Kelly Johnson

Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson was an American aeronautical and systems engineer. He is recognized for his contributions to a series of important aircraft designs, most notably the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird. Johnson received his B.S. (1932) and M.S. (1933) degrees from the University of Michigan before beginning his career with the Lockheed Corporation in 1933. As head of the “Skunk Wor.....

David Sarnoff

David Sarnoff was a Russian-American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970. As a boy in Russia, Sarnoff spent several years preparing for a career as a Jewish scholar of the Talmud. He immigrated with his family in 1900.....

Herbert Henry Dow

Herbert Henry Dow was a Canadian-born American chemical industrialist, best known as the founder of the American multinational conglomerate Dow Chemical. He was a graduate of Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio. Dow first became interested in brines (concentrated solutions of salts and water) while attending Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University) in Cle.....

Shaktikanta Das

Shaktikanta Das is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tamil Nadu cadre. Currently serving as the 25th governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), he was earlier a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission and India's Sherpa to the G20. During his career as an IAS officer, Das served in various capacities for Indian and Tamil Nadu governments, including as Economi.....

Kitaw Ejigu

Kitaw Ejigu was an Ethiopian American engineer and political leader; he was one of Ethiopia’s first aerospace scientists. With the completion of his studies in the late 1970s, he was drawn towards aerospace technology and started working for NASA as a system engineer and space research scientist. He invented two aerospace mechanisms which were patented under NASA’s new technology. He collabora.....

S. P. Varma

S. P. Varma is a social worker and a peace activist from Jammu and Kashmir who has made exemplary contribution by spreading the message of peace in trouble-torn areas of the Kashmir valley. He met Nirmala Deshpande, an eminent Gandhian, at Jammu in 1990. S. P. Varma (Jammu and Kashmir) is a social worker and a peace activist from Jammu and Kashmir who has made exemplary contribution by spreading t.....

Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor and entrepreneur who, in 1976, co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Wozniak to manufacture personal computers. During his life he was issued or applied for 338 patents as either inventor or co-inventor of not only applications in computers, portable electronic devices and user interfaces, but also a number of others in a range of technologies. From the outset,.....

J. Jayalalithaa

Jayaram Jayalalithaa was an Indian politician and film actress who served six times as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for over fourteen years between 1991 and 2016 Komalavalli, Indian film actress, politician, and government official who long served as the leader of the All India Dravidian Progressive Federation ( AIADMK), a political party based in Tamil Nadu state, India. Known simply by the n.....

Michael Dell

Why Famous: Dell is the founder and namesake of the Dell computer company, which he started in 1984. With a net worth around $24 billion, Dell is also one of the richest people in the world. Dell was born in 1965 in Houston, to a Jewish family. His parents were Lorraine Charlotte (née Langfan), a stockbroker, and Alexander Dell. Michael Dell attended Herod Elementary School in .....

P. C. Sorcar

Protul Chandra Sorcar was an Indian magician. He was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his Indrajal show before live audiences and on television. Sorcar died of a heart attack at the age of 57 in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, on 6 January 1971, where he was performing. Sorcar became famous in the mid-1930s, when he performed shows in Kolkata and also in J.....

Al Gross

Irving "Al" Gross, a.k.a. Al Gross was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, Citizens' Band radio, the telephone pager and the cordless telephone Gross was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1918, the son of Romanian-Jewish immigrants, he grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, in the.....

George Washington

George Washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Previously, he led Patriot forces to victory in the nation's War for Independence. George Washington (February 22, 1732[b] – December 14, 1799) was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Fat.....

John Mercer

John Mercer was an English dye and fabric chemist and fabric printer born in Great Harwood, Lancashire. In 1844 he developed a process for treating cotton, mercerisation, that improves many of its qualities for use in fabrics. John Mercer never went to school, he learned basic reading and writing from his neighbour. He was very fond of dyeing. With the help of a chemistry textbook he taught himsel.....

Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad

Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad was an Indian chemical engineer, bureaucrat and a former chairman of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission. He is credited with the design of the first Magnesium Plant in India in 1994 and was involved with the commissioning of Apsara research reactor, the first Indian atomic reactor. The Government of India honoured him in 1960, with the award of Padma Shri, the fourth highest .....

Ken Olsen

Kenneth Harry Olsen was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and his brother Stan Olsen Kenneth Harry Olsen was born in Connecticut . His father's parents came from Norway and his mother's parents from Sweden. Olsen began his career working summers in a machine shop. Fixing radios in his basement gave him the reputation of a neigh.....

Swathi Mohan

Swati Mohan is an Indian-American aerospace engineer and was the Guidance and Controls Operations Lead on the NASA Mars 2020 Mohan emigrated to the United States when she was one year old. She decided to study engineering as a way to pursue a career in space exploration.She studied Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, before completing her master's degree and Ph.D. in Aeron.....

Sir William Fairbairn

Born: 19 February 1789, Kelso, United Kingdom Died: 18 August 1874, Moor Park House, Tongham, United Kingdom Sir William Fairbairn, was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder. He was first to use wrought iron for ships, bridges, mill shafts, and structural beams. After moving to London in 1811, he invented a steam excavator and a sausage-making machine, but without commerci.....

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

Born: 19 February 1630, Shivneri Fort Died: 3 April 1680, Raigad Fort Shivaji Bhonsale I was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan. Shivaji carved out an enclave from the declining Adilshahi sultanate of Bijapur that formed the genesis of the Maratha Empire. In 1674, he was formally crowned as the Chhatrapati of his realm at Raigad. A fierce warrior, the unifier of the Hindus, a.....

Gilbert Roberts

Born: 18 February 1899, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom Died: 1 January 1978, London, United Kingdom Sir Gilbert Roberts was a British civil engineer who designed many famous bridges worldwide. Sir Gilbert Roberts, British civil engineer who pioneered new design and construction methods in a series of major bridges including the 3,300-foot (1,006-metre) Firth of Forth highway bridge in Scotland,.....

Ramakrishna Paramahansa

Born: 18 February 1836, Kamarpukur Died: 16 August 1886, Cossipore, Kolkata Spouse: Sarada Devi (m. 1859–1886) Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya, was an Indian Hindu mystic, saint, and religious leader in 19th century Bengal Ramakrishna experienced spiritual ecstasies from a young age, and was influenced by several religious traditions, including devotion toward the Godde.....

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