FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

Human civilization has seen numerous people who have changed the course of history and influenced their sphere of living by their charisma, intelligence and talent. Be it geographical expansion, art & entertainment, science & technology, literature, politics, statesmanship or games and sports, these individuals have created history by their work.

Great explorers like Vasco Da Gama and Columbus discovered new lands while Alexander- the Great almost conquered the whole world. Similarly, geniuses like Aristotle, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Albert Einstein expanded the horizon of knowledge by bringing to light new thoughts and inventions. We have had similar great talents in the field of art & entertainment and sports, who have amused us all with their extra-ordinary talent.

Thefamouspeople.com chronicles the life history of some of the world's most famous people and achievers. The biographies of these people feature the achievements and works that have influenced the course of history.

Poets • David Wagoner • Derek Walcott • Ella Wheeler Wilcox • James Weldon Johnson • James Wright • Jonathan Swift • Judith Wright • Kingsley Amis • Lord Byron • P B Shelley • Phillis Wheatley • Rabindranath Tagore • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Rumi • Samuel Coleridge • Sarojini Naidu • T S Eliot • W B Yeats • Walt Whitman • William Wordsworth

Political Leaders • Abraham Lincoln • Adolf Hitler • Albert John Luthuli • Alexander Hamilton • Ariel Sharon • Aung San Suu Kyi • Betty Williams • Cordell Hull • F D Roosevelt • Fidel Castro • Gamal Abdel Nasser • George Washington • Henri La Fontaine • Henry Kissinger • Ho Chi Minh • Indira Gandhi • Jacques Chirac • Jawaharlal Nehru • John F Kennedy • Joseph Stalin • Kim Dae Jung • Kofi Annan • Lech Walesa • Lord Mountbatten • Mahatma Gandhi • Mao Zedong • Margaret Thatcher • Mikhail Gorbachev • Nelson Mandela • Oscar Arias Sanchez • Ralph Bunche • Raul Castro • Richard Nixon • Ronald Reagan • Saddam Hussein • Sun Yat Sen • Thomas Jefferson • Tony Blair • Tunku Abdul Rahman • Vladimir Lenin • Winston Churchill • Yasser Arafat • Yitzhak Rabin • Yoshiro Mori

Spiritual & Religious Leaders • Anthony De Mello • Ayatollah Khomeini • Brigham Young • Confucius • Dalai Lama • Desmond Tutu • Isaiah • John Calvin • John Huss • John The Baptist • John Wesley • Maharishi Mahesh Yogi • Martin Luther • Martin Luther King Jr • Mary Baker Eddy • Mata Amritanandamayi • Moses • Mother Teresa • Osho Rajneesh • Pope John Paul II • Sri Aurobindo • Sri Sri Ravi Shankar • St Francis of Assisi • St Ignatius of Loyola • St Paul • Swedenborg • Zoroaster

Writers • Elie Wiesel • George Elliot • John Ruskin • Khalil Gibran • Leo Tolstoy • Lewis Carroll • Mario Puzo • Mark Twain • Munshi Premchand • Norman Mailer • Oscar Wilde • P G Wodehouse • Rudyard Kipling • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Stephen Edwin King • Thomas Hardy • Victor Hugo • Virginia Woolf • William Makepeace Thackeray • William Maugham • William Shakespeare