Usain St. Leo Bolt was born on August 21, 1986, in Sherwood Content, Jamaica. His parents, Jennifer and Wellesley Bolt, made ends meet by running a grocery store. Usain St. Leo Bolt, the most naturally gifted athlete the world has ever seen, mad…

India-born Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an entrepreneur. She is the Chairman and Managing Director of Bengaluru-based Biocon Ltd., the largest biotechnology firm in India. She rose to become the richest woman in India in 2004. She received the Othmer …

The Dalai Lamas are thought to be embodiments of Tibet's patron saint, Avalokiteshvara, also known as Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, characterizes himself as a straightforward Buddhist monk. He …

William Henry "Bill" Gates, III, as he was officially known, was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 28, 1955, into a middle-class family. On April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft, the largest personal comput…

The first Sanskrit poetry, "Adikavya," which is widely recognised as the epic Ramayana, was written by Valmiki. He was born in ancient India to a sage named Prachetasa near the banks of the Ganges. Ratnakara had been his birth nam…

Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th May, 1861 in Tagore family at Jorasanko, Kolkata. Rabindranath was a poet, a novelist, critic, short story writer, philosopher, educationist, scientists and social reformer. Every branch of Bengali literature …

The writings of India's famous spiritual poet and saint Kabirdas had an impact on the Bhakti movement.The Adi Granth, the sacred text of Sikhism, contains some of his verses. In Islam, the word "Kabir" even means "Great.&quo…

Dashrath Manjh was born in 1934 in the Bihar village of Gahlour, close to Gaya, into a poor family of labourers.The "Mountain Man," Dashrath Manjhi, is a legendary figure who demonstrated that nothing is insurmountable. His life serves …

The full name of Steve Jobs is Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs, and he was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955. He was an American innovator, marketer, and entrepreneur who continues to serve as an inspiration to many corpo…

An outstanding socio-religious reformer was Raja Ram Mohan Roy. On May 22, 1772, he was born into a Brahmin family in Radhanagar, in the Hoogly district of Bengal (now West Bengal).Ramkanto Roy, a Vaishnavite, was his father. His mother's nam…