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First Woman PresidentFinland
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).
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