FAMOUS PEOPLE

BILL GATES

William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955. _____________ world's richest people
and perhaps the most successful businessman ever. He co-founded the software giant Microsoft
_____________ the world’s largest software company. He is the best-known entrepreneur of the
PC revolution. He has also written two best-selling books ________________ charity with his
wife.

Gates was fascinated with electronics ________________. In 1975 he read about a small
technology company. He contacted them ________________ interested in a computer
programme he had written. This led to the creation of Microsoft. Gates later struck
____________________ Microsoft's Windows on IBM computers. This deal made Microsoft a
major player in the IT industry.

Gates ________________ Microsoft from 1975 until 2006. He was an active software developer
at the beginning. ___________________ computers could change everyone’s life. He helped
make this vision come true and developed many products ___________________ modern life.
His management style has been studied and copied around the world.

Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO in June 2008. __________________ his wife, Melinda,
focusing on their charitable foundation. They provide funds for global problems
_______________ governments and other organizations. ‘Time’ magazine voted Gates as one of
the biggest influences of the 20th Century. Scientists named the Bill Gates ________________.

ANGELA MERKEL

Angela Merkel was born in Hamburg in 1954. She became Germany’s first female Chancellor
__________________ communist East Germany in 2005. ‘Forbes’ magazine
__________________ most powerful woman in the world in 2006 and 2007. Western media
__________________ “Iron Lady” because of her no-nonsense approach __________________
reputation as a tough negotiator.

Merkel grew __________________ German Democratic Republic. She was a member of the
socialist __________________ and participated in many communist-led activities. She
__________________. She studied physics at the University of Leipzig in the 1970s and physical
chemistry in Berlin in the 1980s. She earned a Ph.D. __________________ on quantum
chemistry.

__________________ the Berlin Wall in 1989, Merkel became involved in the growing
democracy movement. __________________ the unified German parliament in 1990
__________________ Minister for Women and Youth. In 1994, she was made Minister for the
Environment. This was her springboard __________________. She was elected Chancellor in
November 2005.

In 2007, Merkel __________________ rotating position of President of the European Council

and __________________. That same year, she met the Dalai Lama in Berlin,
__________________ Chinese. In 2008, she spoke of Germany’s “Holocaust Shame” in Israel’s
Knesset. She also received the Charlemagne Prize "for her __________________ European
Union".
COCO CHANEL

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was born in France in ______________ 1971. She was a pioneering
fashion designer who revolutionized women’s fashion. She designed modern and simple clothes
______________ based on menswear. ______________ important that she was the only designer
named in ‘Time’ magazine's ______________ most influential people of the 20th century.

Chanel ___________ upbringing. Her mother worked in the poorhouse where Gabrielle was
born. She died when Gabrielle was six ___________ father abandoned her. She __________
Coco while she was a cafe singer in 1905. Two lovers funded her first store in Paris in 1910.
They also ___________ become popular with rich women.

In the 1920s, Chanel ______________ Paris’ top fashion designers. Her comfortable,
________________ were popular across Europe. Women found her mannish clothes to be
liberating. In 1922 Chanel introduced her perfume, Chanel No. 5, ______________ highly
profitable. Her famous Chanel suit has also ______________ of time and is part of the modern
woman’s wardrobe.

At the beginning of World War II she ______________ Ritz Hotel in Paris, which became
______________ 30 years. During the Nazi occupation of Paris she had a lover, a German spy.
This relationship made her unpopular ______________ after the war. Her 1954 collection
______________ France. Today, however, her name is the biggest in fashion.

LARRY PAGE

Lawrence Edward ‘Larry’ Page is an American __________________ co-founded the Google

Internet search engine. He was co-president of Google until 2001, when __________________
Sergey Brin appointed an external CEO. In 2007, ‘PC World’ magazine said Page
__________________ of the most important people on the Internet. Along with Brin, Page is the
world’s __________________ billionaire.

Page was born in 1973. His father __________________ computer science and
__________________ and his mother was a computer programming teacher. His brother Carl is a
co-founder of eGroups, which he sold to Yahoo! _________________ dollars. Page graduated
with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and a master’s in computer science
_________________ Stanford University.

Page said the best __________________ received was from his Ph.D. supervisor, who
encouraged him to study the __________________ behind the world wide web. He investigated
how different web pages __________________ other. He met Sergey Brin and developed a
search engine system they called Google. Their __________________ Google is still on the
Stanford University Web site.

Page has followed other interests __________________ as Google president. He

__________________ personal fortune of over $18 billion, but continues to look for
__________________ Google’s innovativeness. Page is looking to the future and invested in a
company that is __________________, battery-powered cars. The World Economic Forum
named him as a Global Leader for Tomorrow.