Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje, North Macedonia) was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who dedicated her life to serving the world’s poorest, founding the Missionaries o…
Oprah Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American media executive, talk show host, producer, and philanthropist known as the “Queen of All Media.” Rising from a poverty-stricken, abusive childhood in rural Mississi…
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who became a global icon for his fight against racial inequality. Born in 1918, he became a lawyer and joined the A…
Sylvia Plath was an American novelist and poet. Plath met and married British poet Ted Hughes, although the two later split. The depressive Plath committed suicide in 1963, garnering accolades after her death for the …
Paulo Coehlo (born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian writer and lyricist from Rio de Janeiro. He achieved fame with his second novel, “The Alchemist,” which has sold at least 65 million copies and holds the Guinness Wor…
The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) made significant and lasting contributions to nearly every aspect of human knowledge, from logic to biology to ethics and aesthetics. Though overshadowed in classical tim…