People I Adore

			William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 – died April 23, 1616) was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language, as well as one of the greatest in Western literature, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He wrote about thirty-eight plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. He is counted among the very few playwrights who have excelled in both tragedy and comedy, and his plays combine popular appeal with complex characterisation, poetic grandeur and philosophical depth.
			Sachin Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer. Nothing in the whole world is more beautiful than a straight drive from Sachin Tendulkar! He holds several batting records, including the most Test centuries and the most one-day international centuries, and was rated in an article by Wisden in 2002 as the second greatest Test batsman ever, after Sir Don Bradman. He received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour, for 1997-1998, and the civilian award Padma Shri in 1999. Tendulkar was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997.
			John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work was the subject of constant critical attacks, and it was not until much later that the significance of the cultural change which his work both presaged and helped to form was fully appreciated. Keats' poetry is shown by an elaborate use of words and a sensual imagination; he often felt that he was working in the shadow of past poets, and only towards the end of his life was he able to produce his most original and most memorable poems.
			William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft Corporation. He is also the founder of Corbis, a digital image archiving company. Forbes magazine's The World's Billionaires list has ranked him as the richest person in the world for the last twelve years straight. In 1999, Gates' wealth briefly surpassed $100 billion making him America's first centibillionaire. According to the Forbes 2004 magazine, Bill Gates's net worth was approximately $46.6 billion. When family wealth is considered, his family ranks second behind the Walton family.
			N.R. Narayana Murthy is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and the founder of Infosys Technologies. He's the man responsible for bringing India on the Global software map. In December 2005, Narayana Murthy was voted as the 8th most admired CEO/Chairman in the world in a global study conducted by Burson-Marsteller with the Economist Intelligence Unit. The list included 14 others with distiguished names such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffet.
			Bhagat Singh (Punjabi: ਭਗਤ ਸਿੰਘ) (September 27, 1907 – March 23, 1931) was an Indian revolutionary, considered to be one of the most famous martyrs of the Indian freedom struggle. For this reason, he is often referred to as Shaheed Bhagat Singh (shaheed means "martyr"). He was known for his fearlessness of death and his appreciation of martyrdom. He hoped his death would inspire the youth of India to unite and fight the British Empire. "Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamare Dil Mein Hai. Dekhna Hai Zor Kitna Baazu-e-Qaatil Mein Hai" Inqalaab Zindabad!
			Amitabh Bachchan(born October 11, 1942) is an Indian film actor who was named Superstar of the Millennium by the BBC. Son of the great poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, this six feet tall man from Allahabad started the trend of the angry young man in the film industry. Also known as 'Big B', he is arguably the biggest star in the history of the Indian film industry.
			Subhash Chandra Bose, (January 23, 1897 - August 18, 1945), also known as Netaji, was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj. He is immortalised in Indian History for having formed the Azad Hind Government in exile, and regrouping and leading the Indian National Army to battle against the allies in Imphal and Burma during the World War II. It is widely regarded that the actions of his nationalist army, and the revolts that it inspired in the British Indian Armed Forces after the war were the main driving forces behind the British decision to relinquish the Raj.
			Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, sometimes abbreviated as SRB for "Sir Richard Branson" (born 18 July 1950, Surrey), is a British entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand, a banner that encompasses a variety of business organizations. The name Virgin was chosen because a female friend involved in setting down the initial record shop commented "We're all virgins at business." It is estimated that Branson is worth over 3 billion GBP according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2006.
			Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D.E. Shaw before founding Amazon.com in 1994. He was TIME magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.

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