Late Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

India

Former President of India, he was an aerospace scientist, popularly known as The Missile Man of India.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

India

The spiritual leader of Tibet, he is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and calls himself a simple Buddhist monk.

Dasho Tshering Tobgay

Bhutan

Leader of the People's Democratic Party, he is an environmentalist and former PM of Bhutan.

N R Narayan Murthy

India

Founder of tech giant Infosys, he is a billionaire businessman, often called the Father of the Indian IT sector.

K. Radhakrishnan

India

Former Chairman of ISRO, he is a space scientist often known as the Man Behind the Mangalyaan Mission.

Manohar Parrikar

India

Former Minister of Defence, he was an Indian politician, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and CM of Goa.

Zaheer Khan

India

Part of the International Cricket World Cup 2011's winning Dream Team, he is one of the best fast bowlers.

Abhinav Bindra

India

An Indian businessman and retired sport shooter, he is the first Indian to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Rana Daggubati

India

One of the most established leading actors in Indian cinema, he is an entrepreneur and VFX coordinator.

Dr. Ada Yonath

Israel

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for her work on the structure of ribosomes, she is an Israeli crystallographer.

Dr. Tasuku Honjo

Japan

A Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018.

Min-Liang Tan

Singapore

A Singaporean entrepreneur, he is the co-founder and CEO of the gaming hardware company Razer Inc.

Kilnam Chon

South Korea

A South Korean computer scientist, he developed the first Internet in Asia, called SDN, in 1982.

Patrick Dai

China

He is the CEO and co-founder of Qtum Foundation, one of the best open-sourced public blockchain platforms.

Allen Blue

USA

An experienced product executive and designer, he is VP, Product Management, and co-founder at LinkedIn.

Mark Papermaster

USA

He is the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Technology and Engineering at AMD.

Robert J. Mical

USA

Director of Games at Google, he is an American computer programmer known as the inventor of Attari Lynx.

Anima Anandkumar

USA

Bren Professor of Computing at California Institute of Technology, she is a director of ML research at NVIDIA.

Gurtej Sandhu

USA

The all-time seventh most prolific inventor in the world (1192 USA patents), he is the VP at Micron Technology.

Ryan Germick

USA

The Head of the Google Doodle Team, he is humanizing technology at Google as a designer and team leader.

Dr. Randy Schekman

USA

He received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.

Eric Klinker

USA

An American technology executive, he is the co-founder of Resilio Inc. and was the former CEO of BitTorrent.

Arvind Krishna

USA

An Indian-American business executive, he is serving as the Chairman and CEO of IBM.

Vint Cerf

USA

Known as the Father of the Internet, he is the Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google.

Eric S. Maskin

USA

He is a Nobel Laureate in Economics for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.

Dr. John C. Mather

USA

An American Astrophysicist and cosmologist, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the COBE.

Charles Sevevrence

USA

An American computer scientist, he was the first Chief Architect of the Sakai Project.

Henry Throop

USA

He is a member of the science team for NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

Bob Frankston

USA

A software engineer, he is the co-founder of Software Arts and co-created the VisiCalc spreadsheet program.

Kevin Nolan

USA

An English former professional footballer, he is the President and CEO of GE Appliances, a Haier company.

Andrew Ng

UK

A pioneer in online education, he is a co-founder of Coursera and was the co-founder and head of Google Brain.

Jürgen Schmidhuber

Germany

Known as the Father of Modern AI, he is a computer scientist most noted for his work in deep learning and AI.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Denmark

Creator and developer of the C++ programming language, he is the Managing Director at Morgan Stanley.

Kurt Wüthrich

Switzerland

A Swiss chemist and biophysicist, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing NMR methods.

Sir Richard J. Roberts

UK

He is a Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA.

Lyn Evans

UK

The project leader of the Large Hadron Collider, he also became the director of the Linear Collider Collaboration.

Dr. Bruce Allen

Germany

An American physicist, he is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.

Serge Haroche

France

He is a Nobel Laureate in Physics for his work on individual quantum systems and the study of the photon.

Malcolm Turnbull

Australia

Former lawyer, investment banker, venture capitalist, and journalist, he was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.

Simon Taufel

Australia

Formerly a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel, he has won five consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards.

Marlene Kanga

Australia

An Australian engineer, she was the President of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO).