wheelchair known as the
iBOT, using many of the same
gyroscopic balancing technologies
that later made their way into the
Segway.
• In 1989, Kamen founded FIRST
(For Inspiration and Recognition
of Science and Technology), a
program for students to get people
interested in science, technology,
and engineering.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
• American astrophysicist,
science communicator, the
Frederick P. Rose Director of
the Hayden Planetarium at the
Rose Center for Earth and
Space, and a Research
Associate in the Department
of Astrophysics at the
American Museum of Natural
History.
• Since 2006 he has hosted the
educational science television
show NOVA scienceNOW on
PBS, and has been a frequent
guest on The Daily Show, The
Colbert Report, and Jeopardy!.
Mark Zuckerberg
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American software developer and
Internet entrepreneur. He is best
known for creating Facebook, of
which he is chief executive and
president. It was co-founded as a
private company in 2004 by
Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin
Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and
Chris Hughes while they were
students at Harvard University.
In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time
magazine's Person of the Year.
On Zuckerberg's Facebook page, he
listed his personal interests as
"openness, making things that help
people connect and share what's
important to them, revolutions,
information flow, minimalism".
Zuckerberg sees blue best because of
red–green colorblindness; blue is also
Facebook's dominant color.
Steve Jobs
• American business magnate and
inventor. He is the co-founder and chief
executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also
previously served as chief executive of
Pixar Animation Studios; he became a
member of the board of directors of The
Walt Disney Company in 2006, following
the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was
credited in the 1995 movie Toy Story as
an executive producer.
• In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula,
and others, designed, developed, and
marketed one of the first commercially
successful lines of personal computers,
the Apple II series. In the early 1980s,
Jobs was among the first to see the
commercial potential of the mousedriven graphical user interface which led
to the creation of the Macintosh.
Derrick Pitts
• He is Chief Astronomer and
Planetarium Director for the
Franklin Institute in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He has been
named as one of the 50 most
important African-Americans in
research science.
• He is the president of the
Philadelphia chapter of the
Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.
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He has made numerous
television appearances, including
shows such as The Colbert Report,
The Late Late Show with Craig
Ferguson, and Countdown with
Keith Olbermann.
• He co-hosts a weekly radio
discussion program called Skytalk
on WHYY-FM.
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A former commander in the United
States Navy and a professor of
oceanography at the University of
Rhode Island who is most noted for
his work in underwater archaeology.
He is most famous for the discoveries
of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in
1985, the battleship Bismarck in
1989, and the wreck of the aircraft
carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. Most
recently he discovered the wreck of
John F. Kennedy’s PT-109 in 2002..
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In the 1990s Ballard founded the
Institute for Exploration, which
specializes in deep-sea archaeology
and deep-sea geology. It joined forces
in 1999 with the Mystic Aquarium
located in Mystic, Connecticut. They
are a part of the non-profit Sea
Research Foundation, Inc.
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Jason Project-educate kids
Bob Ballard
Elon Musk
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Business magnate, investor and
inventor. Founded SpaceX, PayPal,
and Tesla Motors.
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Elon taught himself computer
programming and at age 12 sold the
computer code for a video game called
Blastar for $500.
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University of Pennsylvania –economics
degree. He stayed on a year to finish
his second bachelor's degree in
physics.
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Solar City and Tesla is to help combat
global warming
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He is a trustee of the X Prize
Foundation, promoting renewableenergy technologies.
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Hyperloop- “vacum”-high speed train
F. Story Musgrave
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American physician and a retired NASA
astronaut. He is a public speaker and
consultant to both Disney's Imagineering
group and Applied Minds in California.
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Musgrave entered the United States
Marine Corps in 1953, served as an
aviation electrician and instrument
technician, and as an aircraft crew chief
while completing duty assignments in
Korea, Japan and Hawaii, and aboard the
carrier USS Wasp in the Far East
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A veteran of six space flights, Musgrave
has spent a total of 1281 hours 59
minutes, 22 seconds in space.
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Musgrave has made cameo appearances
on several documentary TV programs, as
well as the movie Mission to Mars (2000)
as "3rd CAPCOM" and the TV show Home
Improvement by Touchstone Television.
Kevin Systrom
• Entrepreneur and
software engineer, who is
best known as the
co-founder of Instagram.
• Internship at Odeo, the
company that eventually
gave rise to Twitter.
• At Google he worked on
Gmail and Google Reader.
• In April 2012, Instagram
was sold to Facebook for
$1 billion in cash and
stock.
Kimberly Blackwell
• Cancer doctor at Duke
University.
• She is developing and improving
treatments that target the HER2
protein present in a particularly
aggressive type of breast cancer.
• Dubbed a “smart bomb,” the
treatment, which consists of an
antibody specific to the tumor,
loaded with an anticancer toxin,
improves survival rates with
fewer unpleasant side effects
because the healthy cells aren’t
attacked.
Tony Hawk
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American professional skateboarder. Hawk
gained significant fame for completing the
first 900 as well as his licensed video game
titles distributed by Activision. He is
widely considered one of the most
successful and influential pioneers of
modern vertical skateboarding.
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Raised in San Diego, California, Hawk was
described as being "hyperactive" as a
child. His parents supported his
skateboarding because it served as an
outlet for his excessive energy, and as
Hawk's skills developed, he became a
professional skateboarder at age fourteen.
In 1999, he became the first skater to land
a 900 in competition. In 2002, he created
the Boom Boom Huck Jam, an extreme
sports competition in Las Vegas. He has
also been involved in various
philanthropic activities, including
collaborations with other athletes in the
charity Athletes For Hope.
Rob Dyrdek
• At the age of twelve,
Dyrdek acquired
sponsorship from the
same company that
Blender was a team
member of and began his
skateboarding career.
• Skateboarder, actor,
entrepreneur, producer,
and reality TV star. He is
best known for his roles
in the reality shows Rob
and Big, Rob Dyrdek's
Fantasy Factory and
Ridiculousness.
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Danica Patrick
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American auto racing driver, currently
competing in the IndyCar Series and
the NASCAR Nationwide Series, as
well as a model and advertising
spokeswoman.
With her win in the 2008 Indy Japan
300, Patrick became the first woman
to win an Indy car race. Patrick
currently drives the #7 GoDaddy.com
Honda/Dallara for Andretti
Autosport.
She also has an equity stake in her #7
team. She placed 3rd in the 2009
Indianapolis 500, which was both a
personal best for her at the track and
the highest finish by a woman in the
event's history.
In 2011 in the NASCAR Nationwide
Series Patrick became the first
woman to lead a lap at Daytona
International Speedway. She had her
best career finish of 4th in the
NASCAR Nationwide Series on March
5th, 2011 at Las Vegas Motor
Speedway.
David and Victoria Beckham
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Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams;
born 17 April 1974)[1][2] is an English
fashion designer, businesswoman and
former singer. In the late 1990s, Beckham
rose to fame with the all-female pop
group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh
Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British
pop music magazine Top of the Pops.
Since the Spice Girls split, she has had a
solo pop music career, scoring four UK Top
10 singles.
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David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE[2]
(born 2 May 1975)[3] is an English
association football player, who currently
plays for Los Angeles Galaxy. He has
previously played for Manchester United,
Preston North End, Real Madrid, Milan, as
well as the England national team, for
which he holds the all-time appearance
record for an outfield player.
Yo-Yo Ma
• French-born American[1]
cellist, virtuoso, orchestral
composer of Chinese
descent, and winner of
multiple Grammy Awards
• He is one of the most
famous cellists of the
modern age
• Ma currently plays with his
own Silk Road Ensemble,
which has the goal of
bringing together musicians
from diverse countries all of
which are historically linked
via the Silk Road
Ken Burns
• American director and
producer of
documentary films
known for his style of
using archival footage
and photographs
• Documentaries have
been nominated for two
Academy Awards
(Brooklyn Bridge in
1982 and The Statue of
Liberty in 1986) and
have won seven Emmy
Awards, mostly for The
Civil War and Baseball.
Peter Lik
• Self-taught Australian
landscape photographer
who took to the medium
when young.
• While traveling in Alaska
in 1984, Lik began to
experiment with
panoramic cameras
• In early 2010 Peter Lik
signed an agreement with
NBC'S Peacock
Productions to star in an
action/adventure reality
series.
Peter Lik
Bono
• Paul David Hewson (born
10 May 1960), most
commonly known by his
stage name Bono
• Irish singer, musician, and
humanitarian best known
for being the main
vocalist of the Dublinbased rock band U2
• He has been nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize,
was granted an honorary
knighthood by Queen
Elizabeth II of the United
Kingdom, and was named
as a Person of the Year by
Time.
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Brian May
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English musician, singer, songwriter
and astrophysicist who achieved
international fame as the lead
guitarist of the rock band Queen.
He uses a home-built guitar, called
the "Red Special”
Compositions, including "We Will
Rock You", "I Want It All”.
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Appointed a Commander of the
Most Excellent Order of the British
Empire (CBE) in 2005 for "services
to the music industry and for
charity work".
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Ph.D in astrophysics
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He is an active animal rights
advocate and was appointed a vicepresident of animal welfare charity
the RSPCA in September 2012
Arnold
Schwarzenegger
• Austrian-American former
professional bodybuilder,
actor, model, businessman
and politician who served as
the Governor of California
• Began weight training at 15.
He was awarded the title of
Mr. Universe at age 20 and
went on to win the Mr.
Olympia contest a total of
seven times.
• Films as Conan the
Barbarian, The Terminator,
Commando and Predator
• The 15-year-old author rose to
fame for keeping a diary in her
quest to become popular,
following antiquated tips from
the 1950s self-help book, Betty
Cornell’s Glamour Guide for
Teens.
Maya Van Wagenen
• Her musings about applying
lessons such as always wearing
white gloves and pearls as she
navigated the social scene of a
small Texas town landed her a sixfigure Penguin book deal for,
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a
Modern Geek.
• DreamWorks optioned the rights
for the novel, making the budding
author the “youngest non-actor
to ever make a deal” at the film
studio.
Markus Persson and Jens Bergensten
• In Minecraft you use your
imagination to create
whatever you want. It
might be a story, it might
be a machine, it might be
some interesting place
where you can go and
play. But whatever it is,
it’s a reflection of you and
your intention and your
creativity!
Jimmy Fallon
• Comedian, actor, singer,
musician and producer.
• Started playing guitar at age
thirteen
• Made $7.50 a set at The
Improv Theater
• Cast member on Saturday
Night Live
• Movies: Taxi, Anything Else,
Almost Famous, Fever Pitch,
Band of Brothers, Doogal,
Factory Girl and Whip It.
• He currently hosts The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Aamir Khan
• Indian film actor, director,
screenwriter, producer
and television presenter
• Dhoom 3 (2013), all of
which held records for
being the highest grossing
Bollywood film of alltime.
• Humanitarian
• "Everyone has the
freedom of expression. If
someone says something
on a particular subject,
that doesn't mean you
should start protesting”
Perry Chen
• Internet entrepreneur
best known for cofounding the social
fundraising website
Kickstarter.
• Kickstarter now boasts
5 million backers who
have pledged close to a
billion dollars.
Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde
• Nigerian actress, singer, and
philanthropist of an Ondo
origin from Lagos, Nigeria.
• 300 films
• Viewpoint landed her a now
famous column in OK! Nigeria
Magazine
• World Food Program
• Save The Children
• Environmentalist
Al Gore
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Gore is currently an author,
businessman, and environmental
activist. He was previously an elected
official for 24 years, representing
Tennessee in the U.S. House of
Representatives (1977–85), and later
in the U.S. Senate (1985–93), and
finally becoming Vice President in
1993.
In the 2000 presidential election,
Gore won the popular vote by more
than 500,000 votes. However, he
ultimately lost the Electoral College,
and the election, to Republican
George W. Bush when the U.S.
Supreme Court settled the legal
controversy over the Florida vote
recount by ruling 5-4 in favor of Bush.
It was the only time in history that
the Supreme Court may have
determined the outcome of a
presidential election.
Malala Yousafzai
• Pakistan
• Known for activism for rights to education for women
• Critical of Taliban banning girls from attending school
• Shot by Taliban gunman on her way to school
• Youngest person nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
• Memoir I Am Malala
• Started a world-wide movement towards education for all children, which lead
to the Right to Education Bill in Pakistan
Peng Liyuan
• born in 1962
• Chinese folk singer and performing artist
• wife of the President of China
• Dean of the People’s Liberation Army Art Academy
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Major General in the People’s Liberation Army
• WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS
Kamala Harris
• born in California in 1964
• attended Howard University and University of
California
• First female Indian/African American Attorney
General of California
• Focused on issues such as:
• increasing gun control
• funding for housing
• opposing the death penalty
• public safety
• privacy rights
• Has writing books on the topic of law
Fethullah Gulen
• Turkish Islamic preacher
• Founder of the Gulen Movment or Hizmet
• The movement encourages a moderate blend of Islam.
• Provide education that teaches peaceful conduct needed
to maintain global relationships.
• Inter-faith dialog
Pope Francis
• born in Argentina in 1936
• worked as a chemical technician and nightclub bouncer
• became a Catholic priest in 1969
• became Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998
• became a Cardinal in 2001
• became Pope in 2013
• inspires people with his simple lifestyle
• has spoken about the Church ideas concerning homosexuality and women
Alex Atala
• Born in Brazil in 1962
• Restaurant called D.O.M.
• 4th best restaurant in the world
• Popularized traditional Brazilian food using native ingredients
• TV show host on Brazilian TV
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Founded Ata; an institute that explores our relationship with food
• Three books about food
Wang Shu
• born in 1963
• born in China
• famous architect
• founded the Amateur Architect Studio
• professor and head of the Architecture School at the
China Academy of Art
• received the Gold Medal of Architecture in 2011
• advocates sustainable construction
Roya Mahboob
• Afghanistan
• Entrepreneur and business woman
• Promotes women’s access to the Internet in Afghanistan
• Started Afghan Citadel Software Co.
• Blog site for women to post their views
• Building free Internet classrooms for women across Afghanistan
• TIME magazine 100 most influential people in 2013
Eric Greitens
• Raised Jewish
• Duke University
• Rhodes Scholar and Truman Scholar
• University of Oxford
• Studied how war affects children/Photographer
• PhD in politics in 2000
• Navy SEAL in 2001
• Four deployments during War on Terror
• Combat Action Ribbon, Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Navy Commendation
Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star
Medal
• White House Fellow in Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Serves as Chairman and CEO of The Mission Continues, a veteran support organization