Letter of Transmittal

18 March 2019

Department of Business Administration

Mr. Abdullah Babu
Assistant Professor
United International University
Madani Avenue, Badda
Dhaka- 1212

Subject: Submission of URC 1101 term paper.

Dear Sir,
With due respect we are pleased to present you our term paper on 100 most
influential people whom we want to become and 20 people whom we don’t
want to become as a part of our course requirement. Writing this term paper was
a comprehensive learning experience. We worked very hard to complete this
research paper with due respect to fulfill the desired requirements.

Therefore, we hope that you would accept the term paper and our gratitude for
allowing us to work on this interesting and self-improving task.

Yours sincerely,

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Tanjidur Rahman Tanvie
Nowshin Naj Tanisha
Rubida Amrin Khan
Adib Ahmed
Mehedi Hasan

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 Acknowledgement

The term paper is on The 100 most influential people whom I want to become
and 20 people whom I don’t want to become. In completing the term paper we
had to take help from almost everyone, including our friends, classmates,
family, university seniors. Especially, please allow us to dedicate our
acknowledgement of gratitude towards our course instructor Mr. Abdullah
Babu for his most support and encouragement. He kindly evaluated our report
and offered individual detailed advice and insight on term paper format and
organization.

Many people, especially our classmates, team members have made valuable
comments and suggestions on this report which gave us inspiration to improve
and refine our assignment. We would like to thank all these people for their
incomparable help, directly and indirectly to complete our assignment.

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 Abstract
In recent years depression and lack of influence has increased
dramatically mostly among young generations. Almost everyone is
facing this directly or indirectly. So we have enlisted the 100
influential people that we want to become and 20 evil people whom
we don’t want to become. We have enlisted their personal life,
achievements and works. Working on this term paper has made us to
deeply study about them. As a result we got influenced and motivated.
We have described their personal life. Talked about their personal
works and achievements. Discussed briefly about them and proposed
our opinion on why they are influential to us. We have also discussed
about 20 evil people whom we don’t want to become. We have
discussed about their evil work which indicates why we don’t want to
become them. The term paper will influence the reader and motivate
him enough to overcome daily obstacles in life by following their
footsteps.

We have executed the term paper work in a sequential order based on

our student ID.

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 Table of Contents

TOPIC Page No.

100 people whom I want to 06
become

Scientists 07

Philosophers 18
Politicians 29
Artists 40
Celebrities 51
Sportsperson 62
Business Tycoon 73

Writers 84
Activists 95

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 Philanthropists 106

20 people whom I don’t want 117

to become

Serial Killers 118

Drug Lords 123

Politicians 129

Celebrities 134

Scientists 139

References 144

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100 People
Whom I
Want To
Become

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Scientists

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 1. Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726)

Sir Isaac Newton is one of my most favourite scientist. He was a polymath who made
investigations into a whole range of subjects including mathematics, optics, physics,
and astronomy. In his Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, he laid the
foundations for classical mechanics, explaining the law of gravity and the laws of
motion.
Isaac Newton is my favourite scientist. He was born premature. His father died three
months before his birth. I too was born premature. Thus his success despite going
through such hardships in early childhood influences me a lot and encourages me to
be strong and keep on looking forward. I love physics. He is one of the most important
person who laid the foundation of physics. Thus it would be my honour to become a
man of his statue.

“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”

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 2. Louis Pasteur (1822–1895)

Louis Pasteur was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his
discoveries of the principles of vaccination and microbial fermentation. Also invented
the process of pasteurization to make milk safer to drink. He contributed greatly
towards the advancement of medical sciences developing cures for rabies, anthrax and
other infectious diseases. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the
causes and prevention of diseases. He reduced mortality from puerperal fever and
created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. He probably saved more lives than any
other person. His help towards the humanity can never be forgotten. He influences my
to help people day to day.
He was not a doctor nor a philanthropist yet he changed everyones life forever. It
would be really great to follow his footsteps and become like him.

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to

humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world.”

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 3. Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)

Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes

described as polymath. Galileo has been called the father of observable astronomy, the
father of modern physics, father of scientific method and also the father of modern
science. Creating one of the first modern telescopes, Galileo revolutionized our
understanding of the world, successfully proving the Earth revolves around the Sun
and not the other way around. His work Two New Sciences laid the groundwork for
the science of Kinetics and strength of materials.
His groundbreaking works questioned the belief of that time. His story helps me to
always have a open mind to ideas. That is why I want to become like him.

“If I were to again begin my studies, I would follow the

advice of Plato and start with mathematics.”

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 4. Marie Curie (1867–1934)

Polish physicist and chemist. Discovered radiation and helped to apply it in the field
of X-ray. She was the first woman to win Nobel prize, the first person and only
woman to win Nobel prize twice, and the only person to win Nobel prize in two
different sciences. She was part of the “Curie Family Legacy” of five Nobel prizes.
She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris and in
1995 became the first woman to entombed on her own merits in the Pantheon in Paris.
She won the Nobel Prize in both Chemistry and Physics.
As a female she had to face a lot of obstacles yet did not give up and made history.
Her passion helps me to ignite my passion for success. She had achieved things even
men were unable to achieve it at that time. So it would be really great to become as
great as her and make history.

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.”

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 5. Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Albert Einstein was a German born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of
relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work also known for its
influence on the philosophy of science. He is best to the general public for his mass
energy equivalence formula E=mc , which has been dubbed the worlds most famous
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equation. Revolutionized modern physics with his general theory of relativity. He won
the Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) for his discovery of the Photoelectric effect, which
formed the basis of Quantum Theory.
He was alienated from his motherland. Yet did became successful. His life influences
me no never lose hope.

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you

must keep moving.”

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 6. Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882)

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known
for his contributions to the science of evolution. He developed his theory of evolution
against a backdrop of disbelief and skepticism. He collected evidence over 20 years
and published his conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859). His proposition that
all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely
accepted and considered a foundational concept in science.
His theories help me question myself and what I stand on. Thus helping in the form of
what i am today. So yes, I would love to become a man of his statue.

“A man who dares to waste one hour of his time has not
discovered the value of life.”

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 7. Otto Hahn (1879–1968)

Hahn was a German chemist who discovered nuclear fission (1939). He was a
pioneering scientist in the field of radiochemistry and discovered radioactive elements
and nuclear isomerism (1921). He is referred as the father of nuclear chemistry. He
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the
radiochemical proof of nuclear weapons that were developed in the U.S. during World
War 2.
Hanh was an opponent of the national socialism and Jewish persecution by the Nazi
Party. Albert Einstein wrote that Hanh was one of the very few who stood upright and
did the best he could in these years of evil. After World War 2 he became a passionate
campaigner against the use of nuclear energy and weapon.
Even is the face of the government he did not became scared and sang the wrong
doing. Instead protested for the right thing. His principles helped me to build mine.
Thus I want to become like him.

“As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic

substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had
any scruples about the whole thing. Anyway, our enemies had
by now adopted our methods and as they became increasingly
successful in this mode of warfare we were no longer
exclusively the aggressors, but found ourselves more and
more at the receiving end.”
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 8. Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical

engineer and futurist who was best known for his contributions to the design of the
modern alternating current(AC) electricity supply system. Tesla worked on
electromagnetism and AC current. He is credited with many patents from electricity to
radio transmission and played a key role in the development of modern electricity.
And excellent scientist and a businessman. Through him I understood a man can
achieve anything if he puts his mind to it. Because of these it would be an honour to
become like a great man like him.

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked is

mine.”

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 9. Archimedes of Syracuse (287BC–212BC)
Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, inventor and
astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the
leading scientists in classical antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. He
anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying concepts of infinitesimals and
the method of exhaustion to drive and rigorously prove a range of geometrical
theorems, including the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of sphere, and the
area under a parabola.
I am terrible in math. He was born 2,200 years ago and was so good at it. Which
questions my ability and drives me to work hard and become better. That is why it
would be really great to become an excellent mathematician like him.

“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach

it with pure love, for its own beauty.”

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 10. Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC)

A great early Greek scientist who made many types of research in the natural sciences
including botany, zoology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology and geometry.
He is considered the father of western philosophy. Aristotles views on physical
science profoundly shaped medieval scholarship. Their influence extended from Late
Antiquity and Early Middle Ages into the Renaissance and were not replaced
systematically until the Enlightenment and theories such as classical mechanics. Some
of Aristotles zoological observations such as on the hectocotylus arm of the octopus
were disbelieved until the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal
study of logic, studied by medieval scholars such as Peter Abelard and John Buridan.
Aristotelianism profoundly influenced Islamic thought during the Middle Ages as well
as Christian theology, especially the Neoplatonism of the Early Church and the
scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. Aristotle was revered among medieval
Muslim scholars as “The First Teacher”. His ethics though always influential gained
renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics.
Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics helped to build my own perspectives of the world and
strengthened my ethical pillar. Thus I would definitely love to become a man like him.

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no

education at all.”

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Philosophers

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 1. Socrates (470BC- 399BC)
Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of western
philosophy and as being the first moral philosopher of the western ethical tradition of
thought. An enigmatic figure who made no writings and is known chiefly through the
accounts of classical writers writings after his lifetime, particularly his student Plato
and Xenophon. Other sources include the contemporaneous Antisthenes, Aristippus
and Aeschines of Sphettos. Aristophanes a playwright is the only source to have
written during his lifetime.
The father of philosophy is the one who influenced me to question everything and
understand the deeper meaning of everything. He is the most influential person of my
life. His thoughts helped me to shape my life, thinking, morals and ethics. For that I
am honoured and grateful. Though I know I will never get any closer to him. But it
would be my honour to follow his works and get as close as possible becoming him.

“Know thyself.”

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 2. Plato (427BC-347BC)
Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the classical period in Ancient Greece and
the founder of the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western
world. He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek and
Western philosophy, along with his teacher Socrates and his most famous student
Aristotle.
Platos Republic and Allegory of the cave put my thinking into question and redefined
the way of my thinking. As a result I started thinking outside of the box and became
open minded. His thoughts about the divine has changed everything.

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

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 3. Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician and scientist. A native of
the Kingdom of France, he spent about 20 years of his life in the Dutch republic after
serving for a while in the Dutch States Army of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces. He is generally considered one of the
most notable intellectual figures of the Dutch Golden Age.
He approached a different approach in learning. He rejected all bookish knowledge
and believed practical knowledge can only be learned from practical world
experience. It is a totally different approach to learning so it would be really
interesting to become someone like him.

“ Cogito Ergo Sum.” (I think Therefore I am)

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 4. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Immanuel Kant was an influential German philosopher. In his doctrine of
transcendental idealism, he argued that space, time and causation are mere
sensibilities, “things in themselves” exist but their nature is unknowable. In his view
the mind shapes the structures experience with all human experience sharing certain
structural features. He drew a parallel to the Copernican revolution in his proposition
that worldly objects can be instituted a priori (beforehand) and that institution is
therefore independent from a faculty of disinterested judgement. Kants views continue
to have major influence on contemporary philosophy especially the fields of
epistemology, ethics, political theory and post-modern aesthetics. It would be really
amazing to become someone of his statue.

“Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life.”

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 5. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer,
poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound
influence on western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career
as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest ever to
hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Baseline at the age of 24. He
resigned after 10 years that plagued him most of his life. He completed much of his
core writing in the following decade. In 1889 at the of 44 he suffered a collapse and
afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the
are of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Forster
Nietzsche.
Friedrich Nietzsches works had a great impact in my teenage days. Just can’t imagine
where my life would have been without the help of his work. So definitely it would be
a great honour for me to become such brilliant and honourable person like him.

“What does not kill us makes us stronger.”

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 6. Voltaire (1694-1778)
Francois Marie Arouet also known as Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer,
historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity, especially
the Roman Catholic Church and advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech
and separation of church and state. He was a versatile and prolific writer, producing
works in almost every literary form including plays, poems, novels, essays and
historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000
books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties despite the risk
this placed him under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist,
he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the
french institutions of this day.
Voltaire the man who helped me to strengthen my belief system for that I am grateful.
And I would be very much interested to become like him.

“Common sense is not so common”

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 7. Confucius (551BC-479BC)
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician and philosopher of the Spring and
Autumn period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius also known as
Confucianism emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social
relationships, justice and sincerity. Hi followers competed successfully with many
other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppresses in
favour of the legalists during the Qin dynasty. His thoughts received official sanction
and were further developed into a system known in the west as Neo-Confucism and
later New Confucianism.
He always had an optimistic and bold thinking. He loved ceremonies and explained
the true reasons for them. So it would delightful for me to become like him.

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not
stop.”

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 8. Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was a philosopher and a Roman Emperor from
161 to 181. He ruled the Roman Empire with his adoptive brother Lucius Verus until
Lucius death in 169. He was the last of the rulers traditionally known as the Five
Good Emperors. He is also seen as the last emperor of the Pax Romana an age of
relative peace and stability for the Empire. His personal philosophical writings now
commonly known as Meditations are significant source of modern understanding of
ancient Stoic philosophy. They have been praised by fellow writers, philosophers and
monarchs as well as by poets and politicians centuries after his death.
He had many home tutors from whom he learned many things. Which made him the
man the magnificent and bold man he was. So I would be absolutely great to become a
man as he was.

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we

see is a perspective, not the truth.”

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 9. Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, writer and philosopher who lived
in the Eastern Zhou period of ancient China. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the
author of The Art of War, an influential work of military strategy that has affected
Western and East Asian philosophy and military thinking. His works focus much
more on alternatives to battle such as stratagem, delay, the use of spies and
alternatives to war itself, the making and keeping of alliances, the uses of deceit and
willingness to submit, at least temporarily to more powerful foes. Sun Tzu is revered
in Chinese and East Asian culture as a legendary historical and military figure.
He was a very strong and hard general with brilliant war tactics. He is praised greatly
even in this modern age. It will be amazing to become a genius like him.

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

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 10. Laozi
Laozi also known as Lao Tzu and Lao Tze was an ancient Chinese philosopher and
writer. He is reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism,
a deity is religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. A semi-legendary figure,
Laozi was usually portrayed as a 6th century BC contemporary of Confucius but some
modern historians consider him to have lived during the Warring States period of the
4th century BC. A central figure in Chinese culture he is claimed by both the emperors
of the Tang dynasty and modern people of the Li surname as a founder if their lineage.
Laozis work has been embraced by both various anti-authoritarian movements and
Chinese Legalism.
His works hold many procedures which can be used to solve modern day problems.
He was a kind hearted and very calm man. Thus making him always open to new
ideas. It would be my pleasure to become someone like him.

“When I let go what I am, I become what I might be.”

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Politicians

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 Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948)
A pilgrim of peace, born in India Mahatma Gandhi saw his life of
ultimate truth. He used to evolving and seeking alternative way to
thinking and living. His long journey began in 1988 of self
transformation. From his earliest days Ghandi was a sturdy role
model of extraordinary discipline and devotion. He wanted to be a
gentleman but no superficial skill could hide his inexperienced and
insecurity. Unaware of discrimination of India and British, he
innocently booked a high class passage on a train that meant to be
for high class British. As he was thrown from the train that
humiliation was the spark of the desire change. He organized an
immediate meeting of immigrants to fight for the people. He was
arrested for organizing civil resistance of the thousands of landless
farmers. Mahatma Gandhi became the primary leader of India’s
independent movement and also the architect of a form of non-
violent civil disobedient that would influence the world. Until he was
assassinated in 1948, his life and teachings inspire activists including
Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela

“Be the change that you want to see in the world”

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 Nelson Mandela
(1918-2013)

No one needs an introduction for this great man. Nelson Mandela is

the person who dedicated his life to do what was right. He was the
first democratically elected President of South Africa. He was the
leader and the face of the Anti- Apartheid movement and all through
his life, he relentlessly fought against racial discrimination. For his
actions, he served a long prison sentence but even that did not deter
him. He came out as a hero and led the country into a free, equal
future. His determination, focus and will-power were tremendous
that even after serving almost 30 years in jail, he got out and worked
again for what was right. Due to his dedication to do the right made
him a world-famous campaigner for racial equality. In 1993 he was
awarded the ‘Novel Peace Prize’.

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

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 Mao Zedong
(1893-1976)

Mao Zedong was the leader of the Chinese Revolution and the
founder of People’s Republic of China, the China we see today. His
He withheld the Japanese invasion. He aslo kick-started the economy
of China and helped it become the super-power it is today. His vision
for China is what him and the people of China strived for. His vision
led China to an economical growth where this made this country a
super powered country. His ideologies and principles of governance
and economics are now known as Maoism.

“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get

rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”

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 Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)

It all started with a dream, like it always does. A dream for change
and a dream for better tomorrow. A public speech on Washington
for jobs and freedom, that will be always remembered given on
August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economics right and
end to racism in United States. Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist
and a leader in the civil rights movement of USA. He was also a
member of the clergy. New laws were passed in 1964 and 1965 that
banned prejudice. He is known for the non-violent ways in which he
advanced and led the civil rights movement. He fought for racial
equality and showed the people a picture of a better future where all
men are equal. Courage, perseverance and the will to fight for what’s
right till the very end made him a great leader. He won The Nobel
Peace Prize in 1964.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things
that matter.”

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 Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945)

Now, many people will argue and disagree with the fact that a man
like Hitler is called a great leader but we have to say that although
his actions and deeds were not good but his leadership skills were
matched only by few in the world. He became the chancellor of
Germany in 1933, rising through the ranks and waged a great war.
But his oratory skills, military expansions and economic growth plans
are something whose credit we have to duly give him and him alone.
Meticulous planning, propaganda and strategizing by Hitler has in
some way, shaped the power politics of the world that we see even
today

“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”

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 George Washington
(1732-1799)

The Founding father of The United States Of America, George

Washington, is till date one of the greatest leaders that we have ever
seen. He led the American Revolution and later, led USA into the first
few years of it’s independence as the First President of USA. He was
a visionary and he had immense vision for America which has led
America to become the super power it is today. His tenacity,
steadfastness, his ability to make decisions during difficult times
made him a great leader and he led many people to success.

“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow

trouble.”

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 Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821)

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader who rose to power

after the French Revolution which overthrew the monarchy. He was
shrewd and cunning and a person who knew that bigger numbers did
not always mean bigger strength. His small armies are known to have
triumphed over larger armies. The Napoleonic Code of Legal Reforms
which he formed is used till date in many places. His military
leadership and the regard for the common man made him famous
and he ruled and influenced France for many years.

“A leader is a dealer in hope”

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 Franklin D Roosevelt
(1882-1945)

Franklin Roosevelt, also called FDR, was an American statesmen and

a political leader who helped America during some of the worst years
like The Great Depression. Roosevelt was afflicted with polio at the
age of 29 and he was left paralyzed in both his legs. And yet, he went
on to become the President in 1933 and he is the only President who
was elected four consecutive times, till 1945, when he died. He also
lead the America military into WW II and made America rise to
power. His political knowledge, yearning to never stop are
characteristics that every true leader longs to have.

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and
hang on.”

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 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
(1920-1975)

The founding father of the People's Republic of Bangladesh Sheikh

Mujibur Rahman was born in 17 March 1920. He served as the first
President of Bangladesh and later as the Prime Minister of
Bangladesh. Before becoming the president he played a prominent
role in countering exploitation and other unjust actions of the power
holders of West Pakistan towards people of East Pakistan now
known as Bangladesh. His political views often landed him up in jail
which never deterred him from vehemently challenging military
dictatorship of Ayub Khan, the then Field Marshal of Pakistan.
Although after many hardships and with the support of this countries
people ‘Awami league’ under his leadership won the first democratic
election which led to 9 months war where a new nation was born
named Bangladesh. He was assassinated on 15 August 1975.

“I have given you independence, now go and

preserve it.”

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 Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)

It takes a man with a vision to lead a country during it’s bad times.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of USA, led the country through
the US Civil War. He strived hard and did his best to keep the people
of the country together or else, today, America would have been
many smaller countries instead of one big country. He signed the
Emancipation Proclamation, thereby ending slavery in US. He heart
ached for the ones for whom he could do not do anything. His
conviction, humility, oratory skills made him one of the greatest
leaders we have ever had.

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always

followed me”

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Artists

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 Pablo Ruiz Picasso
(1881-1973)

Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century,

Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was born in the
Christian faith and baptized. But he became an atheist later on. He
was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet
and playwright. Pablo is a master innovator in art, as he has co-
founded the cubist movement, invented the constructed sculpture
and co-invented the idea of collage, which is prominent even in this
age of digital art. One of his best works is Guernica, a dramatic
portrayal of the bombing of guernica by the german and italian
airforces during the Spanish Civil War. Pablo’s work provides
inspiration for people of all walks of life around the world.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an

artist once they grow up.”

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 Vincent Willem van Gogh
(1853-1890)

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. He is one

of the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western
art. He was born in Zundert, Netherlands in 1853. He didn’t start
painting until he was 28. His younger brother Theo supported him
financially. In about ten years of his art career, he produced more
than two thousand artworks. They include landscapes, still lifes,
portraits and self-portraits. His work is characterized by bold colors
and dramatic, impulsive, expressive brushwork. Vincent is a perfect
example of the fact that it is never to late to learn anything. Vincent
committed suicide in 1890. His work inspires us even in this day and
age.

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

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 Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519)

Leonardo dil ser Piero da Vinci was an italian polymath of the

renaissance. He is famously known as one of the greatest painter of
all time. He is also credited as the father of paleontology, ichnology
and architecture. Leonardo invented the parachute, helicopter and
tank. Born in Vinci, Florence (now italy), Leonardo had twelve half-
siblings, never got married and had no children. He was left handed.
Leonardo is described to be kind, handsome, extroverted, strong,
generous and trustworthy by his peers. His works include Mona Lisa,
The Last Supper, Lady with and Ermine etc. Leonardo continues to
hone our knowledge and perception by dint of his words-

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

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 Michelangelo
(1475-1564)

Arguably the greatest artist of his lifetime, Michelangelo was born in

Caprese, Florence. He is an italian sculptor, painter, architect and
poet of the High Renaissance.Michelangelo was a devoted catholic.
His father was a serving magistrate of the Florentine Republic and
came from an important family. However, he did not wish to imitate
his father’s career. He was attracted to the artistic world.
Michelangelo learned about Greek and Latin art from the classic
Masters. He was often referred to as “the divine one”. His works
include the "David" and "Pieta" statues and the ceiling paintings of
Rome's Sistine Chapel, including the "Last Judgment." Michelangelo
was a unique artist who created works of such sublime beauty his
reputation will always be treasured.

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine

perfection.”

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 Jackson Pollock
(1912-1956)
Born in Cody, US, Jackson pollock was an American painter. He was a
major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He is famous
for his paintings Number 17A, No 5, Mural on Indian Red Ground,
Autumn Rhythm, Convergence etc. Pollock is appreciated for his
“drip technique”, also known as “action painting” which allowed him
to use his whole body while painting. He was addicted to alcohol and
died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related single car accident. He
remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His
mastery of art is demonstrated in his words-

“Every good painter paints what he is.”

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 Zainul Abedin
(1914-1976)
“Shilpacharya” Zainul Abedin was a famous Bengali painter. He was
born in 1914 at Kishoreganj, East Bengal, British India (now
Bangladesh). He received education from Government art school,
Kolkata and Art School, London. He spent much of his childhood near
the beautiful banks of Brahmaputra river. This river has appeared in
many of his works. Zainul Abedin is notable for his paintings The
Struggle, Rebel Cow, Famine paintings, Nobanno, Study of a Crow,
Two faces etc. His famine sketches of the 1940s are his most
remarkable works. He illustrated the pain of the people affected by
the great famine of bengal in 1943 in his paintings. Zainul was
voluntarily involved in Bengali Language Movement and Bangladesh
liberation war. The ‘Shilpacharya’ died of lung cancer on 1976 in
Dhaka. Zainul’s philosophy about life is expressed in his quote-

"My ambition was not to be a great artist, but I have

always wanted to be a man like any other man, and I
have always tried to live in the society of man as one of
its ordinary members."

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 Hashem Khan
(1941- )

One of the leading artists during the liberation war of Bangladesh,

Hashem khan was a painter who excelled in depicting the rural life of
Bangladesh. Was born in 1941 in Chandpur. He graduated from the
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka and served as a professor for
44 years. Hashem Khan is famous for a lot of his works on book
covers. He received Ekushey Padak in 1992. Hashem khan’s paintings
of rural Bangladesh gives us a picturesque view of how beautiful
bangladesh truly is. He is currently serving as the Chairman of
Bangladesh National museum.

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 Mustafa Monwar
(1935- )
Famous for his role in the television puppet show Moner kotha,
Mustafa Monwar is a prominent bangladeshi painter who has
inspired millions of children in Bangladesh. He is married to Merry
Monwar and they have two children. He is known as “The Puppet
Man of Bangladesh”. Mustafa has staged puppet shows like Agacha,
Rakkhash, A Brave Farmer etc.During the Liberation War, he
organised puppet shows at the refugee camps in West Bengal to
boost the morale of refugees who had fled the conflict, and to bring
back laughter in their lives. He runs EPDC, a dhaka based
organization which works on the development of education puppets.
Monwar is the son of poet Golam Mostofa. He has served as a
lecturer at the East Pakistan College of Arts and Crafts, director
general at BTV, director general at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
and the National Media Institute. He is currently the chairman of
Bangladesh Shishu Academy. As a result of a lifetime of contribution
to the art and culture of Bangladesh, Mustafa received The Daily Star
and Standard Chartered Bank Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

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 Quamrul Hasan
(1921-1988)

Quamrul Hassan was a Bengali artist. Hassan is often referred to in

Bangladesh as Potua, a word usually associated with folk artists, due
to his down to earth style yet very modern in nature as he always
added Cubism other than the folk style to his artworks. In addition to
his artistic legacy, two of Hassan's work have come to be part of
Bangladesh's political history. The first of this is a monstrous
rendition of Yahya Khan, the Pakistani president who ordered
genocide in Bangladesh. The second was just before his death,
mocking the then dictator of Bangladesh, Hossain Mohammad
Ershad. This sketch was titled Desh aaj bisshobeheyar khoppre (Our
land is now in the hand of the champion of shamelessness). After
the Partition of India, together with Zainul Abedin, he established the
Government Institute of Fine Arts (at present, the Faculty of Fine
Arts) in 1948. During liberation war he served as the Director of the
Art Division of the Information and Radio Department of the
Bangladesh Government in exile.

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 Qayyum Chowdhury
(1932-2014)

Qayyum Chowdhury was born on 9 March 1932 in Feni. was a

Bangladeshi painter. Along with Zainul Abedin, Quamrul
Hassan and Safiuddin Ahmed, he is considered as a first generation
artist of Bangladesh. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 1984 and
the Independence Day Award in 2014 by the Government of
Bangladesh. Chowdhury was a member of Bangladesh Bank’s
currency note design committee and mural committee and designed
several currency notes in circulation.Chowdhury had been involved
with daily Prothom Alo since its inception in 1998. He was the
convenor of the Charu Karu Shilpi Songram Parishad during the
liberation war in 1971. He was awarded First prize in the All Pakistan
Art Exhibition in Lahore (1962).

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Celebrities

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 ABDUR RAZZAK
(1942-2017)
Abdur Razzak was a Bangladeshi Actor & film director. He is referred
to as Nayak Raj Razzak a title given by Ahmed Zaman Chowdhury editor of the
magazine chitrali. Razzak won Bangladesh National film Award for the best Actor
five times for his roles. He was awarded the Independence Day Award in 2015 by the
government of Bangladesh. Everyone known he is the legend of Bangladesh. He has
made his acting more emotional. He is dead, but still he is very famous to everyone
and we believe that legend are never die.

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 AMITAB BACHCHAN
(born 11 October,1942)

Amitab bachchun is an Indian, Film , Actor, film producer,

television host, occasional playback singer and former singer. He was dubber INDIA
angry young man for his on screen role in Bollywood. Bachchan was won numerous
accolades in his, career including four national film Awards as best actor and many
awards at international film festivals and Award ceremonies. He is a very old man but he is still
doing very well. To be honest I still see him as a young man. I love his 2 movies 1 st
one is Bhootnath and 2nd one is Kabhi Khushi kabhi Gham.

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 AYUB BACHCHU
(1962-2018)

Ayub bachchu was a Bangladeshi rock guitarist,composer and

singer, songwriter who was a member of the Bangladesh Rock band
(LRB). He earned success as the founder and the lead guitarist of the
band. He was a gem of our country .I love Ayub bachchu. The lyrics of his
songs are very beautiful. He died but his lyrics remained alive. He has
given all his things in his songs.

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DEPIKA PADUKONE
(born 5 January, 1986)

Deepika Padukone is an Indian film actress. The highest paid

actress in India. She is a beautiful lady. Padukone is the recipient of several awards,
including three film fare Awards. She features in listings of the nation’s most popular
personality and time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world
in 2018. The romantic comedy Coctail marked a turning point in Padukone’s career,
earning her praise and Best Actress nominations at several award ceremonies.
Padukone is married to her frequent co-star Ranveer Singh.

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 MASHRAFE MORTAZA
(born 5 October,1983)

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is a Bangladeshi cricketer. Current

captain of the one day international for Bangladesh National Cricket team and
member of the parliament jatiyo sangsad from Narail-2. He also captained
Bangladesh in twenty international. He broke into the national side in late
2001 against Zimbabwe and represented Bangladesh before having played a
single first-class match. I love Mashrafe a lot. Because I see Bangladesh best
cricket captain. I think the players in Bangladesh are able to come today till
now only for Mashrafe. We are really proud of getting a man like him.

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 NEHA KAKKAR
(born 6 June, 1988)

Neha Kakkar is an Indian singer. she competed season 2 of the

television reality show Indian Idol in in 2006 and was a judge on the tenth
season of the same show Indian Idol. She also appeared in comedy Cirus ke
Taanse in 2014 on Sony TV. She had judged a singing reality show on zee TV
named SA RE GA MA PA Lil champs. In 2008 she launcher her first album Neh
the rock star and the music was composed by Meet bros. She worked in lots of
song. She is a beautiful Girl. She singing different kinds of songs, some of her
songs are very funny and some of the lyrics are very emotional.

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ROWAN ATKINSON
(born 6 January,1955)

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is an English actor, comedian

and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr.Bean.
Atkinson was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest actors in British
comedy, and among the top 50 comedians ever, in a 2005 poll of fellow comedians.
In addition to his 1981 BAFTA, he received an Olivier Award for his 1981 West End
theatre performance in Rowan Atkinson in Renvue. He has also had cinematic
success with his performance in the Mr. Bean movie adaptations Bean adaptations
Bean and Mr. Bean’s Holiday.

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 SALMAN KHAN
(born 27 December,1965)

Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan is an Indian

film actor, producer, occasional singer and television personality. In a film
career spanning almost thirty years, Khan has received numerous awards,
including two National Film Awards as a film producer, and two Film Fare
Awards for acting. He is a successful actors of both world and Indian
Cinema. According to the Forbes 2018 list of top-paid 100 celebrity
Entertainers in world, Khan was the highest ranked Indian with 82 nd rank
with earnings of $37.7 million . He is also known as the reality show,
Bigg Boss since 2010.

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SHAKIB-AL-HASAN
(born 24 march, 1987)

Sakib-Al-Hasan is considered as one of the Bangladesh

finest player. Shakib is recognized as the best all-rounder on the planet
with the most elevated current rankings in all series of the play. In 2015
Shakib turned the first and final cricketer. In history to be positioned the
NO.1 all-rounder by ICC. He is a great player in Bangladesh . Not only
Bangladesh all around the world, he is known as NO.1 all-rounder of
Bangladesh. Shakib is a symbol to be proud of our country.

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 SOURAV GANGULY
(born 8 july,1972)

Sourav Ganguly affectionately known as DADA is a former

Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national team, Currently he is
appointed as the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal and
president of the editorial Board with Wisden India. During his playing
career Ganguly established himself as one of the world’s leading batsman
and also one of the greatest captains of the national cricket team. While
batting, he was especially prolific through the off side, earning himself the
nickname God of the Off Side for his elegant strokeplay square of the
wicket and through the covers. He is a well-known person. He is regarded
as one of India’s most successful captains in modern times, and one of
the greatest ODI batsmen off all time.

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Sportsperson

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 CRISTIANO RONALDO
(born 5 february,1985)

Cristiano Ronaldo Dos Santos Aveiro is a

Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club
juventus and captain’s the Portugal national team. Often considered the
best player in the world and regarded by many as one of the greatest
players of all time. Ronaldo has a record tying five Ballond’or awards, the
most for a European player and is the first player to win four European
golden shoes. He has scored over 690 senior career goals for club
country.

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 DIEGO MARADONA
(born 30 october,1960)

Diego Armando Maradona is an Argentina retired

professional footballer and current manager of Mexican second division club
Dorados. Many in the sport including football players and fans regard him as
the greatest football players and fans regard him as the greatest football
player of all time. He was joint FIFA player of the 20th century with pele. His
presence and leadership on the field had a great effect on his team’s general
Performance. Maradona was given the nickname (THE GOLDEN BOY) a name
that stuck with him throughout his career. In September 2018 Maradona was
appointed coach of Mexican club Dorados.

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 LIONEL MESSI
(born 24 june,1987)
LIONEL ANDRES MESSI is an
Argentina professional
footballer who plays as forward and captains both Spanish club
Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the
best player in the world and regarded by many as one of the
greatest player of all time. Messi has won a record tying five
Ballond’or Awards ,four of which he won consecutively and a record
five European
Golden Shoes. He has scored over 680 senior career goals for club and
country.

An Argentina international, Messi is his country’s all time leading

goalscorer. At youth level, he won the 2005 FIFA WORLD YOUTH
CHAMPIONSHIP, Finishing the tournament with both the GOLDEN BALL
and GOLDEN SHOW. He has achieved a lot in football.

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 MABIA AKTER SIMANTA
(born 7 October, 1999)

Mabia Akter Simanta is a Bangladeshi Weightlifter. She

was born in Madaripur. She won Gold Medal in the women’s 63kg weight class
at the 2016 South Asian Games at Guwahati. She also won a Gold in youth
section and two Silver Medal in senior & juniors section in the commonwealth
weightlifting, championship in pune. India in October 2015 in the women’s 63
kg category. She lifted a total weight of 176 kg in winning the gold medal. She
represented our country in the world.

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 NEYMAR DA SILVA SANTOS JUNIOR
(born 5 February, 1992)

Neymar Da Silva Santos Junior commonly known

as Neymar Jr or simply Neymar. He is a Brazilian professional footballer,
who plays as a winger for Paris Saint Germain F.C and the Brazil national
football team. Considered one of the best players in the world, Neymar is
the third hightest goal scorer with 60 goals in 96 matches for Brazil since
debuting at age 18. He is a key player in Brazil. Off the pitch, he ranks
among the world’s most prominent sportsmen; Sports Pro named him
the most marketable athlete in the world. In 2017, Neymar was listed by
Time to be one of the most influential people in the world,and in
2018,France Football ranked him as the third highest paid footballer.

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 PELE
(born 23 october,1940)

Edson Arantes Do Nascimento known as Pele is a

Brazilian retired professional footballer, who played as a forward. He is
regarded by many in the sport, including football, writers players and fans as
the greatest player of all time. According to the federation of football History
& Statistics. Pele is the most successful domestic league goal scorer in football
history scoring 650 goals in 694 league matches, During his playing days, pele
was for a period the best paid athlete in the world.

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 RICARDO IZECSON DOS SANTOS LIETE
(born 22 April,1982)

Ricardo Izecson Dos Santos Liete commonly

known as KAKA or Ricard Kaka. Is a Brazilian retired professional
footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He made his
professional club debut at age 18 at sao Paulo in brazil in 2001. After
being named to the BOLA DE OURO as the best player in the 2002
Campeonato Brasileiro. He is a Brazilian retired professional
footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Kaka is widely
considered one of the best player of his generation with success at
club and international level.

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 RONALDINHO
(born 21 march,1980)

Ronaldinho De Assis Moreira commonly as

Ronaldinho Gaucho or simply Ronaldinho. He made his career debut
for cremion in 1998 at age 20. He is a Brazilian former
professional footballer and ambassador for Barcelona. He played
mostly as a attacking midfielder but was also deployed as a
forward or a winger Ronaldinho won two FIFA world player of
the year awards and a Bllond’or.

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 SACHIN TENDULKAR
(born 24 april, 1973)

Sachin Rames Tendulkar is a former Indian

international cricketer and a former captain of the Indian national
team, regarded as one of the greatest batsman of all time. He is the
highest run score of all time in international cricket. He represent
Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty
four years. He is the only player to have scored one hundred
internationally centuries, the first batsman to score a double century
in a ODI.

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 USAIN ST LEO BOLT
(born 21 august,1986)

Usain St Leo Bolt is a jamacian retired sprinter. He also

is a world recorder holder in the 100 metres,200 metres and 4x100
metres relay. He reign as olympic Games champion in all of these
events spans three as a sprinter have earned him the media
nickname “LIGHTING BOLT” .

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Business Tycoon

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 Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American technology

entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, CEO,
and president of Amazon. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and
raised in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with
degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall
Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He founded
Amazon in late 1994 on a cross-country road trip from New York City to
Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has expanded to a
variety of products and services, including video and audio streaming. It is
currently the world's largest online sales company, as well as the world's largest
provider of cloud infrastructure services via its Amazon Web Services arm.
Bezos added to his business interests when he founded aerospace company Blue
Origin in 2000. A Blue Origin test flight successfully first reached space in
2015, and Blue has plans to begin commercial suborbital human spaceflight in
2019. He purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for US$250 million in cash.
Bezos manages other business investments through his venture capital fund,
Bezos Expeditions. On July 27, 2017, he became the world's wealthiest person
when his estimated net worth increased to just over $90 billion. The first centi-
billionaire on the Forbes wealth index, he was named the "richest man in
modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018.

I like him because he has taught the world if there is a will, there is a way.

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 Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business
magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as
the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft,
Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, while
also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. In 1975, Gates
and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC
software company. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal
computer revolution.. From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the richest
person in the world all but four of those years, and held it consistently from
March 2014 to July 2017, with an estimated net worth of US$89.9 billion as of
October 2017. However, on July 27, 2017, and since October 27, 2017, he has
been surpassed by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who had an estimated
net worth of US$90.6 billion at the time behind Bezos. He donated large
amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research
programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation works
to save lives and improve global health, and is working with Rotary
International to eliminate polio.

He built a great company from nothing, pushing the limits on occasion, pushing
his advantage at all times, to his maximum benefit. In the process his company
changed the face of business and personal life creating thousands and thousands
of jobs and billions of dollars of balance sheet equity and that’s made me
inspired to make something big and become big.

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 Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American technology

entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading
Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer. Born in White Plains,
New York, Zuckerberg attended Harvard University, where he launched
Facebook from his dormitory room on February 4, 2004. Originally launched to
select college campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond
colleges, reaching one billion users by 2012. His net worth is estimated to be
$55.0 billion as of November 30, 2018, declining over the last year with
Facebook stock as a whole. In 2007 at age 23 he became the world's youngest
self-made billionaire. As of 2018, he is the only person under 50 in the Forbes
ten richest people list, and the only one under 40 in the Top 20 Billionaires list.
Since 2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest
and most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year
award. In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on Forbes list of The
World's Most Powerful People

I like him because of his confidence and dedication. He truly believed in what
he was doing and that made him as an inspiration for the young generation
people like us.

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 Warren Buffett

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American business

magnate, investor, speaker and philanthropist who serves as the chairman and
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is considered one of the most successful
investors in the world and has a net worth of US$82.5 billion as of March 9,
2019, making him the third-wealthiest person in the world. Buffett was born in
Omaha, Nebraska. He developed an interest in business and investing in his
youth, eventually entering the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1947 before transferring and graduating from University of
Nebraska at the age of 19. He went on to graduate from Columbia Business
School. He created Buffett Partnership, Ltd in 1956 and his firm eventually
acquired a textile manufacturing firm called. In 1978, Charlie Munger joined
Buffett and became vice president of the company. Buffett has been the
chairman and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway since 1970, and he has
been referred to as the "Wizard", "Oracle", or "Sage" of Omaha by global media
outlets. Research published at the University of Oxford characterizes Buffett's
investment methodology as falling within "founder centrism" – defined by a
deference to managers with a founder's mindset, an ethical disposition towards
the shareholder collective, and an intense focus on exponential value creation.
Buffett is a notable philanthropist, having pledged to give away 99 percent of
his fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily via the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation. He founded The Giving Pledge in 2009 with Bill Gates, whereby
billionaires pledge to give away at least half of their fortunes.

I like him because of his passion. Today at the age of 87, he still manages
Berkshire Hathaway's Business with the same passion.

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 Bernard Arnault

Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born 5 March 1949) is a French business

magnate, an investor, and art collector. Arnault is the chairman and chief
executive officer (CEO) of LVMH, the world's largest luxury-goods company.
He is the richest person in Europe and the third richest person in the world
according to Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $84.6 billion, as of
September 2018. In April 2018, he also became the richest person in fashion,
toppling Zara's Amancio Ortega. After graduating from the Lycée Maxence Van
Der Meersch in Roubaix, Arnault was admitted to the École Polytechnique in
Palaiseau, from which he graduated with an engineering degree in 1971. His
father, Jean Leon Arnault, a graduate of École Centrale Paris, was a
manufacturer and the owner of the civil engineering company,In 1987, shortly
after the creation of LVMH, the brand new luxury group resulting from the
merger between two companies, Arnault mediated a conflict between Alain
Chevalier, Moët Hennessy's CEO, and Henri Racamier, president of Louis
Vuitton. The new group held property rights to Dior perfumes that Arnault
believed should be incorporated into Dior Couture. In July 1988, Arnault
provided $1.5 billion to form a holding company with Guinness that held 24%
of LVMH's shares. In response to rumors that the Louis Vuitton group was
buying LVMH's stock to form a "blocking minority", Arnault spent $600
million to buy 13.5% more of LVMH, making him LVMH's largest shareholder.

I like him because of his company is engaging in a number of philanthropic

activities. It supports humanitarian, scientific and medical research
organizations.

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 Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg KBE (born February 14, 1942) is an American

businessman, politician, author, and philanthropist. As of March 2019, his net
worth was estimated at $55.5 billion, making him the 8th-richest person in the
United States and the 9th richest person in the world. Bloomberg is the founder,
CEO, and owner of Bloomberg L.P., a global financial services, mass media,
and software company that bears his name, and is notable for its Bloomberg
Terminal, a computer software system providing financial data widely used in
the global financial services industry. He began his career at the securities
brokerage Salomon Brothers, before forming his own company in 1981 and
spending the next twenty years as its chairman and CEO. A Democrat before
seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his party registration in 2001 to run
for mayor as a Republican. Bloomberg was frequently mentioned as a possible
centrist candidate for the U.S. Presidential elections in 2008, and 2012. He
declined to seek either office, opting to continue serving as the mayor of New
York City. After a brief stint as a full-time philanthropist, Bloomberg re-
assumed the position of CEO at Bloomberg L.P. by the end of 2014. Bloomberg
announced that he would not run as a third party candidate in the 2016 U.S.
presidential election despite widespread speculation that he would, and later
endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president. Bloomberg
announced that he will not run for president as a Democrat in 2020.

Michael Bloomberg a guy who runs a magazine, made billions off of an

information-distribution network and who ran one of the largest cities in the
world for more than a decade knows how to get attention & that’s what I
learned and like.

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 Carlos Slim

Carlos Slim Helú (born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business magnate,

engineer, investor and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as
the richest person in the world by the Forbes business magazine. He derived his
fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican
companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso. As of March 2019, he is the
fifth-richest person in the world according to Forbes' listing of The World's
Billionaires, with he and his family having a net worth estimated at $62.6
billion. He is the richest man in Mexico and Latin America.

His conglomerate includes education, health care, industrial manufacturing,

transportation, real estate, media, energy, hospitality, entertainment, high-
technology, retail, sports and financial services. He accounts for 40% of the
listings on the Mexican Stock Exchange, while his net worth is equivalent to
about 6 percent of Mexico's gross domestic product. As of 2016, he is the
largest single shareholder of The New York Times Company.

He is a self-made billionaire, developed his business acumen at a young age and

attributes his success to one person that is his father. We need to learn from him
how to become self-made of something.

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 Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a technology entrepreneur and
engineer. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the
founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product
architect of Tesla, Inc.;, co-founder and CEO of Neuralink; founder of The
Boring Company; co-founder and co-chairman of OpenAI; and co-founder of
PayPal. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The
World's Most Powerful People. As of October 2018, he has listed by Forbes as
the 54th-richest person in the world. Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa,
Musk moved to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He
transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received
an economics degree from the Wharton School and a degree in physics from the
College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. in applied physics and material
sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue
an entrepreneurial career. He subsequently co-founded Zip2, a web software
company. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity
in 2000 and later that year became PayPal. In May 2002, Musk founded
SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of
which he is CEO and lead designer. He helped fund Tesla, Inc. and became its
CEO and product architect.
I like him because he has make himself as a productive and inspirational guy
and life his for his goals & his goals include reducing global warming through
sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the risk of human
extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars.

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 Larry Ellison

Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American businessman,

entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is a co-founder and the executive
chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle Corporation. As of March
2019, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the fourth-wealthiest person in the
United States and as the seventh-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $63.5
billion, up from $54.5 billion in 2018. Ellison was born in New York City and
grew up in Chicago. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–
Champaign and the University of Chicago without graduating before moving to
California in 1966. While working at Ampex in the early 1970s, he became
influenced by Edgar F. Codd's research on relational database design, which led
in 1977 to the formation of what became Oracle. Oracle became a successful
database vendor to mid- and low-range systems, competing with Sybase and
Microsoft SQL Server, which led to Ellison being listed by Forbes as one of the
richest men in the world. In addition to his work at Oracle, Ellison competes in
yachting through Oracle Team USA, and is a licensed aircraft pilot who owns
two military jets. Ellison is a non-executive director of Tesla, Inc.

I like him because he taught the world that “Be Yourself” , “Have a Teflon ego”
& “Don’t be afraid to take risks” .

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 Stefan Persson

Carl Stefan Erling Persson (born 4 October 1947) is a Swedish business

magnate. In March 2013, Forbes reported Persson's net worth as $28 billion
making him the richest of Sweden's 12 billionaires and the 17th richest person
in the world; he has since dropped to number 80. Persson is the chairman and
main shareholder in fashion company H&M, which was founded by his father
Erling Persson in 1947. Persson took over the company from his father in 1982
and served as its manager until 1998. Persson also owns a substantial stake in
the Swedish technology company Hexagon AB. Through his privately held real
estate company Ramsbury Invest, Persson owns a large number of properties in
London, Paris and Stockholm. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index,
Persson had a net worth of US $31.9 billion in 2014, making him the 17th
richest person in the world at the time. Persson is a founder of the Mentor
Foundation, a nonprofit organisation that aims to combat substance abuse
among young people.[2] He is a supporter of Djurgårdens IF and is co-funding a
foundation for the club.[7] Persson enjoys downhill skiing, tennis and golf. He
owns properties in London, Paris and Stockholm and, in 2009, acquired the 21-
cottage village of Linkenholt in Hampshire, England.

He taught us, being first in a market is not everything and You have to sow
before you can reap and these makes us inspired to make our future better .

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Writers

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William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English
poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English
language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's
national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including
collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long
narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the
age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children:
Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he
began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a
playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's
Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he
died three years later. His plays remain popular and are studied, performed, and
reinterpreted through various cultural and political contexts around the world.

Who won’t love this legend author? I love him for his writings. He has left
behind such beautiful stories. Every day, someone is inspired by his words.

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September

1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66
detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving

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around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also
wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and,
under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. Christie was born into a
wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Before marrying and
starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First
World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. During the
Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College
Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in
many of her novels. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling
novelist of all time. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-
translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages.
Christie's stage plays The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the
West End on 25 November 1952. Later the same year, Witness for the
Prosecution received an Edgar Award by the MWA for Best Play. On 15
September 2015, coinciding with her 125th birthday. Her books and short
stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and
more than thirty feature films have been based on her work.

I love her books because her books is the prefect balance between realism and
fiction, not too graphic and not too outrageously improbable. Her books take me
to another time and place where I get to see and observe and try to solve the
mystery.

Barbara Cartland

Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000)
was an English novelist who wrote romance novels, one of the best-selling

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authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful
worldwide of the 20th century. Her 723 novels were translated into 38
languages and she continues to be referenced in the Guinness World Records for
the most novels published in a single year in 1976. As Barbara Cartland she is
known for writing numerous romantic novels but she had also written books
under her married name of Barbara McCorquodale and briefly under the
pseudonym of Marcus Belfry. She wrote more than 700 books, as well as
plays, music, verse, drama, magazine articles and operetta, and was a prominent
philanthropist. She reportedly sold more than 750 million copies. Other sources
estimate her total book sales at more than two billion copies. She specialised in
19th-century Victorian era pure romance. Her novels all featured portrait-style
artwork, particularly the cover art, usually designed by Francis Marshall (1901–
1980). As head of Cartland Promotions, she became one of London's most
prominent society figures. Always presenting herself in a pink chiffon gown,
plumed hat, blonde wig, and heavy make-up, she became one of Britain's most
popular media personalities.

She is an inspiration for woman who are still thinking about their writings. I
would recommend everyone to read her novels and come up with new ideas
where she left it.

Danielle Steel

Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an

American writer, best known for her romance novels. Steel married French-
American banker Claude-Eric Lazard in 1965 at age 18. Steel's novels, often
described as "formulaic," tend to involve the characters in a crisis which
threatens their relationship. Many of her characters are considered over-the-top,

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making her books seem less realistic. Her first novel, Going Home, was
published in 1972. The novel contained many of the themes that her writing
would become well known for, including a focus on family issues and human
relationships. She is the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling
fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold. She has written 165
books, including 141 novels. Based in California for most of her career, Steel
has produced several books a year, often juggling up to five projects at once.
Despite "a resounding lack of critical acclaim" (Publishers Weekly), all her
novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback. Her formula is
fairly consistent, often involving rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark
elements such as prison, fraud, blackmail and suicide. Steel has also published
children's fiction and poetry, as well as raising funds for the treatment of mental
disorders. Her books have been translated into 43 languages, with 22 adapted
for television, including two that have received Golden Globe nominations.

When I think of authors who write popular women’s fiction, Danielle Steel is
probably the first name that comes to mind. Her writings are amazing to read.

Humayun Ahmed

Humayun Ahmed (born in Kutubpur village of Netrakona on 13 November

1948) emerged as a powerful voice in the Bangladesh literary world in the
early 1970s, eventually becoming clearly the most popular writer in the
country. His father, who was also a writer, was murdered by the Pakistan
occupation army during the Liberation War in 1971. Humayun had his
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Schooling in Sylhet, Comilla, Chittagong, Dinajpur and Bogra due to his father’s
postings in these towns. He is one of the most popular Fiction writers in the
country and pioneer writer of modern Science Fiction. He was a consecutive
short-story writer, novelist, and lyricist in Bangladesh. He was well-known as a
drama and film director in the Dhallywood film industry and more than two
hundred books of his were published. Humayun’s several books were
translated into various languages around the world, and included in the
syllabus of college and universities. Humayun won the Bangla Academy award
in1981 and the Ekushey Padak in1994. His first award was Lekhak Shibir Prize
in 1973. Himu and Misir Ali are the notable characters’ of Humayun Ahmed.
Humayun Ahmed died on 19 July 2012 at Bellevue Hospital, New York City. He
was buried at Nohash pally, Gazipur.
No matter what the naysayers may say, Humayun Ahmed had the ability to
captivate and he did so without killing off key characters every other episode.
He might not be a Kafka but he's the biggest writer we've ever had and that
surely makes him worth checking out.

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Kazi Nazrul Islam (24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet,
writer, musician, and revolutionary from Bengal. He is the national poet of
Bangladesh. Nazrul's activism for political and social justice earned him the title
of "Rebel Poet" (বিদ্রোহী কবি). Nazrul and his works are equally commemorated
and celebrated in Bangladesh and India. Born in a Bengali Muslim Kazi family,
Nazrul Islam received religious education and as a young man worked as a
muezzin at a local mosque. He learned about poetry, drama, and literature while
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working with the rural theatrical group Letor Dal. He joined the British Indian
Army in 1917. Nazrul established himself as a journalist in Calcutta. He
criticised the British Raj and called for revolution through his poetic works,
such as "Bidrohi" and "Bhangar Gaan" as well as in his publication Dhumketu
('The Comet'). While in prison, Nazrul wrote the "Rajbandir Jabanbandi"
('Deposition of a Political Prisoner'). His writings greatly inspired Bengalis of
East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Nazrul's writings explored
themes such as freedom, humanity, love, and revolution. He opposed all forms
of bigotry and fundamentalism, including religious, caste-based and gender-
based. He created the first Bengali language ghazals. Nazrul wrote and
composed music for nearly 4,000 collectively known as Nazrul Geeti. In 1942
at the age of 43, he began to suffer from an unknown disease, losing his voice
and memory. He died four years later on 29 August 1976 in Bangladesh.

I love him because in his voice we continue to hear the cadences, inflections,
and accents of resistance and even revolution. And we always have to be like
this person not to worry or afraid about anything and came forward bravely.

J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K.
Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film
producer, television producer and screenwriter, best known for writing the
Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold
more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history.
Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, Rowling was working as a researcher

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and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea
for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London
in 1990. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth
of her first child, divorce from her first husband and relative poverty until the
first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published
in 1997. There were six sequels, of which the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows, was released in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written five books for
adult readers. Rowling has lived a "rags to riches" life story, in which she
progressed from living on state benefits to being the world's first billionaire
author. She lost her billionaire status after giving away much of her earnings to
charity. She is the United Kingdom's bestselling living author. In October 2010,
Rowling was named the "Most Influential Woman in Britain" by leading
magazine editors. She has supported charities and launched her own charity,
Lumos.
I love her because of her character . The way she is so kind that she didn’t even
think about her earning and gave maximum of it to the charity. She faced many
obstacle in her life still standing in her own leg. It’s an inspiring thing for
woman.

Enid Blyton

Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English
children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since
the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her first book, Child
Whispers, a 24-page collection of poems, was published in 1922. She wrote on
a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery,
and biblical narratives. Her writing was unplanned and sprang largely from her
unconscious mind. Blyton's work became increasingly controversial among
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literary critics, teachers and parents from the 1950s onwards, because of the
alleged unchallenging nature of her writing and the themes of her books,
particularly the Noddy series. Some libraries and schools banned her works. Her
books have been criticised as being elitist, sexist, racist, xenophobic and at odds
with the more liberal environment emerging in post-war Britain, but they have
continued to be best-sellers since her death in 1968. Blyton felt she had a
responsibility to provide her readers with a strong moral framework, so she
encouraged them to support worthy causes. The story of Blyton's life was
dramatised in a BBC film entitled Enid, featuring Helena Bonham Carter in the
title role and first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Four in 2009.
There have also been several adaptations of her books for stage, screen and
television.

I really enjoy reading books of her because she writes in a way that
we get mesmerized by the book and you don't want to get out. Her English
is very fluent and clear to understand. There is always a touch of humour to
her stories.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),[a] also known by

Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi, was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician,
and artist from the Indian subcontinent. Author of the "profoundly sensitive,
fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-
European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is sometimes referred to as
"the Bard of Bengal". A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry
roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen,

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he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym "Sun Lion". By
1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real
name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent anti-nationalist,
he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an
exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised
paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand
songs. Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and
resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and
essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali, Gora (Fair-Faced) and
Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his
verse, short stories. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national
anthems, India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla. The
Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work. He died in 1947 7th
August.
We love his poetry, writings and the way he showed us by his books. Specially
his songs are very close to my heart. I try to discover him through his songs.

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of

horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books
have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into
feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published
58 novels (including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman) and six non-
fiction books. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which
have been published in book collections. King has received Bram Stoker

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Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003,
the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished
Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his
contribution to literature for his entire oeuvre, such as the World Fantasy Award
for Life Achievement (2004), and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery
Writers of America (2007). In 2015, King was awarded with a National Medal
of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his
contributions to literature. He has been described as the "King of Horror".

I like him cause he's really descriptive, he can make you smell what you're
reading about. I feel like he writes people realistically too, and isn't afraid to
cross lines which alone can be refreshing enough to be worth it. Some of his
stories end in a frustrating way, and some just sort of meander but the actual
word-to-word writing is enjoyable enough to read that I still like it.

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 Muhammad Ali:

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.;

January 17, 1942 – June 3,2016

Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. He widely

regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the
20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring
controversial,
And polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring.

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 Bob Marley:

Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica.
In 1963, Marley and his friends formed the wailing wailers. The wailers
big break came in 1972, when they landed a contract with Islam records.
Marley went on to steel more than 20 million records throughout his career,
Making him the first international superstar to emerge from the so called third
World. He died in Miami, Florida, on May 11, 1981.

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 Mother Teresa:

Birth date: August 26, 1910

Death date: September 5, 1997
Nun and missionary Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic church as Saint
Teresa of Calcutta, devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor. Born in
Macedonia to parents of Albanian-descent and having taught in India for 17
years, Mother Teresa experienced her "call within a call" in 1946. Her order
established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged and disabled; and a leper
colony. In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work.
She died in September 1997 and was beatified in October 2003. In December
2015, Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa,
clearing the way for her to be canonized on September 4, 2016.

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 Rosa parks:

Raymond and Rosa, who worked as a seamstress, became respected

members of Montgomery’s large African-American community. Co-
existing with white people in a city governed by “Jim Crow”
(segregation) laws, however, was fraught with daily frustrations:
Blacks could attend only certain (inferior) schools, could drink only
from specified water fountains, could borrow books only from the
“black” library, among other restrictions.

Although Raymond had previously discouraged her out of fear for her
safety, in December 1943 Rosa also joined the Montgomery chapter of
the NAACP, and she became chapter secretary . She worked closely
with chapter president Edgar Daniel (E.D.) Nixon. Nixon was a railroad
porter known in the city as an advocate for blacks who wanted to
register to vote, and also as president of the local branch of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union.

CHE Guevara:

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Che Guevara (1928 - 1967)

Che Guevara was an Argentinean-born, Cuban revolutionary leader who

became a left-wing hero. A photograph of him by Alberto Korda became
an iconic image of the 20th century.

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known as Che Guevara, was born on 14

June 1928 in Rosario, Argentina into a middle-class family. He studied
medicine at Buenos Aires University and during this time travelled widely
in South and Central America. The widespread poverty and oppression he
witnessed, fused with his interest in Marxism, convinced him that the only
solution to South and Central America's problems was armed revolution.

In 1954 he went to Mexico and the following year he met Cuban

revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Guevara joined Castro's '26th July
Movement' and played a key role in the eventual success of its guerrilla
war against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

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 Nelson Mandela:

The South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela

(1918-2013) helped bring an end to apartheid and has been a global
advocate for human rights. A member of the African National Congress
party beginning in the 1940s, he was a leader of both peaceful
protests and armed resistance against the white minority’s oppressive
regime in a racially divided South Africa. His actions landed him in
prison for nearly three decades and made him the face of the
antiapartheid movement both within his country and internationally.
Released in 1990, he participated in the eradication of apartheid and
in 1994 became the first black president of South Africa, forming a
multiethnic government to oversee the country’s transition. after
retiring from politics in 1999, he remained a devoted champion for
peace and social justice in his own nation and around the world until
his death in 2013 at the age of 95.

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Emmeline Pankhurst (1858- 1928)

Emmeline Pankhurst was born on 14 July 1858 in Moss Side,

Manchester. Her family were very wealthy and her parents
were both politically active.

As she grew older, Emmeline noticed that women were

treated differently to men and became motivated to help
change that. In 1903 she, along with her daughters Sylvia
and Christabel, founded the Women's Social and Political
Union (WSPU).

Emmeline Pankhurst is remembered for her hard work with

the WSPU in the fight to help get British women the right to
vote.

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 Mohandas Gandhi:

Mahatma Gandhi (October 2, 1869 to January 30, 1948) was the leader of
India’s non-violent independence movement against British rule and in
South Africa who advocated for the civil rights of Indians. Born in
Porbandar, India, Gandhi studied law and organized boycotts against
British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. He was killed by
a fanatic in 1948.

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 Martin Luther king:

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael
Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather
began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in
Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the
present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin
Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high
school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from
Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which
both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological
study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected
president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in
1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at
Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and
receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a
young woman of uncommon
intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into
the family.

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 Malala Yousafzai:

Mala Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, the largest city
in the Swat Valley in what is now the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of
Pakistan. She is the daughter of Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai and has two
younger brothers.
At a very young age, Malala developed a thirst for knowledge. For years her
father, a passionate education advocate himself, ran a learning institution in the
city, and school was a big part of Malala’s family. She later wrote that her
father told her stories about how she would toddle into classes even before she
could talk and acted as if she were the teacher.

In 2007, when Malala was ten years old, the situation in the Swat Valley rapidly
changed for her family and community. The Taliban began to control the Swat
Valley and quickly became the dominant socio-political force throughout much
of northwestern Pakistan. Girls were banned from attending school, and cultural
activities like dancing and watching television were prohibited. Suicide attacks
were widespread, and the group made its opposition to a proper education for
girls a cornerstone of its terror campaign. By the end of 2008, the Taliban had
destroyed some 400 schools.

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 Paul Allen:

Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American business
magnate, investor, software engineer, humanitarian, and philanthropist. Alongside Bill
Gates, Allen co-founded Microsoft in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer
revolution and later became the world's largest PC software company. In March 2018, he
was estimated to be the 44th-wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth
of $21.7 billion, revised at the time of his death to $20.3 billion.

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 George Kaiser:

Born: July 29, 1942 (age 76 years), Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

George B. Kaiser is an American businessman. He is the chairman of BOK Financial

Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is among the 100 richest people in the world and was,
in 2012, one of the top 50 American philanthropists.

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 Mashrafe Bin Mortaza:

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza :

Full name Mashrafe Bin Mortaza
Born October 5, 1983, Norail,
Current age 35 years 162 days
Major teams Bangladesh
Playing role Bowler, Captain
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

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 Richard Branson:

Born on July 18, 1950, in Surrey, England, Richard Branson struggled in

school and dropped out at age 16 a decision that ultimately led to the
creation of Virgin Records. His entrepreneurial projects started in the music
industry and expanded into other sectors, including the space-tourism
venture Virgin Galactic, making him a billionaire. Branson is also known for
his adventurous spirit and sporting achievements, including crossing
oceans in a hot air balloon.

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 George soros:

Born: August 12, 1930 (age 88 years), Budapest, Hungary

George Soros, Hon FBA is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of
February 2018, he had a net worth of $8 billion, having donated more than $32
billion to his philanthropic agency, Open Society Foundations. Born in Budapest,
Soros survived Nazi Germany-occupied Hungary and emigrated to England in 1947.

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 Warren Edward Buffett:

Warren Edward Buffett: born August 30, 1930 is an American business magnate,
investor, speaker and philanthropist who serves as the chairman and CEO
of Berkshire Hathaway. He is considered one of the most successful investors in the
world and has a net worth of US$82.5 billion as of March 9, 2019, making him
the third-wealthiest person in the world.

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 Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

Recep Tayyip Erdogan born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and
current President of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as Prime Minister from 2003 to
2014 and as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He founded the Justice and Development
Party (AKP) in 2001, leading it to general election victories in 2002, 2007 and 2011 before
standing down upon his election as President in 2014. Coming from an Islamist political
background and as a self-described conservative democrat, he has promoted socially
conservative and liberal economic policies in his administration. Under his administration,
Turkey has experienced democratic backsliding.

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 Alexander the Great:

Alexander the Great served as king of Macedonia from 336 to 323 B.C.
During his time of leadership, he united Greece, reestablished the
Corinthian League and conquered the Persian Empire.

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 Chuck Feeney:

Charles Francis "Chuck" Feeney (born April 23, 1931)[1] is an Irish-

American businessman and philanthropist and the founder of The Atlantic
Philanthropies, one of the largest private foundations in the world. He made his
fortune as a co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group, which pioneered the
concept of duty-free shopping. Feeney gave away his fortune in secret for many
years, until a business dispute resulted in his identity being revealed in 1997.[2] Over
the course of his life, Feeney has given away more than $8 billion. working with many
researchers and employees.[6] He is often credited with establishing the first
industrial research laboratory.

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 William Henry Gates

William Henry Gates (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor,
author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as the principal founder of Microsoft
Corporation.[2][3] During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions
of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, while also being the largest
individual shareholder until May 2014.
In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software
company. Gates led the company as chief executive officer until stepping down in January 2000,
but he remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect for himself. In
June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to
part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was established
in 2000. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie.[9] He stepped down
as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to
support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella.

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 20 People
Whom I
Don’t Want
To Become

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 1. Luis Garavito
Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos also known as La Bestia (The Beast) or Tribilin is a
Colombian rapist and serial killer. In 1999, he admitted to rape, torture and murder of
138 children and teenegers. His victims, based on the locations of skeletons listed on
maps that Gravito drew in prison, could exceed 300; Garavito continues to confess to
more murders. He has been described by local media as “The World’s Worst Serial
Killer”. The judicial body ruled that all Garavito’s sentences total 1,853 years and 9
days in jail.

“I rape a murder.”

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 2. Pedro Lopez
Pedro Alonso Lopez is a Colombian serial killer, who has sentenced for killing 110
girls, but who claims to have raped and killed more than 300 girls across Colombia,
Peru, Ecuador and potentially other countries. The Guinness Book of World Records
lists him as the largest scale serial killer of modern times and names him “The
Monster of the Andes”. In 1980 he led police to 53 graves in Ecuador, the victims
were all girls around nine to twelve years old. He further confessed to additional 240
murders in Peru and Colombia.

“I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.”

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 3. Mikhail Popkov
Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov is a Russian serial killer and rapist who sexually
assaulted and murdered dozens of women between 1992 and 2010 in Angarsk, Irkutsk
and Vladivostok in Siberia. Known as “The Werewolf” and “The Angarsk Maniac”
termed as one of the most prolific serial killers for the brutal nature of his crimes.
Papkov was convicted of 22 murders in 2015 and confessed to 59 additional
homicides three years later. On December 2018 he was convicted for 56 of 59
additional homicides. For three killings, the police could not find proof and he
received a second life sentence.

“There were so many, I hadn’t kept track.”

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 4. Daniel Camargo Barbosa
Daniel Camargo Barbosa a.k.a “The Mangrove Monster” and “The Sadist of El
Charquito was a Colombian pedophilic and ephebophilic robber and serial killer. It is
believed that he raped and murdered up to 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador
during the 1970s and 1980s.

“I rape virgin girls because they cry.”

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 Pablo Escobar
(1949-1993)

"The King of Cocaine", Pablo Escobar was a colombian drug lord and
a narco terrorist. He was the wealthiest criminal in history, with an
estimated net worth of 30 billion US dollars. His cartel supplied 80%
of the cocaine smuggled into the US. Escobar was born in Rionegro,
Colombia. Growing up, he was involved in criminal activities like
stealing gravestones, selling counterfeit high school diplomas,
contraband cigarettes, fake lottery tickets street scams, and stealing
cars. He had a wife and two children. His luxury house contained a
colonial house, a sculpture park and a complete zoo with animals
from various continents. Pablo started his drug exporting business at
1975, when he flew out to several locations in his planes. He got into
the drug business because it was a somewhat untouched territory
back then. In the 1980s, Pablo rose to prominence as a dominant
drug exporter in the US. When questioned about the essence of the
cocaine business, Escobar replied “simple: you bribe someone here,
you bribe someone there, and you pay a friendly banker to help you
bring the money back.” Although he was seen as an enemy to the
colombian and US governments, Pablo was seen as a “Robinhood” by
the poor people of Colombia. Escobar surrendered to the colombian
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prison. Accounts of Escobar’s continued criminal activities continued
to surface on the media and the government attempted to shift him
to a conventional prison. Escobar escaped in advance and spent his
remaining life evading the police. Sixteen months later, Pablo
Escobar died in a shoutout on 2 December 1993. Over 25,000 people
attended his funeral. Some of them consider him a saint and pray to
him for receiving divine help. His name has become the focus of an
entire entertainment industry that generates millions of dollars in
Colombia and other countries. Many are profiting from movies and
TV novelas and series, while others sell T-shirts, jackets, paintings
and key chains or guide “narco-tours” — all clear evidence that the
once dangerous drug trafficker is now more popular than ever. Pablo
lives on in his words-

“Everyone has a price. The important thing is to find

out what it is.”

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 Joaquín Guzmán
(1957- )
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is a Mexican drug lord. He is a former
leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate.Joaquin
was involved in murder, money laundering, drug trafficking,
racketeering and organized crime. In his prime, Joaquin was
considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world. He
was born in Sinaloa in a poor farming family. He joined the drug
trade by the hands of his father, from whom he received physical
abuse in childhood. Joaquin smuggled methamphetamines,
marijuana and heroine throughout Mexico, US and Europe. Guzman
was in the list of most powerful people in the world published by
Forbes in 2013. His wealth and influence was on par with that of
Pablo escobar. He has been arrested thrice as he has escaped prison
twice. His family also is heavily involved in drug trafficking. Guzman
appears in pop culture every now and then as a successful drug lord.
Joaquin’s dominance is reflected in his quote-
“I might not be the president of Mexico but in Mexico, I’m the
boss.”

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 Frank Lucas
(1930- )

Frank Lucas is a former American drug trafficker. He was born in La

Grange, North Carolina and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The murder of his 12 year old cousin sent him into a world of crime.
He operated in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Lucas
claims that he smuggled drugs in caskets. He fulfilled his dream of
becoming rich by becoming a successful drug trafficker. Lucas was
arrested in the mid 1970s and all of his assets were seized. He was
arrested and released several times. He served in jail for a total of 12
years. Lucas is confined to a wheelchair because of a car accident
that broke both of his legs. Frank’s life was dramatized in the film
American Gangstar in 2007. His quote provides wisdom for people all
around the world-

“The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the

room.”

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 Amado Carrillo Fuentes
(1956-1997)
Amado Carrillo Fuentes was a Mexican drug lord. He is known as
“The Lord of the Skies”. Amado was involved in drug trafficking and
weapons. He was born in Guamuchilito, Mexico in 1956. He had
eleven siblings. He got into the drug business under the tutelage of
his uncle Ernesto. He made 25 billion dollars in his career. Being
afraid of the US and Mexican government, he decided to undergo
facial and abdominal plastic surgery. He died in 1997 due to
complications during the surgical procedure. The two doctors who
were performing the surgery were also found dead later on, with
their corpses showing signs of torture. Carrilo is portrayed in recent
Netflix productions. Amado’s confidence is reflected in his quote-

"If I die, nobody killed me. The only person who can
kill Amado Carrillo is Amado Carrillo."

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Politician

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 ABDUL QUADER MOLLAH
(1948-2013)
Abdur Quader Mollah was a Bangladeshi . Islamist leader,
writer and politician of the Bangladesh jamaat-e-islami, who was connected of war
crimes and sentenced to death by the international crimes Tribunal(ICT) set up by
the government of Bangladesh & hanged. There were objections from the united
nations, the government of several countries and international human. On the other
hand there was widespread support from the general people of Bangladesh for
execution. He was an criminal. I don’t like him. Because there were different types of
litigation against him. The cases against them were rape, murder and those he killed
344 civilians.

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 ABDUR RAHMAN BADI

( )

Abdur Rahman Badi is a Bangladeshi Awami league politician

and the present member of parliament from Cox’s bazar. He was accused of yaba
business and widely known as yaba drug loard in Bangladesh. He is a respected
person but he is harming the general public of our country. He is delivering
intoxicants himself to everyone and he is a scandal for our country. That’s no one
like him because he is an criminal.

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DELWAR HOSSAIN SAYEEDI
(1940-2014)
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was an Islamic scholar, speaker
and politician and convicted war criminal and Mass murderer of the Bangladesh
Liberation war. He was a former member of parliament of the parliament of
Bangladesh from 1996-2008.The international crimes tribunal of Bangladesh
sentenced him to death in February 2013. Crimes against humanity in the war of
1971 in a disputed decision . His crime included genocide , Mass murder rape and
arson . The tribunal received support within Bangladesh but was criticized by few
international observers in September 2014. The supreme court commuted his
sentence to life imprisonment.

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SALAHUDDIN QUADER CHOWDHURY
(1949-2015)
Salahuddin quader chowdhury was a convicted war
criminal, former Bangladeshi politician, minister and six-term member of
parliament and member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing
Committee, who served as the adviser of parliamentary affair to prime
minister Khaleda Zia in from 2001 to 2006. Despite concerns about the fairness
of the proceedings ,on 1 October 2013 he was convicted of 9 of 23 charges and
sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal Of Bangladesh for
crimes during the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence . He was put to
death by hanging in Dhaka on 22 November 2015.

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Celebrity

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 Hero Alom

Ashraful Alom Saeed best known as Hero Alom is a Bangladeshi freelancer

music video model, actor and social media phenomenon. He is not a member
of Bangadeshi film industry, he is an independent artist who share videos in
social platform . Earlier in his life, he had been employed selling CDs and later
started satellite TV connection business. He began making music videos as a
hobby.In Bangladesh, Alom is a popular target of online trolling and a popular
subject of memes. As of December 2016, Alom has not acted in any feature
film, television film or drama. By July 2017 when his popularity was waning he
attempted another shot at fame by tweeting a morphed selfie with popular India
actor Shahrukh Khan; where he claimed "Hear, Saarukh is taking selfee with me
love you Saarukh my fan".He is nothing but an innocent fame freak
enthusiastic independent entertainer. He certainly not a HERO or Actor of
Bangladesh. There’s no dearth of cringe-worthy YouTube and Facebook videos
in Bengali cyberspace, but few match up to Hero Alom’s audacity. I personally
don’t like him because of his famousity that he don’t deserve. So we need to be
aware from this famousity issue.

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 Salman Muqtadir

Salman Muqtadir is a Bangladeshi Television Actor, Model, Musician and

YouTuber. He was conceived on 9 August 1993 in Australia. Salman Muqtadir
chiefly works in Bengali Television Dramas and He is prominent for his YouTube
Video. He is a YouTube Star, you can see a colossal supporter with million
perspectives on his YouTube Channel TheBrownFish and Theputimaas. Why I
don’t like him is because of his character. His character is like a man that has
many women to run. He never can be with one woman that he will love.
Specially he says for himself that he made relationships with 150+ girls. He also
said that he has weakness of the bigger girls from his age. So it’s definitely not
good to be like this because we the present generation children’s are technology
based. We know what is YouTube. Those who are at such a young age will see
his character and will get inspired by the wrong way. He upload vulgar videos
with is called soft porn also. So if we want to be secured from this problem we
need to tell him and not to made his famous more. Than he will have his lesson.
And we need to be Aware of these kind of social vulgarity. And make our
country free from this problems and this type of person.

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 Logan Paul

Logan Alexander Paul (born April 1, 1995) is an American actor and Internet
personality. Paul first gained fame through videos shared on former Internet
video service Vine, later moving to Facebook and YouTube after the platform's
shutdown. Logan Paul on 2 January apologised for posting a video of a suicide
victim in Japan, saying he had made a “huge mistake” and was ashamed of
himself. Paul, 22, whose almost daily video blogs on YouTube have over 15
million followers, apologised for laughing with friends about the body they
filmed hanging on a tree in Japan’s so-called “suicide forest” and posted to the
video-sharing channel. Logan deleted the video on 1 January after it caused a
social media backlash.“I’ve made a severe and continuous lapse in my
judgement and I don’t expect to be forgiven. I‘m simply here to apologise,”
Paul said in a YouTube video called “So Sorry.”He said the shots of he and his
friends laughing nervously after the discovery of the body were “raw and
unfiltered” reactions and that the video should never have been posted or even
filmed. “I’ve made a huge mistake. I don’t expect to be forgiven... I‘m ashamed
of myself. I am disappointed,” he added.

Because of his this careless reason I personally don’t like him. As he apologies
but I don’t like his videos because from the videos we can’t learn nothing.

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 The Desi Hip Hop

The Desi Hip Hop is a gang of awkward musitian that creats vulgar type of
videos and talkings . This gang always threat by their lyrics . The Desi hip hop
first created in 2017. The every member of it lives in dubai . They says a lots of
bad things about us about “bangali”.

They Use heavy guns in their music videos and by that people specially young
generations are learning that guns is a stuff for playiing .

Their songs don’t have any meaning . No one can understand what they are
singing and what the words are pronounced. This type of vulgar gang making
our culture region in a great mess. We are loosing our patriotism.

We need to stop this type of vulgar musics and bring back peace in our nation.

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Scientists

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FRANCIS CRICK (1916-2004)

Along with James D. Watson, Francis Crick will forever be remembered as one of the
discoverers of the very structure of DNA. The duo met while working at the University of
Cambridge and in 1962 received a Nobel Prize for their scientific work. Crick was arguably
among the finest minds in science, which is what makes his later beliefs all the more difficult
to fathom. At some point in the 1970s, Crick became an advocate of one of the weirdest
pseudoscientific theories of all time – a theory so out there that if someone on the bus were
to suggest it to you, you might be tempted to edge away from them quite quickly. The
premise of "directed panspermia" is that life on Earth was deliberately seeded by extra-
terrestrials – an idea that seems more like the plot of a sci-fi film than anything based in
methodical scientific research.

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WILLIAM BUCKLAND (1784-1856)

William Buckland – an alumnus of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and a contemporary of

Charles Darwin – is remembered for being the first man to pen a complete description of a
fossilized dinosaur, the Megalosaurus . In his spare time, however, he was also a man who
insisted on dining on everything. And we do mean everything, including roast hedgehog,
potted ostrich, panthers, porpoises, puppies, and even bat urine; garden moles, though,
were apparently a bridge too far. However, perhaps Buckland's greatest gustatory
achievement is his reportedly having eaten the shrunken heart of King Louis XIV – a
distinction that arguably overshadows his account of a Megalosaurus. Perhaps any scientists
wishing for a place in the history books should give up the experiments and get chewing on
anything that crosses their path. Then again, perhaps not.

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STUBBINS FFIRTH (1784-1820)

Stubbins Ffirth was a University of Pennsylvania researcher fixated on one particular

scientific scheme – and a very dangerous one at that. As a trainee doctor, he became
obsessed with the idea that yellow fever was non-contagious, to the extent that he went to
great extremes trying to prove it. Armed only with a trusty blade and his incessant desire to
find the truth, Ffirth first sliced open his arms and smeared vomit from yellow fever patients
into the wounds. When that made no difference, he poured the vomit in his eye, drank
some of the vile liquid, fried the stuff and breathed in the fumes, and – in a final act of
madness – covered himself with blood, urine and saliva from infected patients. Ultimately,
Ffirth proved his theory, insofar as he didn't get sick. However, we now know that this was
as much down to him taking samples from late-stage patients who were past the point of
contagion. In other words, Ffirth swallowed infected vomit but didn't shed much new light
on the disease.

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SERGEI BRUKHONENKO (1890-1960)

Soviet scientist Sergei Brukhonenko has been credited with helping bring about important
advances in Russian open-heart surgery, but his grisly experiments on animals were far
more disturbing. Not one to wait, Brukhonenko wasn't content with slicing up animals after
they'd died. More specifically, not only did he not like to wait, but he also didn't like the
animals to die – even after they'd been decapitated. In the late 1930s, Brukhonenko and his
team undertook a series of experiments as part of which they removed a canine's head and
kept it alive away from its body by hooking it up to air- and blood-supply apparatus. Nor was
this the only monstrosity Brukhonenko created: another hound had all the blood drawn
from its body only to later be brought back to life by this Soviet Frankenstein.
Brukhonenko's gruesome work was captured on camera in the 1940 film Experiments in the
Revival of Organisms.

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www.biographyonline.net
www.gineersnow.com
www.wikipedia.org
www.criminalminds.fandom.com
www.muchneeded.com
www.thetoptens.com

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