Ursula Burns

Ursula M. Burns, is an American businesswoman. She was the chair and CEO of VEON from late 2018 to early 2020, a senior advisor to Teneo. She is a member of the board of directors of Uber. Ursula is a business executive who served as chairman (2010–17) and CEO (2009–16) of the Xerox Corporation. She was the first African American woman to serve as CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Burns was rais.....

Sunita Williams

Sunita Lyn Williams is an American astronaut and United States Navy officer who formerly held the records for most spacewalks by a woman and most spacewalk time for a woman. Williams was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. Space missions: STS-116, Expedition 32, Expedition 14, MORE Sunita Williams, in full Sunita Lyn Williams,an American ast.....

Ferry Porsche

Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, mainly known as Ferry Porsche, was an Austrian-German technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur. He operated Porsche AG in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Ferdinand Porsche, Sr. was also a renowned automobile engineer and founder of Volkswagen and Porsche. Born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, Porsche was the son of Ferdinand and Aloysia Kaes Porsche. His .....

Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Richard Shuttleworth is a South African-British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. Mark Shuttleworth, a South African entrepreneur, philanthropist, and space tourist who became the first South African in space. Shuttleworth was born in Welkom South Africa, to a surgeon and a nursery-school teac.....

Shabana Azmi

Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress who worked in Hindi films, television and theatre. Regarded as one of the finest actresses in India, Azmi's performances in films of various genres have earned her praise and several accolades. This includes a record five National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards. Shabana Azmi was honoured among "women in cinema" at the 30th International Film Festival of I.....

Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current prime minister of India since 2014. He was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its National Democratic Alliance. Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current prime minister.....

Oswald Garrison Villard Jr.

Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard Jr. was an American professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. Villard was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York, to a distinguished family. He was the great-grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the famed abolitionist, and the grandson of Henry Villard, owner of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, who financed the work of Thomas Edison (by coincidence, .....

Squire Whipple

Squire Whipple was a civil engineer born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA. His family moved to New York when he was thirteen. He received his secondary education at the Fairfield Academy in Herkimer, New York, and graduated from Union College in New York after only one year. Squire Whipple, a U.S. civil engineer, inventor, and theoretician who provided the first scientifically based rules for brid.....

M. S. Subbulakshmi

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.[2] She is the first.....

Subramanian Swamy

Subramanian Swamy is an Indian politician, economist and statistician, who serves as a nominated Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Before joining politics, he was a professor of Mathematical Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Subramanian Swamy ,efore joining politics, he was a professor of Mathematical Economics at the Indian Instit.....

M. Visvesvaraya

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya KCIE FASc, more commonly known as Sir MV, was an Indian civil engineer, statesman and the 19th Diwan of Mysore, serving from 1912 to 1919. He pursued his degree from one of the best and the 3rd oldest engineering college in Asia, College of Engineering, Pune. One of the most eminent engineers ever produced by India, Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, better known as M. V.....

Jnan Chandra Ghosh

Sir Jnan Chandra Ghosh was an Indian chemist best known for his contribution to the development of scientific research, industrial development and technology education in India. He served as the director of newly formed Eastern Higher Technical Institute in 1950, which was renamed as IIT Kharagpur in 1951. He was also the director of Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and Vice Chancellor of Uni.....

Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano OMRI OMCA is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Shard in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998. Renzo Piano, an Italian architect best known for his high-tech public spaces, particularly his design fo.....

Phulchand Prithvi Raj

Phulchand Prithvi Raj was an Indian American physician and anesthesiologist specializing in interventional pain management. Phulchand Prithvi Raj was an Indian American physician and anesthesiologist specializing in interventional pain management. His name is synonymous with regional anesthesia and interventional pain management including development of multiple training programs, training of tho.....

Ed Roberts

Henry Edward Roberts was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1974. He is most often known as "the father of the personal computer." Henry Edward Roberts was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1974. He is most often known as "t.....

Feroze Gandhi

Feroze Gandhi was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and journalist. Gandhi published the newspapers The National Herald and The Navjivan. He served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952, and later a member of the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of India's parliament. Feroze Jehangir Ghandy was born on at the Tehmulji Nariman Hospital in Fort, Bombay; his parents, Jehangir.....

Anousheh Ansari

Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-born A merican businesswoman who was the first female space tourist, the first person of Iranian desce.....

William Mulholland

William Mulholland was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California. Los Angeles, as we know it today, was made possible by massive infrastructure projects that provide reliable sources of water to the otherwise semi-arid region. The mastermind behind .....

Vinoba Bhave

Vinayak Narahari "Vinoba" Bhave was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya, he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered as a National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. He was an eminent philosopher. Vinoba Bhave, byname of Vinayak Narahari Bhave, (born September 11, 1895, Gagode, Bombay Presidency [now in Maharashtra].....

Viswanatha Satyanarayana

Viswanatha Satyanarayana was a 20th-century Telugu writer. His works included poetry, novels, dramatic play, short stories and speeches, covering a wide range of subjects such as analysis of history, విశ్వనాథ సత్యనారాయణ (సెప్టెంబర్ 10, 1895 - అక్టోబరు 18, 1976) "కవి సమ్రాట్" బిరుదాంకిత�.....

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