Charlie Williams

Occupations : Comedian
Birth date: 23rd December 1927.
Place of birth : Ross Lane, Royston, a small mining village near Barnsley, South
Yorkshire
Education : Ryhill modern school

Best Known for

First black British comedian to experience mainstream success. In the 1970s Yorkshire-born
Charlie Williams, with his catch-phrase "me old flower", became the first black British stand-up
comic to experience mainstream success, especially on television where, from 1971, he enjoyed
a long residency on Granada TV's stand-up show The Comedians. Other successes followed. He
was the subject of This is Your Life, and he appeared in the Royal Variety Command
Performance (both 1972). The following year he had his own Charlie Williams Show on the
BBC and hosted ATV's game show The Golden Shot from 1973 to 1974.









Alice Coachman

Occupations : Athlete
Birth date: 1923
Place of birth : Albany
Education : Tuskegee Preparatory School

Best Known for

In London in 1948, Alice Coachman became the first African American to win a
gold medal, when she won the high jump competition. She was also the only
female American athlete to win a medal of any kind at these Olympics.














Rosa Parks

Occupations : African-American civil rights activist
Birth date: February 4, 1913
Place of birth : Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama
Education : Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery,
Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education,


Best Known for
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom
the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the
freedom movement"













Edson Arantes do Nascimento / Pel

Occupations: retired Brazilian footballer.
Birth date: 23 October 1940
Place of birth : Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama
Education : -

Best Known for

He is widely regarded as the best football player of all time. In 1999, he was
voted Football Player of the Century by the IFFHS International Federation of
Football History and Statistics. He is also acknowledged for his vocal support
of policies to improve the social conditions of the poor (when he scored his
1,000th goal he dedicated it to the poor children of Brazil).during his career, he
became known as "The King of Football" (O Rei do Futebol), "The King Pel"
(O Rei Pel) or simply "The King" (O Rei).











Nelson Mandela

Occupations: retired Brazilian footballer.
Birth date: 18 July 1918
Place of birth : Eastern Cape
Education : Attended Fort Hare University and the University of
Witwatersrand,

Best Known for
Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered statesmen, who led the
struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial
democracy.











Sir Trevor McDonald

Occupations: Journalist and news presenter.
Birth date: 16 August 1939
Place of birth : George McDonald
Education: -

Best Known for

Trinidadian-British newsreader and journalist. He had a long career as a news
presenter with ITN. He is notable for having been ITN's first black journalist,
and for having won more awards than any other British broadcaster





Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)











Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley

Occupations: Singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist
Birth date: 6 February 1945
Place of birth : Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica
Education: Stepney Primary and Junior High School

Best Known for

Bob Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae
music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari
movement to a worldwide audience












Lenny Henry

Occupation: Actor, Comedian, Activist, Writer
Birth date: August 29, 1958
Place of birth: Dudley, a suburb of Birmingham, England.
Education: Bluecoat Secondary Modern School, W.R. Tewson School, and Preston
College,

Best Known for

Naming him one of the 50 funniest people in Britain in 2003, the Observer newspaper
described Lenny Henry as "a comic genius with a highly effective social conscience."
Henry is one of the most successful British comedians of the "alternative comedy"
generation that emerged in the 1980s, enjoying a 30-year career that spans stand-up
live performances, TV comedy shows, TV drama, voiceovers, and movies













Colin Jackson

Occupation: Athlete
Birth date: born 18 February 1967)
Place of birth: Cardiff, Wales,
Education: Birchgrove Primary School and then Llanedeyrn High School.

Best Known for

Colin Ray Jackson CBE (born 18 February 1967) is a Welsh former sprint and
hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. Over his career
representing Great Britain and Wales he won an Olympic silver medal, became world
champion three times, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years
and was a two-time Commonwealth champion.



Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)






Zadie Smith

Occupation: British novelist, essayist and short story writer.
Birth date: 25 October 1975
Place of birth: Sadie Smith in the northwest London borough of Brent
Education: Malorees Junior School and Hampstead Comprehensive School, and King's
College, Cambridge University

Best Known for

As of 2012, she has published four novels, all of which have received substantial
critical praise. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors, and
was also included in the 2013 list.[ She joined New York University's Creative
Writing Program as a tenured professor on September 1, 2010. Smith has won the
Orange Prize for Fiction in 2006 and her novel White Teeth was included in Time
magazine's TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 list.