Category: Personalities

Narayanan Krishnan, an award-winning Indian chef at Taj Hotels, Bangalore, was short-listed for an elite job in Switzerland; but a small incident, upon which he stumbled during a quick trip to home before moving to …

Born: January 16, 1965 Source of Wealth: Ebay, Self-made Net worth: $2.9 billion (as of March 2012) eBay’s first employee, president and billionaire Jeff Skoll is also the founder of the Skoll Foundation, the Skoll …

Devi Prasad Shetty Devi Prasad Shetty, also known as ‘the Henry Ford of heart care‘ and ‘the King of Hearts‘, is India’s one of the greatest and renowned cardiac surgeons who perform the extremely risky, …

Anand Kumar, an Indian mathematician, is widely acclaimed for pioneering the most applauded and ambitious program of talent hunt ‘Super 30’ that was founded in 2002 in Patna, Bihar. He is also a sought-after columnist …

Rick Guidotti,a great hero or an angel or whatever you name him for his devotion towards social responsibilities, quit the most glamorized and lucrative career—the fashion photography—for a cause to serve humanity, to promote human …

The Australian-born British physicist Sir William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics at the age of 25 in 1915. Bragg was born on 31 March 1890 in North …

The Unpredictable rise of Jeremy Shu-How Lin, an American professional basketball player, to NBA stardom has not only refreshed the old-fashioned way of accomplishing goal once again but also has set an example for today’s …

Saina Nehwal (born on March 17, 1990) is the very first Indian woman who could reach the singles’ quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships. In 2010, …

Christopher Gardner, a real rags to riches story! Born: February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Christopher Paul Gardner, an American entrepreneur, investor, and stockbroker, who battled against homelessness and also loneliness while struggling to raise …

Sindhutai Sapkal, a Marathi woman, the mother to more than a thousand impoverished children, the living legend and one of the most courageous personalities from India, started her life journey from the streets. At the …

The story of an American professional surfer Bethany Hamilton truly motivates us to do our best with whatever we have. Her success story is self-evident that disability can’t prevent us from accomplishing our dreams. Dare …

Billie Jean King, former famous professional tennis player from the United States, won a total of 39 grand slam titles (16 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, 12 Grand Slam singles titles, and 11 Grand Slam …