Category: Featured Biographies

“The air is where I am at home.” Felix Baumgartner This certainly is one of the most swashbuckling daredevil tales mankind has ever witnessed or heard. Felix Baumgartner, Popularly known as Fearless Felix, has successfully …

American web developer and innovator Jack Dorsey is widely known for his amazing creation of a social media tool ‘Twitter’ for sharing micro messages. He is also behind developing a small electronic payment service called …

Dr Ujjwal Patni is a dentist turned self-help author of 6 books published in more than 12 languages, a popular motivational speaker with more than one million audience across 100 + cities worldwide, corporate trainer …

Ernestine Shepherd was declared to be the world’s oldest competitive female bodybuilder by the Guinness World Records in 2010 and 2011. She started bodybuilding and weight lifting at the age of 56 and after some …

American actor and martial artist Carlos Ray (Chuck) Norris continues to be impossibly fit and unbeatably stronger than ever, all at the age of 72. His steely determination to stay strong and tough guy look …

Indian bodybuilder Manohar Aich, who is better known as Pocket Hercules for his 4 feet 11 inches height, became the first Indian to win the Mr. Universe title in 1952. He also won three gold …

Argentine footballer Lionel Andrés Messi is one of the greatest and highest paid football players in the world with an estimated earning of $45 million a year. Currently, he is the caption of Argentina’s national …

Widely acclaimed Irish actor and environmentalist Pierce Brendan Brosnan’s journey started from a humble story. He spent much of his early years of life as a loner and grew up facing several uncomfortable and painful …

Five-time World Boxing Champion Mari Kom has made India proud by winning Bronze with her valiant effort. She is truly an inspiration to us all, especially to young women who aspire to pursue sports and …

William Saroyan, an Armenian author and dramatist, was born in Fresno, California to Armenian immigrant parents who moved to New Jersey in 1905 from Bitlis of the Ottoman Empire. His father was a small vineyard …

Born: On June 12, 1985 in Miami, Florida American software developer Blake Aaron Ross is widely known for his significant contribution to the popular web browser Mozilla Firefox project along with Dave Hyatt and Joe …

Born: 16 November 1922 in Azinhaga, Portugal Died: 18 June 2010 José de Sousa Saramago was a renowned Portuguese poet, novelist, journalist and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. He was …