Tom Cruise

An American actor and producer who has starred in a number of top-grossing movies...Read on

Steve Jobs

Founder of Apple Computers, CED of Apple and Pixar, the Academy Award-winning animation studio...Read on

Cher

Cher is an American actress and singer. She rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the duo Sonny and Cher, then as a solo artist when the duo ended in 1974. She has sold over 100 million records worldwide since the start of her career...Read on

Walt Disney

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. One of the most well-known motion picture producers in the world...Read on

Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an inventor and businessman who developed many important devices. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors, holding a record 1,093 patents in his name... Read on

General George Patton

George Smith Patton, Jr., was a leading U.S. Army general in World War II. In his 36-year Army career, he was an early advocate of armored warfare and commanded major units in North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations...Read on

Nelson Rockefeller

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, an American politician, was Governor of New York and the 41st Vice President of the United States of America from December 19, 1974 to January 20, 1977...Read on

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art, probably most famous as the founder, along with Georges Braque, of Cubism...Read on

Hans Christian Anderson

Hans Christian Andersen, was a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales...Read on

Lewis Carroll

British author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass'...Read on

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" and as a universal genius. Leonardo is famous for his masterly paintings, such as The Last Supper and Mona Lisa...Read on

Richard Branson

Sir Richard Branson, KBE, a famed British entrepreneur, is best known for his widely successful Virgin brand, a banner that encompasses a variety of business organizations...Read on

Sir Winston Churchill

The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS, PC was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War...Read on

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert, French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists, known especially for his first published novel Madame Bovary, and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style...Read on

Scott Adams

Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires, and experimental philosophy books... Read on

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist, inventor, founder of Bell Canada, and was formerly credited as father of the telephone...Read on

Eric Bruno Borgman

Eric Bruno Borgman, an actor, writer, and film director...Read on

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday was a British scientist (a physicist and chemist) who contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry...Read on

Henry Ford

Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and is credited with contributing to the creation of a middle class in American society. He was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles...Read on

Richard Ford

Richard Ford is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the novels The Sportswriter, its award-winning sequel Independence Day, and the widely-anthologized short story "Rock Springs."...Read on

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg, is a well-known American movie actress, comedian, and singer...Read on

Duncan Goodhew

Duncan Goodhew is one of the most respected and instantly recognisable UK swimming athletes. He was an Olympic Gold and Bronze medallist at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He was the England Swimming team captain, and multi-Olympics champion...Read on

Susan Hampshire

Susan Hampshire OBE is an English actress best known for her many film and television roles...Read on

Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard is a British stand-up comedian and actor. He has a very individual style of rambling, surreal monologue. He has turned his attention to acting as well as maintaining his demanding touring schedule...Read on

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States and an American statesman, ambassador to France, political philosopher, revolutionary, agriculturalist, horticulturist, land owner, architect, archaeologist, slaveowner, author, inventor, lawyer and founder of the University of Virginia...Read on

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to as Jack Kennedy or JFK, was the 35th President of the United States (1961–1963)...Read on

Steve Redgrave

Sir Stephen Geoffrey Redgrave, CBE, or less formally Steve Redgrave, is a British rower who won a gold medal at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000 As the only Briton ever to achieve this feat, he is widely considered to be Britain's greatest Olympian...Read on

Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed ) was an English actor known for his macho image on and off screen...Read on

Rodin Charles Schwab

Charles R. Schwab is the founder and CEO of the Charles Schwab Corporation... Read on

Woodrow Wilson

US president during World War 1, even though he campaigned against it and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize... Read on

Steven Spielberg

Film producer of 'Jaws', 'E.T.', 'Jurassic Park', and many other brilliant movies... Read on

Jackie Stewart

Sir John Young Stewart, better known as Jackie Stewart, is a three-time Scottish Formula One racing champion. He is well-known as a commentator of racing television broadcasts where his Scottish accent made him a distinctive presence...Read on

George Washington

George Washington was an American planter, political figure, the highest ranking military leader in U.S. history and first President of the United States...Read on

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

Thomas J. Watson, Jr. eldest son of Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, dealt in his youth with the incredible pressure of being raised under the popularity and dominance of his father. Nevertheless, he himself became a successful IBM leader...Read on

Henry Winkler

Henry Franklin Winkler is an actor, director and producer who is most famous for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the popular sitcom Happy Days...Read on

Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is a British Rastafarian writer and dub poet, and is well known in contemporary English literature...Read on

Mohammad Ali

Olympic light heavyweight boxing champion...Read on

Babe Ruth

Often called the greatest of all baseball players...Read on

Theo Paphitis

Dragon's Den star, Paphitis came to England with his parents and brother, Marinos, when he was six years old...Read on