Leaders

Past and Present

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Leaders are found everywhere:
 Business
 Politics
 Entertainment
 Military
 Science
 Sports
 Mathematics

Leaders are not just sports heroes, they are

much more.
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 Who Am I?
 Born 1955
 Grew up on an apricot farm in California
 Founded Apple Computer Co.
 Macintosh Computers
 iPOD / iTunes
 iPHONE
 Pixar Animation Studios

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 I am…..

Steve Jobs
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 Who Am I?
 Born 1954 in Mississippi
 Is CEO of Harpo Productions, which
produces:
 a talk show
 movies
 a cable TV channel
 a book club
 magazine
 Considered “one of the most influential”
people in America
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Oprah Winfrey
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 Who Was I?
Born in 1642 and died in 1727
 English scientist, astronomer and
mathematician
 Within 18 months, I made 3 great discoveries:
•The 3 basic laws of motion and the law of
universal gravitation
•The second was about light and the properties of
reflecting light – I made a reflecting telescope
•I also developed a math you may know called
“calculus”
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 I am…

Sir Isaac Newton

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 Who Am I?
 Born 1947
 First Hispanic Governor within the United
States
 Led the Department of Energy during Bill
Clinton’s presidency
 Chairman of the Democratic National
Convention

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 I am….

Bill Richardson
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 I was….
 Born in 1867 and died in 1934
 Organized a successful insurance company
 Formed and headed Penny Savings Bank
in 1903
 helped African Americans create financial
stability
 The first female bank president in the
United States

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 I am……

Maggie L. Walker
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 Who Am I?
 Born 1968 in Taiwan
 Came to US when 2 years old
 only knew one English word – “shoe”
 Created a search engine for the internet
with fellow student, David Filo
 first called "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide
Web".
 renamed "Yahoo!"
 Currently CEO of Yahoo!

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 I am…

Jerry Yang
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 Who Was I?
Born in 1879 and died in 1955
A physicist and considered a genius

 My teachers thought I would never amount to anything

 In 1905, I published 3 major papers:

•The first was on photoelectric law – the behavior of light;

this led to the development of television and motion pictures.
•The second and most famous was on the relation of mass to
energy E= mc squared
•The third was on the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies also
known as the Special Theory of Relativity

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 I am…

Albert Einstein
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 I was….
 Born in 1874 and died in 1965
 Named by Time Magazine as “Person of
the Half Century”
 First Lord of the Admiralty (headed British
navy) during World War I
 Prime Minister of UK during World War II
 Won the Nobel Prize in Literature

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Winston Churchill
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 Who Was I?
 Born 1869 and died in 1948
 Founded and led an independence
movement in India
 based on non-violent, civil disobedience
 Was an inspiration for Martin Luther King
 Honored in India as the “Father of the
Nation”

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 I am….

Mahatma Gandhi
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 Who Was I?
 Born in 356 BC and died in 323 BC
 Most successful military commander of all
time.
 At the time of my death, I had conquered
most of the known world

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 I am….

Alexander the Great

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 Who Am I?
Born August 5, 1930 in Ohio
I received my pilot’s license at age 16, later
joined the Navy and flew fighter jets in Korea
I have a space engineering degree from
Purdue University and became a test pilot
I flew x-15 rocket planes at Edward Air Force Base

My first space flight was command pilot of Gemini 8

in 1966
I was Mission Commander of Apollo 11 and the
first American to walk on the moon
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 I am…

Neil Armstrong

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 Who Was I?
 Born 1732 and died 1799
 Commander and Chief of the Continental
Army during the American Revolutionary
War
 President of the Constitutional Convention
of 1787
 First President of the United States of
America

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George
Washington
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 Who Am I?
 Born 1924
 Was CEO of Chrysler Corp.
 on the verge of bankruptcy
 Convinced Congress to give Chrysler a
loan
 One year later, Chrysler made a profit
 greatest turnaround ever
 Invented the minivan during his tenure

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 I am….

Lee Iacocca
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 Who Was I?
Born in 1867 and died in 1934
The youngest of 5 children and a good
student in school in Poland
I earned money as a governess to attend
the Sorbonne in Paris where I received a
doctorate in physics
•My husband and I received a Nobel Prize in
1903 for the discovery of radioactivity
•In 1911 I received a Nobel Prize for discovering 2
new elements - polonium and radium
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 I am…

Marie Curie
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 Who Am I?
 Born 1940
 Current Speaker of the House of the
United States House of Representatives
(Congress)
 Represents San Francisco in the House

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 I am….

Nancy Pelosi

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 Who Was I?
 Born 1929 and died in 1968
 Activist and leader of American civil rights
movement
 Led Montgomery, AL, Bus Boycott
 Led March of Washington
 Youngest person to received Nobel Peace
Prize
 Has US National Holiday named after him

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Martin Luther King,

Jr.
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 Who Am I?
 Born 1950
 English businessman best known for
“Virgin” brand of companies
 Virgin Records and Virgin Megastores
 Virgin Airlines
 Virgin Healthbank
 Is Dyslexic
 Own private island in British Virgin Islands

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Sir Richard Branson

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 Who Was I?
 Born 1917 and died 2001
 Assumed leadership of Washington Post
after husband’s death.
 Greatly increased circulation
 Broke the story of Watergate which lead
to the resignation of President Richard
Nixon.

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Katharine Graham

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 Who Was I?
 Born 1927 and died 1993
 Was a farm worker, a labor leader and a
civil rights activist
 Founded United Farm Workers Assoc.
 One of the greatest civil rights leader
 Birthday is a holiday in 8 states

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César Chavez

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 Who Was I?
 Born 1769 and died 1821
 Born in Corsica, but became:
 General during French Revolution
 Ruler of French Republic as First Consul
 Emperor of 1st French Empire
 Widely regarded as one of history’s greatest
military leaders
 Remembered for establishment of Napoleonic
Code.
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Napoleon Bonaparte

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 Who Was I?
 Born 1809 and died 1865
 16th President of the United States
 led through the Civil War
 issued Emancipation Proclamation
 promoted passage of 13th Amendment
 brought the Republican party together and made
them members of his Cabinet; made them
cooperate
 One of the greatest American presidents

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Abraham Lincoln

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 Who Am I?
 Born 1955 in India
 Chairwoman and CEO of PepsiCo
 was CFO before being promoted
 Named #1 Most Powerful Business
Woman
 Named #3 on list of 100 Most Powerful
Women in the World

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 I am….

Indra Nooyi

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 Who Am I?
 Born 1937
 General in the United States Army
 Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff
 highest ranking military officer in the armed
forces and main military advisor to president
 during Operation Desert Storm
 Secretary of State under President George
W. Bush
 head of Dept of State and manages all foreign
affairs

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General Colin Powell

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 Who Was I?
 Born 1917 and died 1986
 Produced and starred in “I Love Lucy”
 First TV show with a
 live audience
 that was not broadcast live
 was shown on reruns
 Founded and ran Desilu Productions

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Desi Arnaz

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 Who Am I?
 Born 1953 in Taiwan
 President of United Way of America
 Served as Secretary of Labor for President
George W. Bush.
 Head of Department of Labor
• enforces and suggests laws that deal with the
workplace and unions

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Elaine Chao

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 Who Was I?
Born 1847 and died 1922
My mother was deaf and my father
invented “Visible Speech” a code to
show how the tongue, lips and throat are
positioned to make speech sounds.
When I was a teenager I used the voice
box of a dead sheep to make a speaking
machine that cried, “Mama!”
On February 14, 1876 I applied for a
patent on my telephone invention.
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 I am…

Alexander Graham Bell

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Can you think of more?

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